Regression to the Mean Girls
This is Regression to the Mean Girls where we chat with brilliant data people about their silliest side quests. We’re mean, as in average, but actually very nice! Come sit with us!
The Kiss Effect on Television Ratings with Ashley Mullan
Ashley Mullan join Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into how a TV couples first kiss impacts ratings.
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BART for Baseball with Sameer Deshpande
Sameer Deshpande join Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into using BART for baseball!
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Dancing with the Stats with Grayson Weavil, Madeline Merrill, and Wesley Krieger
Grayson Weavil, Madeline Merrill, and Wesley Krieger join Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into Dancing with the Stars stats.
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Mixed Effects, Mixed Signals: Love Island Kissing Scores with Hannah Barton
Hannah Barton joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into Love Island Kissing Scores.
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Every Man's Causal Inference with Roger Peng
Roger Peng joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into becoming an accidental business man.
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The Marshmallow Test (Not That One) with Mattan Ben-Shachar
Mattan Ben-Shachar joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into whether different colored marshmallows taste different.
*Be sure to listen to the end for a surprising addendum!
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Election Data Web Scraping with Emily Riederer
Emily Riederer (Capital One) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into scraping election data.
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The Art of Web Scraping Art with Hadley Wickham
Hadley Wickham (Posit) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into building a web scraper to help acquire art.
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Links to content we chat about on the episode:
Weston Lambert ArtParallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming by Maëlle SalmonFollow along on instagram:
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The Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order, with Christine Zhang
Christine Zhang (New York Times) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order.
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Links to content we chat about on the episode:
Wrong Number newsletterThe Speed of Justice, According to Law & OrderFollow along on instagram:
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The Work Is Mysterious and Important: Severance Data
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Sarah Lotspeich return with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Severance. Lucy analyzes whether Milchick really uses more complicated language than his colleagues.
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Lucy's Severance data R package [mdr]Lucy's other Severance analysesDunnetRadial plot of who is speaking in Severance Follow along on instagram:
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Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes
Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan introduce Regression to the Mean Girls, a podcast about data-driven side quests in pop culture. In this episode, Sarah analyzes 45 recent romance novels to find out how different romance tropes affect the timing of the couple’s first kiss.
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Links to content we chat about on the episode:
Edward L. Kaplan and the Kaplan-Meier Survival CurveNonparametric Estimation from Incomplete ObservationsNot just love, actually: why romance fiction is boomingWhat is the lipstick index?Fol...
