Episode 65: Explaining Bayes BetterKerrie Mengersen (@KerrieMengersen) is Distinguished Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and past-President of the  there is a problem handling links. . Her research spans Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, environmental, genetic and health statistics

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Episode 64: Reading, Writing And Risk Literacy?

Release Date: 08/23/2018

Guest: Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and partner of Simply Rational - The Institute for Decisions. Gigerenzer has trained U.S. federal judges, German physicians, and top managers in decision making and understanding risks and uncertainties.

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Episode 63: R R R R R ... not just for pirates anymore

Release Date: 08/09/2018

Guest:Nick Thieme

Nick Thieme (@FurrierTransform) is a researcher and freelance reporter with writings appearing in Slate Magazine, BuzzFeed News, Significance Magazine, and Undark Magazine. Both his writings and research focus on technology, science, and statistics. Currently, he's working at New America's Open Technology Institute investigating fair internet usage and net neutrality. 

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Episode 62: R R R R R ... not just for pirates anymore

Release Date: 07/26/2018

Guest:Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) is Chief Scientist at RStudio, a member of the R Foundation, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and the University of Auckland. He builds tools (both computational and cognitive) to make data science easier, faster, and more fun. His work includes packages for data science (the tidyverse: including ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, purrr, and readr) and principled software development (roxygen2, testthat, devtools). He is also a writer, educator, and speaker promoting the use of R for data science ( http://hadley.nz ).>.

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