Data Is Plural
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Podcast Overview
<p>A new podcast from the long-running newsletter, Data Is Plural (data-is-plural.com). Each episode distills an expert interview into a crisp 15 minutes, taking you behind the scenes of another surprising dataset. One season = five episodes.</p>
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3/24/2023
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Recent Episodes
May 8, 2024
Bonus Episode: Hold The Line (by Loud Numbers)
<p>This is a bonus(!), crossover(!) episode, produced by <a href='https://miriamquick.com/'>Miriam Quick</a> and <a href='https://www.duncangeere.com/'>Duncan Geere</a>'s wonderful <a href='https://www.loudnumbers.net/podcast'>Loud Numbers podcast</a>, which turns data into sound. Remember the Canadian wildfire data <a href='https://podcast.data-is-plural.com/2159594/14138514-s2e4-canadian-wildfires'>featured a couple of episodes ago</a>? Duncan and Miriam have woven it into a sonic tapestry, threaded with descriptions of the 2023 fire season by <a href='https://www.earthkin.ca/fernyip'>Fern Yip</a>, who spent much of it fighting to save her home and school from burning. You can also <a href='https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loudnumbers/episodes/Hold-the-Line-e2i78vs'>listen to the episode</a> in <a href='https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loudnumbers/'>Loud Numbers' own podcast feed</a>, and <a href='https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QReQWDyc_MGIs2W_C-PW-TIRq5q_tg5-kbWo6jpzcpk/edit'>read Miriam and Duncan's show notes</a> for more details. <br/><br/><em>Data Is Plural theme music by </em><a href='https://otherdimensional.club/'><em>Nikhil Sonnad</em></a><em>.<br/></em><br/></p>
December 20, 2023
S2E5: Crosswords
<p>This episode’s guests are <a href='https://www.georgeho.org/'>George Ho</a> and <a href='https://www.saul.pw/'>Saul Pwanson</a>, whose crossword datasets were featured in the <a href='https://www.data-is-plural.com/'>Data Is Plural newsletter</a> in <a href='https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2021-09-22-edition/'>2021</a> and <a href='https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2016-03-09-edition/'>2016</a>, respectively. Saul and George explain the difference between American-style and cryptic crosswords, how they collected their datasets, and what they learned along the way.</p><p>Relevant and mentioned links:</p><ul><li><a href='https://xd.saul.pw/about/'>Saul’s xd archive</a>, <a href='https://xd.saul.pw/'>grid comparison</a>, and <a href='https://github.com/century-arcade/xd/blob/master/doc/xd-format.md'>.xd file format</a></li><li><a href='https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-plagiarism-scandal-is-unfolding-in-the-crossword-world/'>FiveThirtyEight’s coverage of the plagiarism scandal Saul’s analysis unearthed</a> and Saul’s <a href='https://csvconf.com/2019/speakers/#saul-pwanson'>csv,conf</a> talk, “<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aHfK8EUIzg'>How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal</a>”</li><li><a href='https://cryptics.georgeho.org/'>George’s dataset of cryptic crossword clues</a></li><li><a href='https://cryptics.georgeho.org/datasheet'>George’s datasheet for the dataset</a></li><li>Timnit Gebru et al.’s “<a href='https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010'>Datasheets for Datasets</a>”</li><li><a href='https://www.xwordinfo.com/'>XWord Info</a>, from which Saul gathered New York Times crossword data</li><li>David Steinberg’s <a href='http://www.preshortzianpuzzleproject.com/p/about-project.html'>Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project</a>, with “litzing” <a href='http://www.preshortzianpuzzleproject.com/p/litzer-totals.html'>contributions from Barry Haldiman and others</a></li></ul><p><br/><em>Theme music by </em><a href='https://otherdimensional.club/'><em>Nikhil Sonnad</em></a><em>.</em></p>
December 13, 2023
S2E4: Canadian Wildfires
<p>This episode’s guest is <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-macnab-469766102/'>Bruce Macnab</a>, head of Canada's <a href='https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/home'>Wildland Fire Information System</a>, featured in the <a href='https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2023-06-14-edition/'>June 14, 2023 edition</a> of the <a href='https://www.data-is-plural.com/'>Data Is Plural newsletter</a>. Bruce describes how his team gathers that information, the obstacles they face, how they deal with uncertainty and varying source quality, and how their approach has changed in the decade since the project launched.<br/><br/>Relevant and mentioned links:</p><ul><li><a href='https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/home'>Canadian Wildland Fire Information System</a><ul><li><a href='https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart'>The agency’s datamart</a></li><li><a href='https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?type=fwih'>Fire hotspot maps</a></li><li><a href='https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fw?type=fwi'>Fire weather maps</a></li><li><a href='https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/background/summary/fwi'>Fire Weather Index System</a></li></ul></li><li><a href='https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/ha/nfdb'>Historical data from the Canadian National Fire Database</a></li><li><a href='https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/wildfiresat/'>WildFireSat: Enhancing Canada's ability to manage wildfires</a></li></ul><p><br/><em>Theme music by </em><a href='https://otherdimensional.club/'><em>Nikhil Sonnad</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><br/></p>
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- What is Data Is Plural?
<p>A new podcast from the long-running newsletter, Data Is Plural (data-is-plural.com). Each episode distills an expert interview into a crisp 15 minutes, taking you behind the scenes of another surprising dataset. One season = five episodes.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates weekly.
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