Data Skeptic
Hosted by Kyle Polich and Kyle · Kyle Polich
4.4from 481 ratings
- 622
- Episodes
- 105
- Transcribed
- 481
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
About Data Skeptic
The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.
- Publisher
- Kyle Polich
- Category
- science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 May 2014
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
105 of 622 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Implicit Interactions
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Lived Informatics Model
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Recommender Systems Today and Tomorrow
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Implicit Interactions
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The design poorly. And as someone who now has a bunch of experience doing design, I can also guess at what's happening. And what is happening is the people who built the robot or the machine or the interactive experience spent a lot of time just trying to make it work. And what they didn't have a chance to do is spend a lot of time testing how it works with people and then iterating, right? Iteration takes a lot of time, takes a lot of resources. And we very rarely as designers have as much runway as we need to do something really great. So a lot of times we just release something that is the best that we could do, given the situation that we had. […]
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- Daniel Epstein
- Robin Burke
- Andreea Iana
- Fuyuan Lyu
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- 481 ratings
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- Engagement
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Who hosts Data Skeptic?
Kyle Polich and Kyle host the show. Published by Kyle Polich.
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