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Published by Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan
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!
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Sameer Deshpande join Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into using BART for baseball! Check out the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
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. Check out the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
Hannah Barton joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into Love Island Kissing Scores. Check out the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
Roger Peng joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into becoming an accidental business man. Check out the details here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
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! Check out the full process here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
Emily Riederer (Capital One) joins Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan with a data-driven side quest into scraping election data. Check out the full process here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
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. Check out the full process here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Links to content we chat about on the episode: Weston Lambert Art Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming by Maëlle Salmon Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
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 . Check out the full analysis here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Links to content we chat about on the episode: Wrong Number newsletter The Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
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. Check out the full analysis here: regressiontothemeangirls.com Links to content we chat about on the episode: Lucy's Severance data R package [mdr] Lucy's other Severance analyses Dunnet Radial plot of who is speaking in Severance Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls
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. Check out the full analysis here: https://regressiontothemeangirls.com/ Links to content we chat about on the episode: Edward L. Kaplan and the Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations Not just love, actually: why romance fiction is booming What is the lipstick index? Follow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeansgirls
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