Casual Inference

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⁠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

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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

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⁠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 ⁠⁠

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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?⁠

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Emily Riederer is a Data Science Senior Manager at Credit Risk Modeling Capital One. Her website can be found here: https://www.emilyriederer.com/
 
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Emily: ‪@emilyriederer.bsky.social‬
Ellie: @epiellie.bsky.social
Lucy: @lucystats.bsky.social

 
🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.
Edited by Cameron Bopp.