Regression to the Mean Girls

Sameer Deshpande join ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into using BART for baseball!

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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.

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Hannah Barton joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into Love Island Kissing Scores.

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Roger Peng joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into becoming an accidental business man.

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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!

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Emily Riederer⁠⁠ (Capital One) joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into scraping election data.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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