Behind the Data - DTNS 4835

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to "Behind The Data". We all know that data is all around us -- it powers every algorithm, predictive model, and AI tool that is revolutionizing our lives. But where does it come from? Who collected it? How do we know if it's any good? For every dataset shaping our lives, there is a person or team making impactful decisions about what to track and how to track it that we are barely talking about. In this show we go behind the data to understand the stories and incentives behind how all this data came to be, why it matters for our lives, and how we can play a role in shaping it going forward.

Starring Andrea Jones-Rooy, Dhrumil Mehta

Andrea Jones-Rooy: www.datascienceneedsyou.com, www.instagram.com/jonesrooy

Guest Dhrumil Mehta: https://dhrumilmehta.com, https://twitter.com/datadhrumil

Materials referenced in the show:

Example polling tracker (the current version is not one that Dhrumil and I worked on): https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/national/

Nate Silver article, "The Media Has a Probability Problem", FiveThirtyEight

Harry Enten article, "Fake Polls are a Real Problem", FiveThirtyEight

Harry Enten article, "Trump is Just a Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton", FiveThirtyEight

Dhrumil's polls LLM: http://pollfinder.ai

Transcript

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0:00.0	One minute you've got the gymnastics on.
0:03.0	Off she goes into Flippy One, another Flippy,
0:06.0	Followed by a Flippy Twisty,
0:08.0	and the next Flip-Flip Hooray, you're a millionaire.
0:12.0	Lotto, will you be next? Hooray, you're a millionaire.
0:12.7	Lotto, will you be next?
0:14.9	Play on app.
0:15.8	The National Lotter.
0:16.9	Account terms, rules and procedures apply.
0:18.6	Players must be 18 or over.
0:22.4	Hey everybody, welcome to DT&S Experiment Week. All this week,
0:25.4	DT&S is on vacation, summer vacation, so we handed over the feed to our
0:30.2	friends to try some stuff out.
0:33.0	Each of them has an experimental podcast idea
0:35.6	that they'd like your feedback on.
0:37.0	So please send us your feedback,
0:38.9	feedback at daily tech news show.
0:40.8	com, or leave your feedback at patreon.com slash DTNS. We'll pass it along to them and
0:46.4	remember each one of these is their podcast so they are responsible for the
0:51.0	content but we hope you enjoy it and we'll see you soon.
0:54.0	Welcome to Behind the Data. I'm your host Andrea Jones Roy.
1:02.0	It's an understatement to say that data is all
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