Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2548: Informs
Posted on · Episode: 2548 INFORMS and the mathematics of problem solving. Today, strange bedfellows.
Posted on · Episode: 2548 INFORMS and the mathematics of problem solving. Today, strange bedfellows.
Posted on · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.
Posted on · Episode: 1939 Simplicity on the other side of complexity: The standard deviation. Today, complex simplicity.
Posted on · Episode: 1876 In which Thomas Bayes mixes prior knowledge with a priori deduction. Today, we learn how to hedge bets.
Posted on · Episode: 1712 Florence Nightingale’s graph: Learning what really happened. Today, Florence Nightingale draws a graph.
Posted on · Episode: 1657 In which nature multiplies outcomes. Today, nature and multiplication.
Posted on · Episode: 1465 In which random statistical clusters look significant. Today, we flip six heads in a row.
Posted on · Episode: 1367 Struggling with abstraction in schools and in public. Today, we think about thinking abstractly.
Posted on · There's been a lot of rhetoric in recent years in political ranks about violent crime — homicides, assaults, shootings, stabbings, etc. Depending on your sources of news, you might have the impression that the world is a constantly dangerous place to be feared. And in some corners, in some circumstances, perhaps it is. But has […]
Posted on · Confusion over the Texas voter ID law kept some people from voting in the 2016 election, according to a new study. Last week (April 10, 2017), the University of Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs released a study that found what many political watchers have suspected: confusion over the law kept some people from voting […]
Posted on · Episode: 1215 The tyranny of large numbers: of averages and ubiquity Today, large numbers do some strange things.
Posted on · They say everything’s bigger in Texas. But does that apply to data, too? Rice University Statistics Professor Genevera Allen sees great potential in identifying patterns, trends and associations in “big data” that could have implications for human behavior and health. All we need are the tools to crunch that data. But just what do we […]
Posted on · Last week (Aug. 22, 2016), U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of Texas ruled the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education exceeded their authority when they applied Title IX’s ban on gender discrimination in public schools to policies regarding transgender students’ use of facilities, like locker rooms and bathrooms. The federal agencies had concluded — and […]
Posted on · Episode: 1196 Reflections on batting 400, evolution, economics, and diversity Today, what do batting averages, evolution, and the economy have in common?
Posted on · Episode: 3072 The brewer, chemist and statistician William Sealy Gosset Today, a master brewer and a statistician.