Month: February 2019

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Ep 145: Dr. Mary Ellen Dello Stritto and Dr. Mimi Recker on Learning Analytics and Big Data

Podcast: Research in Action | A podcast for faculty & higher education professionals on research design, methods, productivity & more
Episode: Ep 145: Dr. Mary Ellen Dello Stritto and Dr. Mimi Recker on Learning Analytics and Big Data
Episode pub date: 2019-02-11

On this episode, guest host Dr. Mary Ellen Dello Stritto is joined by Mimi Recker, a professor in the department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania. After a few years working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley (working on early Internet protocols), she earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Mimi worked for two years at the Georgia Institute of Technology and for four years at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, before finally joining Utah State University in 1998.

Mimi became Department Head of Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences in 2008, serving for 7 years. Her research focuses on helping the education sector take advantage of the benefits of cyber-learning and teaching. Over the years, this line of research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, has involved a dynamic mix of faculty, post-docs, and graduate students from Utah State University, as well as colleagues from around the world.

When not working, you might find her on skis, in a kayak, on a bike, or on a cliff, exploring the natural beauty around Logan.

Segment 1: Learning Sciences and Analytics [00:00-19:10]

In this first segment, Mimi discusses the field of learning sciences, learning analytics in higher education, and big vs. traditional data sets.

Segment 2: Analyzing Big Data [19:10-35:06]

In segment two, Mimi shares statistical approaches for analyzing big data sets and her research on LMS data.

Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-03:45]: Mimi Shares Resources for Learning More About Learning Analytics and Big Data

In this bonus clip, the following resources are mentioned:

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Episode 54: The Road to Open Science Hardware

Podcast: Science: Disrupt
Episode: Episode 54: The Road to Open Science Hardware
Episode pub date: 2018-03-29

We’re back from a little pod hiatus!

In this episode we spoke to Dr Jenny Molloy, a Cambridge Synthetic Biologist who, among many things, is the Director of the Cambridge Biomakespace, and is on the organising committee for the Gathering for Open Science Hardware. 

We spoke about her work in developing the GOSH manifesto, and the recently released Open Science Hardware Roadmap which advocates for open science hardware as a ubiquitous component of everyday lab life. We also dove into the space that hardware fits into, in the ever active Open Science community. How do the open hardware advocates differ from those keen to shake up academic publishing.

We were also keen to find out more on how open science hardware projects are disseminated, not just to the fellow academics but to the wider public at large. And how this area of ‘science disruption’ could have a massive impact on the reproducibility of research.

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Ep. 49: A Scientist Defending Science

Podcast: Got Science?
Episode: Ep. 49: A Scientist Defending Science
Episode pub date: 2019-01-01


Molecular biologist, Dr. Maryam Zaringhalam, left the lab to explore the intersection of science and public policy.

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Episode 64: Event Special – Disrupting the Conversation

Podcast: Science: Disrupt
Episode: Episode 64: Event Special – Disrupting the Conversation
Episode pub date: 2019-01-24

**Special episode klaxon**

It’s no secret that the internet has changed the way we communicate, and the last 12 months has also made clear the realisation that it has also changed the way we form our views. On December 5th 2018 we ran an event on Science communication called Disrupting the Conversation (kindly sponsored by Digital Science) on how to battle against misinformation, and effectively communicate scientific ideas.

The panel were:

Time stamps:

  • Stephen Buranyi – (00:01:25)
  • Professor Ruth Morgan – 00:05:05
  • Richard Clarke – 00:23:00
  • Dr Alice Bell – 00:47:40
  • Panel Discussion – 01:11:20

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Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific Progress

Podcast: EconTalk
Episode: Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific Progress
Episode pub date: 2019-01-28


Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the pace of innovation. Collison argues that despite enormous increases in the numbers of scientists and researchers, the pace of progress in scientific and technological understanding does not seem to be increasing accordingly. The conversation looks at the challenge of measuring innovation and whether the pace of innovation should be a matter of concern and if so, what might be done about it.

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Jennifer Chayes | Eliminating Bias

Podcast: Women in Data Science
Episode: Jennifer Chayes | Eliminating Bias
Episode pub date: 2018-10-19

Attaining tenured status at a major university is often the culmination of an academic’s career; giving it up is unthinkable for most. But after 10 years at UCLA, Jennifer Chayes was offered a job at Microsoft. The offer, she says,“scared me to death,” but she took the job and is now managing director for Microsoft Research in New England, New York and Montreal.

“There are brass rings that come along,and they always come along at the most inopportune times,and they look really scary, but I believe that we should grab them when they come along,” Chayes says during a conversation with Stanford’s Margot Gerritsen, Stanford professor and host of the Women in Data Science podcast. Chayes is a big advocate of eliminating biases in search algorithms and believes that data scientists have “the opportunity to build algorithms with fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics, or FATE.” FATE, a group that formed at one of Chayes’ labs, works to address inequity in the field.

In one particular instance, the group discovered that certain searches yielded certain results. Searches looking for computer programmers, for example, typically returned results for people with male names. The change Chayes’ team implemented in the search algorithm removed that built-in bias. Removing bias from hiring is not only fair, it results in better outcomes, she says. “I think that you’re more likely to ask the right questions if you have been on the wrong side of outcomes. So you’re much more likely to see a lack of fairness or bias as a problem before it happens.” Chayes believes that the fieldof data science is changing and that the increase in underrepresented voices will be critical to the future of the field moving forward.

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Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)

Podcast: Conversations with Tyler
Episode: Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)
Episode pub date: 2018-05-09

“No single paper is that good”, says Bryan Caplan. To really understand a topic, you need to read the entire literature in the field. And to do the kind of scholarship Bryan’s work requires, you need to cover multiple fields. Only that way can you assemble a wide variety of evidence into useful knowledge.

But few scholars ever even try to reach the enlightened interdisciplinary plane. So how does he do it?

Tyler explores Bryan’s approach, including how to avoid the autodidact’s curse, why his favorite philosopher happens to be a former classmate, what Tolstoy has that science fiction lacks, the idea trap, most useful wrong beliefs, effective altruism, Larry David, what most economics papers miss about the return to education, and more.

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Episode 13 – Fighting The Impostor (syndrome)

Podcast: ReproducibiliTea Podcast
Episode: Episode 13 – Fighting The Impostor (syndrome)
Episode pub date: 2019-01-22


Episode 13 – Fighting the impostor (syndrome)

Hello 2019! Amy, Sophia, and Sam discuss impostor syndrome. While Sam was concerned this would leave him wanting to hide under the desk and cry-eat chocolate for the rest of the day, it turned into an unexpectedly uplifting talk.

Get in touch with your experiences; what helps? what makes it worse? how can we help each other?

Just a few links:
We should all feel a bit more like impostors – Julia Rohrer – https://www.the100.ci/2018/08/02/we-should-all-feel-a-bit-more-like-impostors/
Sam’s old, early blog post on what impostor syndrome feels like https://samdparsons.blogspot.com/2017/10/students-questions-4-what-is-imposter.html

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