In this episode, Dr. Josh Starmer, the creative, musical genius behind the wildly popular YouTube channel StatQuest joins the podcast to discuss statistics, learning and communication secrets, and how he grew his YouTube channel to over 650,000 subscribers.\n\nIn this episode you will learn:\n\nThe inspiration behind Josh\u2019s YouTube channel [18:39]\n\nJosh's simple approach to learning something new [34:25]\n\nJosh's secret tool for creating YouTube videos with over a million views [51:01]\n\nThe StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning [53:34]\n\nHow and when Josh uses R vs. Python [1:07:53]\n\nHow to cluster any types of data using the R randomForest package [1:11:24]\n\nWhy Josh left his academic career [1:14:24]\n\nThe two stats concepts Josh thinks everyone should know [1:38:50]\n\n\nAdditional materials: www.superdatascience.com/553