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SDS 553: The Statistics and Machine Learning Quests of Dr. Josh Starmer

Published: March 1, 2022, noon

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.\nIn this episode you will learn:\u2022 The inspiration behind Josh\u2019s YouTube channel [18:39]\u2022 Josh's simple approach to learning something new [34:25]\u2022 Josh's secret tool for creating YouTube videos with over a million views [51:01]\u2022 The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning [53:34]\u2022 How and when Josh uses R vs. Python [1:07:53]\u2022 How to cluster any types of data using the R randomForest package [1:11:24]\u2022 Why Josh left his academic career [1:14:24]\u2022 The two stats concepts Josh thinks everyone should know [1:38:50]\nAdditional materials: www.superdatascience.com/553