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  • Regression to the Mean Girls | Every Man's Causal Inference with Roger Peng
    Oct 12 2026

    Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠], [⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠], or wherever you love to listen!


    Roger Peng⁠ joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into becoming an accidental business man.


    Check out the details here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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    37 min
  • Regression to the Mean Girls | The Marshmallow Test (Not That One) with Mattan Ben-Shachar
    Oct 5 2026

    Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠], [⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠], or wherever you love to listen!


    Mattan Ben-Shachar⁠ joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into whether different colored marshmallows taste different.

    *Be sure to listen to the end for a surprising addendum!


    Check out the full process here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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    44 min
  • Regression to the Mean Girls | Election Data Web Scraping with Emily Riederer
    Sep 28 2026

    Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠], [⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠], or wherever you love to listen!


    ⁠Emily Riederer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Capital One) joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into scraping election data.


    Check out the full process here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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    43 min
  • Regression to the Mean Girls | The Art of Web Scraping Art with Hadley Wickham
    Sep 21 2026

    Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠], [⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠], or wherever you love to listen!


    ⁠Hadley Wickham⁠ (Posit) joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into building a web scraper to help acquire art.


    Check out the full process here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


    Links to content we chat about on the episode:

    • ⁠⁠⁠Weston Lambert Art⁠
    • ⁠Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming by Maëlle Salmon⁠


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    40 min
  • Regression to the Mean Girls | The Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order
    Sep 14 2026

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    Christine Zhang⁠ (⁠New York Times⁠) joins ⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order.


    Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠


    Links to content we chat about on the episode:

    • ⁠Wrong Number newsletter⁠
    • ⁠The Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order⁠


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    1 h et 14 min
  • Regression to the Mean Girls | The Work is Mysterious and Important: Severance Data
    Sep 7 2026

    Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [Apple Podcasts], [Spotify], or wherever you love to listen!


    ⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ return with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Severance. Lucy analyzes whether Milchick really uses more complicated language than his colleagues.


    Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠


    Links to content we chat about on the episode:

    • ⁠⁠Lucy's Severance data R package [mdr]⁠⁠
    • ⁠⁠Lucy's other Severance analyses⁠⁠
    • ⁠⁠Dunnet⁠⁠
    • ⁠⁠Radial plot of who is speaking in Severance ⁠⁠


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    42 min
  • Regression to the Mean Girls | Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes
    Aug 31 2026

    Sarah Lotspeich⁠ and ⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠ introduce Regression to the Mean Girls, a podcast about data-driven side quests in pop culture. In this episode, Sarah analyzes 45 recent romance novels to find out how different romance tropes affect the timing of the couple’s first kiss.

    Check out the full analysis here: ⁠https://regressiontothemeangirls.com/⁠


    Links to content we chat about on the episode:

    • ⁠Edward L. Kaplan and the Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve⁠
    • ⁠Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations⁠
    • ⁠Not just love, actually: why romance fiction is booming⁠
    • ⁠What is the lipstick index?⁠


    Follow along on instagram:

    @regressiontothemeansgirls


    Podcast feed: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/rttmg/

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    57 min
  • Optimizing Data Workflows with Emily Riederer | Season 6 Episode 8
    Jun 26 2025
    Emily Riederer is a Data Science Senior Manager at Credit Risk Modeling Capital One. Her website can be found here: https://www.emilyriederer.com/ Follow along on Bluesky:
    • Emily: ‪@emilyriederer.bsky.social‬
    • Ellie: @epiellie.bsky.social
    • Lucy: @lucystats.bsky.social
    🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade. Edited by Cameron Bopp.
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    53 min