The MIT Press Podcast

Sports and data science - syndicated from MIT Press journal Harvard Data Science Review

How are sports teams using data science?   This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review is an open access multidisciplinary journal that defines and shapes data science as a scientifically rigorous field based on the principled and purposed production, processing, parsing and analysis of data.   In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng dig into the data behind sports with two experts: Brian Macdonald, sports analytics at Yale (formerly Carnegie Mellon University) and Kirk Goldsberry, NBA analyst at ESPN and author of Sprawlball: A Visual Tour of the New era of the NBA.   If you enjoy this preview of the Harvard Data Science Review podcast, find the journal on twitter at @TheHDSR and remember to subscribe to their podcast on your favorite platform.

Disinformation and data science - syndicated from MIT Press journal Harvard Data Science Review

Can data science help us combat disinformation?   This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review is an open access multidisciplinary journal that defines and shapes data science as a scientifically rigorous field based on the principled and purposed production, processing, parsing and analysis of data.   In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng discuss fake news, disinformation, and misinformation with Scott Tranter, CEO and founder of Optimus Analytics, and Hany Farid, a professor from UC Berkeley who specializes in the analysis of digital images and is the author of two MIT Press books: Fake Photos and Photo Forensics.   If you enjoy this preview of the Harvard Data Science Review podcast, find the journal on twitter at @TheHDSR and remember to subscribe to their podcast on your favorite platform.  

Art auctions and data science -- syndicated from MIT Press journal Harvard Data Science Review

What does data science tell us about art auctions?  This episode is syndicated from the new Harvard Data Science Review Podcast. Published by the MIT Press, Harvard Data Science Review is an open access multidisciplinary journal that defines and shapes data science as a scientifically rigorous field based on the principled and purposed production, processing, parsing and analysis of data. In this episode, the journal’s Features Editor Liberty Vittert and Editor in Chief Xiao-Li Meng discuss art auctions with art curator Dan Cameron and Artnome’s Jason Bailey. If you enjoy this preview of the Harvard Data Science Review podcast, find the journal on twitter at @TheHDSR and remember to subscribe to their podcast on your favorite platform.

Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton: Gender and equality in art and exploration

Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo. This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two authors published in the Leonardo special issue “Cosmos and Chaos:” Bettina Forget and Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Listen as these authors discuss the connection between art and science, the flawed idea of the hero, exploration of both land and space, and the complexities of being a woman in male dominated fields.

Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner & Marcus Gilroy-Ware: Understanding a Broken Media Landscape

Writer and educator Marcus Gilroy-Ware (After the Fact?, Filling the Void) speaks with Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner about their new book You Are Here.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Joy White & Dhanveer Singh Brar: Sonic Ecologies of Contemporary Black Music

Joy White, author of Terraformed, speaks with Dhanveer Singh Brar about his forthcoming book Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Tariq Goddard & Victoria Nelson: Literature of the Occult

Tariq Goddard (author, publisher and co-founder of Repeater Books) speaks with Victoria Nelson about her forthcoming book Neighbor George.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Matt Colquhoun & Thomas Moynihan: Extinction, Apocalypse, and Desire

Matt Colquhoun (author/editor of Egress and Postcapitalist Desire) speaks to to Thomas Moynihan about his most recent book X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction   Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Marko Ilić and Anthony Gardner: Contemporary Art in Yugoslavia

Writer and academic Anthony Gardner (NSK from Kapital to Capital, Politically Unbecoming) interviews Marko Ilić about his new book A Slow Burning Fire, which documents Yugoslavia's cultural output throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux

Jon Peterson and Peter Bebergal: The Eldritch Roots of D&D

Dungeons and Dragons expert Jon Peterson (The Elusive Shift, Game Wizards) speaks with Peter Bebergal (Season of the Witch, Too Much to Dream) about his new book Appendix N; an anthology of writing which takes its name from the list of “inspirational reading” provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master's Guide.    Produced by Sam Kelly Mixed by Samantha Doyle  Soundtrack by Kristen Gallerneaux