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This podcast teaches listeners how to examine issues to find the truth. We will examine every thorny political issue by teaching listeners how to find and analyze data, find primary information sources, and synthesize information to identify actual causes or effects of any issues. Topics will include climate change, gun violence, January 6 riots, Trump-Russia collusion, Supreme Court decisions and more.
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The Talking Tuesdays Podcast is all about quantitative topics but mainly focused around quantitative finance, data science, machine learning, career development, and technical topics. Join me for some insight from a risk management professional on how the industry works and how to break in!
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Quantitude

Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran

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A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without taking themselves too seriously. Think: CarTalk hi-jacked by the two grumpy old guys from the Muppets, grousing about quantitative methods, statistics, and data analysis, all presented to you with the production value of a 6th grade school project. But in a good way.
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This podcast is all about quantitative finance and financial history. Subscribe to hear about financial markets, derivatives, and how investors use quantitative tools from statistics and corporate finance theory. Included are interviews with some of the most interesting thinkers in finance. Occasional longer form financial documentaries, open up fascinating elements of financial markets history. Patrick Boyle is a quantitative hedge fund manager, a university professor, and a former investme ...
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Psych Papers

Chris Cole & Joseph Tajaran

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In Psych Papers, Chris Cole (PhD in Psychology) breaks down some of the most controversial and intriguing psychological studies and concepts to his co-host Joseph (his friend). Additionally, we conduct our own research and discuss the findings. This podcast is great for those who got a C- in Psych 101. Bad Content is composed of Chris and Joseph. Check out the video version of the podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@psychpapers
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The Due Dilly Podcast

Helios Quantitative Research

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The Due Dilly Podcast is a resource for Financial Advisors, provided by Helios Quantitative Research. The podcast is designed to help financial advisors communicate complex investment-related topics in a simple and effective way. Each month we will discuss equities, fixed income, and economic conditions in the following format: what's important? why is it important? and what do we think about the potential impacts? Nik Boucher, Director of Marketing Operations hosts the show while Joe Mallen ...
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Incubator Hedge Fund

Quantitative Investor

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Interviews with Experts to Learn How to Invest in Stocks, Real Estate, Commodities and Alternative Investments. Hosted by Quantitative Investor, a Yale Grad with Investment Banking Experience. Contact Us at incubatorhedgefundpodcast (at) gmail (dot) com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/incubatorhedgefund/support
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Welcome to Survey & Beyond: The Data Collection Podcast, where we connect with professionals and organizations involved in data collection. Listen in as we discuss innovative methods and tools that can significantly enhance data quality and security, demystify complex data collection concepts, and highlight the many ways that organizations today are involved in data collection–sometimes, without even calling it “data collection.” With your host, Marta Costa, we feature in-depth interviews wi ...
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QuantSpeak

CQF Institute

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Expert insights from quants for quants. Listen to QuantSpeak to hear from thought leaders in quant finance as they share their insights into the latest research and industry practice. QuantSpeak is created by the CQF Institute. Part of Fitch Learning, the CQF Institute is the awarding body for the Certificate in Quantitative Finance and provides a platform for educating and building the global quantitative finance community. Find out more at www.cqfinstitute.org
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NMI is an international strategic consulting, market research, and business development company specializing in the health and wellness marketplace. Our dynamic capabilities focus on the well-being of people and products, and the environmentally and socially responsible sustainability of the planet.
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Learners

Learners Collective Inc

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Tune into the Learners podcast to hear from the researchers, designers and product people powering the world's leading technology companies.
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THE Q FACTOR

Gregg S. Fisher

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Welcome to The Q Factor, where host Gregg Fisher, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Quent Capital, leads listeners through the rapidly evolving landscape of data-driven leadership and innovation. This award-winning podcast series dives deep into the profound impact of data on every facet of life in the 21st century, navigating the intricate intersection of data and humanity. In every episode, Fisher engages with business luminaries and thought leaders to explore the delicate balance between t ...
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Inside UXR

Drew Freeman and Joe Marcantano

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Explore the practice of user experience research with Drew and Joe, one question at a time. Send your questions and feedback to insideUXR@gmail.com
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Host Stacy Havener brings you the storytelling tips, sales strategies, behavioral secrets, and inspirational stories that help YOU turn your words into dollars. Learn from sales and marketing experts. Meet finance and investment leaders, founders and fund managers who have made it, and the ones on the rise. Because there are people behind the portfolios. Their stories matter. So does yours. @stacyhavener // www.billiondollarbackstory.com/
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Welcome to Untangled The Usability Sciences Podcast, hosted by Peter Welpton and Adreinne Guillory and brought to you by Usability Sciences Corporation, a user research firm based in Dallas, Texas. The Usability Science Podcast brings you insightful discussions on cutting-edge topics in user experience every month.
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Information Ecosystems

The University of Pittsburgh

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The InfoEco project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data. In the 2022-2023 Academic Year, we are proud to present a series of po ...
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ESC Cardio Talk

European Society of Cardiology

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The ESC podcasts - regular recordings from the European Society of Cardiology. Hear renowned experts discuss cardiovascular advances relevant to daily practice. Check here regularly to stay up to date. You can also be interested in other ESC podcasts: EHRA Cardio Talk, HFA Cardio Talk and ESC TV Today. Check them out!
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Amplify Your Process Safety

Amplify Process Safety, LLC

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Join industry professionals as they share insight into the world of process safety, including news related to updated codes and standards, recent incidents and what you can learn from them, and their take on all elements of process safety. With decades of combined experience in real, practical implementation, they aren’t just advisors, they practice what they preach. Whether you’re new to process safety, in a role where you interact with aspects of process safety, or an experienced process s ...
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If you're like most UX researchers, you like words much more than numbers. But understanding numbers, particularly how to use them in a research context, is an extremely valuable skill to have. In this talk, Colette makes the case for why we all need to embrace quantitative research.By Learners Collective Inc
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Untangled: The Usability Sciences Podcast Season 1, Episode 4 In the fourth episode of Untangled: The Usability Sciences Podcast, hosts Peter Welpton and Adrienne Guillory shift the conversation away from why you need to make research a central part of your product development process to talk about how that research is conducted. That includes conv…
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Across the humanities and social sciences, scholars increasingly use quantitative methods to study textual data. Considered together, this research represents an extraordinary event in the long history of textuality. More or less all at once, the corpus has emerged as a major genre of cultural and scientific knowledge. In Literary Mathematics: Quan…
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How and Why We Make Games (CRC Press, 2024) delves into the intricate realms of games and their creation, examining them through cultural, systemic, and, most notably, human lenses. It explores diverse themes such as authorship, creative responsibility, the tension between games as a product and games as a form of cultural expression, and the myth …
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Leo Strauss was a German-Jewish emigrant to the United States, an author, professor and political philosopher. Born in 1899 in Kirchhain in the Kingdom of Prussia to an observant Jewish family, Strauss received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1921, and began his scholarly work in the 1920s, as well as participating in the German Zio…
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In Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr. Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scholars in both mediaeval and translation studies to rethink how ideas and texts circulated in the mediaeval world. Whereas many view translators as mere conduits of authorial intention, Dr. Stahuljak prop…
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Shadows. Smoke. Dark alleys. Rain-slicked city streets. These are iconic elements of film noir visual style. Long after its 1940s heyday, noir hallmarks continue to appear in a variety of new media forms and styles. What has made the noir aesthetic at once enduring and adaptable? Sheri Chinen Biesen's Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual …
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Imagine, you’re a woman – one of very few women even in hedge funds. And you’ve got your dream job, a high-powered hedge fund manager for a double-digit billion specialist hedge fund. Now, imagine what it would take to give that up. Guts. That’s what. Today’s guest, Shannon Spotswood had the guts to make a major career change when she was at the to…
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How and Why We Make Games (CRC Press, 2024) delves into the intricate realms of games and their creation, examining them through cultural, systemic, and, most notably, human lenses. It explores diverse themes such as authorship, creative responsibility, the tension between games as a product and games as a form of cultural expression, and the myth …
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An interview with valuations expert, David Shimko to discuss what he has been up to. He's teaching a quantitative focused financial valuations core course at NYU Tandon and he has been working on a new company called, Wall Street Scholars. Wall Street Scholars is a consulting, research and publishing organization, whose scholars are renowned for th…
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Welcome to Survey & Beyond: The Data Collection Podcast, where we connect with professionals and organizations involved in data collection. Listen in as we discuss innovative methods and tools that can significantly enhance data quality and security, demystify complex data collection concepts, and highlight the many ways that organizations today ar…
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Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State (Faber & Faber, 2024) offers a lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England. Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting - including civil war, deposition, the murder of kings and…
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It is an intuitive truth that religious beliefs are different from ordinary factual beliefs. We understand that a belief in God or the sacredness of scripture is not the same as believing that the sun will rise again tomorrow or that flipping the switch will turn on the light. In Religion as Make Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group …
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Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State (Faber & Faber, 2024) offers a lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England. Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These two centuries witnessed savage political blood-letting - including civil war, deposition, the murder of kings and…
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Power to the People: Use Your Voice, Change the World (Headline Press, 2024) is Danny Sriskandarajah‘s radical manifesto for change designed to inspire citizen action around the world. The book presents a blueprint for how we, as individuals, can make a difference through greater community engagement and how we can deliver a society that works for …
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In this week's episode Patrick and Greg talk about different ways of assessing inter-rater agreement and reliability among two or more raters and the importance of doing so. Along the way they also discuss the summer Olympics, underdogs, monologue face-offs, Quincy Wilson, Boomers, the Soviet judge, biopsy subjectivity, the secret to college admiss…
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Drew and Joe will answer a listener question about when our listener should be offering clients Market Research vs. UX Research? How should you tackle when a client has already decided to build something and they want to move right into testing prototypes? Drew and Joe will also offer their takes on Market vs. User Research and if it matters which …
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Today, we’re playing with voice assistants and thinking about the role of voices in gaming with our guest, game designer and NYU professor Frank Lantz. Over the past nightmare year of the coronavirus, many of us have been hunkered down, trying to figure out how to pass the time with our families. Board game sales on Amazon were up 4,000% percent in…
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n this special Star Trek Day episode on the New Books Network, hosted by Dessy Vassileva from Vernon Press, we celebrate over 55 years of Star Trek with a deep dive into the book Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier (Vernon Press, 2023). Co-editors Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis join the discussion to explore how Star Trek has shaped sci…
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wendy Ugolini is the first cultural history of this English Welsh duality - an identi…
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Many scholars and members of the press have argued that John Roberts’ Supreme Court is exceptional. While some emphasize the approach to interpreting the Constitution or the justices conservative ideology, Dr. Kevin J. McMahon suggests that the key issue is democratic legitimacy. Historically, the Supreme Court has always had some “democracy gap” –…
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Wendy Ugolini is the first cultural history of this English Welsh duality - an identi…
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Creation Lake (Scribner, 2024) is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the read…
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We surveyed over 500 people on first date norms. Here are the questions we’ll answer: Who should pay for the first date? What’s the preferred activity for a first date? What level of physical contact is appropriate on a first date? How late is acceptable for someone to arrive on a first date? Is it appropriate to discuss ex-partners on a first date…
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Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers a new history of the partition. Based on previously unexamined archives and rare films, it investigates key questions around film production, partition and the provenance of the nation in South Asia: How did partition transform the dynamic and transcultura…
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Mary McAuliffe is a historian and lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD. Her latest publications include (is The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn co-authored with Harriet Wheelock) and Margaret Skinnider; a biography (UCD Press,2020). Throughout the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 she has been conducting extensive research on the experiences of women during th…
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As a former ReOps leader at Slack, and having worked with dozens of tech executives, Behzod has developed a strong taste for research. How should it work? What does it feel like when it's successful? What is good research? In this talk, join Behzod as he explores these questions to help us figure out what "good research" actually looks like.…
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There are few people who've built a research practice from scratch, and even fewer who've done it at a company as iconic as Figma. But, that's exactly what Cristen did. She's here to share her experience and learnings from building the research practice at Figma, and what she thinks you should do, as you build yours.…
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Relationships are key to research impact, mostly because, as researchers, we're used to influencing decision making, not necessarily making decisions ourselves. Join Janna as she shares her view on building and maintaining relationships with our stakeholders, managers, partners, and other colleagues.…
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At the end of the day, it's the leader of the company, often the CEO, who holds the power in the organizations we work in. That means all of our work ultimately flows from initiatives and directives set from the top. What do leaders think about research? How has it helped, how has it hindered, and where do they see the most value? Evan, CEO of Getr…
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There are few research executives that are as experienced as Christina Janzer. Christina was tasked with building the original Facebook research team, before moving on to do the same at Slack a few years later. Christina is here to share her lessons from building up the research function in two very different environments.…
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Research doesn't matter if it doesn't change or influence decisions. But, how do we develop the skills to influence, when it's so different from the research ones we use in our day-to-day. Join Colette as she shares her point of view on how to think about research impact.By Learners Collective Inc
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Let's face it, most UX researchers got into the field because we're great with people, not math. But often, numbers is the language of our partners and stakeholders, and having a base knowledge of how to handle quant research is extremely helpful. In this talk, join Alex and Marina as they walk you through the basics of what you need to know to get…
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The majority of the time, UX research sits within the context of a for-profit business, often a corporation. So, it stands to reason that if you want to be a good partner in your role as a researcher, you need to know a little bit about the business. In this talk, Alec shares his cheat sheet for understanding the basics of how companies are structu…
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Most people who start off in research know how to have a conversation and ask the important questions they've prepared, so doing a user interview can feel pretty natural. But, how do we make sense of all the words we hear in those interviews? Analyzing qualitative data is a tough task. Join Emily in this talk, as she walks us through her approach.…
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How do you know that you're doing the right research? What are the factors that might indicate your research is successful? What are the signals that your work matters? Before starting to do the research, it's important that you understand the context you're operating in, and how to make your work matter within it. In this talk, Justin unpacks what…
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