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

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

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