Episodes 601
Avg. Duration 31m
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Apple Rating 4.4 (480)
Since May 2014
Latest Episode May 2026

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The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.

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Student Spotlight: Aaron Payne, Data Analyst

May 01, 2026 25m

Aaron Payne, an MBA student at Georgia Tech studying business analytics and a Senior Insights Analyst at Chick-fil-A, joins Kyle Polich to talk about turning analytics into decisions that matter.…

The Future is Agentic in Recommender Systems

Apr 25, 2026 49m

Kyle Polich sits down with Yashar Deldjoo, research scientist and Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari, to explore how recommender systems have evolved and why trustworthiness…

Book Ratings and Recommendations

Mar 27, 2026 39m

Goodreads star ratings can be misleading as measures of "book quality," and research from Hannes Rosenbusch suggests that for many professionally published books, differences between readers often…

Disentanglement and Interpretability in Recommender Systems

Mar 10, 2026 30m

Ervin Dervishaj, a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen, discusses his research on disentangled representation learning in recommender systems, finding that while disentanglement strongly…

Collective Altruism in Recommender Systems

Feb 27, 2026 54m

Ekaterina (Kat) Fedorova from MIT EECS joins us to discuss strategic learning in recommender systems—what happens when users collectively coordinate to game recommendation algorithms. Kat's research…

Niche vs Mainstream

Feb 18, 2026 34m

Anas Buhayh discusses multi-stakeholder fairness in recommender systems and the S'mores framework—a simulation allowing users to choose between mainstream and niche algorithms. His research shows…

Healthy Friction in Job Recommender Systems

Feb 02, 2026 26m

In this episode, host Kyle Polich speaks with Roan Schellingerhout, a fourth-year PhD student at Maastricht University, about explainable multi-stakeholder recommender systems for job recruitment.…

Fairness in PCA-Based Recommenders

Jan 26, 2026 49m

In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of recommender systems and algorithmic fairness with David Liu, Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University's Center for Data Science for…

Video Recommendations in Industry

Dec 26, 2025 38m

In this episode, Kyle Polich sits down with Cory Zechmann, a content curator working in streaming television with 16 years of experience running the music blog "Silence Nogood." They explore the…

Eye Tracking in Recommender Systems

Dec 18, 2025 52m

In this episode, Santiago de Leon takes us deep into the world of eye tracking and its revolutionary applications in recommender systems. As a researcher at the Kempelin Institute and Brno…

Cracking the Cold Start Problem

Dec 08, 2025 39m

In this episode of Data Skeptic, we dive deep into the technical foundations of building modern recommender systems. Unlike traditional machine learning classification problems where you can simply…

Designing Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities

Nov 23, 2025 36m

In this episode of Data Skeptic, we explore the fascinating intersection of recommender systems and digital humanities with guest Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, a PhD student at Graz University of…

DataRec Library for Reproducible in Recommend Systems

Nov 13, 2025 32m

In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, host Kyle Polich explores DataRec, a new Python library designed to bring reproducibility and standardization to recommender systems…

Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems

Nov 05, 2025 34m

In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, Kyle sits down with Aditya Chichani, a senior machine learning engineer at Walmart, to explore the darker side of recommendation…

Music Playlist Recommendations

Oct 29, 2025 52m

In this episode, Rebecca Salganik, a PhD student at the University of Rochester with a background in vocal performance and composition, discusses her research on fairness in music recommendation…

Bypassing the Popularity Bias

Oct 15, 2025 34m

Sustainable Recommender Systems for Tourism

Oct 09, 2025 38m

In this episode, we speak with Ashmi Banerjee, a doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Munich, about her pioneering research on AI-powered recommender systems in tourism. Ashmi…

Interpretable Real Estate Recommendations

Sep 22, 2025 32m

In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, host Kyle Polich interviews Dr. Kunal Mukherjee, a postdoctoral research associate at Virginia Tech, about the paper "Z-REx:…

Why Am I Seeing This?

Sep 08, 2025 49m

In this episode of Data Skeptic, we explore the challenges of studying social media recommender systems when exposure data isn't accessible. Our guests Sabrina Guidotti, Gregor Donabauer, and Dimitri…

Eco-aware GNN Recommenders

Aug 30, 2025 44m

In this episode of Data Skeptic, we dive into eco-friendly AI with Antonio Purificato, a PhD student from Sapienza University of Rome. Antonio discusses his research on "EcoAware Graph Neural…

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