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Data Skeptic

Kyle Polich

Data Skeptic is a data science podcast exploring machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, and other data topics through short tutorials and interviews with domain experts.

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Listen to Data Skeptic, a Religion & Spirituality podcast by Kyle Polich. Stream 604 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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News Recommendations

News recommendation algorithms influence far more than what stories we click—they can shape our understanding of the world. In this episode,...

46:06Jul 2, 2026

Give Users the Wheel

What if you could simply tell a recommendation system what you want instead of relying on likes, dislikes, and watch history? Kyle Polich ta...

35:28Jun 23, 2026

AutoLike

How can researchers audit recommendation systems when the algorithms are hidden from view? Hieu Le joins Kyle Polich to discuss Auto-Like, a...

35:18Jun 17, 2026

Book Ratings and Recommendations

Goodreads star ratings can be misleading as measures of "book quality," and research from Hannes Rosenbusch suggests that for many professio...

39:19Mar 27, 2026

Collective Altruism in Recommender Systems

Ekaterina (Kat) Fedorova from MIT EECS joins us to discuss strategic learning in recommender systems—what happens when users collectively co...

54:35Feb 27, 2026

Niche vs Mainstream

Anas Buhayh discusses multi-stakeholder fairness in recommender systems and the S'mores framework—a simulation allowing users to choose betw...

34:10Feb 18, 2026

Fairness in PCA-Based Recommenders

In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of recommender systems and algorithmic fairness with David Liu, Assistant Research Profess...

49:59Jan 26, 2026

Video Recommendations in Industry

In this episode, Kyle Polich sits down with Cory Zechmann , a content curator working in streaming television with 16 years of experience ru...

38:16Dec 26, 2025

Eye Tracking in Recommender Systems

In this episode, Santiago de Leon takes us deep into the world of eye tracking and its revolutionary applications in recommender systems. As...

52:08Dec 18, 2025

Cracking the Cold Start Problem

In this episode of Data Skeptic, we dive deep into the technical foundations of building modern recommender systems. Unlike traditional mach...

39:57Dec 8, 2025

Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems

In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, Kyle sits down with Aditya Chichani, a senior machine learning engineer at Wal...

34:48Nov 5, 2025

Music Playlist Recommendations

In this episode, Rebecca Salganik , a PhD student at the University of Rochester with a background in vocal performance and composition, dis...

52:29Oct 29, 2025

Bypassing the Popularity Bias

Data Skeptic is a data science podcast exploring machine learning, statistics, artificial intelligence, and other data topics through short...

34:33Oct 15, 2025