Scott Cunningham | Causal Inference (The Mixtape)
Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) discusses the ideas of his book "Causal Inference: The Mixtape". Topics include trusting inference in the absence of counterfactuals and the challenges of apply scientific methods to social phenomena.
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0:00 - COMING UP...
0:35 - What makes it into the mixed tape?
7:10 - Coding to learn
11:15 - More people are expected to work with data & code
12:50 - Design vs program vs estimators
20:40 - Causation with zero correlation
27:00 - Optimization make everything endogenous
28:45 - The hospital example
29:30 - Credible scientific discovery vs motivated discovery
39:55 - Different meanings of causality
43:30 - The impossible counterfactual
47:00 Counterfactual nihilism
49:20 Social experiments / Defund the police
53:35 - Skepticism about the science of social phenomena
1:05:20 - The Italian crime example
1:16:30 - Scientific debate
Keith O’Rourke | The Logic of Statistics
Jack Fitzsimons | Evil Models: Hiding Malware in Neural Networks
Eric Daza | Important Ideas in Causal Inference
Wenting Cheng & Weidong Zhang | Advances in Biotech/Biopharma
Ruda Zhang | Gaussian Process Subspace Regression
Ruda Zhang | Math-Science Duality
Simon Mak | Integrating Science into Stats Models
Martin Goodson | Practical Data Science & The UK’s AI Roadmap
Jack Fitzsimons | Data Security, Privacy, & Artificial Intelligence
Chris Tosh | The piranha problem in statistics
Chris Holmes | AI, Digital Health, & The Alan Turing Institute
Philosophy of Data Science | Deborah Mayo | Revolutions, Reforms, and Severe Testing in Statistical Thinking
Charlotte Deane | Bioinformatics, Deepmind’s AlphaFold 2, and Llamas
Eric Schwitzgebel | Consciousness, Zombies, & First Person Data | Philosophy of Data Science
Starting a Statistics Consultancy | Janet Wittes
Philosophy of Data Science | Jingyi Jessica Li | Advancing Statistical Genomics
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Advancing Open Access Data Science Education
Jingyi Jessica Li | Statistical Hypothesis Testing vs Machine Learning Binary Classification
Gualtiero Piccinini | What Are First-Person Data? | Philosophy of Data Science
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