Regression to the Mean Girls

Emily Riederer⁠⁠ (Capital One) joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into scraping election data. Check out the full process here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow along on instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@regressiontothemeangirls⁠⁠

Hadley Wickham (Posit) joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into building a web scraper to help acquire art. Check out the full process here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠⁠Links to content we chat about on the episode:⁠⁠Weston Lambert ArtParallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming by Maëlle SalmonFollow along on instagram: ⁠⁠@regressiontothemeangirls

Christine Zhang (New York Times) joins ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠Links to content we chat about on the episode:Wrong Number newsletterThe Speed of Justice, According to Law & OrderFollow along on instagram: @regressiontothemeangirls

⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠ and ⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠ return with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Severance. Lucy analyzes whether Milchick really uses more complicated language than his colleagues.Check out the full analysis here: ⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠Links to content we chat about on the episode:⁠Lucy's Severance data R package [mdr]⁠⁠Lucy's other Severance analyses⁠⁠Dunnet⁠⁠Radial plot of who is speaking in Severance ⁠Follow along on instagram:

Sarah Lotspeich and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan introduce Regression to the Mean Girls, a podcast about data-driven side quests in pop culture. In this episode, Sarah analyzes 45 recent romance novels to find out how different romance tropes affect the timing of the couple’s first kiss.Check out the full analysis here: https://regressiontothemeangirls.com/Links to content we chat about on the episode:Edward L. Kaplan and the Kaplan-Meier Survival CurveNonparametric Estimation from Incomplete