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The Random Sample — 106 episodes

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From DNA to Discovery: How Statistics Brings the Ancient Past to Life - with Dr Adam "Ben" Rohrlach & Dr Simon "Jono" Tuke

2

From Granular to Nano: Big Science at Small Scales – with Prof Natalie Thamwattana

3

Tracking the Spread of Vaccine Hesitancy - with Prof Stacey Smith?

4

What Maths can tell us about Women's Health - with Prof Alys Clark & Dr Claire Miller

5

Game Theory: The Mathematics of Strategic Choices - with Dr Maria Kleshnina

6

The Kalman Filter: The Mathematics of Knowing Where You Are

7

Maths Meets Biology: Inside the Mission to Model a Living Cell - Part 2

8

Maths Meets Biology: Inside the Mission to Model a Living Cell - Part 1

9

From Surveys to LLMs: The New Era of Social Data – with Professor Frauke Kreuter

10

Multi-Source Data & the Evolution of Official Statistics - with Dr Anders Holmberg

11

Making the Invisible Visible: The Global Hackathon Against Modern Slavery

12

Data We Can Trust

13

ReefCloud: Connecting Scientists to Save Coral Reefs – with Dr Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero

14

Taylor Swift, Pesto the Penguin, and… Statistics?! - with Heather Lansdowne

15

Patterns in Chaos: Exploring Complex Systems - with Professor Michael Small

16

Indigenous Data Governance & Sovereignty - with Levi-Craig Murray

17

Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap with Stats & Data Science - with Prof Galit Shmueli

18

Driving Change: The Maths Behind Autonomous Vehicles - with Prof Michael Milford

19

Designing the Tools that Shape Data Science - with Dr Hadley Wickham

20

From Silo to Solution: Unlocking climate & social data that can drive change

21

Beyond ChatGPT: The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of AI - with Professor Simon Angus

22

The Many Hands of AI: Responsibility and Regulation - with Dr Henry Fraser

23

The New Reality of AI and the Law - with A/Prof Michael Guihot

24

Mathematics, creativity & connection: Rethinking maths education in Australia

25

Maths Models Shed New Light on Hidden Heart Risks – with Professors Helen Byrne & Mary Myerscough

26

Shaping the Equation: The 2024 WIMSIG Conference

27

The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 3

28

The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 2

29

The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 1

30

Trailer: The Publication Puzzle - Navigating the World of Academic Publishing

31

Grapes & Algorithms: the Data Science of Sustainable Winemaking

32

Coping with Climate Anxiety - with Dr Alexandra Knight

33

Scientific Graphic Design for Communicating Research - with Dr Jess Jopf

34

The Mathematics of Bushfires - with Professor Jason Sharples

35

Understanding Maths Struggles - with Dr Jacob Paul

36

Building Blocks of the Universe - with Professor Alessandro Sfondrini

37

Using maths to explore the music of Taylor Swift - with Dr Nathan Garland

38

Why Host a Podcast?!

39

The Maths of Wi-Fi with Professor David Skellern

40

Emerging Leaders in Statistics

41

Superstars of STEM

42

What you need to know about Referendum Polling with Professor Simon Jackman

43

Communicating Statistics & Probability with Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal

44

Cracking the Code on the Spread of Mis-and-Disinformation on Social Media

45

Can Water Compute? With Professor Eva Miranda

46

Industry PhDs

47

On the Road at the ISI World Statistics Congress

48

Open-sourcing Data Science Education with Professor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

49

Talking Maths & Conservation with Professor Hugh Possingham

50

Law & Stats: What's a Statistician Doing in Court

51

Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Discovery

52

Optimisation: The Intelligence Behind AI

53

The Future is Now: Building Better Climate Models

54

Large Language Models & ChatGPT

55

The WiDS Global Movement

56

The AMSI-ANZIAM Distinguished Lecturer: Prof Konstantin Avrachenkov

57

Future Proofing as Data Changes the World

58

Unpacking the Sphere Packing Problem

59

The Statistical Society Celebrates its 60th

60

A Deep Dive on the Great Barrier Reef

61

The Story of ACEMS

62

Teaching with MathsCraft

63

Software as a First Class Research Output

64

Using Stats to Crowdsource the Weather

65

Innovation in Data Visualisation

66

Talking Stats with Aurore Delaigle

67

Maths at MATRIX

68

The Maths Behind Movie Magic

69

OPTIMA Centre

70

Experiment in Lockdown

71

Clearing the Air on COVID-19

72

Predicting What the Clouds are Covering Up

73

Success, Luck, & Second Chances

74

The 2021 Australian Census

75

The future of statistics is in good hands: the Early Career & Student Statisticians Conference

76

A Chat with Professor Cheryl Praeger

77

The "Wondrous Worlds" of Maths

78

The Road Ahead for Women in STEM

79

The Maths & Stats Behind Testing Vaccines

80

A Pint of Maths & Stats

81

Australian Women of Mathematics Exhibit

82

A Mathematical Approach to the Issue of Gender Inequality

83

Significance & the Replication Crisis

84

The International Prize in Statistics

85

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

86

Maths & the Power of Perseverance

87

Bubbles, Maths & a World Record

88

Open Data Opens Doors to Answers

89

Driven by Data: Statistics in Sports

90

Living & Playing Together in Moreton Bay

91

Making a Connection to Culture

92

Why Study Maths & Stats?

93

From Maths to the Media

94

A Chat with Professor Kerry Landman

95

Hacking Your Lower Brain to Improve Predictions

96

Fact vs Fake: Targeting Misinformation on Social Media

97

Bayes' Theorem: The Past & the Future

98

From Cells to Systems: the Maths of Biology

99

The Maths Behind Australia's Response to COVID-19

100

Forecasting the Future & the Future of Forecasting

101

The Random Sample samples Randomised Trials

102

Hospital Hesitancy

103

COVID Clues in Dirty Water Data

104

Safe Blues

105

Antarctic Outreach

106

The Maths Behind Mining the Blockchain