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The Random Sample — 104 episodes

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

2

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

3

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

4

The Kalman Filter: The Mathematics of Knowing Where You Are

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

Making the Invisible Visible: The Global Hackathon Against Modern Slavery

10

Data We Can Trust

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

Indigenous Data Governance & Sovereignty - with Levi-Craig Murray

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

Mathematics, creativity & connection: Rethinking maths education in Australia

23

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

24

Shaping the Equation: The 2024 WIMSIG Conference

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

Grapes & Algorithms: the Data Science of Sustainable Winemaking

30

Coping with Climate Anxiety - with Dr Alexandra Knight

31

Scientific Graphic Design for Communicating Research - with Dr Jess Jopf

32

The Mathematics of Bushfires - with Professor Jason Sharples

33

Understanding Maths Struggles - with Dr Jacob Paul

34

Building Blocks of the Universe - with Professor Alessandro Sfondrini

35

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

36

Why Host a Podcast?!

37

The Maths of Wi-Fi with Professor David Skellern

38

Emerging Leaders in Statistics

39

Superstars of STEM

40

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

41

Communicating Statistics & Probability with Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal

42

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

43

Can Water Compute? With Professor Eva Miranda

44

Industry PhDs

45

On the Road at the ISI World Statistics Congress

46

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

47

Talking Maths & Conservation with Professor Hugh Possingham

48

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

49

Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Discovery

50

Optimisation: The Intelligence Behind AI

51

The Future is Now: Building Better Climate Models

52

Large Language Models & ChatGPT

53

The WiDS Global Movement

54

The AMSI-ANZIAM Distinguished Lecturer: Prof Konstantin Avrachenkov

55

Future Proofing as Data Changes the World

56

Unpacking the Sphere Packing Problem

57

The Statistical Society Celebrates its 60th

58

A Deep Dive on the Great Barrier Reef

59

The Story of ACEMS

60

Teaching with MathsCraft

61

Software as a First Class Research Output

62

Using Stats to Crowdsource the Weather

63

Innovation in Data Visualisation

64

Talking Stats with Aurore Delaigle

65

Maths at MATRIX

66

The Maths Behind Movie Magic

67

OPTIMA Centre

68

Experiment in Lockdown

69

Clearing the Air on COVID-19

70

Predicting What the Clouds are Covering Up

71

Success, Luck, & Second Chances

72

The 2021 Australian Census

73

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

74

A Chat with Professor Cheryl Praeger

75

The "Wondrous Worlds" of Maths

76

The Road Ahead for Women in STEM

77

The Maths & Stats Behind Testing Vaccines

78

A Pint of Maths & Stats

79

Australian Women of Mathematics Exhibit

80

A Mathematical Approach to the Issue of Gender Inequality

81

Significance & the Replication Crisis

82

The International Prize in Statistics

83

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

84

Maths & the Power of Perseverance

85

Bubbles, Maths & a World Record

86

Open Data Opens Doors to Answers

87

Driven by Data: Statistics in Sports

88

Living & Playing Together in Moreton Bay

89

Making a Connection to Culture

90

Why Study Maths & Stats?

91

From Maths to the Media

92

A Chat with Professor Kerry Landman

93

Hacking Your Lower Brain to Improve Predictions

94

Fact vs Fake: Targeting Misinformation on Social Media

95

Bayes' Theorem: The Past & the Future

96

From Cells to Systems: the Maths of Biology

97

The Maths Behind Australia's Response to COVID-19

98

Forecasting the Future & the Future of Forecasting

99

The Random Sample samples Randomised Trials

100

Hospital Hesitancy

101

COVID Clues in Dirty Water Data

102

Safe Blues

103

Antarctic Outreach

104

The Maths Behind Mining the Blockchain