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What stories can data tell us—and what can we learn from the process of uncovering them? In this month’s episode of the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast, we speak with statistician Radu V. Craiu, the new editor of HDSR’s Diving Into Data column, about the power of data to reve ...  Show more

This latest episode of the Harvard Data Science Review Podcast takes a closer look at election polling: how polls are conducted, what they can tell us about voters, and why measuring public opinion has become increasingly challenging. In advance of the Harvard Political Analytics ...  Show more

We explore the quantitative, scientific, and data-driven new frontier of coaching. Major League baseball is undergoing a coaching revolution from old-school to new tech. We talk to players whose careers were turned around not by a charismatic coach, but by data, and the techies w ...  Show more

In this post-Super Bowl edition of the 538 Politics podcast, the crew kicks things off with some prop bets and a look at the rapid rise of sports gambling. Then they dig into the offlining of key government datasets under President Donald Trump and why it matters for more than ju ...  Show more

Data-Driven football With the end of this year’s Premier League season and the Champion’s League final in the last two weekends, viewers around the world were cheering on their favourite teams. While the rules of football may not have changed much in recent years, there is one th ...  Show more