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Data Scientists and the Art of Prediction

Data Scientists and the Art of Prediction

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 Felix explores how statisticians and data analysts find meaningful signals in the noise of big data, revealing patterns that can predict everything from flu outbreaks to stock market crashes to individual human behavior. Discover how algorithms can detect pregnancy before women know it themselves, predict depression from social media posts, and forecast social movements using mathematical models borrowed from physics. This episode confronts the unsettling implications of predictive mathematics for free will, causality, and what it means to be human in an age of algorithmic prediction.

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