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The Pod of Asclepius is a healthcare technology podcast for the technical crowd.
No fluff, no sales pitches, just important health tech ideas (described well!) to help everyone keep learning and becoming more of an expert in the field.
Our guests are top researchers (from academia and industry), entrepreneurs, and regulatory experts. They will talk about cool technology, from data science to engineering, but also share insights on practical concerns of bridging the gap between technical innovation and a clinical solution.
Scott Cunningham | Causal Inference (The Mixtape)Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) discusses the ideas of his book "Causal Inference: The Mixtape". Topics include trusting inference in the absence of counterfactuals and the challenges of apply scientific methods to social phenomena.
Watch it on...YouTube: https://youtu.be/yNaCudDVTkYPodbean: https://dataandsciencepodcast.podbean.com/e/scott-cunningham-causal-inference-the-mixtape/
0:00 - COMING UP...0:35 - What makes it into the mixed tape?7:10 - Coding to learn11:15 - More people are expected to work with data & code12:50 - Design vs program vs estimators20:40 - Causation with zero correlation27:00 - Optimization make everything endogenous28:45 - The hospital example29:30 - Credible scientific discovery vs motivated discovery39:55 - Different meanings of causality43:30 - The impossible counterfactual 47:00 Counterfactual nihilism49:20 Social experiments / Defund the police53:35 - Skepticism about the science of social phenomena1:05:20 - The Italian crime example1:16:30 - Scientific debate
Data & Science with Glen Wright Colopy
The Pod of Asclepius is a healthcare technology podcast for the technical crowd.
No fluff, no sales pitches, just important health tech ideas (described well!) to help everyone keep learning and becoming more of an expert in the field.
Our guests are top researchers (from academia and industry), entrepreneurs, and regulatory experts. They will talk about cool technology, from data science to engineering, but also share insights on practical concerns of bridging the gap between technical innovation and a clinical solution.
