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

We admit it - even The Random Sample can't resist the hype around the world's biggest music star...

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Why Host a Podcast?!

In this episode, The Random Sample switches things up a bit. The people who usually ask the...

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The Maths of Wi-Fi with Professor David Skellern

It’s hard to imagine a time before Wi-Fi – or what we’d do without it. Especially, if you’re...

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Emerging Leaders in Statistics

This episode of The Random Sample introduces you to three brilliant statisticians! The three have...

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Superstars of STEM

There is still a lot of work to do before Australian girls and women have an equal opportunity to...

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

On Saturday, October 14th, Australians head to the polls to decide the Voice to Parliament...

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Communicating Statistics & Probability with Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal

Have you ever seen something on the news or in your social media feed and think, what are the...

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

For many of us, we rely on social media to get a lot of the information we’re interested in. But...

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Can Water Compute? With Professor Eva Miranda

Here’s something weird to think about. Can fluids think? No, we’re not talking about a liquid...

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Industry PhDs

Sometimes interesting research starts with a question faced by industry. That question may lead...

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On the Road at the ISI World Statistics Congress

This is a special edition of The Random Sample! We’re on the road at the World Statistics...

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

Our guest is Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, a Professor in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke...

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Talking Maths & Conservation with Professor Hugh Possingham

For three decades, University of Queensland Professor Hugh Possingham has combined his two...

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

Ever watch a TV courtroom drama where they question an expert witness? Chances are, you’ve never...

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Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Discovery

100 years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence, scientists in 2015 detected...

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Optimisation: The Intelligence Behind AI

We explore the field of discrete optimisation and how industries and companies use it to make...

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The Future is Now: Building Better Climate Models

It’s one of the most pressing, if not the most pressing, question facing scientists: what impact...

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Large Language Models & ChatGPT

Since its release in late 2022, Open AI’s Chat G-P-T has most everyone talking about it, and even...

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The WiDS Global Movement

There's a global movement underway to tackle gender equity issues in Data Science. In 2015, Women...

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The AMSI-ANZIAM Distinguished Lecturer: Prof Konstantin Avrachenkov

Every two years, Australia’s applied mathematics community invites a distinguished international...

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