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Casual Inference

Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray
Casual Inference
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    Regression to the Mean Girls | Election Data Web Scraping with Emily Riederer

    28/09/2026 | 42 mins.
    Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠], [⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠], or wherever you love to listen!

    ⁠Emily Riederer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (Capital One) joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into scraping election data. 

    Check out the full process here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
    Follow along on instagram: 
    ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@regressiontothemeangirls⁠⁠⁠
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    Regression to the Mean Girls | The Art of Web Scraping Art with Hadley Wickham

    21/09/2026 | 39 mins.
    Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠], [⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠], or wherever you love to listen!

    ⁠Hadley Wickham⁠ (Posit) joins ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into building a web scraper to help acquire art. 

    Check out the full process here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Links to content we chat about on the episode:
    ⁠⁠⁠Weston Lambert Art⁠
    ⁠Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming by Maëlle Salmon⁠

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    ⁠⁠⁠@regressiontothemeangirls⁠
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    Regression to the Mean Girls | The Comfort of Competence and the Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order

    14/09/2026 | 1h 13 mins.
    Follow Regression to the Mean Girls on [⁠Apple Podcasts⁠], [⁠Spotify⁠], or wherever you love to listen!

    Christine Zhang⁠ (⁠New York Times⁠) joins ⁠⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. 

    Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠⁠

    Links to content we chat about on the episode:
    ⁠Wrong Number newsletter⁠
    ⁠The Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order⁠

    Follow along on instagram: 
    ⁠@regressiontothemeangirls
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    Regression to the Mean Girls | The Work is Mysterious and Important: Severance Data

    07/09/2026 | 42 mins.
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    ⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ return with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Severance. Lucy analyzes whether Milchick really uses more complicated language than his colleagues.

    Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠regressiontothemeangirls.com⁠⁠

    Links to content we chat about on the episode:
    ⁠⁠Lucy's Severance data R package [mdr]⁠⁠
    ⁠⁠Lucy's other Severance analyses⁠⁠
    ⁠⁠Dunnet⁠⁠
    ⁠⁠Radial plot of who is speaking in Severance ⁠⁠

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    @regressiontothemeangirls
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    Regression to the Mean Girls | Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes

    31/08/2026 | 56 mins.
    Sarah Lotspeich⁠ and ⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠ introduce Regression to the Mean Girls, a podcast about data-driven side quests in pop culture. In this episode, Sarah analyzes 45 recent romance novels to find out how different romance tropes affect the timing of the couple’s first kiss.
    Check out the full analysis here: ⁠https://regressiontothemeangirls.com/⁠

    Links to content we chat about on the episode:
    ⁠Edward L. Kaplan and the Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve⁠
    ⁠Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations⁠
    ⁠Not just love, actually: why romance fiction is booming⁠
    ⁠What is the lipstick index?⁠

    Follow along on instagram:
    @regressiontothemeansgirls

    Podcast feed: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/rttmg/
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About Casual Inference
Keep it casual with the Casual Inference podcast. Your hosts Lucy D'Agostino McGowan and Ellie Murray talk all things epidemiology, statistics, data science, causal inference, and public health. Sponsored by the American Journal of Epidemiology.
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