BART for Baseball with Sameer Deshpande - Regression to the Mean Girls (podcast)

Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes

31. august 2026

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 f…

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Election Data Web Scraping with Emily Riederer

28. september 2026

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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The Art of Web Scraping Art with Hadley Wickham

21. september 2026

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 …

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The Work Is Mysterious and Important: Severance Data

7. september 2026

⁠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 abou…

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