15 Best Statistics Podcasts
Statistics Podcasts
Here are 15 Best Statistics Podcasts worth listening to in 2026.
Export Contact List1. More or Less: Behind the Stats
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify YouTube
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
Ranking #3 in Apple Charts (GB)
Host Tim Harford
Producer/Network BBC
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 4.6KFacebook 1.9MTwitter 489.6K Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Since May 2015 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google
2. Quantitude
Latest Episode Video
Website Apple Spotify YouTube
A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. Co-hosts Patrick Curran and Greg Hancock talk about serious statistical topics, but without taking themselves too seriously. Think: CarTalk hi-jacked by the two grumpy old guys from the Muppets, grousing about quantitative methods, statistics, and data analysis, all presented to you with the production value of a 6th grade school project. But in a good way.MORE Hosts Greg Hancock, Patrick Curran
Producer/Network Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran
Email ****@quantitudepod.org
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 256Twitter 5.9K Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Since Oct 2019 Get Email Contact
3. Data Skeptic
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify YouTube
The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.MORE Host Kyle Polich
Producer/Network Kyle Polich
Email ****@dataskeptic.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 825Facebook 1.6KTwitter 7.6K Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Since May 2014 Video Podcast YouTube
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4. Learning Bayesian Statistics
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify
Are you a researcher or data scientist / analyst / ninja? Do you want to learn Bayesian inference, stay up to date or simply want to understand what Bayesian inference is? Then this podcast is for you! You'll hear from researchers and practitioners of all fields about how they use Bayesian statistics, and how in turn YOU can apply these methods in your modeling workflow. When I started learning Bayesian methods, I really wished there were a podcast out there that could introduce me to the methods, the projects and the people who make all that possible...MORE Host Alexandre Andorra
Producer/Network Alexandre Andorra
Email ****@pymc-labs.io
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 108Twitter 3.5K Avg Length 56 min Format Long form Since Sep 2019 Get Email Contact
5. JAMAevidence JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods
Latest Episode Video
Website Apple Spotify YouTube
Interviews with authors of JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods chapters about common and new statistics and methods used in clinical research and reported in medical journals.
Host Roger Lewis
Producer/Network JAMA Network
Email ****@jamanetwork.org
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 27Facebook 656.2KTwitter 490.6KInstagram 207K Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
6. Data Driven
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify
Data Driven: the podcast where we explore the emerging field of Data Science. We bring the best minds in Data, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence right to you every Tuesday.The field of data science mashes up the worlds of statistics, database architecture and software engineering. Data Scientist has been labelled by the Harvard Business Review, as 'the sexiest job of the 21st century.' A quick search of job search sites reveal that this field is in high demand...MORE Hosts Frank La Vigne, Andy Leonard
Producer/Network Data Driven
Email ****@entdna.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 54Facebook 230Twitter 81 Avg Length 55 min Format Long form Since May 2017 Get Email Contact
7. The Random Sample
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify YouTube
Welcome to The Random Sample! In this podcast, we share stories about mathematics, statistics, data science and the people involved. This is a collaboration between the Australian Data Science Network (ADSN), the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA), the Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS), the OPTIMA ARC Training Centre, the MATRIX Mathematical Research Institute, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS). ACEMS created the podcast in 2018. For further resources and show notes, visit therandomsample.com.auMORE Producer/Network ACEMS
Email ****@acems.org.au
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 65Facebook 1.2KTwitter 3.4K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Since Oct 2018 Get Email Contact
8. Stats + Stories
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify
Statistics need Stories to give them meaning. Stories need Statistics to give them credibility. Every Thursday John Bailer & Rosemary Pennington get together with a new, interesting guest to bring you the Statistics behind the Stories and the Stories behind the Statistics.MORE Hosts Rosemary Pennington, John Bailer
Producer/Network The Stats + Stories Team
Email ****@miamioh.edu
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 60Twitter 2.2K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Aug 2018 Get Email Contact
9. dats'n'stats
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify
Interview-based podcast on all things data science, entrepreneurship, statistics, machine learning, open source, and Python. Formerly PyData Deep Dive.
Host Thomas Wiecki
Producer/Network Thomas Wiecki
Email ****@pymc-labs.io
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 17Twitter 17.1K Avg Length 54 min Format Long form Since Sep 2019 Get Email Contact
10. Shiny Developer Series
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify
The goals of the Shiny Developer Series are to showcase the innovative applications and packages in the ever-growing Shiny ecosystem, as well as the brilliant developers behind them! This is the audio-only feed in case you want to listen to the content on the go. Visit shinydevseries.com for the video version of all episodesMORE Host Eric Nantz
Producer/Network Eric Nantz
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 43 Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
11. Significant Statistics
Latest Episode
Website Apple Spotify
Videos can be found on my YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHVyc1NJuYvzpoom-L3nBpg/More info and notes on my Website:https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/jmrussell/To support the project you can go here: https://anchor.fm/john-russell10/supportMORE Producer/Network John Russell
Email ****@vt.edu
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 6 Avg Length 12 min Format Short form Since Mar 2020 Get Email Contact
12. Department of Statistics
Website Apple Spotify
The Department of Statistics at Oxford is a world leader in research including computational statistics and statistical methodology, applied probability, bioinformatics and mathematical genetics. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), Oxford's Mathematical Sciences submission was ranked overall best in the UK.This is an exciting time for the Department. We have now moved into our new home on St Giles and we are currently settling in...MORE Producer/Network Oxford University
Email ****@stats.ox.ac.uk
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 3.8/5Apple Reviews 9Facebook 5.3KTwitter 6.4K Since Mar 2020 Get Email Contact
13. crediblycurious
Latest Episode
Website Apple
A Podcast about R and Statistics!
Producer/Network crediblycurious
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 10Twitter 653 Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Since May 2018 Get Email Contact
14. Royal Statistical Society
Latest Episode
Website Apple
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is one of the world's most distinguished and renowned statistical societies. It is a learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics, data and evidence for the public good.It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London and became the Royal Statistical Society by Royal Charter in 1887. Today the Society has more than 10,000 members around the world, of whom many are professionally qualified as Chartered Statistician...MORE Producer/Network Royal Statistical Society
Email ****@rss.org.uk
Estimated listeners
Apple Reviews 2Facebook 10.3KTwitter 34.7K Avg Length 21 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2018 Get Email Contact
Statistics shows hosts and producers
| Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | Gender | Twitter Handle | Twitter Followers | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Harford | Host | bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p00msxfl | 47 | Male | @timharford | 198.8K | Oxford, United Kingdom | |
| Greg Hancock | Co Host | feeds.buzzsprout.com/639103 | Male | @gregoryrhancock | Ellicott City, MD, United States | |||
| Patrick Curran | Co Host | feeds.buzzsprout.com/639103 | Male | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | ||||
| Kyle Polich | Host | dataskeptic.libsyn.com | 30 | Male | @kpolich | 385 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | |
| Alexandre Andorra | Host | learnbayesstats.com | 26 | Male | @alex_andorra | 3.7K | ||
| Roger Lewis | Host | jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/pages/jamaevidence-jama-guide-to-statistics-and-methods | 22 | Male | ||||
| Frank La Vigne | Co Host | datadriven.tv/episodes | 14 | Male | @frankdigsdata | 4.4K | Washington, D.C., United States | |
| Andy Leonard | Co Host | datadriven.tv/episodes | 14 | Male | @andyleonard | 5.9K | Farmville, VA, United States | |
| Rosemary Pennington | Co Host | statsandstories.net/episodes | 31 | Female | Oxford, OH, United States | |||
| John Bailer | Co Host | statsandstories.net/episodes | 31 | Male | @john_bailer | Oxford, OH, United States | ||
| Thomas Wiecki | Host | buzzsprout.com/588778 | Male | @twiecki | Estonia | |||
| Eric Nantz | Host | shinydevseries.fireside.fm | 32 | Male | @thercast | Indianapolis, IN, United States | ||
| Acems | omny.fm/shows/the-random-sample/a-deep-dive-on-the-great-barrier-reef-1 | 46 | @randomsamplepod | 3.4K | ||||
| John Russell | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-russell10/episodes/The-Sampling-Distribution-of-the-Sample-Proportion-ec75rt | 20 | Male | |||||
| Royal Statistical Society | soundcloud.com/royal-statistical-society/minimising-food-waste-by-adapting-growing-programmes-to-the-weather | 20 | @RoyalStatSoc | |||||
| Crediblycurious | soundcloud.com/crediblycurious/episode-1-cran-and-bioconductor | 18 | @crediblycurious | 653 | ||||
| David Steinsaltz | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2021-11-18-stats-steinsaltz-ethics.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Quan Zhou | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/GMT20210625-143130_Recording_1760x900.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Eli Upfal | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2022-06-09-stats-upfal.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Max Van Kleek | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2021-11-04-stats-ai-kleek.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Benjamin Guedj | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/GMT20210326-153248_Recording_1656x1002.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Fergus Boyles | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2021-06-03-stats-boyles.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Susan Murphy | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2021-06-18-stats-murphy.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Alexandra Carpentier | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/AlexandraCarpentierOxCSML280521.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Aki Vehtari | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/stats-Aki_Vehtari_Recording.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Robert Goudie | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2022-01-21-stats-melding-goudie.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Cynthia Rudin | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/stats-Cynthia_Rudin.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Qiang Liu | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/stats-Qiang_Liu_Recording.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Caroline Uhler | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/stats-Caroline_Uhler.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Samir Bhatt | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2022-02-24-stats-bhatt.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Lionel Riou-durand | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2022-02-18-stats-durand.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Maria Christodoulou, Mariagrazia Zottoli | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2022-02-17-stats-zottoli-christodoulou.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Katherine Fletcher | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2021-11-11-stats-ethics-fletcher.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Andy Gittings, Dai Jenkins | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2022-02-03-stats-computing-gittings-jenkins.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| James Martens | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2022-02-04-stats-kernel-martens.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats | |||||
| Denise Lievesley | media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/stats/general/2022-02-10-stats-lievesley.mp4 | 1 | @OxfordStats |