Data Nerd Herd Show — Joe Reis
Minhaaj joins Joe Reis to examine what social science contributes to data science: psychometric testing, behavioral pipelines, personality models, and the limits of prediction. The conversation moves from Scandinavian culture and IQ to MBTI, Nietzsche, and the problem of turning a person into a dataset.
DataQG Podcast
Minhaaj explains why the COVID-19 period made psychometric data harder to ignore, and what Psyda was built to study. The discussion moves through consumer behavior, AI, Facebook, Google, data ownership, and the question of who gets to govern behavioral information.
Data Professor YouTube Channel
Minhaaj shares his journey into psychometrics and how he bridged it with data science to decode human behavior. The episode covers how digital footprints on social platforms reveal deep personality insights, whether VPNs distort behavioral patterns, and how data can predict what makes content go viral. Minhaaj also discusses customizing content to audience needs, using psychometrics in HR for job satisfaction, and how machine learning can extract meaningful narratives from psychological data.