Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghan

Episode 12: Rajesh Gupta - The Didactic Data Scientist and Tireless Change Maker


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Show Notes

  • Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (2:11) 
  • IEEE Computer Society 2019 W. Wallace McDowell Award (3:30) 
  • “Trying to do things in the wrong way” and having an internal compass to know when to redirect oneself (4:45) 
  • Responding to how you are being seen (5:30) 
  • Contradiction a deeply personal experience and growing comfortable with ambiguity (7:30) 
  • Reasoning through uncertainty (7:45) 
  • Breaking down physical barriers to change culture (9:40) 
  • Reason through that which cannot be reasoned with (16:10)

  • Put yourself in situations that are uncomfortable to you (16:50) 
  • Purpose-driven approach (18:30) 
    • Think 'not black and white outcomes, but aspirational goals' (20:10) 
  • Precondition to learning is humility (22:10) 
  • Approach to role of teacher (25:10) 
  • Data Science is a field emerging out of practice (27:00)

  • What has changed with capability (28:00) 
  • What is Data Science? (31:15)

    • It is about the community, not the practice  
  • Community of Purposes (31:20) 
  • Three axes of classifying a subject (36:00) 
    • Knowledge, skills, and (now) awareness
  • Simon Sinek TED talk (39:40) 
  • Proposition and counter proposition (40:30) 
  • David Hume and what is goodness (40:40) 
  • Understanding complex physical systems (44:00) 
  • Unknowables and knowledge domains (45:00) 
  • Inapplicability of black and white thinking in complex world (47:20) 
  • Lighting Round (47:50) 
    • Books:  
      • Kahlil Gibran The Prophet
      • Bill Bryson A short history of nearly everything 
      • James Gleick Chaos
    • Passion: 
      • Studying history  
      • Running 
        • Haruki Murakami What I talk about when I talk about running (51:25) 
    • What is making your heart sing right now? 
      • The nature of time 
    • Something screwed up (55:00) 
      • Sleep 
  • Find Rajesh online:  
    • HDSI
  • 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series  
    • Rajesh’ playlist
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