In the first episode, Joel and Andrew cover who they are, how they met, how they got into data science, why they have a podcast, and chat about topics they have in mind, including but not limited to:

1. Politics
2. Technical tool development
3. Whether to get a PhD
4. How to get into data science
5. How to hire data scientists
6. Ethical questions in data science
7. Jake van der Plas
8. Type A vs Type B
9. Thinkpiece about why Scala is the future of data science
10. Dave Shing, AOL’s Digital Prophet, a.k.a. http://twitter.com/shingy
11. Why is Silicon Valley considered a place you need to set up shop