Caitlin Hudon is doing it right. Not only is she a mogul of the data science world, she's a content creator, driven to give back to the community. Listen up as Caitlin describes her activities as a mentor of aspiring tech-focused girls, her activism for women's equality in tech, and her organization of a local women's tech group. Oh, also, did we mention that while she's doing all of these things she's also crushing data science? Yeah. Also, tune in to hear about how she applies DS to real world problems. Show notes here.

Our guest this week is embedded systems nerd and electrical engineering junkie, Jack Ganssle. Good looks and geekiness must run in the family because, yes, Jack is GRAM's dad. Since we know nothing about computers (and very little about computing, it turns out), we invited Jack on to share some wisdom about computers of the past and computers of the future. And share he did. Tune in to hear Matt and Gram stutter in ignorance, and find out what a computer really does. Show notes here.

Happy holidays everyone! Gift lists and photoshops, podcasts and puppies / these are a few of our favorite things. Since Matt loved last year's holiday episode photo so much, we've prepped another little gem for him this year. Tune in for chit-chat on differential geometry and two holiday gift lists, one for the geoscientist and one for the data scientist. Gift lists and flimflam in the show notes, here. Original hardbod image by Bob Paris, CC BY SA 3.

Paula Alves joins us this week for a discussion about transitioning from the mining of rocks to the mining of data. Paula's a self-employed data scientist working on some really cool problems. Join us as she highlights the benefits of hackathons-for-good and the reason we love to do the datasci. We chat briefly with Paula about why there are so few women in data science, and what we can do to fix that problem. Paula was kind enough to script some of her thoughts in the show notes; you can find them here.

This week we've got Dr. Brian Romans on the show for a chat about what it's like in academia from the other side of the fence. What is tenure? Once you get it, is it really awesome? Once you get it, do you slack off and delegate all your work to graduate students? We also chat at a high level about source-to-sink, the geologic modeling philosophy of following sediment from erosion to deposition. Show notes here. Enjoy!

Ted Petrou joins us all the way from Canada today! What's the King of the Pandas and the leader of the Houston Data Science Meetup doing all the way up at 50 degrees north? You'll have to tune in to find out. You'll also want to tune in to find out how poker and game theory relate to data science and when to choose .ix[] or .iloc[]. Show notes show notes show notes!

This week we've got (soon to be Dr.) Yuriy Ivanov on the show chatting with us about orthorombic media, anisotropy, and seismic experiments of various scope. Tune in as we have a laugh at GRAM's outfit, learn a ton from Yuriy, and listen to Matt sing karaoke. Okay, that last one doesn't really happen.

You listen to UR for the loosely technology related conversation and the lack of scientific rigor. You appreciate the finer points of gram and matt's sophomoric humor. You'd rather watch the Kardashians than build a new Docker image. Well, this isn't your episode. Sorry; Matt and Graham nerd out on this one. So, slide some pens into that pocket protector and tape up those broken glasses, because you're about to get learned. This week we talk about quantum computers, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, supervised vs. unsupervised image translation, and colored seismic inversion. Show notes, if you dare.

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This week we're coming at you live and direct from the Subsurface Hackathon in Houston, TX. This event is awesome, and you need to get yo'self to the next one. We're joined by several hackathon teams, who discuss their projects, and their perceptions of the #subhack. No show notes this week, just fun.