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

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) awarenessSimon 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 ProphetBill Bryson A short history of nearly everything James Gleick ChaosPassion: 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