Episode 08: Kirk Borne - Data science storyteller and influencer

Show Notes:  

• Geodesics (12:40) 
• Booz Allen Hamilton (21:00) 
• Kirk ’surprised’ himself through the cognitive ability test at a job interview - the idea of surprising ourselves through exposing ourselves to new ideas (25:00) 
• "Cognitive view of the whole, and not just a narrow silo’ed view - the bias buster” - systems thinking (26:40) 
• Underfitting and Overfitting (27:00) 
• Data Science: the application of scientific discovery from data (30:00) 
• ‘Miracle Year of Physics’ - Albert Einstein’s immaculate year (32:00) 
• The Hubble Telescope (35:50) 
• “Any job worth doing, is worth doing poorly” (37:50) 
• “All models are wrong, but some are useful” - George Box (38:30) 
• “Fail fast to learn fast” - discussed in Tim Ferriss’ conversation with Google’s Astro Teller (40:30) 
• Palomar Mountain (46:00) 
• Kirk’s approach to information deluge (47:00) 
• Data literacy (48:45) 
• We discuss the ‘lens’ we each put on the world - here’s a brilliant take on the subject by Maria Popova (51:30) 
• "The message is in the madness” (57:00) 
• Lighting Round: 
  • Book: Language in thought and action by Hayakawa (01:05:30) 
  • Family has been most important to setting Kirk’s trajectory 
  • Making his hear sing: contribution to a book “Demystifying AI for the enterprise” (59:40) 
• Kirk’s Five-Cut Fridays
• Find Kirk online: 
  • Twitter: @KirkDBorne 
  • LinkedIn
  • Personal blog: http://rocketdatascience.org/ 
• Find us at originspodcast.co