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) 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