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Episode 19: Kristian Lum - Lifelong curiosity and Criminal Justice Reform through data
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Innhold levert av Ryan McGranaghan. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av Ryan McGranaghan eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.
Show Notes:
- Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) (1:40)
- The contagious nature of imprisonment paper (1:50)
- Value of community colleges (6:30)
- Professor Dan Balaguy at Sierra College (7:20)
- Professor Richard Stong at Rice University - Combinatorics (8:30)
- Coming to an understanding of one’s career and curiosity (10:20)
- How can we make the public more data literate (i.e., numeracy)? (12:15)
- Maintain a healthy skepticism of numbers - think more critically (see Seth Godin’s thoughts)
- Data can encode discrimination and bias (16:10)
- Predictive policing algorithms - Kristian’s paper
- Be reflective about where patterns in data come from
- Importance of uncertainty (20:00)
- HRDAG ‘casualty estimations’ (21:10)
- Humanize the data (22:00)
- Describing how systematic things can be (23:50)
- Taking chances (e.g., Tim Ferriss guidance on cold emailing) (24:50)
- Where do you get your confidence and energy (26:50)
- Maintaining beginner’s mindset - blur disciplinary lines (28:20)
- “The most beautiful experience we have is the mysterious” -Einstein (29:20)
- How do you grapple with the outrage of injustice?
- Those with data skills need to get involved with criminal justice reform (36:20)
- Volunteer with public defenders - make sure you are a low barrier to people if you volunteer
- Talk with the people closest to the problem - human-centered approach
- Find ways that your unique skills can help
- How do you maintain your energy? (39:50)
- Morning routine (40:30)
- Lightning Round (43:10)
- Book: Harry Potter
- Passion: sowing costumes
- What is making your heart sing now? Her daughter
- Screwed up: partial differential equations
- Further reading and getting involved in criminal justice reform
- Pod Save the People podcast (38:30)
- https://theappeal.org/ news source (39:00)
- Ear Hustle podcast
- Organizations leading the way
- Were to find Kristian online:
- Twitter: @KLdivergence (https://twitter.com/KLdivergence)
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series
68 episoder
MP3•Episoder hjem
Manage episode 300882166 series 2974825
Innhold levert av Ryan McGranaghan. Alt podcastinnhold, inkludert episoder, grafikk og podcastbeskrivelser, lastes opp og leveres direkte av Ryan McGranaghan eller deres podcastplattformpartner. Hvis du tror at noen bruker det opphavsrettsbeskyttede verket ditt uten din tillatelse, kan du følge prosessen skissert her https://no.player.fm/legal.
Show Notes:
- Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) (1:40)
- The contagious nature of imprisonment paper (1:50)
- Value of community colleges (6:30)
- Professor Dan Balaguy at Sierra College (7:20)
- Professor Richard Stong at Rice University - Combinatorics (8:30)
- Coming to an understanding of one’s career and curiosity (10:20)
- How can we make the public more data literate (i.e., numeracy)? (12:15)
- Maintain a healthy skepticism of numbers - think more critically (see Seth Godin’s thoughts)
- Data can encode discrimination and bias (16:10)
- Predictive policing algorithms - Kristian’s paper
- Be reflective about where patterns in data come from
- Importance of uncertainty (20:00)
- HRDAG ‘casualty estimations’ (21:10)
- Humanize the data (22:00)
- Describing how systematic things can be (23:50)
- Taking chances (e.g., Tim Ferriss guidance on cold emailing) (24:50)
- Where do you get your confidence and energy (26:50)
- Maintaining beginner’s mindset - blur disciplinary lines (28:20)
- “The most beautiful experience we have is the mysterious” -Einstein (29:20)
- How do you grapple with the outrage of injustice?
- Those with data skills need to get involved with criminal justice reform (36:20)
- Volunteer with public defenders - make sure you are a low barrier to people if you volunteer
- Talk with the people closest to the problem - human-centered approach
- Find ways that your unique skills can help
- How do you maintain your energy? (39:50)
- Morning routine (40:30)
- Lightning Round (43:10)
- Book: Harry Potter
- Passion: sowing costumes
- What is making your heart sing now? Her daughter
- Screwed up: partial differential equations
- Further reading and getting involved in criminal justice reform
- Pod Save the People podcast (38:30)
- https://theappeal.org/ news source (39:00)
- Ear Hustle podcast
- Organizations leading the way
- Were to find Kristian online:
- Twitter: @KLdivergence (https://twitter.com/KLdivergence)
- 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series
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