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Episode 19: Kristian Lum - Lifelong curiosity and Criminal Justice Reform through data
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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 episodios
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Manage episode 300882166 series 2974825
Contenido proporcionado por Ryan McGranaghan. Todo el contenido del podcast, incluidos episodios, gráficos y descripciones de podcast, lo carga y proporciona directamente Ryan McGranaghan o su socio de plataforma de podcast. Si cree que alguien está utilizando su trabajo protegido por derechos de autor sin su permiso, puede seguir el proceso descrito aquí https://es.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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