From the course: DJ Patil: Ask Me Anything
How did you use data in grad school?
From the course: DJ Patil: Ask Me Anything
How did you use data in grad school?
(uptempo music) - When I was a graduate student as I was kinda going through this process of trying to think about what problems I wanna work on in grad school, one of the things that I was just real excited about was this idea that people were putting data on the web, and so I was kinda just looking for problems, and I found that the National Weather Service was posting a lot of their data. And these were the early days. There wasn't any cloud services where you could easily download stuff. And so I'd started to download a little bit of the data and just try to see if I could graph it and find patterns in this data. It required so many computers that I didn't have, what I figured out that I could do was that if I effectively leveraged what might be called a security breach or a loophole (laughing) in the system, I could take over everyone's computer in the department. But if they were on the computer, they would see it getting slow. So I just started, what I'd do is I'd come into the math department at about eight or 9 p.m. at night and then work until about four or five in the morning, and I would just take over every machine, and I'd download all the data I could every day from the National Weather Service, try to find patterns and then produce a pattern, produce an image that I could then walk around the meteorology department and say does this look like something interesting or not? And then I would just go around, and they would just say nah. And eventually I came across this pattern that people were like whoa, that's kinda interesting. And so as a result, that led us down this question of like wow, maybe there is a new way that we could characterize the quality of forecasts and the uncertainty in forecasts. But fundamentally what that was is I was doing a data science exercise. I was finding data. I was pulling it down. I was going through it. I found the people who actually own the data, and I was asking them and interacting with them to say does this have context, and they were teach me, I was teaching them, and together, we were able to form a collaboration. (uptempo music)
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What were you like as a kid?3m 17s
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How did your parents influence you?1m 55s
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How did you navigate college?4m 7s
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What are some fond memories from grad school?2m 45s
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How can we foster learning for everyone?5m 9s
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What's the importance of learning liberal arts?2m 30s
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What advice do you have for job seekers?3m 23s
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How did data science come about?4m 8s
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What does it take to be a data scientist?4m 1s
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Why is apprenticeship important?3m 41s
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How can a data scientist influence policy?2m 20s
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How can I prepare for data science in college?4m 56s
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How can hackathons benefit me?1m 30s
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How did you use data in grad school?2m 15s
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How is data used in the US?3m 55s
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How is data used worldwide?1m 38s
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How do you expose holes in cybersecurity?3m 32s
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How can we educate people about hacking?2m 30s
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What are the real threats to personal data?4m 6s
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Should we focus on media headlines?1m 39s
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How can we educate people about data use?3m 34s
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How can people fight for data privacy?2m 46s
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What's the role of the data scientist in 15 years?4m 30s
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What are you working on currently?3m 31s
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How can we make data secure?3m 26s
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How to serve the people with data science?1m 47s
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What's the difference between wisdom and experience?1m 54s
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How do you advocate for science?2m 3s
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What is the role of AI in today's world?2m 54s
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What's an example of ethical hacking?2m 9s
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How do you bring data science into the workplace?2m 29s
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What is the role of AI in human resources and recruiting?3m 3s
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What are tools every data scientist should own?2m 44s
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Is there a data science code of ethics?4m 6s
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What are AI threats in the cybersecurity world?4m 38s
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How can data scientists better inform the general public?1m 30s
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How can people participate in data science?2m 31s
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Why do people fear a machine revolution?2m 18s
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How can data inform healthcare?1m 31s
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Why should we democratize data?2m 14s
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How are you advocating for science?3m 9s
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Why is the march for science important?3m 42s
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What is AI?1m 37s
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What is an example of robust machine learning?4m 31s
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What is AI's place in healthcare?3m 29s
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How can AI impact clinical trials?3m 22s
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How can a data scientist be best leveraged for business?1m 28s
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What does a data science team need to thrive?2m 56s
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What are the pros and cons with AI in HR roles?3m 27s
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What should be in a data scientist's toolbox?3m 23s
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What makes up a good data science team?2m 3s
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What new projects are you working on?2m 51s
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What data science projects are you working on?1m 40s
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How can AI and machine learning (ML) help cybersecurity?3m 54s
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How can governments fight back against AI attacks?3m 5s
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What can the public do to protect against AI attacks?1m 14s
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What are neural networks (NN)?2m 8s
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What's the difference between ML and NN?1m 42s
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Do you have a favorite machine learning technique?1m 7s
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How does the Internet of Things work?1m 38s
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What is a connected city?3m 3s
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What is the fear associated with data?2m 30s
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How can we address the fear of machines taking jobs?3m 20s
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What about job loss due to AI?1m 43s
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What's the reality of bringing back jobs?1m 50s
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What is a scientific process for data science?2m 46s
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What is your tip for not getting overwhelmed by big data?1m 40s
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How do you accept that you're not going to know stuff?2m 38s
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What is a dynamic range?2m 1s
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When does data leave holes?3m 8s
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How important is diversity on a data science team?2m 13s
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How does data influence people's emotions?4m 15s
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How do you train yourself to be intellectually curious?2m 20s
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How do we empower people to foster dialogue?3m 33s
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What is your philosophy on leadership?2m 56s
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How can a company retain employees?3m 42s
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How do you cultivate employee development?3m 18s
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How do you identify algorithmic biases?2m 46s
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Can you describe the process of ethical testing?2m 46s
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How do you feel about machine learning for business decisions?1m 52s
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Can you talk about your book?4m 10s
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What are possible solutions for displacement?2m 23s
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What impact does technology have on the US economy?3m 2s
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Can you discuss the future of intelligent things?3m 26s
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What are the current issues with data collection?2m 10s
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How is technology changing human expectations?1m 7s
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Wrapping up1m 5s
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