From the course: DJ Patil: Ask Me Anything
How do we empower people to foster dialogue?
From the course: DJ Patil: Ask Me Anything
How do we empower people to foster dialogue?
(techno music) - How do we empower people to look at all sides of a challenge instead of Googling something and looking at the first website that pops up? - These are the questions of today of how do we have good dialogue? How do we take out the heat on a conversation of these types? I remember after Ferguson getting together with police chiefs and officers and people from the Black Lives Matter community and other civic activists and the families that were impacted, getting them in a room, to actually have a discussion. The way you start with those conversations is first just trying to remember that we all have something in common. We all want a better world for our kids and our kid's kids. And reasonable people can disagree. And sometimes the hardest problems don't have an answer that's easy. Hard problems are hard. And what you try to do is you try to advance our understanding to get to a better problem, to get to a better answer, to get to another thing. The tragedy that we have right now is that people aren't willing to engage in discussion that is, has the ability to take out the heat. The ability to actually just, let's talk about the data. Let's talk about your experience. Let's not say your experience means nothing because my data doesn't reflect it. The thing that makes a great data scientist fundamentally is actually not just the ability to do analysis. It's the ability to communicate, it's the ability to empathize, the ability to reach across and understand how this data is going to actually impact. You can't just say your job ends with a chart, that's insufficient. The place we learn about this is the liberal arts. We learn how to think about what it is to be human and how do we interact as cultures. The three things I teach almost every single day to scientists I get to work with is I say there's three things that we need to make sure and have an answer for. Number one, what do we want somebody to take away from this? What are they supposed to take away? Number two, what action do we want them to take? Is it a retweet, is it we want them to look deeper at it, ask another question, is it to read more stuff, what is it? The third, which is almost seems antithetical to this is how do we want them to feel? Excited, passionate, and there's a debate and people probably are thinking out there oh no what you, it was supposed to be cold, it was supposed to be objective. Actually, what we found is when you put emotion into it it starts and stirs a dialogue. Now you have to also provide context around that, that's how you manage it. But when you bring that together and you start talking and using data to foster dialogue. Data is not supposed to be the end. Just like the scientific process, there is no end. It is a continuous cycle of increasing sophistication around things. The best people who use data, use data to foster a dialogue, to advance to the dialogue, to engage more, engage deeper, to ask richer questions, to bring more people into the conversation. (techno 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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