Data Science Imposters Podcast

As data science imposters, we get to think about the history of things that came before 5G or whatever new whizzbang technology. In this episode, we talk about the origins of Morse code and related items. Did you know that you could play songs using an old phone? Check out this site for some ideas: Read More ...

Holiday wishes from the DSI crew.

Fueled by a few cold IPA beers, a microphone, and a quiet room provided by a friend of the show – the Data Science Imposters grab the mics and have a good conversation.  Join the conversation on Twitter @dsimposters 

Can a computer be artistic?  If so, how valuable can their pieces of art become?  The Obvious Group certainly thinks so and they have made their first sale of a computer generated portrait for $432,000.  They’ve done this by doing some great promotion but also leveraging code published on the internet built on GANs (generative Read More ...

Have you seen the movie a beautiful mind?  Have you ever been facing jail time if you cooperate against an accomplice? Well, let’s focus on the movie first – there’s a scene where five guys, one of those guys being John Nash, and they are at a bar when a group of women walk in Read More ...

Jake Kramer joins Jordy and Antonio to display his love for deep space, give background and context of his company, share his thoughts on entrepreneurship, and wow them with some of the technologies he’s been able to explore.  Jake Kramer is a managing partner at Fed Tech, a unique private venture program, funded by federal Read More ...

Jordy and Antonio catch up after a long hiatus.  Come catch up with us. We also talk about stylometry in relation to the recent article ‘I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration‘ and who can forget the Unabomber. Jordy even commits to reading, nay listening, to a book for our next episode.  Read More ...

The data science imposters have been doing these book reviews for a while now and Jordy was finally able to find time to read and discuss a book. We are all starting to doubt he was ever on the show Reading Rainbow. Jordy tells us about: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Read More ...

In this episode, we discuss what we have found out about the Facebook ‘data breach’, Cambridge Analytica, and the connections from companies to people to political parties to Facebook and ultimately to you (or one of your friends).

Josh Powe, CEO and co-founder of LinkIt!, joins us this week and he takes us back to school (I know, bad dad joke). He gives us an understanding of his industry, how technology has evolved in K-12 education, and he tells us what we may expect to see in the coming years. LinkIt! is a Read More ...

‘Who is Watson? ‘ … That’s correct for 200.  In this episode, we talk about Watson and Jeopardy as we review “Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything” by Stephen Baker.  We also have some fun by throwing in a few Jeopardy answers throughout the show. Before we get into that, we Read More ...

Jorge Nunez is an entrepreneur, investor and as Forbes puts it, an “idea man”.  He shares his story of starting his company Remote Reactivation, from early days in event promotions to becoming a player in the world of dentistry. Entrepreneurship has no roadmap and Jorge combines technology, data, and his perseverance to succeed in an otherwise neglected field. Read More ...

Stories about ATMs Spitting Cash, Crypto Paradise in Puerto Rico and Uber Making Deals Antonio reminisces about his high school days and attending 2600 meetings at the Citi Corp building while discussing the ATM hacks or jackpotting. Did you know the “whistle” provided in the Captain Crunch cereals could be used to make phone calls? Read More ...

Microsoft outscores Alibaba which outscores humans in reading and answering questions!  Well, the truth is that humans also outscore Microsoft and Alibaba.  It depends if you are using the Exact Match (EM) or F1-score scoring methodology.  While we discuss some of the technical aspects of this, we do not lose sight of the socio-economic impact Read More ...

We start the new year with a book review of Peter Thiel’s Zero to One.  As always, we add some levity by reading the 1-start reviews on Goodreads. We ask ourselves if there’s a Zero to One idea within Data Science.  We come up short.  Antonio loves libraries and defends them as one of the Read More ...

Imagine that you go into a sportswear store to buy a snowboard to join your friends for a trip in Vermont.  You see a used snowboard for $100 and you know the salesperson from high school and they tell you that you can find the exact same thing 15 minutes down the road for $30 Read More ...

We start this episode addressing the ‘disease’ (our words, not his) of Impatient Data Science and how to cure it with a platform.  We are excited to have David share his thoughts and practical experience building machine learning platforms. Dr. David Purdy is currently a Senior Data Science Manager at Uber.  Most recently, David architected Read More ...

We invite a friend to join us this week (actually two weeks ago) to relive some of our favorite episodes. We invite you to join this casual conversation. Next week we are excited to have a special guest on the show to discuss his experience building Machine Learning Platforms.

In this episode, Dr. Bennett takes us back to school and teaches us a few things about machine learning, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and visualization.  Along the way, we discuss how to incorporate teaching of these topics in colleges and high schools and some of the moral issues that may arise with artificial intelligence. ‘Dr. Read More ...

We return to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for the 2017 Homecoming Weekend.  We share our experience and reminisce about good ol’ RPI.  This episode is less structured and less ‘data-sciencey’ than most of our other episodes.  We hope you enjoy this casual episode and tune back to Part II when we jump back into the Read More ...