Greater Than Code
Greater Than Code
Episode 037: Failure Mode with Emily Gorcenski
00:16 – Welcome to “Diamonds Are For Gender” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”
00:56 – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Data Science
04:20 – Diversity and Career Paths in Data Science
10:51 – Ethical Debates Within the Data Science Field
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis)
17:21 – Software Development and Engineering; Failure Modes in Software
21:44 – Failure Modes in Democracy; Voting Machine Software
33:37 – Working for a Government Contractor
36:21 – Data Patterns and Tampering
39:00 – Open Data and Open Science
45:59 – Falsifying Data
Reflections:
Coraline: Considering all the ways something can fail.
Sam: The world that I live in and the kind of software development practices that I take for granted are extraordinary niche.
Emily: Tech conferences and their decadence vs academic/corporate conferences.
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Special Guest: Emily Gorcenski.
