Episode 037: Failure Mode with Emily Gorcenski




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">|</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emily Gorcenski: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@EmilyGorcenski</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://emilygorcenski.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">emilygorcenski.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://www.simple.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “Diamonds Are For Gender” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>00:56</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Origin Story, Superpowers, and Data Science</span></p> <p><b>04:20 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Diversity and Career Paths in Data Science</span></p> <p><b>10:51 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Ethical Debates Within the Data Science Field</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553418815/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0553418815&amp;linkId=0ed7c081ef2baa2e5a6f33a076e2929b"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Therac-25</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/process-analysis-tools/overview/fmea.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis)</span></a></p> <p><b>17:21 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Software Development and Engineering; Failure Modes in Software</span></p> <p><b>21:44 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Failure Modes in Democracy; Voting Machine Software</span></p> <p><b>33:37 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Working for a Government Contractor</span></p> <p><b>36:21 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Data Patterns and Tampering</span></p> <p><b>39:00 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Open Data and Open Science</span></p> <p><b>45:59 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Falsifying Data</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Want to help make us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, </b><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">and bring us to conferences near you? Join or Slack community and support us via </b><a style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.8rem;" href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to </b><a href="mailto:mandy@greaterthancode.com"><b>mandy@greaterthancode.com</b></a><b>.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>To jumpstart these efforts, we are very excited to announce that we have been selected for this month’s </b><a href="http://joinfundclub.com/"><b>Fund Club</b></a><b> project!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Coraline: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Considering all the ways something can fail.</span></p> <p><b>Sam:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The world that I live in and the kind of software development practices that I take for granted are extraordinary niche.</span></p> <p><b>Emily:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Tech conferences and their decadence vs academic/corporate conferences.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Are you Greater Than Code?</b><b></b></p>