[Music]
[Applause]
it’s not a silly a question as it first
sounds somehow when I bounce the ball by
my dog knows where to be to catch it he
anticipates it almost especially if I
bounced it more than once
somehow my dog knows when I haven’t fed
it the full amount of food does your dog
do this can your dogs relate do you
think the dog knows if the thing chasing
it is faster or slower there’s an
interesting one somehow a dog doesn’t
just won at one speed right it can speed
up and slow down what determines when it
speeds up and slow down somehow there’s
a comparative analysis going on but the
dog doesn’t even know the word math
isn’t that fascinating now how about
this we see similar behavior in humans
right so like when the wide receiver
goes out in a football game to catch the
ball right and the quarterback throws it
50 yards down the field lands right in
their hands and lets her on the Dallas
Cowboys in which case it was dropped
sorry about that sorry
[Applause]
but the gist of it is that somehow we
know some things somehow there are some
things that are just sort of known just
sort of understand you might even call
it a pre math in a way it’s kind of
interesting it’s math without math now
when we think of a data scientist
generally speaking it evokes sort of
images of like chalkboards and the ties
and those lab coats when you think they
designed this this is generally speaking
what we think right we don’t necessarily
think about our dogs as data scientists
but what is data if not information it’s
just simply information right and what
is a scientist but somebody that through
a series of experiences or history
creates a hypothesis tests it and then
reacts so what I’m saying is I think we
all do this I think this is learning in
general I don’t think this is a specific
scientific process or anything I think
that we’re all constantly learning
constantly growing constantly testing
and it’s not necessarily on that
mathematic conscious level it’s actually
quite human to think of a theory to
theorize on something and then to sort
of test it and realize good or bad
outcome so here’s what I mean do you
ever know when you’re in a bad
neighborhood but you never pass a bad
neighborhood sign right there’s no signs
like welcome to bad neighborhood
population you you know what I mean like
it just doesn’t happen
um but somehow you know when you’re in a
bad neighborhood right how about this
you ever drive like a driver on the
highway or you come across an
intersection and you slow down
cautiously because you know it’s
dangerous there’s no report
there’s no mathematics there’s nothing
specifically saying that’s really
dangerous how about this one you can
walk into an office area you can walk
into like a retail store and you will
infer or you can walk into a restaurant
this really good one and you will infer
the quality of service the quality of
the food the level of people and
specifically the morale based on trash
laying around the area so without even
meeting the people you can have an
opinion of the morale of the people
working there fascinating you know some
things you know some things without
knowing these things no this really
blows my mind when I think about it
because we’re
we learn these things other than through
this sort of trial test and
experimentation in an adaptation just
like the way the dog always catches the
ball and does better with it over time
in fact if you were to switch out your
balls as you switch as you throw them to
the dog you would find that each time it
has a new new ball they have to react
slightly differently as they adapt and
learn same thing though as humans are
doing now why does this work where how
did this come to be so this is where it
gets kind of interesting sort of how the
the place in your mind where you start
like making these decisions because
we’ve already said it’s almost in a way
preconscious now there are a couple
reasons it works this way there’s a
couple reasons really the reason the
mind whether it’s the dog or ours or a
Dallas Cowboys football player the
reason we’re able to make these sort of
decisions is its survival we need to be
able to without a full set of
information react appropriately and do
something about it because sometimes you
don’t have the full data set so there’s
a couple of ways it’s worked the first
is just all theory and the idea is that
the mind like I said completes an
incomplete data set so here we see a
triangle where no triangle was ever
drawn by a human hand or doll can for
that matter don’t paw and and if it
could get more complex where you see
things like a cube but again no cube
really exists but the mind is able to
put these things together now if you
want to trick things if you want to
actually trick this sort of kicking off
of this survival like thinking this pre
math thinking these decisions ahead of
time you can actually trick the mind
into it to do so you have to have
context that is you have to be in the
situation and you have to remove the
luxury of patience of thought or the
ability to kind of get there logically
what I’m saying is you have to be able
to react like that and imagine yourself
in the situation but I think that
perhaps I’ve done a little bit too much
telling you what you know already I’m
gonna let you prove and you tell you
what you know so to that end I want to
perform a little test here bear with me
if you will we’re gonna look at a couple
of things and I want your opinion first
off which one of these roads would call
you too slows down raise your hand if
it’s on the left or the right right okay
now what’s interesting about that is the
curve the same way they look the same
way they may have the same topological
geography even the fauna looks the same
but we’re all making the same decision
based on that nobody got the traffic
safety report in this room
Howard’s another interesting one which
one of these people would you hire is a
lawyer and you see it’s funny I say
lawyer because if I were to say like how
do you think that person feels you might
give it some thought say well maybe that
one’s just really busy but when I say
well it’s your money
you only have one lawyer and you’re
gonna go to prison if you get it wrong
suddenly everyone has the same answer on
that one you see what I mean you know
some things now let me show you
something really interesting this is
where I really I’m fascinated by this
please look at these eyes raise your
hand when I say how that person is
feeling this is a person you’ve never
met before a total stranger to you are
they feeling dominant guilty friendly or
horrified shocking 100% of the audience
just got the correct answer you’ve never
met this person and all you see is their
eyes how did you know how that person
feels without seeing it I’m gonna argue
that you know some things this is very
interesting concepts and especially when
we can trick our brains into getting
there now here’s why I bring this all up
this is my point here and telling you
this
there’s gentleman named by the name of
Peter Drucker and he once said that what
gets measured gets managed and it’s
really true if you think about it like
as soon as it’s on the scorecard it sort
of becomes the focus of the thing that
gets managed to a certain way and it
kind of makes sense because now it’s in
front of us this is our thing in front
of us and it becomes tactile once you
put a measurement around it I interpret
this statement slightly differently I
interpret this about responsibility
now responsibility to me is a
fascinating word I absolutely love this
word because if you break down the word
you have response able what I’m getting
at is the ability to respond makes you
response able which made you responsible
so in a way once you’ve started
measuring something or once you’ve
brought it to your conscious out of that
subconscious decisioning level you
became caught you became responsible for
it
so here’s what I’m arguing perhaps the
world’s most dangerous intersections
wouldn’t be so if we all knew they were
in the most dangerous intersections
perhaps perhaps we could actually affect
morale in our office place by inspiring
people in picking up the trash around us
perhaps we can do better in our
relationships and not have to ask what’s
wrong 10 times and we could get it down
to 7 or so if we understood that we know
some things and what I’m saying is I
think that if we move just a little bit
of these things we know if we say I
think I do know that I think I do know
when someone’s in trouble I think I do
know how these things work and we don’t
make it a rational or a conscious or a
logical decision again I’m a data person
arguing for speed of decision and no
reports if we move it up right away and
say I do know this thing I am aware of
this stuff perhaps just perhaps we can
fix these things and make the world a
better place
ladies and gentlemen I’m Luke Corrigan
and I’m a data scientist and I think
maybe just maybe you are too thank you
very much [Applause]
[Applause]
it’s not a silly a question as it first
sounds somehow when I bounce the ball by
my dog knows where to be to catch it he
anticipates it almost especially if I
bounced it more than once
somehow my dog knows when I haven’t fed
it the full amount of food does your dog
do this can your dogs relate do you
think the dog knows if the thing chasing
it is faster or slower there’s an
interesting one somehow a dog doesn’t
just won at one speed right it can speed
up and slow down what determines when it
speeds up and slow down somehow there’s
a comparative analysis going on but the
dog doesn’t even know the word math
isn’t that fascinating now how about
this we see similar behavior in humans
right so like when the wide receiver
goes out in a football game to catch the
ball right and the quarterback throws it
50 yards down the field lands right in
their hands and lets her on the Dallas
Cowboys in which case it was dropped
sorry about that sorry
[Applause]
but the gist of it is that somehow we
know some things somehow there are some
things that are just sort of known just
sort of understand you might even call
it a pre math in a way it’s kind of
interesting it’s math without math now
when we think of a data scientist
generally speaking it evokes sort of
images of like chalkboards and the ties
and those lab coats when you think they
designed this this is generally speaking
what we think right we don’t necessarily
think about our dogs as data scientists
but what is data if not information it’s
just simply information right and what
is a scientist but somebody that through
a series of experiences or history
creates a hypothesis tests it and then
reacts so what I’m saying is I think we
all do this I think this is learning in
general I don’t think this is a specific
scientific process or anything I think
that we’re all constantly learning
constantly growing constantly testing
and it’s not necessarily on that
mathematic conscious level it’s actually
quite human to think of a theory to
theorize on something and then to sort
of test it and realize good or bad
outcome so here’s what I mean do you
ever know when you’re in a bad
neighborhood but you never pass a bad
neighborhood sign right there’s no signs
like welcome to bad neighborhood
population you you know what I mean like
it just doesn’t happen
um but somehow you know when you’re in a
bad neighborhood right how about this
you ever drive like a driver on the
highway or you come across an
intersection and you slow down
cautiously because you know it’s
dangerous there’s no report
there’s no mathematics there’s nothing
specifically saying that’s really
dangerous how about this one you can
walk into an office area you can walk
into like a retail store and you will
infer or you can walk into a restaurant
this really good one and you will infer
the quality of service the quality of
the food the level of people and
specifically the morale based on trash
laying around the area so without even
meeting the people you can have an
opinion of the morale of the people
working there fascinating you know some
things you know some things without
knowing these things no this really
blows my mind when I think about it
because we’re
we learn these things other than through
this sort of trial test and
experimentation in an adaptation just
like the way the dog always catches the
ball and does better with it over time
in fact if you were to switch out your
balls as you switch as you throw them to
the dog you would find that each time it
has a new new ball they have to react
slightly differently as they adapt and
learn same thing though as humans are
doing now why does this work where how
did this come to be so this is where it
gets kind of interesting sort of how the
the place in your mind where you start
like making these decisions because
we’ve already said it’s almost in a way
preconscious now there are a couple
reasons it works this way there’s a
couple reasons really the reason the
mind whether it’s the dog or ours or a
Dallas Cowboys football player the
reason we’re able to make these sort of
decisions is its survival we need to be
able to without a full set of
information react appropriately and do
something about it because sometimes you
don’t have the full data set so there’s
a couple of ways it’s worked the first
is just all theory and the idea is that
the mind like I said completes an
incomplete data set so here we see a
triangle where no triangle was ever
drawn by a human hand or doll can for
that matter don’t paw and and if it
could get more complex where you see
things like a cube but again no cube
really exists but the mind is able to
put these things together now if you
want to trick things if you want to
actually trick this sort of kicking off
of this survival like thinking this pre
math thinking these decisions ahead of
time you can actually trick the mind
into it to do so you have to have
context that is you have to be in the
situation and you have to remove the
luxury of patience of thought or the
ability to kind of get there logically
what I’m saying is you have to be able
to react like that and imagine yourself
in the situation but I think that
perhaps I’ve done a little bit too much
telling you what you know already I’m
gonna let you prove and you tell you
what you know so to that end I want to
perform a little test here bear with me
if you will we’re gonna look at a couple
of things and I want your opinion first
off which one of these roads would call
you too slows down raise your hand if
it’s on the left or the right right okay
now what’s interesting about that is the
curve the same way they look the same
way they may have the same topological
geography even the fauna looks the same
but we’re all making the same decision
based on that nobody got the traffic
safety report in this room
Howard’s another interesting one which
one of these people would you hire is a
lawyer and you see it’s funny I say
lawyer because if I were to say like how
do you think that person feels you might
give it some thought say well maybe that
one’s just really busy but when I say
well it’s your money
you only have one lawyer and you’re
gonna go to prison if you get it wrong
suddenly everyone has the same answer on
that one you see what I mean you know
some things now let me show you
something really interesting this is
where I really I’m fascinated by this
please look at these eyes raise your
hand when I say how that person is
feeling this is a person you’ve never
met before a total stranger to you are
they feeling dominant guilty friendly or
horrified shocking 100% of the audience
just got the correct answer you’ve never
met this person and all you see is their
eyes how did you know how that person
feels without seeing it I’m gonna argue
that you know some things this is very
interesting concepts and especially when
we can trick our brains into getting
there now here’s why I bring this all up
this is my point here and telling you
this
there’s gentleman named by the name of
Peter Drucker and he once said that what
gets measured gets managed and it’s
really true if you think about it like
as soon as it’s on the scorecard it sort
of becomes the focus of the thing that
gets managed to a certain way and it
kind of makes sense because now it’s in
front of us this is our thing in front
of us and it becomes tactile once you
put a measurement around it I interpret
this statement slightly differently I
interpret this about responsibility
now responsibility to me is a
fascinating word I absolutely love this
word because if you break down the word
you have response able what I’m getting
at is the ability to respond makes you
response able which made you responsible
so in a way once you’ve started
measuring something or once you’ve
brought it to your conscious out of that
subconscious decisioning level you
became caught you became responsible for
it
so here’s what I’m arguing perhaps the
world’s most dangerous intersections
wouldn’t be so if we all knew they were
in the most dangerous intersections
perhaps perhaps we could actually affect
morale in our office place by inspiring
people in picking up the trash around us
perhaps we can do better in our
relationships and not have to ask what’s
wrong 10 times and we could get it down
to 7 or so if we understood that we know
some things and what I’m saying is I
think that if we move just a little bit
of these things we know if we say I
think I do know that I think I do know
when someone’s in trouble I think I do
know how these things work and we don’t
make it a rational or a conscious or a
logical decision again I’m a data person
arguing for speed of decision and no
reports if we move it up right away and
say I do know this thing I am aware of
this stuff perhaps just perhaps we can
fix these things and make the world a
better place
ladies and gentlemen I’m Luke Corrigan
and I’m a data scientist and I think
maybe just maybe you are too thank you
very much [Applause]
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