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Join us this week for a chat about the UX design of complex systems and including humans in the loop throughout increasing levels of system sophistication and automation. Our guest is Lynn Pausic, cofounder of Expero, and expert in the design space.
Hello there! We’re refactoring the show a bit. From now on, we’ll be focusing on a single theme for each episode.
Today’s theme is data versioning. If you’re not doing it, get on it! Tune in to find out how.
Join us this week for the live show from Dove Town, Canada. No show notes? No problem. Join us for a review of SciPy 2019, hypergraphs!, and fraud detection. Boom.
Can we agree that the UR boys are a couple of skeptical optimists? Well, this week they get a full dose from Kyle Polich of Data Skeptic podcast. Tune in as Kyle tells us about his journey in data science, gives us his view on the future of the biz, and lets us in on secrets to making a great podcast. Come to think of it, we should listen again and take notes. Show notes here.
We’re living the dream this week with Bane Sullivan, a super driven young man working on building next generation geoscience visualization technology. Tune in as we discuss viz, and more specifically geoviz, with Bane. We’ll also get in touch with our egos today; don’t miss it. Show notes here.
This week we chat with bitmapper extraordinaire, Matt Jaffee. We discuss what a bitmap index is, why Go is so powerful, radio astronomy, and tons of other good stuff. If you’re into categorical data (or floats or ints or timestamps or other things, as it turns out), this is the episode for you! Show notes here.
The boys are in Houston! And Diego is in Houston, too! Join us this week as we walk through the fascinating subject of machine learning model interpretability. We’ll talk about modern tips and techniques for interpreting your machine learning models, and discuss a couple of papers oriented around the same subject. No show notes this week, as we wrote them on a whiteboard in the conference room. Sorry.
Boom. We're live and direct this week from the Expero women in tech Machine Learning as a Product hackathon in Austin, TX. It was a super fun weekend with a ton of amazing ideas. If you're interested in seeing all of the presentations, check out our YouTube channel for the full line up!
Hello there! Welcome to an amazing mashup of UR and Don't Panic Geocast (v2). John Leeman of Don't Panic joins gram at SciPy 2018 for a chat about what's going on. No show notes this week...
This week the UR boys learn just how improbable it is that they're still on the air. The master of geostatistics, Dr. Michael Pyrcz, joins them for a fascinating chat. Michael discusses the virtues of following your passion into academia or industry, and highlights the benefits of dabbling in both arenas. Listen in as they chat about elementary statistics and the ultimate stats book. If you're confused about Bayes theorem, this is the show for you (AKA get in touch with Michael, because Matt and gram haven't a clue). Show notes here.
This week's episode is an audio only version of the presentations at the 2018 Subsurface Hackathon in Salt Lake City. There is a video version here (which makes more sense). Enjoy!
Dr. John Ramey joins us on the show this week to: a) show the UR boys how bad they are at statistics. b) solve the problem of estimating production. c) all of the above. The answer is c) all of the above. Ramey is an incredible force of energy, enthusiasm, and math knowledge. Tune in and get schooled. Show notes here.
Surprise! Dr. Diego Castañeda and Evan Bianco are in Houston! Join us this week to learn about stellar rotation, composition measurements by remote sensing, and automobile location by GPR. The Agile boys are fired up this week. Do not miss this episode.
It's headshot day for Matt's crew at South Shore Hub! How do you like his new picture? This week Matt and gram discuss the merits of a newish conference, the evils of getting slow Python to run fast, and how many ties are in Matt's closet. Also mixture density networks. Boom.
Eirik Larsen joins us this week for a big reveal about what's going on in the world of exploration geosci ML. Listen up as the man himself tells us about what's going on at his company, what's going on in the industry, and what changes he thinks are likely to come in the next 10 years in the space. Show notes here.
We have a new winner! Ethan Rosenthal has now made it to the top of the list for number of guest appearances. Join us as we finally have a chance to grill Ethan about recommender systems, how they work, what flavors they come in, and why web marketing is the creepiest thing ever.
Once more unto the Creech, dear friends! Actually, this is our first foray unto the Creech, we just felt like it classed up the show a bit to have some Shakespeare in an episode title.
Join us this week for a surprising show with Tom Creech, master of modesty. Surprising because there are two big reveals this episode (yes, one includes someone whipping a sheet off of a hidden object). Modest because though Tom is a seriously knowledgeable dude, he still approaches his problems with the curiosity of a newb.
Extensive show notes (including an image) here.
Join us this week on Undersampled Radio as we interview two special guests, Matt Hall and Graham Ganssle. Listen in as our host, Fernando Ziegler, lays down the gauntlet with some incisive questions, brilliant insights, and general radio-host-badassery. Matt and Graham don't make it out unscathed. Detailed show notes here.
Join us this week for a technically challenged episode. The boys can't stop cracking up, Matt makes more than the usual number of puns, and Gram finally tells us what he's been drinking in all the episodes this year. You'll also find out about Matt's broadcasting epiphany which is more actionable than you're thinking. (limited) Show notes here.
Caitlin Hudon is doing it right. Not only is she a mogul of the data science world, she's a content creator, driven to give back to the community. Listen up as Caitlin describes her activities as a mentor of aspiring tech-focused girls, her activism for women's equality in tech, and her organization of a local women's tech group. Oh, also, did we mention that while she's doing all of these things she's also crushing data science? Yeah. Also, tune in to hear about how she applies DS to real world problems. Show notes here.
Our guest this week is embedded systems nerd and electrical engineering junkie, Jack Ganssle. Good looks and geekiness must run in the family because, yes, Jack is GRAM's dad. Since we know nothing about computers (and very little about computing, it turns out), we invited Jack on to share some wisdom about computers of the past and computers of the future. And share he did. Tune in to hear Matt and Gram stutter in ignorance, and find out what a computer really does. Show notes here.
Happy holidays everyone! Gift lists and photoshops, podcasts and puppies / these are a few of our favorite things. Since Matt loved last year's holiday episode photo so much, we've prepped another little gem for him this year. Tune in for chit-chat on differential geometry and two holiday gift lists, one for the geoscientist and one for the data scientist. Gift lists and flimflam in the show notes, here. Original hardbod image by Bob Paris, CC BY SA 3.
Paula Alves joins us this week for a discussion about transitioning from the mining of rocks to the mining of data. Paula's a self-employed data scientist working on some really cool problems. Join us as she highlights the benefits of hackathons-for-good and the reason we love to do the datasci. We chat briefly with Paula about why there are so few women in data science, and what we can do to fix that problem. Paula was kind enough to script some of her thoughts in the show notes; you can find them here.
This week we've got Dr. Brian Romans on the show for a chat about what it's like in academia from the other side of the fence. What is tenure? Once you get it, is it really awesome? Once you get it, do you slack off and delegate all your work to graduate students? We also chat at a high level about source-to-sink, the geologic modeling philosophy of following sediment from erosion to deposition. Show notes here. Enjoy!
Ted Petrou joins us all the way from Canada today! What's the King of the Pandas and the leader of the Houston Data Science Meetup doing all the way up at 50 degrees north? You'll have to tune in to find out. You'll also want to tune in to find out how poker and game theory relate to data science and when to choose .ix[] or .iloc[]. Show notes show notes show notes!
This week we've got (soon to be Dr.) Yuriy Ivanov on the show chatting with us about orthorombic media, anisotropy, and seismic experiments of various scope. Tune in as we have a laugh at GRAM's outfit, learn a ton from Yuriy, and listen to Matt sing karaoke. Okay, that last one doesn't really happen.
You listen to UR for the loosely technology related conversation and the lack of scientific rigor. You appreciate the finer points of gram and matt's sophomoric humor. You'd rather watch the Kardashians than build a new Docker image. Well, this isn't your episode. Sorry; Matt and Graham nerd out on this one. So, slide some pens into that pocket protector and tape up those broken glasses, because you're about to get learned. This week we talk about quantum computers, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, supervised vs. unsupervised image translation, and colored seismic inversion. Show notes, if you dare.
And, yes, we're trying out clickbait tags as titles now.
This week we're coming at you live and direct from the Subsurface Hackathon in Houston, TX. This event is awesome, and you need to get yo'self to the next one. We're joined by several hackathon teams, who discuss their projects, and their perceptions of the #subhack. No show notes this week, just fun.
This week we have Aaron Roberts on the show. Aaron's a brilliant, creative dude who can get your lawn mowed. What?! Yep. Aaron is a data scientist at LawnStarter, the "Uber of lawn care." Tune in as we chat about the future of data science, machine learning, and farming. Also, Matt does the intro! Show notes, woot.
Has your work ever been plagiarized? How about plagiarized by a world-dominant publishing house? Tune in to see how it happened and what's going to happen next. Also on the menu this episode: SEG in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, AAPG Student Expo cancellation, and what makes an expert an expert. It's a good one, folks! Check the show notes for lots of good links.
Zoltan Sylvester joins us this week for a fascinating conversation on the modeling of meandering channels and the study of decompaction. Listen in as GRAM nerds out on the fluid dynamics / system state parallel, Zoltan discusses all the cool stuff going on at UT, and Matt lights up our curiosity with a call to the Eartharxiv. Show notes here.
This week we've got Elwyn Galloway on the show. He's an expert geoperson and a budding data scientist, to boot. Elwyn describes his project, sketch2model, which is one of the coolest geoapps ever created. He also talks about his interest in the analysis of fantasy hockey, so tune in for some predictive analytics jazz, folks! The show notes are stacked with links to various projects, and a link to Elwyn's blog.
This week we speak with Bert Bril about his expansive career in geocomputing. Get the inside scoop on how OpendTect got its start. Enjoy the insight of Bert's analysis of open computing and open data. Laugh at gram as he tries to interject foolish questions into the high level conversation. It's a great episode with a huge range of material, so fasten your seatbelt and crank the volume to 11. Show notes here.
This week we have Dr. Brendan Hall on the show to talk about ML, AI, and the power of computing the future. Check into the show notes for the goodies.
This week, Aaron Foyer of ENERGYminute joins us to discuss the country (Canada) wide, and global implications of energy production and consumption. Tune in as we learn about the fascinating politics and economics related to the sourcing of energy. We chat about the interconnection of all energy production mechanisms and the outlook for the future. If you're not in the mood to hear Matt and Graham sass each other, you can read the show notes here. Also, make sure you browse the videos section on the ENERGYminute site; they're producing some quality material over there.
Dr. Chris Jackson's just back from his volcano tour with the BBC (well, like, as in a few weeks ago. But that's pretty timely for us, right?). Having Dr. Jackson on the show is always an honor, and we're pleased to get an "exclusive" (ignoring the whole BBC thing) from him about his time in the DNR. Watch the video below to see Chris wearing shoes (Re: UR Sock Sessions), pictures from his trip, and Matt looking flustered after joining the episode 15 minutes late. The show notes are here, and the pictures we're discussing are here.
How do you let a thing grow beyond your capabilities to manage? Franchise it, of course! This week we're talking about spinning off scientific creative events, AI intro courses, TensorFlow, and Sable Island. Show notes here.
This week UR is in Paris for the 2017 Subsurface Hackathon! Tune in as we speak to several teams about their projects. As a bonus, you'll get to see our skill at in-the-field recording! Follow this link to watch the hacked together Subsurface Hackathon presentation video.
Dr. Sue Webb joins us today for a discussion about potential field inversion, the future of geoscience in Africa, and the AfricaArray project. Sue's been an integral part of driving the new frontier of geoscience in Africa; she's run the field school for a couple of decades and taught hundreds (maybe thousands) of students how to #geosci. The key to continued success in this domain is to "franchise" out the education process by teaching others how to run their own field schools and geoscience curriculum. See the show notes here.
Evan Bianco (Evan the magnificent) joins us for a summary of the Calgary GeoConference, an interior look at Agile Scientific, and a lesson on guitar-playing/half-marathon-winning. Don't worry, this episode isn't all conference bashing and bad times, there is actually quite a bit (two minutes) of constructive idea baking. Sidestep the morass with the show notes, here.
The UR crew is gearing up for the Paris hackathon! Get ready to tune in live this Saturday (and maybe Sunday, depending on our mood).
GRAM puts his foot further into his mouth today. You'll remember his claim in episode 41 (mere weeks ago) that forward problems are dead. You can also find an entire blog post he wrote about forward problems being dead. Well he's here today to announce: he's working on a new forward problem, because forward problems are awesome!
Tune in this week to laugh at GRAM's foolishness, hear about some really cool developments in the ML domain, and wish matt a happy birthday. Also, there are two riddles involving Roman numerals! There are no show notes this week; did you think we're professionals or something?
This week the crew from SEG's podcast, Seismic Soundoff, joins Undersampled Radio for a chat about interesting modes of scicomm and community outreach. Our guests are also the authors of the excellent SEG Wiki, which is another great resource for geoscientists of various disciplines. Matt gives 'em a grilling on what the SEG is, could be, and should be doing to enable the spread of geoscience knowledge. Have a read of the show notes here.
This week Flynn Zaiger, owner of Online Optimism, joins us for a chat about sending your message to the world. Online Optimism is a digital marketing firm building better futures for companies passionate about their craft. Flynn chats with the UR boys about following your calling, and how to sell that calling. Check out the show notes here.
Welcome to UR Sock Sessions. This is an experiment gone horribly wrong. GRAM and matt visited Chris Jackson in New York during his GSA Distinguished Lecturer tour. The three were joined by Ethan Rosenthal (who's also been on the show a couple of times). One late night, the four kicked off their shoes, cracked a beer, and chatted while the cameras rolled. There was no script (obviously) and no acoustic dampening (sorry). There are also no show notes. So, godspeed... you have our sincere apologies.
What's an inverse? How do we invigorate and open up scientific curricula? Is it possible for one person to work on (and crush) 10 simultaneous projects? Lindsey Heagy answers these questions for us on the show this week. If you're not a regular show note reader, make sure to at least skim this week's notes, they're amazingly robust.
This week we have Katelyn Salem of Kate Tectonics on the show. If you haven't watched their videos, do so immediately; you'll thank us. We did. And then we invited Katelyn to UR to teach us how the Kate Tectonics team makes such awesome videos! Obviously, we didn't take her advice (just look at our video quality). Keeping in line with Matt's and Gram's current quest for valuable science communication techniques we also discuss the merits of video as a scicomm outreach media. This is a great episode, but if you can't stand to hear us blather on, you can find the show notes here.
Dr. Ethan Rosenthal's back! This time he's live-and-direct in the studio for another chat about data science and recommendation systems. Ethan's been playing with neural networks recently, and we grill him a bit on it (as you know, Matt's an expert NN wizard). Visit the show notes for links to Ethan's excellent blog and various bio pages.
Thomas Martin joins us this week to teach us about electric geophysical methods. We discuss MT and Thomas' specialty, CSEM. We dive into methods, techniques, limitations, and successes of these electric methods, and as a bonus we get to hear about life in the beauty of the volcano town! Read the show notes for some awesome refs that Thomas has provided.
GRAM scrambles to describe the Paris Hackathon remote participation method in two minutes or less. If you're interested in participating remotely, please send a note in the #parisrobots channel on The Software Underground or email ParisRobots@gmail.com
Is -17 C too cold for biking? Should you nap for longer than 26 minutes? Dr. Chris, AKA Chris Harrison, answers these questions and more this week on Undersampled Radio. Tune in as Dr. Chris shows the UR crew how a broadcast is supposed to be done. He gives us the scoop on personal branding, video production, and building an audience. Not that we've implemented any of these strategies; we'll leave production quality to him.
Prefer to skip the low fidelity sass? Read the show notes here.
Here. Have a nice "Just Us" show. Matt and Graham (mostly Graham) couldn't wait to disseminate the answer to last week's Riddle Me This, so they did a whole show for you! Listen in for some juicy deets on the Unity Mapbox API, an Unearthed Hackathon, and more riddles! Check out the show notes here. If you're reading this description on your RSS aggregator, go check out the post on our site to see a really cool pic, built by a neural network, of Matt's and Gram's faces combined with seismic data.
Dr. Amanda Freise gives us a lesson in science outreach communication this week. It's a good thing, too, because Matt and Graham are holding a science communication brainstorm in May. Dr. Freise is an expert in scicomm; she is the founder of a scicomm community which exists digitally and IRL, a science magazine written for a lay-audience, and a lecturer on all things scicomm. Visit the show notes to find links to all of her projects, and don't forget to submit your Riddle Me This answer on The Software Underground.
Matt briefly tells us about the Paris Hackathon in June, and the remote participation option (just in case you can't make it to the City of Lights). If you're interested in participating as a remote robot, please contact gram on the Software Underground or email ParisRobots@gmail.com.
Happy Valentines Day everyone (also happy Presidents Day, since this podcast won't come out for a week). Spoon with Undersampled Radio this week to get an education from Dr. Jeremy Yoder. Dr. Yoder speaks with us about population genetics, mutualism, and anti-LGBTQ prejudice in STEM. Check out the show notes for links to all of Dr. Yoder's projects, including the brand new Yoder Lab, and the Queer in STEM project.
Lukas Mosser knows geophysics. He also knows how to model, mine, extract, and train. Join us this week to hear from one half of the team which won the TLE machine learning contest! Lukas also gives us a few hints about his new top secret research project. Don't miss it.
We've started a new segment on Undersampled Radio called (until you suggest a better name) Riddle Me This. Every episode we'll pose a question/riddle/puzzle. The subsequent episode will contain the answer and a new puzzle. Submit your answers on The Software Underground. One correct answer will be highlighted on air.
Matt and GRAM poke each other's buttons this week about all things Undersampled Radio, the value of work, and (of course) machine learning. Speaking of which cough wink, SEG's TLE machine learning contest is almost over. Submit now! If you're into blogs make sure you listen to this episode, because Matt divulges all of his secrets about Agile's awesome blog. If you're into couples counseling you can send your contact information to UndersampledRadio@gmail.com. If you're into reading our show notes you can check 'em out here.
Dr. Chris Jackson hosts Undersampled Radio this week. Listen up as he shows Matt and GRAM how it's supposed to be done. Dr. CJ is going on tour! So bring your pyrotechnics and get ready to rock the USA because he's coming in hot folks. Get all the deets in this week's episode. Also hear from a couple of masters of academic editing (Matt and Chris) what the heck is wrong with the system and what we can do to fix it. The show notes are overstuffed with delicious information, so check 'em out!
Should you bother learning the gritty deets of a field with all these intelligent artificials running around? Dr. Jackie Floyd's answer [spoiler alert] is resoundingly yes. Domain expertise isn't dead. You'll have to listen to the episode to hear the rest of her insights (which are deep and numerous, by the way), but we can say that this is one of the most interesting Undersampled Radio episodes ever recorded. We had nary a chance to make it through half of the topics in the show notes, and it's this editor's hope that she'll agree to join us again in the near future.
Happy holidays everyone! While you're driving from family reunion to company party in a daze you could be learning you some knowledge here on Undersampled Radio. Tune in to the holiday episode for five minutes of content about data compression and then an hour of Matt and GRAM chit chatting about geeky gifts, singing songs, and telling science jokes. Gather the family around the fire and light the tubes on the radio as we make fools of ourselves for your benefit. Bring your own eggnog.
Gift lists, solstice poem, and science jokes forced upon you in the show notes.
You've got crazy ideas. Why don't you quit your job, pick a crazy idea and run with it? Because you've got to be able to buy groceries for your children? Okay, we hear you. But what if you had the financial support of an organization committed to assisting R+D projects? Ian Phillips is on the show this week to tell you how you can partner with the OGIC to innovate, build, make, and move the industry forward. Show notes here.
Two things are certain in life: measurement error and the UR staff's incompetence. This week we fumbled an attempt to have an open episode where anyone could join. The result? An awesome episode with Tannis McCartney and Evan Bianco discussing uncertainty in scientific experiments and the evolution of geoscience. As a bonus you'll get to hear what Evan and Tannis are up to in their research and why Matt is a great parent! Visit the show notes for links to various Easter eggs.
You thought we were just software people, didn't you? Well you were right, but our guest this week, John Leeman, is a knowledgeable hardware hacker with a passion for geology and meteorology. John builds software, firmware, and hardware solutions to bring customized instrumentation solutions to his customers. We talk to him about sensors, CAD modeling, software, and education. Tune in or check out the show notes.
Undersampled Radio turns 25 the way Y2K was celebrated by the Y1K999ers - with a lack of enthusiasm.
Here's something to celebrate, though: Steve Purves joins us on the show! He's the original gangsta of the remote hacking lifestyle. Listen up as we discuss the future of geoscience artificial intelligence, distributed corporate architectures, and why you should learn to code. Steve's insights and Matt's thoughtfulness combine to create a whirlwind of far reaching ideas while gram cracks jokes about 1 indexed systems.
Usually at this point we tell you to read the show notes for an abbreviated version of the podcast, but this week Steve put so much content into the show notes you could read the references for weeks. Srsly. Go there. Read them. They could be our best show notes ever.
This week's guest is the brilliant Tim Hopper. He's a data scientist with brains and brawn in the operations research domain. We speak with him about the new internet security world and the algorithms on which it relies. Matt was kind enough to highlight that since we're a zero indexed show we have hit our quarter century mark, though we're still going to celebrate our 25th birthday next episode. We've got some cool non-sequitur ideas in the show notes for you this week.
David Holmes schools GRAM and matt this week on what's actually going on in the world. It's easy to get lost in the technical intricacies of the every day scitech hustle, so listen to this episode to link your little niche into the bigger picture. David isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, though. He can hammer down some lines of code with the rest of us. We cover some big topics in this episode, so check out the show notes for links and highlights.
This week we've got Dr. Amy Fox on the show. She's a brilliant scientist who specializes in geomechanics (if that's called a geomechanitian does that mean matt and GRAM can call themselves geophysicians?). Listen up as she discusses geomechanics from a high level and dives deeper into some of the technical aspects of the trade. She mentions a couple of quick references which you should read, including her blog posts which are hosted on LinkedIn. You're in luck because m+g don't have very much news to bore you with this week! Get access to all the juicy details in the show notes.
This week Graham's half asleep or something and can't formulate a coherent sentence! If you can stand to listen to it you'll hear about the new UR tech, why football is really football (not soccer), and a small bit about geoscience. Along the geoscience vein, we discuss the new TLE tutorial, the new Python (3.6), 3D predictive painting, and seismic inversion. To skip Matt and Graham's squabbling read the show notes.
Jesper Dramsch snuggles up with Undersampled Radio this week from a warm cottage in Copenhagen. Presumably his pillow laden home smells of warm apple pie and fire roasted chestnuts. But that's just our best guess, I mean, we only got to speak to him over the radio. What do you people want from us?
Jesper discusses the world of seismic processing in the land of reservoir analysts, open access to geoscience, and his take on the benefits of speaking to a crowd. Listen in as geophysicists get metaphysical on the morality of working in the oil biz, and Matt plugs his new book (which is now out on Amazon FOR PURCHASE).
Skip the sales pitch with the show notes, but be warned: this episode is worth the listen, so wrap yourself in a handmade goose down comforter and enjoy.
This week's guest was unable to join due to the flooding in Louisiana and Texas, so instead of hearing her brilliant insights you'll have to listen to Matt and Graham attempt to figure out why Win7 is garbage. Answer: because it ruined our recording (technologically speaking. The show was already destined for ruin because of our choice in hosts). Win7 not withstanding our editor has managed to stitch together a hilarious bloopers reel of an episode where you'll find industry news and UR forecasting. To skip the fluff, chew on these show notes.
Dr. Chris Jackson joins us this week. He's an awesome geodude playing with rocks and computers! He's an academic powerhouse teaching at Imperial, and he's got a company working with geological modeling via machine learning. Tune in to hear Matt's potty mouth, the highlights of Chris' extensive work, and the state of the British academic system in the face of Brexit. We've also condensed our nonsensical musings in to a set of show notes here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VxvMedaIm6qCsko3ssTk_Nh2B-gTadM-eE2lFoWc-IU
Welcome to the new(ish) Undersampled Radio. We've graduated to a new home at undersampledrad.io! Don't expect our content to get cleverer, our wit to get sharper, or our hosts to get handsomer, but you can expect a website with less bugs because gram isn't writing it himself anymore. Yahtzee.
Our amazing guest this week is Maitri Erwin, doer of things, maker of change, creator of awesome. She's doing the geo world a huge service as chair of the SEG Women's Network. She's doing the literary world a huge service as a board member of Gutenberg. She's doing the creative world a huge service by approaching art with a scientific process. Check out the show notes for the deets.
This week we've got Dr. Gerard Gorman on the show. Gerard is a physicist with a skill set for problem solving. Not only does he know how to make computers do the hard work for him, he also knows how to get students to do the hard work for him. So tune in to learn how to retire early and live the good life while man and machine does your bidding. For an amazingly extensive set of show notes (Gerard wrote most of them, so there's informative content there this week) click me.
The Undersampled Radio crew meets their digital maker this week. Rowan Cockett is a hardcore digital maker, whom we're happy to have interviewed. Learn about an infinitesimal fraction of his many cool projects this week. There are links in the show notes to a couple of these fun toys. Also tune in for another intro from Matt and hear Graham finally say something about current events!
Breaking news!!! There was a geo conference in Vienna a couple of weeks ago. Listen to matt's conference report, GRAM discuss ideas far above his intellectual prowess, and how much coffee they both drink in the morning. Check out some light show notes here
Kaboom! We're talking mud volcanoes with Dr. Mark Tingay from all the way down under. Are mud volcanoes destructive? Do overpressured stratigraphic features present drilling challenges? Do toilets really flush the other direction in the southern hemisphere? Listen in to find out! Find show notes here
Undersampled Radio has an open sorcerer on the show! Dr. Leo Uieda just finished his Ph.D. in geophysics with a specialization in potential field methods. Find his wonderful paper on The Software Underground. Listen in as we speak with Leo about open, geo, phys, sci, compute, and Fatiando. Show notes here
Undersampled Radio gets real this week with Mika McKinnon. Mika is a disaster scientist, a science journalist, a political pundit, and a womens equality advocate. We discuss a huge range of subjects in this exanded episode, including landslides, scifi shows, and misogyny. The UR crew urges you to look Mika up online; her publications are a wealth of knowledge and creativity. Links are in the show notes here
Tune in for a good one, folks. This week we've got a real live superhero, Dr. Emily Mercurio. She's a geologist, a geophysicist, and an entrepreneur. Dr. Mercurio owns a company named Civic Mapper. They're using good will and technical prowess to assist in the solution of difficult problems, techie and humanitarian. This week's show notes are here.
We've got the crew from Don't Panic Geocast on the show this week. We talk science, podcasting, and beer. This episode includes a bloopers reel at the beginning, because we can't keep up with our own technology! Since Don't Panic Geocast's crew has so much great info, this is a double length episode. Listen to Don't Panic Geocast on iTunes here.This week's show notes are here
This week we ask a really smart person really dumb questions. Dr. Jessica Ball is a volcanologist at the USGS who publishes, blogs, and teaches too. Her research is in the ridiculously cool field of geothermal modeling of volcanos, especially with reference to groundwater systems. Find all of the deets in the show notes here
This week's bush league episode is brought to you by Linux. Linux; it's completely unstable. Our recording software broke 5 times during this episode. Our editor tried to smooth things over in post-production, but did a terrible job! Which is good for you, because if you can spot all the faulty breaks, and point them out to us at swung.rocks, Matt will sing a song in your honor on next week's show. Show notes here
We finally have a data scientist on the show! Dr. Ethan Rosenthal is a data scientist at Birch Box. He's got a blog and a Twitter account and is full of great information. We ask him the question "what is data science anyway?" Listen in to hear Dr. Rosenthal speak about his experience in optimization problems and customer-product matching algorithms. Check out the show notes to find links to all of this stuff here.
This week matt and GRAM try out a show with no guest. The result? A longwinded description of nerdy science stuff without expert input! But do listen in, as we discuss kinematic geological modeling, a photograph-to-image hack, good (and not so good) reference material, and machine learning! Want to skip the snoozefest? The show notes have all the information, without all the fluff.
Dr. Morgan Brown is a world expert in all things depth imaging. His current role includes sales, and he's been doing a lot of thinking about the role geotech plays in this current marketplace. In this episode learn about the evolution of intellectual assets and where we're headed in the next few years. Morgan's G+ profile is here, where you can find info on all of his projects, including parts of his professional lecture series (thus saving you a ton of money). Hit Matt up with your geo hackathon theme ideas here, and find this week's show notes here.
This week we speak with Scott Wessels, VP of Geoscience at PetroEdge energy. He discusses the uses of modern technology as a means of squeezing new potential out of old assets. Scott's early carrer specialty was using microseismic to derisk prospects in developed fields. If you haven't the foggiest what microseismic is, read the SEGwiki description here, and then read everything else there is on SEGwiki becuase it's awesome. Check out this week's show notes here.
This episode examines the intracacies of color theory as it relates to the representation of image data. Our guest, Matteo Niccoli, on Twitter as @My_Carta and in the blogging world, loves accurate color maps. Learn about his work with color, his new tool sketch2model, and his thoughts on the NASA space apps 2016 challenge. See all of the info from this show with references and links in our open source
This week we have Sebastian Good as our guest. Sebastian's company Palladium Consulting [update: now Expero] builds custom software in a variety of industries. Listen in to learn the skills it takes to be on a team like his! Visit the show notes.
Episode 0 is our introduction to podcasting. Check out our high-level description of basis pursuit and seismic plotting. Matt mentions his new seismic plotting software, Seisplot. Sign up for the Software Underground Slack channel, which will follow this podcast. On the Software Underground you can ask us questions or request to be on the show! Check out the cool tool which transforms a picture into a seismic image. You can even read the show notes.