Jason Grout

Scientific Software Developer, Bloomberg · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jason Grout is a scientific software developer at Bloomberg. He is known for his contributions to Jupyter, an open-source toolset for interactive computing.

8statements → 7claims → 7claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 1.12/5average debate potential →

7 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jason argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
The name Jupyter pays homage to Julia, Python, and R
“In fact, the name Jupiter pays homage to these three languages, Julia, Python, and R.”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 5:45 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
none yet certainty 2
100% certainty 3
100% certainty 4
100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

253 words/min while actually speaking · 37.4 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jason Grout: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,673 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Jason Grout said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Notebooks replace static PDF monologues with interactive data discussions
“It's sort of less of a monologue, which would be like a PDF file, and more of a discussion where you can work back and forth.”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 7:25 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
The name Jupyter pays homage to Julia, Python, and R
“In fact, the name Jupiter pays homage to these three languages, Julia, Python, and R.”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 5:45 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Project Jupyter supports roughly 75 different execution kernels
“I'll ask how about 75 different kernels that you can run.”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 6:10 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
BuzzFeed publishes its research as executable Jupyter notebooks
“BuzzFeed is a great example of publishing their research as an executable notebook that you can check their results with.”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 8:23 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Microsoft, Google, and IBM build computational services on Jupyter
“Many, many companies are actually building on top of this platform, ah, to build out, ah, computational services, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, Continuum analytics and more.”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 10:24 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Jupyter has hundreds of contributors and single-digit million users
“Hundreds. Millions of users. There's about, there's hundreds of thousands of notebooks on GitHub, so draw your own conclusions. It's hard to get specific download numbers, but we estimate single digit millions.”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 21:54 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Project Jupyter originated from the IPython project started in 2001
“IPython is Jupiter sprang out of the IPython project. IPython started in 2001.”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 2:52 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
JupyterLab is a collaboration of Jupyter, Bloomberg, and Continuum
“It's a collaboration of Jupyter, Bloomberg, and Continuum”
Jason Grout Feb 3, 2017 ▶ 11:36 Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Project Jupyter // Jason Grout & Sylvain Corlay, Bloomberg (FirstMark's Data Driven) Feb 3, 2017 13m
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