Data Journeys
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsData Journeys is a podcast for aspiring Data Scientists by AJ Goldstein, where he interviews world-class Data Scientists about their learning journeys. The focus is on how they’ve bridged the gap between acquiring technical skills and creating real-world impact. In each episode, the goal is to equip up-and-comers with the strategies, tactics, and tools that the best in the world have used to get to where they are today.
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#25: Laura Noren: The Ethics of Data Science
December 03, 2018 12:00 - 55 minutes - 51.9 MBLaura Noren is a data science ethicist and researcher currently working in cybersecurity at Obsidian Security in Newport Beach. She holds undergraduate degrees from MIT, a PhD from NYU where she recently completed a postdoc in the Center for Data Science. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, Canada's Globe and Mail, American Public Media's Marketplace program, in numerous academic journals and international conferences. Dr. Norén is a champion of open source software and those wh...
#24: Brian McFee: Music and Data Science
November 27, 2018 12:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBDr. Brian McFee develops machine learning tools to analyze multimedia data. This includes recommender systems, image and audio analysis, similarity learning, cross-modal feature integration, and automatic annotation. As of Fall, 2014, he is a data science fellow at the Center for Data Science at New York University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research scholar in the Center for Jazz Studies and LabROSA at Columbia University. My conversation with Brian today was focused on discu...
#23: Wes McKinney - The Creator of Pandas
November 19, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBWes McKinney is the creator and "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL) of the open-source pandas package for data analysis in Python, and has also authored two versions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis. Wes is also one of the co-creators of the Apache Arrow project, which is currently his main focus. Most recently, he is the founder Ursa Labs, a not-for-profit open source development group in partnership with RStudio. He describes himself as a problem-solver, and is parti...
#22: Mike Tamir: Identifying Fake News with the Head of Data Science at Uber ATG
November 13, 2018 12:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBMike Tamir is the Head of Data Science at Uber ATG. He is a leader in data science, specializing in deep learning and distributed scalable machine learning, and he’s also a faculty member at UC Berkeley. Mike has led several teams of Data Scientists in the San Francisco Bay Area as Chief Data Scientist for InterTrust and Formation, Director of Data Sciences for MetaScale, and Chief Science Officer for Galvanize, where he oversaw all data science product development. He also created an ...
#21 Frank Diana- The Future of AI - Predicting Preparing Thriving in Our Changing Future
August 27, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBFrank Diana is a recognized futurist, thought leader and frequent keynote speaker. He has served in various executive roles throughout his career and has over 30 years of leadership experience. Currently at Tata Consultancy Services, he is focused on leadership dialog in the context of our emerging future and its implications on business, society, governments, economies, and our environment. He blends a futurist perspective with a pragmatic, actionable approach, leveraging horizon scanning a...
#20: Kyle Polich: Skepticism and Simplifying Complex Topics with the Host of the Data Skeptic Podcast
August 20, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBKyle Polich is the co-host of the incredibly popular Data Skeptic podcast, which he has been churning out since 2014. He studied computer science and focused on artificial intelligence in grad school. His general interests range from areas like statistics, machine learning, data viz, and optimization to data provenance, data governance, econometrics, and metrology. The Data Skeptic Podcast features conversations on topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, and artif...
#19: Emily Glassberg Sands: Equalizing Access to Rewarding Careers as Head of Data Science at Coursera
August 13, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBEmily Glassberg Sands is the Head of Data Science at Coursera - the largest online learning platform for higher education with 35M learners from around the world. Her team leads the quantitative measurement, experimentation, and inference that informs Coursera’s product and business direction. Emily received her Bachelor's’ degree in Economics from Princeton University, and then moved on to complete her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. At Harvard, her research focused on exp...
#18: Dan Hammer: Democratizing Environmental Data at the White House, NASA, National Geographic, and More
August 06, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBDan Hammer is an environmental economist and winner of the 2017 Pritzker Prize for the Environment. Currently he serves as a National Geographic Fellow and the co-founder of Earthrise Media, and throughout 2016, he was the Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Megan Smith, as part of the Obama Administration. Before arriving at the White House, Dan was the Presidential Innovation Fellow that released the first API listing for NASA. Prior to NASA, Hammer was the C...
#17: Decoding Healthy Meals & Learning the World of Food with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko @ Wellio
July 30, 2018 11:00 - 54 minutes - 30.9 MBIn this episode of the Data Journeys podcast, we have not one, but two guests! Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko join me from Wellio: an intelligent platform that uses machine learning and behavioral science to help people plan, shop, prepare and enjoy healthy meals at home. Wellio is on a mission to decode how meals are prepared and enjoyed at home, both on an individual-level in terms of people’s preferences and on a global-level in terms of semantic & nutritional understan...
#16: Jim Guszcza: Chief Data Scientist at Deloitte Consulting
July 23, 2018 11:00 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBJim Guszcza is the US Chief Data Scientist at Deloitte Consulting. Deloitte is the largest professional services network in the world in terms of revenue, with over 263,900 professionals globally. Jim has been with Deloitte since 2001, where he took the lead on using behavioural nudge tactics to effectively act on model indications and prompt behavior change. Since then, he has gained extensive experience in applying predictive analytics to a variety of public and private sector domain...
#15: Travis Oliphant: Creating, Evolving, & Funding Open-Source Software
July 16, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBTravis Oliphant is the Founder & CEO of Quansight: a company that bridges open-source communities and innovative companies by growing talent, building technology, and discovering new products. For years Travis has been an indispensable contributor toward data science’s open-source movement through so many different outlets: Founder, Director, & Former CEO @ Anaconda, Inc: a free and open source distribution of over 250 popular data science packages for Python and R, used by over 6 mil...
#14: Drew Conway – Applying Data Science to Where It’s Needed Most
July 09, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 66 MBDrew Conway is a world-renowned data scientist, entrepreneur, author, and speaker, perhaps most well-known for his infamous 2010 “Data Science Venn Diagram”. Today, Drew is the Founder & CEO of Alluvium: a company using machine learning and AI to turn massive streams of data produced by industrial operations companies into insights that bridge the gap between big data and human expertise. Designed with the goal of helping industrial operations become safer, more efficient and more profi...
#13: Anthony Scriffignano: Developing Cultural Awareness & Global Perspective Through International Data Science
July 02, 2018 11:00 - 51 minutes - 29.9 MBAnthony Scriffignano is the Chief Data Scientist at Dun & Bradstreet: a publicly traded company that provides commercial data, analytics and insights about businesses through their database of more than 290 million business records worldwide. Most commonly known as D&B, the company was originally founded 176 years ago in the horse-and-buggy days of 1841, and today, is headquartered in Short Hills, NJ, with over $2.5 billion in assets. Anthony has been at D&B since 2002 and, with over 35 y...
#12: Favio Vázquez - Data Science Polymath
June 25, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBFavio Vazquez is the Principal Data Scientist at OXXO: Mexico’s largest convenience store chain with over 17,500 locations. In addition to his work at OXXO, Favio brings new meaning to the term “polymath” by simultaneously holding 5 other related positions at AI companies in Mexico: Senior Data Scientist @ Raken Data Group Chief Data Scientist @ Iron AI Creator of the Ciencias y Datos online course Data Science Lecturer @ Afi Escuela de Finanzas Collaborator @ CosmoSIS With such ...
#11: Dan Wulin: International E-Commerce, Price Optimization, & Home-Good Product Recommendations
June 18, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 37.3 MBDan Wulin is the Director of Data Science at Wayfair: an international e-commerce company specializing in home goods. Wayfair is a $5B company growing 40% year-over-year, with 10 million products and over 8,700 employees around the world. Their data science team is 80-people strong and growing fast, using econometrics to optimize prices, biostatistics to boost marketing, and computer vision to personalize product recommendations. Prior to joining Wayfair, Dan studied Math & Physics as an...
#10: Jure Leskovec - Chief Scientist of Pinterest
June 11, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBJure Leskovec is the Chief Scientist of Pinterest, an $11 billion dollar company hosting over 75 billion idea “pins” from it’s 175 million monthly users worldwide. Jure originally arrived at Pinterest in 2014 when his company, Kosei, was acquired after starting a “recommendation revolution” through smarter, personalized mobile ads. When Jure is not “turning cameras into keyboards” at Pinterest -- Fast Company’s “2nd most innovative AI company” -- he can also be found fulfilling his respon...
#9: Daniela Huppenkothen – Astronomy, Cosmology, & The Study of Space
June 04, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBDaniela Huppenkothen is the Associate Director at the DIRAC Institute of University of Washington, home to a diverse team of researchers in astrophysics and cosmology. Before arriving at DIRAC, she has studied space & data science as a: Moore-Sloan Data Science Fellow of NYU - a multi-dimensional and independent research programs with impact in several scientific domains PhD recipient at University of Amsterdam - where she researched high & low energy astrophysics and the relationship...
#8: Chris Albon – Connecting Africa to the Internet & Defending Public Discourse
May 14, 2018 13:40 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBChris Albon is the Chief Data Scientist of BRCK: a Kenyan startup building a network dedicated to connecting Africa to the internet, and author of the Machine Learning with Python Cookbook. For years he’s been contributing to the data science world through so many different outlets: Cofounder of New Knowledge AI - an social media platform focused on protecting companies from disinformation, fighting fake news, and defending public discourse Former host of Partially Derivative - a po...
#7: Fernando Perez — Creating IPython, Founding NumFOCUS, & The Stories Behind It All
May 07, 2018 11:00 - 52 minutes - 24.6 MBFernando Perez is best-known as the creator of IPython and co-founder of Project Jupyter: a set of open-source data science tools that some may consider to be the equivalent of the bat & ball to the sport of baseball. Today, you really can’t play the game of data science without Jupyter Notebooks and our guest today is one of Jupyter's leads and originators (see here for the rest of the amazing team). Fernando is also an Assistant Professor in Statistics at UC Berekely, Researcher at the B...
#6: Andrew Ng — Globalizing Education, Disrupting Industries, & Generalizing Artificial Intelligence
April 11, 2018 22:09 - 44 minutes - 20.7 MBAndrew Ng is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and nothing short of a giant in the data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence world. For the past decade he’s been shaping the way we live and learn. Four recent examples include: Co-Founder of Coursera: an education platform that offers online courses from top universities across the world Chairman of the Board for Woebot: a chatbot that’s currently revolutionizing mental health care Creator of DeepLearning.AI...
#5: Eric Weber — Lifelong Learning & The Art of Staying Curious
March 30, 2018 16:51 - 1 hour - 34.3 MBEric Weber is a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn, online educator, and epitome of a lifelong learner who’s created quite the following for himself through posts on LinkedIn’s platform. He holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, two Masters degrees in Math and Business Analytics at Arizona State University and the University of Minnesota, and a PhD from ASU. And as if that’s all not enough, he’s obtained 31 course certificates in MOOCs from Coursera and Dat...
#4: Kirk Borne — NASA, Astrophysics, & The Evolution of Modern-Day Data Science
March 30, 2018 16:48 - 1 hour - 36 MBKirk Borne is the Principal Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, PhD Astrophysicist, and world-renowned Big Data Influencer. In 2007 he launched the first-ever data science bachelors degree program as a Professor of Computational Science at George Mason University and in 2009 co-created the field of Astroinformatics to support his research. Since Kirk has been around long-before the field was even called Data Science, we start this conversation by taking a 50-foot helicopter view of the...
#3: Kale Temple — Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Consulting
March 14, 2018 02:36 - 1 hour - 52 MBKale Temple is a Data Scientist, Startup Advisor, & Guest Speaker at the University of Sydney, down-under in Australia. Most recently, he became the Founder & CEO of Intellify — an Artificial Intelligence consulting company based in Australia, where he and his team help companies grow exponentially, operate efficiently, and all-in-all become more data-driven in their decision making. In this conversation we spend a lot of time focusing on Data Science through the lens of consulting, coveri...
#2: Kate Strachnyi — A Meta-Interview of 20 Amazing Data Scientists
March 14, 2018 01:59 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBIn this episode of the Data Journeys podcast, I'm joined by Kate Strachnyi. Kate is a data visualization specialist at Deloitte consulting, author the book “Journey to Data Scientist”, and creator of the Story by Data blog and YouTube channel. This conversation with Kate was a really special treat because her book, “Journey to Data Scientist” is a essentially compilation of interviews that Kate herself conducted with 20 amazing Data Scientists. When she wanted to learn more about Data Sci...
#1: Andrew Cassidy — Predicting Bombs, Learning Online, & Working Anywhere
March 14, 2018 01:37 - 1 hour - 38.9 MBIn this pilot episode of the Data Journeys podcast, I'm joined by Andrew Cassidy. Andrew is a freelance Data Scientist, Software Engineer, & Online Educator. We originally met this past September, when he was my virtual mentor for Springboard’s Data Science Intensive bootcamp. In 2011 Andrew graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelors degree in Systems Engineering, and afterwards, went to work as a Data Scientist for a company called Commonwealth Computer Research in Charlot...
#0: Welcome
March 14, 2018 01:11 - 6 minutes - 3.52 MBSome background about the host, why he started this podcast, and what you can expect from the show.