Data Science Salon Podcast
30 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe official podcast of Data Science Salon. We interview top and rising luminaries in data science, machine learning, and AI on the trends and business use cases that are propelling the field forward. The Data Science Salon series is a unique vertical focused conference which brings together specialists face-to-face to educate each other, illuminate best practices, and innovate new solutions in a casual atmosphere with food, great coffee, and entertainment.
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Context Matters: Generative AI, the spectrum of worldviews, and understanding propaganda's appeal
October 24, 2023 15:41 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBBen Dubow studied the Middle East during his undergrad and took a job tracking terrorist groups. After a brief stint at a large tech company, he launched Omelas, a company that combines AI and subject matter expertise to deliver intelligence to national security professionals.In today's episode, our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum caught up with Ben to learn more about what Omelas is up to and how the company applies AI and data analysis to its mission.Along the way they explore the value...
When companies try to "sprinkle some AI" on a product
May 17, 2023 14:02 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBIf you've been in the data game long enough, you've probably seen this before: a stakeholder or product owner approaches you with a project that's 95% done, and they'd like you to … "sprinkle some AI on it." They've heard that this "AI" thing can be useful so they want some of it in their latest effort.Data scientist-turned-product person Noelle Saldana has experienced the "sprinkle some AI on it" request more times than she'd care to remember. Our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum met up...
Building data products with Solomon Kahn
March 07, 2023 19:40 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBSometimes the most valuable data IN your company ... is the data LEAVING your company.That's Solomon Kahn's view on data products, as well as the premise behind his latest venture: Delivery Layer.For this episode, our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum reached out to Solomon to check in on the new startup, and to tap his expertise in the world of data products.Solomon's been at this a while. He's run high-revenue data products in some notable places, including Nielsen. Over the years he's l...
Probabilistic Thinking with James "JD" Long
October 26, 2022 18:10 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBIn this episode, James and Q explore: The ideas of risk and uncertainty. What is "probabilistic thinking" and why is it important for data scientists? The career progression of a data analyst, and what it means to develop statistical acumen. Thinking in terms of distributions, and thinking in different moments of a distribution. Seeing BI, AI, and simulation in terms of punctuation. (No, seriously.) How to bridge the gap into thinking probabilistically And, just a reminder: James onl...
The roles of economists in data science, with Dr. Amar Natt
August 17, 2022 16:31 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBWe've all heard the term "economist," sure. But exactly what does and economist do? And as economics is a very data-driven field, where does their work intersect with data science, machine learning, and AI? To answer that question, Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum spoke with Amar Natt, PhD. She's an economist at Econ One Research, and her work focuses on advanced analytics and predictive modeling. Does that sound like ML to you? Well, Amar explains that it's similar in some ways, different...
ML at The Home Depot with Pat Woowong: The Falloff Model and Lead Scoring
July 20, 2022 17:33 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBWhen people think about The Home Depot, they probably think more about lumber and tile than they do ML models. Sure, there is plenty of lumber. But machine learning also plays a key role in the business, in places that customers can see as well as the behind-the-scenes operations.Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum met up with Pat Woowong, Director of Data Science at The Home Depot, to explore how the company mixes their very rich dataset with domain knowledge to employ machine learning deep...
Coffee Chat: Inspiring ML Use Cases in Retail Delivering Measurable Impact
May 26, 2022 16:45 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThis episode is a coffee chat recording from DSS Virtual in May 2022. Charles Irizarry (Phygital) and Ankita Mangal (P&G) share in war stories of ML use cases they use in retail and eCommerce scenarios, brokering data, and protecting the important principles of data ethics and privacy. Ankita shares the digital transformation journey that P&G undertook, her growth together with P&G, and some of the incredible technologies P&G has developed to better serve their customers world wide.
Data Science and Data Engineering in the Federal Space with Dr. Pragyansmita Nayak
May 19, 2022 21:46 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBA lot of data scientists work in the private sector: finance, adtech, retail, and all that. Today's guest offers her perspective on what it means to do data work in the federal space.In this conversation, our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum spoke with Dr. Pragyansmita Nayak, Chief Data Scientist at Hitachi Vantara Federal. They explored how different federal agencies use data and how they share datasets with each other. They also talked about how to measure operational efficiency, when y...
Software Development Skills in ML/AI
May 05, 2022 21:50 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBIn this episode, our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum met up with Murium Iqbal from Etsy. They spoke about an important skill for data scientists: software development! Data scientists write a lot of code, sure, but few of them come from a formal software dev background. That can lead them to struggle with slow, buggy code that ultimately holds back the company's ML efforts. Want to write cleaner, more performant code? Looking for ways to make those model deployments more reproducible? L...
Coffee Chat: Model Interpretability And How To Create Trust In AI Products
April 27, 2022 20:09 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBThis episode is a recording of the panel conversation at the virtual Data Science Salon in April 2022, which focused on AI & machine learning applications in the enterprise. Charles Irizarry (CEO & Co-Founder at Strata.ai) had the chance to talk to Amarita Natt (Managing Director, Data Science at Econ One Research), Preethi Raghavan (VP, Data Science Practice Lead at Fidelity Investments) and Serg Masís (Climate and Agronomic Data Scientist at Syngenta) about the important topic of model inte...
Coffee Chat: DSS Hybrid Miami 2022
March 02, 2022 21:57 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBCharles Irizarry, CEO & Co-Founder at Strata.ai had the chance to talk to Nirmal Budhathoki, Senior Data Scientist at VMware Carbon Black and Moody Hadi, Group Manager - New Product Development & Financial Engineering at S&P Global. Tune in to hear about ML techniques they are using in their current roles, tools to put ML into production, model explainability, and future trends.
Communal Computing and AI with Chris Butler (2/2)
January 13, 2022 14:48 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBIn the previous episode, our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum met with product manager Chris Butler to explore the role of uncertainty and how it relates to AI product management. That conversation sets the stage for Chris and Q to talk about communal computing today. Chris starts by explaining what shared, AI-backed devices mean for data collection, analysis, and regulation. After that, Chris and Q explore important questions such as: What are some challenges in getting communal computin...
Coffee Chat: DSS Virtual Finance & Technology 2021
December 16, 2021 05:35 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBFormulated.by’s Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, caught up with Linda Liu (Hyrecar) and Giacomo Vianello (Cape Analytics). Our guests explored the techniques and tools for the various data projects they are running, some of the challenges of working with geospatial data, and how their companies approach data-related research efforts.
AI, Product, and Uncertainty with Chris Butler (1/2)
November 04, 2021 13:52 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBThis discussion also explores the context around which we collect data, polysocial reality, design individualism, and contextual integrity. (Yes, we covered a lot of ground in just 45 minutes.) Because of our tight schedule, Chris and Q had to stop before they could get to their second topic. That’s why Chris will be back in the next episode to talk about communal computing and what that means for AI. bio: Chris Butler is a product manager, writer, and speaker with over 20 ye...
Coffee Chat: DSSe Virtual 2021
September 16, 2021 00:28 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBFormulated.by’s Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, caught up with Vidhi Chugh (Walmart), Piyanka Jain (Aryng), and Tempest van Schaik (Microsoft). Our guests explored the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on hiring and retention, then shifted to a discussion on finding and serving as a mentor.
Analytics vs. Data Science vs. ML Research: Economist Sonali Syngal Shares Her View
May 27, 2021 23:12 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBFormulatedby's Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, met up with Sonali Syngal to explore these questions. Sonali is currently a data scientist at MasterCard and is about to join the team at Expedia. She came to data science from the rather uncommon entry point of economics. In this episode we see that her career path has given her key insights on how to join this field and what are the differences between the various roles therein.(Some listeners may recognize Sonali's voice from a previous...
Charting a Course: from Physics PhD to Professional Data Scientist with Dr Resham Sarkar
April 13, 2021 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBWhat was it like to move from a physics lab into the data scientist's chair? How did she find that first job? And what elements of her PhD experience have proven especially valuable in her machine learning work? Join us in this conversation to find out. Dr Sarkar works on machine learning at Slice . (She's hiring!) You can also find her on LinkedIn.
Data Monetization Strategies with Micheline Casey
March 25, 2021 21:31 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBMicheline has more than twenty years' experience at the intersection of data and money, and has been a Chief Data Officer (CDO) with 3 different organizations, leading and scaling data strategy, infrastructure, and platforms. She also led data commercialization efforts at Ford. Her career includes early data brokers, automotive and logistics companies, financial services and insurance, health care, and energy. Oh, and then there was that stint as the CDO of the Federal Reserve. She's a re...
Matt Godbolt: Software Testing, Performance Tuning, and Code Handoff for Data Scientists
March 09, 2021 01:38 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBData scientists and ML engineers write a lot of code: building data pipelines, wiring up models, and sometimes translating concepts from research papers into algorithms. Once in a while, that code runs into performance problems. These can be painful to debug when you don't come from a formal software development background. That's why Formulatedby's Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum rang up Matt Godbolt to learn the deep details of software testing, tracing performance bugs, working wit...
Coffee Chat at DSSVirtual for Healthcare, Finance & Technology
February 19, 2021 05:00 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBWe recorded this episode at our February 2021 Data Science Salon Virtual on Healthcare, Finance & Technology. Formulated.by’s Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, sat down with Ayda Farhadi, Senior Data Scientist at UPS, and Vasileios Stathias, Lead Data Scientist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to discuss applying AI to healthcare.
Trading, Risk, and Reinsurance with Otakar Hubschmann
February 02, 2021 14:30 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBOur Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum sat down with Otakar Hubschmann, Head of Applied Data at TransRe, to talk about ML/AI in the world of reinsurance. They take a deep dive into the insurance industry and the role reinsurance plays there, with a side-trip to show how this differs from the quantitative finance you see in hedge funds. Along the way, Otakar offers his favorite tips for hiring data scientists. (Whether you're applying for a job, or hiring for one, take note.) Near the end o...
Coffee Chat at DSSVirtual for Finance & Technology
December 14, 2020 16:30 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBWe recorded this episode at our December 2020 Data Science Salon Virtual on Finance & Technology. Formulated.by’s Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, sat down with some new friends to discuss trends and challenges in the world of AI.
Coffee Chat from DSS Virtual - Retail & E-Commerce
November 20, 2020 19:13 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBPhillip Rossi, Head of Data Science at Shopify, Laya Shamgah, Data Scientist at Lowe's Company, Jeffrey Yau, Head of Data Science at Walmart Labs, Samantha Cvetkovski, Data Science Manager at Mindbody
Shane Glynn on Automated Content Moderation and the Intersection of AI and Law
November 09, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBToday's podcast is about the intersection of AI and the law. Formulatedby's Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, spoke with Shane Glynn, an attorney who has deep knowledge of the tech and AI worlds. He's worked for a couple of law firms that you may have heard of, and for a tech company that you have most certainly heard of.Shane gave us an attorney's view on AI practices, explored the ways in which an attorney can help with an AI effort, and explained the how, when, and why AI teams should...
Coffee Chat from DSS Virtual - Media, Advertising, & Entertainment
September 30, 2020 17:34 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBWe recorded this episode at our September 2020 Data Science Salon virtual event on Media, Advertising, & Entertainment. Formulatedby's Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, sat down with some new friends to discuss trends and challenges in the world of AI: Anne Bauer | Director of Data Science at The New York Times Yves Bergquist | Director of the AI & Neuroscience in Media Project, at USC Kim Martin | Engineering Leader of Data Science and Engineering at Netflix Dominick Rocco | Data Scient...
Mission and Purpose in Data Science: Lessons from the Military and Intelligence
September 16, 2020 12:30 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBRichard Dunks served as a member of the US Army and the intelligence community (IC), where he honed skills that he now uses in his civilian pursuits as a data scientist, trainer, and educator. He recently caught up with Q McCallum (Senior Content Advisor at Formulatedby, the company behind Data Science Salon) to talk about what his time in the IC taught him about data analysis, having a sense of mission, and what it means to lose trust in data.
Marcello La Rocca on Algorithms and Data Structures
September 02, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBQ McCallum (Senior Content Advisor at Formulatedby, the company behind Data Science Salon) met up with Marcello La Rocca, someone who compiled his extensive knowledge of algorithms into a rather hefty book on the topic. In this episode, the author of Algorithms and Data Structures in Action talks about the study of algorithms, why they're useful, and how he's applied them to oversized datasets. Marcello closes out with his thoughts on (sometimes, not) using algorithms in tech job interview...
Jean-Georges Perrin on Spark and Data Quality
August 05, 2020 12:20 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBOur guest for this episode is Jean-Georges Perrin, the author of Spark in Action, 2nd edition. We talk about his career path (he's been doing "big data" since before the term existed), what inspired him to write Spark in Action, and where Spark fits in your company's data efforts. He also shares his thoughts on data quality.
Applications of Data Science in Media & Entertainment
October 21, 2019 15:06 - 41 minutes - 31.9 MBThe Media and Entertainment industry has undeniably been heavily disrupted by changes in technology. Listen as Ayan Battacharya, Advanced Analytics Specialist Leader at Deloitte Consulting and Harini Krishnan, Data Scientist at Capsule8, share observations they've garnered from their own experience on the state of data science in Media & Entertainment, live from DSS NYC 2019.
Prolific vs. private data in media advertising @ DSS NYC
July 12, 2019 13:50 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBIn June 2019, over 200 data scientists gathered at Viacom HQ in New York to hear key industry players’ takes on what makes an effective data-driven strategy. Q McCallum, Senior Content Adviser at Formulated.by, took a deeper dive into the major topics of concern for data science when he spoke with DSS NYC speakers Lauren Lombardo, Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen and Sergey Fogelson, Vice President of Data Science and Modeling at Viacom. Listen as they speak about current practices and debate...