Masters of Data Podcast
57 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe bring the human to data through conversations with the people using data to revolutionize and improve our world
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The changing culture of IT (Guest: Nancy Gohring)
November 04, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBIn this episode, we talk with Nancy Gohring - a senior analyst at 451 Research. I have known Nancy for a few years, and I am always impressed with her perspective on the culture of IT Operations and the impact of the massive changes in the last few years - and that is what we talked about.
Getting to Know Developers (Guest: Stephen O'Grady)
October 21, 2019 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBIn this episode, we talk with Stephen O’Grady, co-founder and principal analyst at Redmonk. RedMonk is an industry analyst firm focused on software developers and helps companies understand and work with developers. In fact, Stephen wrote an amazing book “The New Kingmakers” that explains the rising influence of software developers. We talk with Stephen about how RedMonk uses data to help companies understand developers and how developers are taking over the world.
Diversity in Security (Guest: Ian Murphy)
October 07, 2019 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBIan has been a journalist, editor, and analyst for over 30 years and is currently an editor at Enterprise Times. He and I talked about his very interesting background, the need for diversity on security teams, and his passion for working with veterans.
Doctors need data too (Guest: Dave Albert)
September 23, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBIn this episode, we talk to Dave Albert, CTO, and Co-Founder of Medit and the host of the CTO and Cofounder Talk podcast. We talk to Dave about the system he’s building at Medit for combing the immense amounts of data medical professionals need to consume and putting the information most relevant to them front and center. That, of course, raises some of the same bias and privacy challenges we see at other places today on the Internet, and Dave and his team take that seriously.
Free the Data (Guest: Clark Richey)
August 26, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBIn this episode, we talk to Clark Richey, Chief Technology Officer at FactGem. Clark has spent his career working with data, and he co-founded FactGem to help companies get more out of their data. Clark is passionate about freeing data from its constraints and breaking the silos between data that hamstring good decision making in today’s business world.
Data and Venture Capital (Guest: Jeremy Kaufmann)
August 12, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBIn this episode, we talk to Jeremy Kaufmann, Principal at Scale Venture Partners. Scale Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in technology companies that are starting to bring in revenue, and they focus on companies doing business on the Internet, in the cloud, on mobile, and delivering their product as a service. Scale Venture Partners prides itself on being a data driver Venture Capital firm, and we talked to Jeremy about how they leverage data to make better i...
Data is a Lifestyle, not a Project (Guest: Michael Herskovitz)
July 29, 2019 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBOur guest on this episode comes from an industry that has always been a pioneer in data and making good of data. Michael Herskovitz is an SVP and Co-Head of Global Operations and Technology at AllianceBernstein. AllianceBernstein is a global asset management firm providing investment management and research services worldwide to institutional, high-net-worth and retail investors. Michael talks us through his philosophy on making the best use of data - that data is a lifestyle, not a projec...
Fender rocks the data (Guest: Josh Couch)
July 15, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MB"In this episode, we get to hear from one of the most iconic and influential brands in the world - Fender - or more formally known as Fender Musical Instrument Corporation. Fender was founded in 1946 by the Leo Fender and is best known for the Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars. These instantly recognizable guitars have been played by the likes of Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and so many more. I got to meet with the Vice President of ...
Moving from Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom (Guest: Yoon Lee) (REPLAY)
July 01, 2019 10:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBOur guest is at the intersection of innovation and creation at one of the most important technology companies in the world. Yoon Lee is the Senior Vice President and Division Head, Content and Services, Product Innovation at Samsung Electronics America. In today’s world, our lives are connected to our devices in a way inconceivable even a few decades ago. Yoon is in a unique position to understand how A.I. and an understanding of the human context can make for better experiences for users. (...
How iRobot uses Data Science to Innovate (Guest: Angela Bassa)
June 24, 2019 10:00 - 34 minutes - 39.6 MBOur guest on this episode, Angela Bassa, hails from one of the most innovative robotics companies on the planet, the aptly named iRobot - the creators of the iconic Roomba vacuum robot. Angela is the Director of Data Science at iRobot and talks to us about how iRobot's recent product announcements reveal more than just product innovation. Their new iRobot 2.0 platform is a new approach to how they build robots, software, and also the place of data science at iRobot.
Security Experts Panel - Second Edition
June 10, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBWe are excited to bring to you our second security experts panel discussion for 2019! We brought together a high-powered set of individuals that know security inside and out. As always, we have George Gerchow, the Chief Security Officer at Sumo Logic. And he is joined by Jadee Hanson, Chief Information Security Officer at Code42 and Teri Radichel, CEO at 2nd Sight Lab. We had a wide-ranging discussion about everything from DevSecOps to privacy.
Podcast Powered Projects (Guest: Matt Ballantine)
May 27, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBOur guest on this episode is a repeat guest, and that’s a very good thing. Matt Ballantine is a multi-talented technologist who spends his days helping companies build and execute digital strategy with his company Stamp, and also hosts his own podcast - WB40 - with his co-host Chris Weston. I talked with Matt about his newest project which brings these two worlds together in a way that will be truly compelling for organizations struggling to innovate and communicate. He is using Podcasts a...
Machines that tell stories with Data (Guest: Amy Heineike)
May 06, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes - 66.6 MBOne of the most interesting areas of innovation in machine learning and artificial intelligence is Natural Language Processing or NLP. It is basically about teaching machines to both understand human language, and then reproduce convincingly human language in return Our guest on this episode and her company build what they call “machines that can read and write”. Amy Heineike is the VP of Engineering at Primar AI. I talked to her about how she, and her team, are using applied machine learn...
Finding the Mythical Centrist (Guest: Charles Wheelan - Author of "Naked Economics" and "The Centrist Manifesto")
April 29, 2019 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBNew York Times Best-Selling Author Charles Wheelan describes his journey from economics writer to his search for the political middle in the United States. Charles is the author of Centrist Manifesto, which helped launch Unite America in 2013. He is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Dartmouth College. Charles formerly ran for Congress as a Democratic candidate in Illinois in 2009. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling books Naked Economics, Naked Statistics and Naked Money. He ...
A Data Science Super Hero Fighting the Creepy Algorithms (Guest: Cathy O'Neil) (REPLAY)
April 22, 2019 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBMore and more of our world today is being evaluated, analyzed, and driven by algorithms. You need look no further than your car insurance, your kids’ educations, or your mortgage to see the results of algorithms processing and delivering verdicts on you and your ability to do something you want to do. Our guest today is Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist, mathematician, activist, and author of the New York Times best-selling book “Weapons of Math Destruction”. She has spent years talking about t...
Master of Flavor (Guest: Jason Cohen) (REPLAY)
April 08, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBWho knew that the food and beverage industry was ripe for disruption using the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data? Well, Jason Cohen did. Jason Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Analytical Flavor Systems - a startup focused on bringing the power of A.I. and machine learning to the world of flavors and sensory science. Jason started his company after studying sensory science and computer science at Penn State, as well as founding The Tea Institute, a research group dev...
How Stitch Fix uses Data to Personalize Fashion (Guest: Brad Klingenberg)
April 01, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBOur guest this episode is Brad Klingenberg - the VP of Algorithms at Stitch Fix. If you are one of the few people that hasn’t at least heard of Stitch Fix, Stitch Fix is an online personal styling service that both recommends additions to their clients’ wardrobes but really commits to its recommendations by physically delivering inventory to those clients. Brad and his team use statistics, machine learning and human-in-the-loop algorithms to deliver an amazing experience for Stitch Fix cus...
Industrial-Grade Machine Learning (Guest: Joshua Bloom)
March 25, 2019 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.5 MBJoshua Bloom is vice president of data and analytics at GE Digital, where he serves as the technology and research lead bringing machine learning applications to market within the GE ecosystem. Previously, Joshua was cofounder and CTO of Wise.io (acquired by GE Digital in 2016). Since 2005, he has also been an astronomy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches astrophysics and Python for data science.
Building the Data Science Future (Guest: Sarah Catanzaro)
March 18, 2019 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBSara Catanzaro is a principal at Amplify Partners, a Venture Capital firm that specializes in early-stage companies innovating with Machine Learning and AI. Sarah helps guide founders and innovators because of her incredible expertise built over years using data science to innovate for both the private sector and protecting US National Security.
Artificial Intelligence for Sports (Guest: Austin Basye)
March 11, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBA data scientist trained in the world of particle physics, Austin is a Senior Data Scientist at Hudl - a really cool company that provides video review and performance analysis tools for sports teams and athletes. In this episode we talk about why physics is awesome - of course - how guided missile theory and passing a soccer ball are related, and more. Much more.
Designing Software for Humans (Guest: Amber Case)
March 04, 2019 10:00 - 36 minutes - 84.1 MBAmber Case is another personification of that intersection of the human and technology. Amber Case is an American a user-experience designer, author, and public speaker. She has combined a deep understanding of anthropology and human behavior with a focus on user experience - making technology work us instead of annoying. In particular, she is the author of two great books - Calm Technology and the newest one - Designing with Sound.
The Origin Story (Interview with Ben Newton on the WB40 Podcast)
February 25, 2019 10:00 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBA few months I had the honor and pleasure to be interviewed on the British podcast - WB40, but one of my favorite people - Matt Ballantine. Matt and I talked about why we started the Masters of Data podcast and how it has evolved. So, I think you will enjoy this, and we will be back next week in your feed with another great original podcast episode!! And check out the WB40 podcast at WB40.com
Bringing the Human to Data (REPLAY) (Guest: Christian Madsbjerg)
February 18, 2019 10:00 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MBWe thought we would replay one of the most important episodes of last year - the episode with Christian Madsbjerg, the author of “Sensemaking”. Christian’s point of view has become the basis of so much of what we do on this podcast. We don’t often read books that change how we think about the world. Our guest on this episode, Christian Madsbjerg, wrote a book “Sensemaking” that did just that. Christian’s consulting firm ReD Associates has, in their own words, led a quiet revolution in busin...
The Big Security Topics of 2019 (Security Experts Panel: George Gerchow, Davi Ottenheimer, Tricia Howard)
February 11, 2019 10:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBGovernment Shutdowns, Bug Bountires, and Ethics - what do these have in common? Our first live panel of security experts in 2019. We recorded this live in January 2019 and are now providing the audio for your listening pleasure on the Masters of Data Podcast.
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data (Guest: Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger)
February 04, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBHow does capitalism change in the age of big data and the data superstars like Amazon? To answer that we have a guest that is the author of a book called “Big Data” and who just recently published a book called “Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data”. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of ...
The New Paradigm of Work (Guest: Robert Christiansen)
January 28, 2019 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBWe discuss a tectonic shift going on in the technology industry and how leaders will be successful in this new world. Robert Christiansen is a VP and Cloud Strategist at Cloud Technology Partners, which is part of HPE - Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Robert has had a long and interesting career starting his own companies and building world-class organizations. Robert is passionate about people and helping them succeed, and it comes through.
Data Ethics is the new Data Privacy (Guest: Bill Mew)
January 21, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBSome clear themes have arisen on the podcast so far - trust, privacy, ethics around data. We have talked to authors, company leaders, big thinkers, influencers. Bill Mew, was a guest in June of 2018 talking to us about data privacy and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We have brought him back on to talk about his current focus - Data Ethics. With his long experience, Bill has crafted a very solid message around what companies have to do to avoid some of the recent priv...
Mastering Data for Colorado (Guest: Suma Nallapati)
January 14, 2019 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBSuma Nallapati was appointed Secretary for Technology and Chief Information Officer for Colorado, a state cabinet-level position, by Governor Hickenlooper in 2014. Under her leadership, her team has won both statewide and national awards, while also revolutionizing digital services for the state of Colorado. We caught Suma in her last week as State CIO before she transitions her responsibilities to the new administration and takes a new leadership position at DISH.
Education and Social Networks (Guest: Alan J. Daly)
January 07, 2019 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBAlan J. Daly is Professor and Chair of Education Studies at the University of California - San Diego. He is also the author of new book - “Social Network Theory and Educational Change”. Dr. Daly has been researching and writing about how social networks - relationships between people - affects how successful educational reforms are. Educators and administrators are often unaware of how important their own social networks are to whether crucial reforms succeed or languish. Just like in so man...
BONUS: 2018 Retrospective with Ben Newton
January 02, 2019 10:00 - 24 minutes - 33 MBHaven't listened to all of the MoD interviews? Or just forgot? That's ok. Ben Newton walks throughs the year's interviews to give you a bird's eye view. Check out last year's themes: Bringing the human to the technology. The rise of the polymath, Data Bias, Data Trust, Data Privacy, Making Decisions with Data, You can measure anything, Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom, The Data-Fueled Economy
Protecting Data at Pokemon (Guest: John Visneski)
December 17, 2018 10:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBEver heard of Pokemon? Of Pikachu? If you not you, you can guarantee your kids have. That is the challenge for John Visenski, Director of Information Security & Data Protection Officer at Pokemon. He not only has to protect the brand of Pokemon, many of his customers, indirectly or directly, are children. That carries an extra burden and responsibility that John doesn’t take lightly.
Innovation at the Intersection (Guest: Linda Holliday
December 10, 2018 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBOur guest today is a perfect example of the kind of combination of humanities and science in a single person. Linda Holliday is the founder and CEO of Citia. Linda grew up in a family of engineers but decided to go her own way and pursue design in college. She was able to use her home-brewed love of engineering and math together with her sense of design to start two companies, build a very unique understanding of the intersection of data, engineering, and the human.
Establishing Trust with Customers (Guest: Scott Vlaminck)
December 03, 2018 10:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBOur guest today, Scott Vlaminck, cofounded SmartThings with 6 other guys in the spring of 2012. Their goal was to make your world - your house - smarter. In the fall of 2012 they raised 1.2 million dollars in one of the biggest campaigns on Kickstarter. Only two years later in 2014 they were acquired by Samsung for $200 million dollars. Now their IOT devices are in your inner sanctum - your home - and they work hard to earn your trust.
Data and Customer Experience (BONUS Episode)
November 26, 2018 10:00 - 43 minutes - 58.8 MBIn October, Ben was a guest on Ned Bellavance’s podcast - Anexipod. We talked about one of Ben's favorite subjects - how data is essential to driving better customer experiences.
Master of Flavor (Guest: Jason Cohen)
November 19, 2018 10:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBWho knew that the food and beverage industry was ripe for disruption using the power of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data? Well, Jason Cohen did. Jason Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Analytical Flavor Systems - a startup focused on bringing the power of A.I. and machine learning to the world of flavors and sensory science. Jason started his company after studying sensory science and computer science at Penn State, as well as founding The Tea Institute, a research group dev...
Analytical Storytelling (Guest: Karthik Krishnamurthy)
November 12, 2018 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBOur guest today, Karthik Krishnamurthy, is the Senior Vice-President of Cognizant Digital Business - AI & Analytics, Interactive and Intelligent Products. In his two-decade career at Cognizant, he has worked across many strategic areas. One of his focus areas today is analytical storytelling and the human connection, where he has collaborated with Christian Madsbjerg, a guest in a previous episode. In the end, it's all about bringing the human to data.
Moving from Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom (Guest: Yoon Lee)
November 05, 2018 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32 MBOur guest is at the intersection of innovation and creation at one of the most important technology companies in the world. Yoon Lee is the Senior Vice President and Division Head, Content and Services, Product Innovation at Samsung Electronics America. In today’s world, our lives are connected to our devices in a way inconceivable even a few decades ago. Yoon is in a unique position to understand how A.I. and an understanding of the human context can make for better experiences for users.
Fighting Data-Driven Inequality (Guest: Virginia Eubanks)
October 29, 2018 10:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBOur guest today has been on a long crusade to raise awareness about how our digital tools are continuing and exacerbating the problems we already have around poverty and inequality. Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of the book “Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor”.
The Data Driving Political Campaigns (Guest: David Shor)
October 22, 2018 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBOur guest was there in one of the seminal elections in the last decade, working on the 2012 Obama campaign in the legendary “cave” doing political data science. David Shor is now the Head of Political Data Science at Civis Analytics. Civis Analytics was founded in the afterglow of Obama’s win with the backing of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google. These Obama campaign alums were building on the successes in polling and data science used so successfully in that campaign.
Why Curiosity Matters (Guest: Sarah Davanzo)
October 15, 2018 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBYou could be forgiven for thinking that curiosity gets pretty short shrift in our culture today. Our guest on this episode, Sarah Davanzo - VP of Consumer and Market Insights and Foresights at L’Oreal is also referred to as the Chief Curiosity Officer. She takes exploration and curiosity extremely seriously and has applied data science and analytics to the field in an unprecedented way. On top of that, she is an extremely interesting person to talk to.
Just a Spoonful of Honey (Guest: Terry Young)
October 08, 2018 10:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBOur guest on this episode started a company with one of the best names ever! Terry Young, the founder and CEO of Sparks and Honey, has created a very different way of approaching cultural trends. Sparks and Honey’s active learning system, Q, brings top-grade data science and machine learning to the art of trend spotting and understanding how our culture is changing. I sat down with Terry at his Madison Ave headquarters in New York City.
Building Trust from the Ground Up (Guest: Sarah Guo)
October 01, 2018 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBThe world of startups moves incredibly fast, and venture capitalists have a very unique vantage point from which they can synthesize a really deep understanding of what innovation is actually going on. That is literally part of their job. Our guest on this episode, Sarah Guo, is a general partner at Greylock Partners - a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California. In only 5 years with Greylock, Sarah has already cemented a reputation as a savvy operator that understands what it is entrep...
The Most Connected Man on Earth (Guest: Chris Dancy)
September 24, 2018 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBChris Dancy became the “most connected man on earth” by wrangling the data for over 700 sensors, applications, and services that analyzed his life.
A Data Science Super Hero Fighting the Creepy Algorithms (Guest: Cathy O'Neil)
September 17, 2018 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBMore and more of our world today is being evaluated, analyzed, and driven by algorithms. You need look no further than your car insurance, your kids’ educations, or your mortgage to see the results of algorithms processing and delivering verdicts on you and your ability to do something you want to do. Our guest today is Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist, mathematician, activist, and author of the New York Times best-selling book “Weapons of Math Destruction”. She has spent years talking about t...
Confessions of a Converted Climate Skeptic and his Data (Guest: Dr. Richard Muller)
September 03, 2018 10:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBIn the world of science, Physicists have a long and well-deserved reputation for being on the cutting edge of data acquisition, data analytics, and big data in general. Our guest today, Dr. Richard Muller, is a larger-than-life figure in the world of physics and beyond. Dr. Muller is a Professor of Physics Emeritus at Berkeley University, where he has had a long and successful career across particle physics, astrophysics, geophysics, and in the couple of decades - climate science. He has won...
How to Measure Ethical Behavior (Guest: Roberto Rigobon)
August 27, 2018 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBDr. Roberto Rigobon is Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has been teaching and advising students at Sloan for over 20 years, and he has won both the "Teacher of the Year" award and the "Excellence in Teaching" award at MIT three times. He has an exuberant personality and made an interview effortless with his stories and analogies. We sat down in his office and talked about his theory of “Aggregate Confusion” and how we measure the wrong things at the wr...
Bringing the Human to Data (Guest: Christian Madsbjerg)
August 20, 2018 14:16 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBWe don’t often read books that change how we think about the world. Our guest on this episode, Christian Madsbjerg, wrote a book “Sense Making” that did just that. Christian’s consulting firm ReD Associates has, in their own words, led a quiet revolution in business thinking. This book is a treatise on Christian’s underlying philosophical framework for ReD’s goal to bring the humanities and social sciences into today’s businesses dominated by technology, data, artificial intelligence, and an...
Intro to Data Bias (Guest: Christian Beedgen)
August 13, 2018 14:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBChristian Beedgen, the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Sumo Logic, has had a long history in the world of data and is a fantastic person to have deep conversations about meaty topics with. And that’s good because our topic is meaty! Christian has been spending a lot of time lately thinking about Bias - Bias in Data and Data Analytics, in particular - and that’s what we are going to talk about.
Critical Thinking, Ethics, and Analytics (Guest: Alistair Croll)
August 06, 2018 22:34 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBOur guest today has had a long and varied career in technology. Alistair Croll is a serial entrepreneur, much sought after speaker, prolific author - including the best selling Lean Analytics - which is a must read, an organizer of conferences like Forward50, and consultant to companies large and small. Alistair is a big thinker in the area of Data and Analytics, and we got to cover a lot of ground in this episode.
Confronting Our Humanity - and Bias - in Artificial Intelligence (Guest: Bill Welser)
July 24, 2018 00:45 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBOur guest today has had an amazing journey. He was a Captain in the Air Force, had a decade-long career at the RAND organization - a world-renowned, non-profit research organization, - and now as a partner at ReD Associates. ReD is a strategy consulting company based on the human sciences. Bill Welser has done groundbreaking work around privacy, artificial intelligence, industrial ecosystems, commercial drones, and cryptography. We talked about Artificial intelligence, and how our humanity -...