Latest Café Podcast Episodes
Data Science on Mars
DataCafé - April 19, 2021 05:00 - 58 minutesOn 30 July 2020 NASA launched the Mars 2020 mission from Earth carrying a rover called Perseverance, and rotorcraft called Ingenuity, to land on and study Mars. The mission so far has been a resounding success, touching down in Jezero Crater on 18 February 2021, and sending back data and imagery...
Kelly bought herself a coffee company and this is how it went down...
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - April 13, 2021 20:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsLast year my business partner William Murad and I offered our coffee roasting company, Unleashed Coffee, for sale over this podcast. You know me by now, I live for experiments like this. I was curious whether this podcast was influential enough to sell a company. Spoiler alert! The answer is YES...
[Bite] How to hire a great Data Scientist
DataCafé - April 05, 2021 05:00 - 14 minutesWelcome to the first DataCafé Bite: a bite-size episode where Jason and Jeremy drop-in for a quick chat about a relevant or newsworthy topic from the world of Data Science. In this episode, we discuss how to hire a great Data Scientist, which is a challenge faced by many companies and is not eas...
Bayesian Inference: The Foundation of Data Science
DataCafé - March 23, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutesIn this episode we talk about all things Bayesian. What is Bayesian inference and why is it the cornerstone of Data Science? Bayesian statistics embodies the Data Scientist and their role in the data modelling process. A Data Scientist starts with an idea of how to capture a particular phenomen...
Apple Tasting
DataCafé - February 22, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutesHave you ever come home from the supermarket to discover one of the apples you bought is rotten? It's likely your trust for that grocer was diminished, or you might stop buying that particular brand of apples altogether. In this episode, we discuss how the quality controls in a production line...
Apple Tasting: Reinforcement learning for quality control
DataCafé - February 22, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutesHave you ever come home from the supermarket to discover one of the apples you bought is rotten? It's likely your trust for that grocer was diminished, or you might stop buying that particular brand of apples altogether. In this episode, we discuss how the quality controls in a production line...
Optimising the Future
DataCafé - January 04, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutesAs we look ahead to a new year, and reflect on the last, we consider how data science can be used to optimise the future. But to what degree can we trust past experiences and observations, essentially relying on historical data to predict the future? And with what level of accuracy? In this ep...
The best roast profiles, green coffees and roaster size for a coffee roasting startup - Black Friday Edition
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - November 16, 2020 15:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsIn this podcast I welcome back Marcus Young from Boot Coffee. This is an episode where we discuss the most common questions we get from our consulting clients. No, you do not have to pay a dime for this, but a review on Apple Podcasts is welcome. Thanks. We start the podcast with a discussion...
Empowering Women in Coffee with Lee Pike - International Women's Coffee Alliance
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - November 06, 2020 23:24 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsIn this podcast I talked with Lee Pike from the International Women's Coffee Alliance, about the role of women in the industry and what the IWCA does to help improve the life of women coffee producers. The IWCA is a global network of self-driven chapters focused on achieving sustainable livelih...
US Election Special
DataCafé - November 01, 2020 18:00 - 31 minutesWhat exciting data science problems emerge when you try to forecast an election? Many, it turns out! We're very excited to turn our DataCafé lens on the current Presidential race in the US as an exemplar of statistical modelling right now. Typically state election polls are asking around 1000 p...
Becoming Q Grader at 12 and Starting a Coffee Brand at 14 with Frankie Volkema - Joven Coffee
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - October 22, 2020 14:40 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsI met Frankie at one of the Q Grader courses at Boot Coffee. She was 12 and taking part in cupping with us. In this episode I am talking with Frankie Volkema about her brand, Joven Coffee. Frankie's mission is to introduce consumers to young coffee producers. Her goal is to help these producer...
Forecasting Solar Radiation Storms
DataCafé - October 19, 2020 06:00 - 40 minutesWhat are solar storms? How are they caused? And how can we use data science to forecast them? In this episode of DataCafé we talk about the Sun and how it drives space weather, and the efforts to forecast solar radiation storms that can have a massive impact here on Earth. On a regular day, t...
Buying Coffee Brands with Tim Volkema - Schuil Coffee & Sparrows Coffee
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - October 08, 2020 13:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsTim is not new in the business world, he built and sold a few successful ventures. When he moved to Grand Rapids, MI, he decided to skip the line and buy his next venture instead of doing the startup hustle. In this podcast Tim elaborates on why he decided to buy in rather than start up, and w...
Entrepreneurship in Data Science
DataCafé - September 19, 2020 17:00 - 50 minutesHow do you get your latest and greatest data science tool to make an impact? How can you avoid wasting time building a supposedly great data product only to see it fall flat on launch? In this episode, we discuss how you need to start with the idea before you get to a data product. As all good ...
A New Coffee Startup is Born with Stephen Ezell - Sequential Coffee
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - September 16, 2020 00:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsMy guest in this episode is Stephen Ezell. Stephen is my old buddy, who together with Jonathan Shepard started Sequential Coffee. Jonathan is the business brain and Stephen is the coffee brain of this operation. It is a dream combo for every coffee nerd out there. Lucky Stephen! In this episo...
Viruses: Keep Calm and Use Statistics
DataCafé - August 12, 2020 05:00 - 46 minutesWhat is a virus? How can we spot human viruses in danger of becoming pandemics? How can we use statistics to understand their origins and transmission? This turns out to be a hard problem - not least because there can be many hundreds or thousands of slightly modified strains of a virus in a sma...
Crossing the Line to Work with Haitian farmers - Cafe Kreyol - Joseph Stazzone
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - July 28, 2020 16:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsI am not sure whether it is Joey's fascinating story or the current global situation, but this episode got a bit personal. Joey first started trading in “commodities” as a drug user and later dealer. Today he is the CEO of Cafe Kreyol -- a direct trade coffee importing and roasting compan...
Changepoint Detection: Secret Weapon of the Data Scientist
DataCafé - July 13, 2020 18:00 - 31 minutesHow can we spot a change in a jet engine vibration that might mean it’s about to fail catastrophically? How can a service forecast adapt to unexpected changes brought about by a pandemic? How might we spot an increase in rate of change of pollution in the atmosphere? The answer to all these ques...
Building family coffee business with Mitchell Popadziuk - [CxT] Coffee Company
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - June 09, 2020 00:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsMitchell Popadziuk managed to fall into a perfect team. He is the business mastermind, his brother Tristan brings the coffee passion, and their mother Kelly is the soul of sales and marketing. I am jealous! In a good way ... :) [CxT] is a very young but dynamically growing company which, despit...
Optimal Control in Price Decision Making
DataCafé - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 27 minutesOptimal Control is the science of making decisions in a way that optimises a key quantity such as revenue, customer satisfaction, or quality of service. Cake example Bertrand has a cake. He likes cake a lot but he can overeat cake sometimes in which case he doesn’t enjoy it so much. He would l...
Multi-Armed Bandits: Learning better decisions
DataCafé - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 23 minutesHave you ever wondered why you keep getting adverts for products that you've only just bought and now don't need? The online advert auto-server is probably using a multi-armed bandit learner that needs a little algorithmic improvement. We speak to Ciara Pike-Burke about her work on trying to mak...
Inventory Optimisation: Reducing waste, Improving availability
DataCafé - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutesHow do big grocery retailers maintain product availability for their customers day after day while minimising food wastage and storage costs? The answer is Inventory Optimisation, the science of maintaining sufficient stock levels of a set of products so that customers see an appropriate level o...
Multi-Armed Bandits
DataCafé - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 23 minutesHave you ever wondered why you keep getting adverts for products that you've only just bought and now don't need? The online advert auto-server is probably using a multi-armed bandit learner that needs a little algorithmic improvement. We speak to Ciara Pike-Burke about her work on trying to mak...
Inventory Optimisation
DataCafé - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 30 minutesHow do big grocery retailers maintain product availability for their customers day after day while minimising food wastage and storage costs? The answer is Inventory Optimisation, the science of maintaining sufficient stock levels of a set of products so that customers see an appropriate level o...
Vehicle Routing Problem for Electric Vehicles
DataCafé - June 01, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutesHow can we generate efficient routes for a large fleets of vehicles that have to make many thousands of deliveries a day while taking into account breaks, shift patterns and traffic conditions? Now let's make those vehicles electric and we need to take into account vehicle battery charge level, ...
The rebel heart of Flag and Wire Coffee
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - May 17, 2020 17:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsNick Walton is a rebel... was a rebel. He grew up on a milk farm, but his revolutionary attitude towards his parents drove his dad to say "enough! Time to grow up!" Nick's coffee story starts with sleeping in a car while homeless. Was this the push he needed to take life seriously, which finds i...
House Café - 2020 (Spring Session)
House Café - May 10, 2020 05:00 - 1 hourCannons - Fire For You; Double Exposure - My Love Is Free (The Reflex Revision); Michael The Lion & Amy Douglas - Find a Way (feat. Steven Klavier) [M+M Main Mix]; Crazy P - The Hit (Crazy P presents the Syndromes); Miguel Migs - So Far (Eric's Old School Revival Dub); Michael Gray - Push (In the...
Is this coffee roaster the future of coffee roasting? With Arno Holschuh from Bellwether
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - March 06, 2020 16:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsWe are back with a great new podcast featuring a really cool new innovation in coffee roasting - the Bellwether Coffee Roasting Machine. Bellwether has developed a new type of small-batch electric commercial coffee roaster. It doesn’t require ventilation, a gas line, or even a contractor or com...
House Café - 2020 (Winter Vibes)
House Café - January 24, 2020 05:00 - 1 hourMahogany - Ride On The Rhythm (Michael Gray Remix); Neapolitan Soul - Welcome To The Dub (Phunky Trip); Tasha Lara'e & DJ Spen - Wish I Didn't Miss You (Main Vocal Mix); The Lab Rats & The Experiment - Music Is My Way of Life (feat. Lisa Millett) [Dr Packer Extended Remix]; JKriv - Vertigo (Yukse...
$500 Gesha vs $10 Brazilian Coffee and Instagram Marketing Tips with Umeko Motoyoshi
Coffee is ME - Start Your Coffee Business - December 12, 2019 19:54 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsWe are back with part 2 of our discussion with Umeko Motoyoshi, coffee entrepreneur, social media expert, educator, and author. In this episode we continue last week’s discussion with the author of The @wastingcoffee Guide To Not Wasting Coffee and purveyor of the Umeshiso Cupping Spoons. This ...