Data Journeys
Summary: Data 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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Podcasts:
#25: Laura Noren: The Ethics of Data Science
#24: Brian McFee: Music and Data Science
#23: Wes McKinney - The Creator of Pandas
#22: Mike Tamir: Identifying Fake News with the Head of Data Science at Uber ATG
Frank 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. He is focused on leadership dialog in the context of our emerging future and its implications. He blends a futurist perspective with a pragmatic, actionable approach, leveraging horizon scanning and storytelling to see possible futures and drive foresight into leadership deliberation.
Kyle Polich is the co-host of the incredibly popular Data Skeptic podcast. His general interests range from areas like statistics, machine learning, data viz, and optimization to data provenance, data governance, econometrics, and metrology. In this episode of the Data Journeys Podcast, I pick Kyle’s brain for patterns noticed and lessons learned through interviewing and teaching his way through nearly 400 episodes of the Data Skeptic Podcast.
Emily Glassberg Sands is the Head of Data Science at Coursera -the largest online learning platform for higher education with 30M learners from around the world.Her team leads the quantitative measurement, experimentation,and inference that informs Coursera’s product and business direction. We covered topics like: How she uses analytics to identify ways to improve the learning experience and provide high quality education worldwide. The behaviours of successful learners and how to change your habits.
Dan 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. Does not take himself too seriously // played in the academic/private/public sectors // has stayed so true to a single mission across 17+ positions over 10 years.
In 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. In this conversation, we dive deep into Wellio’s artificial intelligence for eating. Enjoy the show!
Jim 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. In this interview, we explore how philosophy and nudge theory can be applied to change human behavior using data science. Enjoy!
Travis 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 -Founder, Chairman of the Board @ NumFOCUS Foundation -President @ Enthought -Creator of NumPy, SciPy, Numba, & XND
Drew 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. Before starting Alluvium in 2015, Drew helped found Data Gotham, as well as DataKind. Enjoy the show!
Anthony 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. Enjoy the show!
Favio 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 is 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 Enjoy the show!
Dan Wulin is the Director of Data Science at Wayfair: an international e-commerce company specializing in home goods. Enjoy the show!
