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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Jure Leskovec is the Chief Scientist of Pinterest, which acquired his company, Kosei, after starting a “recommendation revolution” through smarter, personalized mobile ads. Jure can also be found fulfilling his responsibilities as a: - Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University - Investigator at the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub This turned out to be one of my most fascinating conversations yet, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Daniela 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 - PhD recipient at University of Amsterdam - Blogger of Hackathons, Data Science, and Academia Enjoy the Show!
Chris 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 - Former host of Partially Derivative - Content creator of Machine Learning Flashcards - Blog writer at chrisalbon.com Enjoy the show!
Fernando 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 the originator. Enjoy the show! Show Notes: https://ajgoldstein.com/podcast/ep7/ Fernando’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/fperez_org AJ’s Twitter: www.twitter.com/ajgoldstein39
Andrew 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: (1) Co-Founder of Coursera, (2) Chairman of the Board for Woebot, (3) Creator of DeepLearning.AI, (4) Former Chief Scientist at Baidu AI Group
Eric 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 daily posts on LinkedIn’s platform. Naturally, this conversation was primarily focused on Data Science education through the lens of Eric’s experience as both a teacher & student. Enjoy the show!
Kirk 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. Enjoy!
Kale 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. Enjoy!
Kate Strachnyi 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. Her book is a essentially compilation of interviews that Kate herself conducted with 20 amazing Data Scientists, so what we really have here is a meta-interview with Kate serving as the umbrella over 20 other people & stories — with backgrounds ranging from LinkedIn and Pinterest to Bloomberg and IBM. Enjoy!
In this pilot episode of the Data Journeys podcast, I'm joined by Andrew Cassidy. Andrew is a freelance Data Scientist, Software Engineer, & Online Educator. It’s amazing all that Andrew has done at just 28 years old, and we cover so much of it in this conversation… from explosive battlegrounds in Afghanistan to the sunny mountains of Boulder Colorado, we touch on topics like Andrew’s childhood, his principles for effectively learning Data Science, & the best/worst advice out there for up-and-comers.
Some background about the host, why he started this podcast, and what you can expect from the show.
