Jordy and Antonio meet after a vacation haitus or two. They talk space, life, and are even able to sneak in some data science. If you’d like to see our show continue, reach out to the hosts.

3 Projects That Can Make You a Household* Name

Jun 8th, 2021 31m 42s

*Household name is a bit of exaggeration – but certainly a known name in the ML community. Today we are joined by Alex Beutel, KDD Cup co-chair and senior staff research scientist & tech lead / manager at Google to discuss the three projects fo

‘Data Science’ is an evolution. What does it mean now in the Workplace? w/ Erin Stanton

May 31st, 2021 35m 37s

We didn’t always have ‘Data Science’ but we’ve had data for ever. We’re joined by Erin Stanton to learn about the evolution of Data Science in her work and personal life. Erin Stanton has 13+ years of experience in big data and data science and

What are NFTs and why do you care? (Fixed episode link)

Mar 29th, 2021 40m 29s

Shain and Calvin join us to tell us all about NFTs. NFTs stand for non-fungible tokens – meaning they represent unique items – unlike currency which is fungible and can be aggregate or divided. NFTs could become a bigger industry than digital c

I don’t get the vaccine rollout … is using tech for a vaccine appt immoral …

Mar 9th, 2021 34m 27s

Antonio and Jordy are back at it. No guests, just the two hosts catching up after 3 months of relative silence. Antonio explains to Jordy why he is befuddled by the vaccine rollout … in addition, he asks whether the script he wrote to find a va

Can you remember this? We talk memory with John Graham, Grandmaster of Memory, and USA Memory Champion

Dec 28th, 2020 48m 43s

What would you remember if you had better memory? In this episode we speak to the 2018 USA Memory Champion and Grandmaster of Memory, John Graham aka memoryjohn.com. As imposters, we have lots of questions. John answers them with the exactness

Math in Data Science with Professor Margot Gerritsen

Dec 14th, 2020 1h 13m

Today we are joined by Professor Margot Gerritsen from Stanford University today to talk to us about Math in Data Science, Diversity in Data Science, and some of the ideas behind a Growth Mindset. She is co-founder and co-director of the global

Discovering interesting rules: Association Rule Learning

Dec 1st, 2020 43m 7s

We’ve been doing this podcast for over three years and I’m surprised that we had never come across and discussed the topic of association rules. Association rules is a mining technique that allows you to find rules in your data. It’s pretty int

Stock Market: Investing and Data Science

Nov 17th, 2020 52m 46s

Jordy and Antonio talk about the stock market. They focus on the data behind the stock market movements and also how you can get started investing in the stock market. Whether you have never traded in the market, are a buy-and-hold investor, or

How Emerging Data Scientists Can Path Creative Careers (And How Employers Can Help Get Them There)

Nov 2nd, 2020 1h 2m

This episode is the panel discussion that we moderated two weeks ago for the Tom Tom Cities Rising Summit (https://www.tomtomfoundation.org/cities-rising-summit). Here’s the description provided for the event: Join regional data science leaders

Is Feature Engineering a low hanging fruit?

Oct 19th, 2020 39m 16s

In this episode, Antonio explains to Jordy what he knows about feature engineering from work, Kaggle projects, and general research. Antonio talks about featuretools which he was able to use recently. Feature Engineering appears to be an area t

Can Team Sports Take Advantage of Reinforcement Learning?

Oct 5th, 2020 43m

In team sports, you have players – sometimes a couple, sometimes many players – all going for a goal. This is very different than games or sports with one player. The idea of collaboration makes everything harder. In this episode, Edward Rusu t

Do computers learn using positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement?

Sep 22nd, 2020 38m 18s

Nothing feels more like Artificial Intelligence than when a computer learns by itself through repeated simulations. Computers can now master games by simply playing the game over and over against itself. This is reinforcement learning. Today we

Did AI write this blog or was it Liam?

Sep 8th, 2020 31m 49s

Liam Porr wrote ‘Feeling Unproductive? Maybe you should stop overthinking’ The post had thousands of visitors and made it to the top of some blogging site. Liam did come up with the title and some of the text but he didn’t do it alone. Liam had

A/B Testing, Data Science, & more with Eric Schles

Aug 24th, 2020 56m 59s

We asked Eric Schles to come on the show to explain A/B Testing to us. He didn’t stop there. He explained a few other things along the way and as you expect with someone with his vast experience in technology and data science, our conversation

Data Analytics and Predictions made easier

Jul 28th, 2020 41m 34s

We connect with Shanif Dhanani, Co-founder and CEO of Apteo, to learn how he and his team are making data analytics and presictions easier. If you’re looking to do this in your organization, like we’ve done, you will want to listen and hear abo

Big Data through the eyes and mouth of Arun Murthy, co-founder of Hortonworks & CPO of Cloudera

Jul 13th, 2020 46m 31s

In this episode, we get to talk to an insider of the big data movement. Arun Murthy is one of the founders of Hortonworks and has spent well over a decade in the big data industry. We ask Arun to walk us through what has challenged in the indus

Police Encounters: A data project w/ D. Brian Burghart

Jun 15th, 2020 41m 28s

According to FatalEncounters.org, there have been 934 police-involved deaths between January 1, 2020 and June 12, 2020. How does a lifelong, award-winning journalist, the former editor/publisher of the Reno News & Review and a former journalism

Broadcast Radio-inspired AI technology personalizes song transitions w/ Zack Zalon

May 28th, 2020 42m 32s

“The future of streaming music is more than just playlists of songs with long gaps of silence,” says Co-Founder and CEO of Super Hi-Fi, Zack Zalon. We are excited to have Zack on the show to tell us a bit about his company, data, and technology

The OODA loop & the Onion Diagram in Data Science w/ David Purdy

May 18th, 2020 42m 24s

We’re still in the midst of COVID-19. We wanted to see how someone like David Purdy would approach this problem from a data and data science perspective. He didn’t let us down by introducing high-level concepts like the OODA loop, developed by

Customer Analytics w/ Raymond Collins

May 4th, 2020 46m 9s

How do you think about your customers? Not in business? How are businesses thinking about you? Customer Analytics is interesting because the techniques can be applied to a number of different disciplines. Raymond Collins is a friend of the show

Supply Chain and Data Science with Tim Gagnon

Apr 20th, 2020 43m 54s

In this episode, we discuss supply chain and data science with Tim Gagnon. Tim is the Vice President of Analytics and Data Science at C.H. Robinson and has recently been tapped to lead the newly launched Robinson Labs. Be well,be safe, stay san

4 Voices, 1 Topic: Product Management

Apr 6th, 2020 44m 20s

We are joined by four people with four different perspectives about product management. We interviewed them separately and then combined their responses to seven questions about their field. Soumeya Benghanem is the head of product management a

Data Science and Politics

Mar 23rd, 2020 56m 29s

Today we have a guest that will help us understand data science in politics. Dr. Andrew Therriault is a Data Science and Strategy Consultant. He teaches a course entitled ‘Data Science for Political Campaigns’ at Harvard. Prior to this, he ser

Scrum Mastering

Mar 9th, 2020 49m 4s

On today’s show, we are joined by Hector Gutierrez and Heath Herel to discuss what it means to be a Scrum Master. Hector is an old friend of the show. Over the course of his 15+ year career, Hector has had the opportunity to work on IT integrat