April 04, 2023

Accelerated data science with a Kaggle grandmaster (Practical AI #217)

43 minutes

Daniel and Chris explore the intersection of Kaggle and real-world data science in this illuminating conversation with Christof Henkel, Senior Deep Learning Data Scientist at NVIDIA and Kaggle Grandmaster. Christof offers a very lucid explanation into how participation in Kaggle can positively impact a data scientist’s skill and career aspirations. He also shared some of his insights and approach to maximizing AI productivity uses GPU-accelerated tools like RAPIDS and DALI.

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Featuring:

Christof Henkel – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Christof Henkel | Kaggle

NVIDIA Kaggle Grandmasters

Kaggle

NVIDIA RAPIDS

NVIDIA Data Loading Library (DALI)

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