Data Journeys

By AJ Goldstein

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What's Data Journeys about?

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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#25: Laura Noren: The Ethic...

12.03.2018

Laura Noren is a data science ethicist and researcher currently working in cybersecurity at Obsidian Security in Newport Beach. She holds undergraduate degrees from MIT, a PhD from NYU where she recently completed a postdoc in the Center for Data ...

Data Journeys episodes:

12.03.2018 #25: Laura Noren: The Ethics of Data Science Laura Noren is a data science ethicist and researcher currently working in cybersecurity at Obsidian Security in Newport Beach. She holds undergraduate degrees from MIT, a PhD from NYU where she recently completed a postdoc in the Center for Data ...
11.19.2018 #23: Wes McKinney - The Creator of Pandas Wes McKinney is the creator and "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL) of the open-source pandas package for data analysis in Python, and has also authored two versions of the reference book Python for Data Analysis. Wes is also one of ...
11.13.2018 #22: Mike Tamir: Identifying Fake News with the Head of Data Science at Uber ATG Mike Tamir is the Head of Data Science at Uber ATG. He is a leader in data science, specializing in deep learning and distributed scalable machine learning, and he’s also a faculty member at UC Berkeley. Mike has led several ...
08.27.2018 #21 Frank Diana- The Future of AI - Predicting Preparing Thriving in Our Changing Future 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 ...
08.20.2018 #20: Kyle Polich: Skepticism and Simplifying Complex Topics with the Host of the Data Skeptic Podcast 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 ...
08.13.2018 #19: Emily Glassberg Sands: Equalizing Access to Rewarding Careers as Head of Data Science at Coursera 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. ...
08.06.2018 #18: Dan Hammer: Democratizing Environmental Data at the White House, NASA, National Geographic, and More 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 ...
07.30.2018 #17: Decoding Healthy Meals & Learning the World of Food with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko @ Wellio 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 ...
07.23.2018 #16: Jim Guszcza: Chief Data Scientist at Deloitte Consulting 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 ...
07.16.2018 #15: Travis Oliphant: Creating, Evolving, & Funding Open-Source Software 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 ...
07.09.2018 #14: Drew Conway – Applying Data Science to Where It’s Needed Most 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 ...
07.02.2018 #13: Anthony Scriffignano: Developing Cultural Awareness & Global Perspective Through International Data Science 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, ...
06.25.2018 #12: Favio Vázquez - Data Science Polymath 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 ...
06.18.2018 #11: Dan Wulin: International E-Commerce, Price Optimization, & Home-Good Product Recommendations Dan Wulin is the Director of Data Science at Wayfair: an international e-commerce company specializing in home goods. Enjoy the show!
06.11.2018 #10: Jure Leskovec - Chief Scientist of Pinterest 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 ...
06.04.2018 #9: Daniela Huppenkothen – Astronomy, Cosmology, & The Study of Space 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 ...
05.14.2018 #8: Chris Albon – Connecting Africa to the Internet & Defending Public Discourse 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 ...
05.07.2018 #7: Fernando Perez — Creating IPython, Founding NumFOCUS, & The Stories Behind It All 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, ...
04.11.2018 #6: Andrew Ng — Globalizing Education, Disrupting Industries, & Generalizing Artificial Intelligence 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 ...
03.30.2018 #5: Eric Weber — Lifelong Learning & The Art of Staying Curious 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 ...
03.30.2018 #4: Kirk Borne — NASA, Astrophysics, & The Evolution of Modern-Day Data Science 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 ...
03.14.2018 #3: Kale Temple — Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Consulting 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 ...
03.14.2018 #2: Kate Strachnyi — A Meta-Interview of 20 Amazing Data Scientists 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 ...
03.14.2018 #1: Andrew Cassidy — Predicting Bombs, Learning Online, & Working Anywhere 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 ...
03.14.2018 #0: Welcome Some background about the host, why he started this podcast, and what you can expect from the show.

Data Journeys

What's Data Journeys about?

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Data Journeys episodes:

#25: Laura Noren: The Ethics of Data Science

#23: Wes McKinney - The Creator of Pandas

#22: Mike Tamir: Identifying Fake News with the Head of Data Science at Uber ATG

#21 Frank Diana- The Future of AI - Predicting Preparing Thriving in Our Changing Future

#20: Kyle Polich: Skepticism and Simplifying Complex Topics with the Host of the Data Skeptic Podcast

#19: Emily Glassberg Sands: Equalizing Access to Rewarding Careers as Head of Data Science at Coursera

#18: Dan Hammer: Democratizing Environmental Data at the White House, NASA, National Geographic, and More

#17: Decoding Healthy Meals & Learning the World of Food with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko @ Wellio

#16: Jim Guszcza: Chief Data Scientist at Deloitte Consulting

#15: Travis Oliphant: Creating, Evolving, & Funding Open-Source Software

#14: Drew Conway – Applying Data Science to Where It’s Needed Most

#13: Anthony Scriffignano: Developing Cultural Awareness & Global Perspective Through International Data Science

#12: Favio Vázquez - Data Science Polymath

#11: Dan Wulin: International E-Commerce, Price Optimization, & Home-Good Product Recommendations

#10: Jure Leskovec - Chief Scientist of Pinterest

#9: Daniela Huppenkothen – Astronomy, Cosmology, & The Study of Space

#8: Chris Albon – Connecting Africa to the Internet & Defending Public Discourse

#7: Fernando Perez — Creating IPython, Founding NumFOCUS, & The Stories Behind It All

#6: Andrew Ng — Globalizing Education, Disrupting Industries, & Generalizing Artificial Intelligence

#5: Eric Weber — Lifelong Learning & The Art of Staying Curious

#4: Kirk Borne — NASA, Astrophysics, & The Evolution of Modern-Day Data Science

#3: Kale Temple — Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Consulting

#2: Kate Strachnyi — A Meta-Interview of 20 Amazing Data Scientists

#1: Andrew Cassidy — Predicting Bombs, Learning Online, & Working Anywhere

#0: Welcome

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