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.

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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.

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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

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Dan Wulin is the Director of Data Science at Wayfair: an international e-commerce company specializing in home goods.

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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

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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

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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.

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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!