Data Podcast for Nerds!

Learn all about how a Hacker in Residence uses data to solve the world's problems, one model at a time.

In this episode, Harpreet shares with us what he does at Voxel51 as a Hacker in Residence along with some great tips about the deep end of artificial intelligence.

Highlights 🔦

- Developer Advocacy / Hacker in Residence

- The best approach to reading a research article

- Breakdown of modern roles from research scientist / research engineer / deep learning engineer / AI engineer

Join us to learn about the various experiences Harpreet has accumulated during his career including teaching high school math, working as an actuary, pivoting to biostatistician, and hacking the developer advocacy space.

Where to find Harpreet

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Learning Courses

Computer Vision for Data Scientists

Prompt Engineering with LangChain

More to come...

Other Resources

Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti - GenAI Resources

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Learn all about how this exponential podcast host uses data to solve the world's problems, one athlete interview at a time.

Ken's journey with podcasting has been one of the most impactful things he's done in his entire life and most recently set an ambitious goal to embark on the most complete study of excellence in sports ever created.

In this episode, we are covering all the bases from unraveling the secrets of podcasting to sharing insights on the IKEA furniture assembly conundrum.

Highlights 🔦

- Using podcasting as a means for professional and personal growth

- Origin story to Ken's new podcast > The Exponential Athlete

- Discussion around problem-solving frameworks

Join us to discover how the intersection of athleticism, analytics, podcasting, and self-improvement can shape your path to success!

Where to find Ken

LinkedIn

Ken's Nearest Neighbors (Podcast)

Exponential Athlete (Podcast)

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If your currently interested in learning a particular topic, say statistics, you MUST check out this episode. It's WAY more than just learning a topic, it's about HOW you are learning it!

Josh created his YouTube Channel, StatQuest, as a way to publicly share his quest of learning more about statistics, machine learning, and AI

I have learned so much from his way of teaching. He doesn't dumb down the material, he builds up your understanding so that you are smarter.

It was an absolute pleasure to get to talk with him 😀

OF COURSE, I had to ask him to share all the origin stories!

🏁 How he started his channel

🪕 Where his theme songs come from

💥 Who / What inspired his famous BAM!

Join us to learn all about these origin stories along with the power of visual learning and building in public. It's literally the BEST way to learn 🤓

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Learn all about how a Customer Success & Analytics Specialist uses data to solve the world's problems, one fiction page at a time.

Do you believe in being in the right place at the right time?

Lauren made her way from healthcare into the data world and her biggest advice is that if you have an opportunity in front of you, TAKE IT!

There isn't a linear path into data. There isn't even a linear path once you're working in data.

One thing that was clear to Lauren, life as a data professional is a lot like the healthcare industry in that you get to help others 😀

Lauren's favorite resources to learn new things

- Books

- Podcasts

- Maven (of course)

Join us to learn about the non-linear paths you can take, and the amazing opportunities that you can unlock if you take the jump!

Where to find Lauren: LinkedIn

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Learn all about how a Developer Advocate uses data to solve the world's problems, one programming language at a time.

If you think that you have too much of a random background to break into data, you gotta listen to Alex's origin story! He has done basically everything under the sun before officially getting his dream data job with Dremio.

Alex went from playing video games, practicing as a rockstar, owning a hobby store, learning just about every programming language out there, and everything in between.

Quote: "I'm happy with the story I've had, but I'm always glad to continue making the story more fun"

Highlights ✨

- How to level up your skills when you're grounded

- Starting several business, all through networking

- Using content creation as a means for learning

Alex already gave his warning, join us for the ride, this episode is jam packed full of fun!

Where to find Alex

LinkedIn

Substack

Twitter

Web

Blog

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Learn all about how a Specialized Technical Recruiter uses data to solve the world's problems, one baseball card statistic at a time.

If you are one of many data job seekers out there that are stumped at how to solve the chicken and egg problem, check out this episode!

Jack is currently building out a platform to help businesses build data teams by allowing candidates to show off their skills.

I think I gave Jack a lightbulb moment by pointing out that his interest in baseball card statistics and IMDB movie pages could tie into his recruiting platform! I hope I convinced him of a new way people should structure their resumes 🤓

At the end of the day, if you have your mind set on achieving a goal, never stop trying!

Where to find Jack: LinkedIn

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Learn all about how a Chief Lemur Officer uses data to solve the world's problems, predicting one hip hop track at a time.

Warning, it's very meta... on multiple levels!! ⚠️

Nick spends most of his time these days writing SQL queries on his own data to understand how users are interacting with his website... which helps others learn to write SQL queries. FULL CIRCLE!

The fact that Nick went from entertaining hip hop nerds to a entertaining data nerds is a story you don't want to miss out on

Highlights:

- Leveraging your passions to build data products

- Building project portfolios that have more than one purpose

- Focusing on the right way to solve problems during an interview

Oh yea, and Nick used to work for Facebook... META!!! 🤓

Book: Ace the Data Science Interview

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If you have ever wondered how companies use social media effectively to market their products, we get an inside look into tech marketing with Elise on our latest episode of the Data Podcast for Nerds!

Highlights ✨

- Social media posts get more interaction during the weekdays (not too much of a surprise)

- The weekends are for fun and social media posts can follow that trend, even for tech companies!

- ELI5 takes on a new meaning

Bonus

Both Elise and I have a dance background and nerd out a bit on how dancing and data are exactly the same! 👯

Join us if you are curious about the overlap of social media, marketing, and data. This one is jam packed full of edutainment!

Where to find Elise: LinkedIn

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If you have ever wondered what hiring managers are actually looking for when hiring candidates, we bust some myths with Lindsay on this very topic on the latest episode of the Data Podcast for Nerds!

We explore 🔎

- The soft skills that you should highlight during the interview to set you above the rest

- The approach to take when learning how to solve problems AND how to share that during an interview

- Lindsay's favorite questions to ask her interviewees and how to answer them

Join us if you are preparing for your data interview, and also if you are curious to learn which music is the best background music to rock out and do some code.

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