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 served as the Chief Data Officer for the City of Boston and the Director of Read More ...

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 integration projects spanning all aspects of his respective Read More ...

In this buffet, you get to bear us talk about data science jobs, Tesla removing features, Appl slowing down phones, the terror of interviewing for jobs, dynamic programming. We hope you are full after this meal.

Jose Quesada (@quesada) is the CEO and Founder of Data Science Retreat (@datascienceret) in Berlin, Germany. DSR is one of the top market leading, bootcamp-style schools in Europe. Jose has mentored over 200 projects and has a talent for choosing a project. He gives us his thoughts on what constitutes a successful Machine Learning or Read More ...

In this episode, we are joined by Kelsey Hightower who schools on Kubernetes. Kubernetes is the conductor to the orchestra of containers (or something like that).   Kelsey is one of the real people on Twitter answering questions and having conversations.  His handle is @kelseyhightower. That’s not his only qualification: he’s also the author of the Read More ...

On this episode, we talk with John Lee, @jclee20100, about ELROI (www.el-roi.space). Whether it classifies as fully functioning satellites or space trash, there’s a good amount of material orbiting our earth. Locating your own satellite becomes a challenge. Listen to find out how ELROI does it. By the way, these satellites are getting smaller allowing Read More ...

In 2019, our podcast hit major milestones. * 32 new episodes * 100,000 downloads * Sponsored by the University of San Francisco www.usfca.edu/dsi * Most importantly, we met and interviewed some amazing people: James Savage Haftan Eckholdt Noemi Derzsy Prem Ganeshkumar Maria Victoria Arroyo Brian de Heus Miguel Garcia Kenneth Reitz Alaa Moussawi Elissa Shevinsky Read More ...

In this episode, we have Dr. Mihai Maruseac give us a different perspective about Differential Privacy. His perspective comes from Computer Science instead of Statistics. Like all of our episodes, we jump around from privacy to other topics to Boston and back. Want to share your thoughts? Email us at [email protected] or [email protected]

Today on the show, we have Eric Wong who tells us about how you can fight some of those machine learning / artificial intelligence programs with a little of their own medicine. Eric is a PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and his work is focused on solving the problem of adversial examples. I’d say Read More ...

How private is that survey data? Differential Privacy allows us to quantify this and other questions about data and it’s privacy. On this episode, we are joined by Dr. Claire McKay Bowen. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Statistical Sciences Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory studying methods of data privacy, specifically Read More ...