Data Science Leaders

Data science teams are responsible for delivering impactful models, of course.
But they’re also responsible for translating that impact (and all the work that goes into it) for business stakeholders of all kinds.
 
In this episode, Dave Cole is joined by Nate Litton, Vice President, Data & Analytics at Toyota North America, to discuss strategies to strengthen the relationship between data science leaders and their business counterparts.
 
They also talked about:
- How to structure your organization for great partnerships
- Cultivating your teams’ soft skills alongside their technical skills
- How to measure stakeholder engagement and partnership success
- What to do with difficult partnerships
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What if we could predict how long our models will last in the field?
Is there a mathematical way to estimate mean time to failure for a specific model?
In this episode, Dave Cole is joined by Celeste Fralick, Chief Data Scientist at McAfee, to discuss AI reliability and how it can help predict model decay.
Celeste also explained:
- What AI reliability measures
- Processes to put in place to measure AI reliability
- The difference between DevOps and MLOps at McAfee
- How adversarial machine learning works
- How to build out a more diverse data science team
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Algorithms can have an outsized impact on society. That’s why many data science leaders have focused a lot of effort recently on defining data literacy and ethics in a way that’s operationalizable in their company culture.
In this episode, Dave Cole speaks with Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist for the New York Times, about why a foundation of data literacy and data ethics is so important for data scientists.
What we talked about:
-Building a data science team at the New York Times
-Creating a data culture
-The relationship between a data science team and a data analyst team
-Necessary soft skills for data scientists
Some resources mentioned during the podcast:
hackNY
Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
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This is Data Science Leaders from Domino Data Lab, with me, Kjell Carlsson. On this show, you’ll have a front-row seat to conversations featuring world-changing data science leaders. Join us for transformative stories of real people using machine learning to harness the power of data science to tackle the world’s most important challenges.
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