In this #DataTalk, we talked with Neil Sahota, an IBM Master Inventor and World Wide Business Development Leader in the IBM Watson Group. He is currently working with the United Nations to develop a model and set of metrics to encourage nations and organizations to pursue AI solutions for a more sustainable world.

In this week's #DataTalk, we were honored to learn from Favio Vázquez, Principal Data Scientist at OXXO, about ways to create intelligence with data science. He has a Master's Degree in Physics & Cosmology and a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computational Engineering.

In this week's#DataTalk, we spoke with Kristen Hamilton, CEO & Founder of Koru, about the future of recruitment using predictive hiring.

Beau Walker is a Senior Data Scientist and Data Science Instructor at the Data Science Boot Camp at the University of California, Irvine. He also serves as a Data Science Mentor with Thinkful.

Beau Walker earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Masters of Science degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Brigham Young University. He also earned his J.D. in Intellectual Property Law from the University of California, Irvine.

In this week’s #DataTalk, we’re spoke with Kate Strachnyi about ways to improve your data visualizations using Tableau.

Kate is the author of Journey to Data Scientist; which is essentially compilation of interviews that Kate herself conducted with over 20 amazing data scientists. — with backgrounds ranging from LinkedIn and Pinterest to Bloomberg and IBM. Kate is a manager working for Deloitte, currently working in the data visualization & reporting space.

In this #DataTalk, we talked with Ameen Kazerouni (Data Scientist at Zappos) about ways machine learning is changing e-commerce.

Ameen earned his Master of Science degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Computational Life Sciences from Emory University. He is currently on leave from earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a concentration in Biomedical Informatics from Emory University.

In this week's #DataTalk, we talked with Beena Ammanath, the Founder & CEO of Humans for AI, a nonprofit organization focused on increasing diversity in tech leveraging AI technologies. She is also the Global VP of Data, Artificial Intelligence and New Tech Incubation at Hewlett Packard. She serves as a Board Advisor at iguazio, Predii, and Cal Poly University.

In this week’s #DataTalk, we talked about autonomous vehicles and computer vision with Dr. Inmar Givoni, who is the Autonomy Engineering Manager at Uber Advanced Technology Group.

Inmar received her PhD (Computer Science) in 2011 from the University of Toronto, specializing in machine learning, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. During her graduate studies, she worked at Microsoft Research, applying machine learning approaches for e-commerce optimization for Bing.

In this #DataTalk, we talked about how data science is improving e-commerce with Dr. Liangjie Hong, Head of Data Science at Etsy. Make sure to follow him on LinkedIn.

Liangjie Hong is Head of Data Science at Etsy Inc., managing a group of data scientists to deliver cutting-edge scientific solutions for: Search and Discovery, Personalization and Recommendation, and Computational Advertising.

In this week’s #DataTalk, we talked with Dr. Anima Anandkumar, Principal Scientist at Amazon AI and Bren Professor at Caltech, about what data scientists need to know about deep learning and how to scale deep learning frameworks.

She received her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2004 and her PhD from Cornell University in 2009. She was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2009 to 2010.