In this week's #DataTalk, we talked with Dr. Victor Pankratius (MIT) about how he is using machine learning to find habitable planets.

Victor Pankratius leads the Data Science for Astro & Geoinformatics group at MIT. He is a computer scientist who is passionate about advancing data science through novel computational methods involving domain-aware artificial intelligence, scalable parallel computing, and software engineering for artificial intelligence systems.

In this #DataTalk, we talked about the challenges of launching and completing A.I. projects with Ben Taylor.

Ben Taylor earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nevada and his Masters of Science and is on leave from his PhD program in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah. He is the Chief Data Officer and Co-Founder of ZIFF, Inc. and previously served as the Chief Data Scientist at HireVue.

In this #DataTalk, we had a chance to talk with Dr. Debbie Berebichez about the ways to spot and avoid common statistics errors.

Dr. Berebichez is the Chief Data Scientist at Metis, physicist, and TV host for Discovery Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science. She has a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford and completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University’s Applied Math and Physics Department and at NYU’s Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

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.