Episode 1 of Drinks WITH Dr. Data featuring our resident Doctor and Data Science expert Kenneth Sanford.    

Ken is a data science consultant here at Archetype Consulting.  Ken is a reformed academic economist who likes to empower customers to solve problems with data. Ken’s primary passion is teaching and explaining. He likes to simplify and tell stories.   

Ken has spent time in academia (Middle Tennessee State University, U of Cincinnati, University of Kentucky, Boston College) consulting (Deloitte, Distill Data Science) and software development (SAS, H2O, Dataiku). He has worked with analytics departments in most of the Fortune 100 companies. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kentucky in Lexington and his work on price optimization has been published in peer-reviewed journals.  

In this episode, Ken will enjoy for the first time a delicious sip of Downeast Pumpkin Cider as well as discuss how Data Science platforms are complicated to evaluate and buy. Here is what he looks for in a data science platform.    

Let's look at Databricks, Amazon Sagemaker, and Domino this week.  

Thanks for joining us and tune in next time for Episode 2!