Kenny Daniel⁠ is the founder and CEO of ⁠Hyperparam⁠, building tools to make ML dataset curation orders of magnitude more efficient.

Look At Your ****ing Data 👀 // MLOps Podcast 292 with Kenny Daniel, Founder of Hyperparam.

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// Abstract

In this episode, we talk with Kenny Daniel, founder of Hyperparam, to explore why actually looking at your data is the most high-leverage move you can make for building state-of-the-art models. It used to be that the first step of data science was to get familiar with your data. However, as modern LLM datasets have gotten larger, dataset exploration tools have not kept up. Kenny makes the case that user interfaces have been under-appreciated in the Python-centric world of AI, and new tools are needed to enable advances in machine learning. Our conversation also dives into new methods of using LLM models themselves to assist data engineers in actually looking at their data.

// Bio

Kenny has been working in AI for over 20 years. First in academia as a ML Ph.D. student at USC (before it was cool). Kenny then co-founded Algorithmia to solve the problem of hosting and distribution of ML models running on GPUs (also before it was cool). Algortihmia was an early pioneer of the MLOps space and was acquired by DataRobot in 2021. Kenny is currently founder and CEO of Hyperparam, building new tools to make AI dataset curation orders of magnitude more efficient.

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Website: ⁠https://hyperparam.app⁠

Working with the Apache Parquet file format blog: ⁠https://blog.getdaft.io/p/working-with-the-apache-parquet-file⁠

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