Bijan Arbab (Director of Telemetry and Data Science, Intel) shares several anecdotes on amazing discoveries made through data analysis and how they led to improved products and user experience. Plus, we talk data ethics, privacy concerns, latest trends, and more!

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No matter how you slice it, data science and AI are creating powerful change. The Data Slice Podcast keeps you informed on how tech innovations can foster a brighter future when we leverage their power for good. Join us every other Friday for captivating conversations about data science, AI, and technology with incredible guests like industry experts, professors, community leaders, and more. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Don't forget to watch on YouTube!⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

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⁠⁠⁠Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.

Get to know the “Lady of Fire”—a nickname Dr. Ilkay Altintas earned for her groundbreaking work using real-time data to predict and contain wildfires.

At UC San Diego, she is also the Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Founder and Director of the Workflows for Data Science (WoRDs) Center. Her research enabled work on drug testing simulations to isolate genes to fight cancer, creation of tools to build the world’s first commercial-scale fusion reactor, and design of modular workflows to analyze the human biome.

Ilkay is also a DSA board member and she routinely testifies before Members of Congress and Senate as well as at the White House, providing instruction on the impact and value of national investment in science.

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No matter how you slice it, data science and AI are creating powerful change. The Data Slice Podcast keeps you informed on how tech innovations can foster a brighter future when we leverage their power for good. Join us every other Friday for captivating conversations about data science, AI, and technology with incredible guests like industry experts, professors, community leaders, and more. ⁠Don't forget to watch on YouTube!⁠ 

The Data Science Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit empowering communities through responsible data science & AI. ⁠⁠Join us!⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.

Casey Castillo became CEO of the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank in 2022 after serving more than 14 years in various leadership positions for the hunger relief nonprofit. Now he’s sharing how data innovated the way they’re fighting food insecurity. 

Learn more about the food bank by visiting https://www.sandiegofoodbank.org.

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No matter how you slice it, data science and AI are creating powerful change. The Data Slice Podcast keeps you informed on how tech innovations can foster a brighter future when we leverage their power for good. Join us every other Friday for captivating conversations about data science, AI, and technology with incredible guests like industry experts, professors, community leaders, and more. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Don't forget to watch on YouTube!⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

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⁠⁠⁠Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.

In this week’s Data Slice, Tony Reina (Head of Machine Learning, Exthymic) talks about using data and AI in the fight to cure cancer!

No matter how you slice it, data science and AI are creating powerful change. The Data Slice Podcast keeps you informed on how tech innovations can foster a brighter future when we leverage their power for good. Join us every other Friday for captivating conversations about data science, AI, and technology with incredible guests like industry experts, professors, community leaders, and more. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Don't forget to watch on YouTube!⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

The Data Science Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit empowering communities through responsible data science & AI. Join us!

⁠⁠⁠Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.

In this week's Data Slice, Courtney Crosby (Director of AI Special Missions at Booz Allen Hamilton) tells us how data and AI are being used in the defense sector. We talk special missions, military operations, tactical athlete training, and more!

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No matter how you slice it, data science and AI are creating powerful change. The Data Slice Podcast keeps you informed on how tech innovations can foster a brighter future when we leverage their power for good. Join us every other Friday for captivating conversations about data science, AI, and technology with incredible guests like industry experts, professors, community leaders, and more. ⁠⁠⁠Don't forget to watch on YouTube!⁠⁠⁠ 

The Data Science Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit empowering communities through responsible data science & AI. Join us! ⁠⁠⁠https://www.datasciencealliance.org/⁠⁠⁠

Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.

In this week's Data Slice, Ion Nemteanu (AI Consultant & former Executive Director for the Business Analytics Programs at the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego) talks about the ever-growing importance of responsible data science and AI usage, and the challenges that come with implementing these practices.

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No matter how you slice it, data science and AI are creating powerful change. The Data Slice Podcast keeps you informed on how tech innovations can foster a brighter future when we leverage their power for good. Join us every other Friday for captivating conversations about data science, AI, and technology with incredible guests like industry experts, professors, community leaders, and more. ⁠⁠Don't forget to watch on YouTube!⁠⁠ 

The Data Science Alliance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit empowering communities through responsible data science & AI. Join us! ⁠⁠https://www.datasciencealliance.org/⁠⁠

Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.

In this week's Data Slice, Vitor Carvalho (Principal Applied Science Manager at Microsoft) chats with us about the pros and cons of getting a PhD, tips for building your resume & nailing that next job interview, working at startups vs. large corporations, and his thoughts on where big data and AI are headed.

Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.​​

In this week's Data Slice, we chat with Di Le, an AI ML Design Strategist & AI Ethicist at ServiceNow. We discuss the impact the genesis of ChatGPT has had on the world, and what's still to come as AI continues evolving.

Links mentioned by Di:

Getting started in AI https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone
https://www.coursera.org/learn/generative-ai-for-everyone
Google's Quickstart guide to prompting 
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/gemini-for-google-workspace-prompting-guide-101.pdf
AI Papers & Reports 
Microsoft's report on AI and Productivity

Pt 1 ⁠https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/ai-at-work-is-here-now-comes-the-hard-part?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block

Pt 2
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prodnew/2024/07/Generative-AI-in-Real-World-Workplaces-Deck.pdf
Practices for Governing Agentic AI Systems  
https://cdn.openai.com/papers/practices-for-governing-agentic-ai-systems.pdf?ref=pixiebrix.com
Google Research and University of Oxford paper: "Should agentic conversational AI change how we think about ethics? Characterising an interactional ethics centred on respect"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.09082
Summary of the EU AI Act 
https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/
Summary of the White House Executive Order 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/26/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-ai-actions-and-receives-additional-major-voluntary-commitment-on-ai/#:~:text=Managing%20Risks%20to%20Safety%20and,to%20test%20and%20evaluate%20AI

A topographical analysis of machine learning that explores the concept of AI as an instrument of knowledge extraction rather than an autonomous intelligence.

https://fritz.ai/nooscope/ 

Every year, FirstMark publishes a visual landscape of AI images. 

https://mattturck.com/landscape/mad2024.pdf

In this episode of The Data Slice, we talk with Dr. Bradley Voytek. He shares his wide range of experiences, from being the first data scientist at Uber and getting his PhD in Neuroscience, to being a founding faculty member at the Halıcıoglu Data Science Institute and a founder of the Data Science Alliance. He's a busy guy! We hope you enjoy his story as much as we did.

Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.​​

In this episode of The Data Slice, we talk with Dan Shea, a Lucky Duck Foundation Board Member and former Feeding San Diego CEO, about the ways data science can help solve issues like hunger and homelessness.

Note: The views and opinions expressed by guest speakers are their own and do not reflect the official policy or position of their former or current employers, or any other affiliated organizations.​​