Unlabelled Unstructured by UWDSC

Do you want to learn about the history of Natural Language Processing (NLP)? Do you want to know how computers analyze texts? On this vault episode, we have Navya Mehta, a University of Waterloo Computer Science student, as our guest to talk about the history of NLP and about how NLP works. If you are interested in NLP or want to explore the concept, check out our vault episode!

Do you want to learn about neuroscience? Have you wondered if artificial neural networks actually emulate the human brain? What are the computational and organizational mechanisms in the brain? On this week’s episode, we invited Jeff Orchard, a computer science professor at the University of Waterloo, to talk about some of his research at the Neurocognitive Computing Lab ( https://neurocog.uwaterloo.ca/ ) where he is the director of the lab. In 2017, Jeff won the best paper award at the International Conference on Neural Information Processing. To learn more about these topics, check out our latest episode!

Do you want to know what it is like to work as a data scientist? Are you an aspiring data scientist looking for opportunities in this field? Then this week’s podcast is for you! We invited Patrick Ng, Associate Director of the Data Science and Analytics Lab at Scotiabank to talk about the data science roles in different industries, including banks, the future of data science, and co-op experiences as a data scientist. This episode is packed with useful information about the field of data science and analytics and some tips on getting your co-op position at your dream company. Make sure to check out our latest episode!

Can data help athletes improve their performance? How do you predict outcomes of sports games using data? To learn about sports analytics, we invited Ken Jee, a data scientist, focused on sports analytics, and a Youtuber with 165K subscribers to speak with us. In this episode, we will discuss how data analysis is used to improve performance and the struggles sports analysts face in the present sports industry. To learn more about sports analytics, listen to our latest episode!

Are you interested in cryptocurrency? Do you want to learn how to learn about cryptocurrency and gain some tips about investing? On this week’s episode, we invited Khalid Ladha, the Director of Supply at Snapcommerce, to talk about crypto. If this captures your attention, check out this week’s episode! 

How do we improve our skills? How can we acquire new skills? These are questions we ask ourselves regularly so that we can develop our soft and technical skills. To answer these questions, we invited Nicholas Renotte, who is not only a Data Science Specialist at IBM but also a Youtuber who owns a 38k subscriber channel. To learn about setting goals and achieving them, check out our latest podcast episode!

How can we reach our full potential in life? How do we deal with problems? To answer these questions, we invited Dhaval Patel, a successful software engineer who's worked with Nvidia and Bloomberg. Besides his profession, he is a passionate teacher and he utilises his Youtube channel with 370k+ subscribers as a platform to share his insight and knowledge. This episode is fully packed with life lessons: tips on overcoming challenges, motivating yourself to reach greater goals, and optimizing performance as a data scientist. To learn more about the amazing story of Dhaval, make sure to check this episode out!

In this episode of Unlabelled Unstructured, we have Ran Oren, a University of Waterloo Systems Design Engineering student working in the data science field. He is here today to talk about how to break into the data science field as a student and the differences between computer science and data science.

Ran has held over 6 internships in machine learning and data science. He is currently working as a data scientist intern at Facebook. Previously, he has also worked at Wish on the Data Relevancy and Machine Learning teams. As well, Ran has worked in the financial industry (TD Securities and Deloitte) and in the research field as a machine learning research assistant.

You don’t want to miss this episode especially if you are a student interested in data science and machine learning!

What is Data Engineering and its future? What are the emerging roles in the data field like Analytics Engineering? How do I get hired in the Data Field and then get that "outstanding" performance evaluation?

To answer all these questions we gave a call to the Data Expert, Jonathan "Jo/JT/Jon" Talmi. He is the Data Platform Lead and Senior Analytics Engineer at one of the hottest tech startups in Canada, Snapcommerce.

Before working at Snapcommerce, he worked in Analytics at Instacart, Shopify and Bank of Canada (Research).

PS. In addition to being a Data Expert, Jo is also Jai's manager. So, listen as Jai tries really hard to talk his way into a return offer :)

Tonight we got to talk to the one and only, the legend himself, Henry Shi!

He's a UWaterloo CS alum who started his own startup while still in university, scaled that to 2 mill views a day, and got great internships like Bloomberg. And he did all this while maintaining a 96% cumulative average.

To take a break from all this, he then chose the "easy life" and worked at Google for a year which he then left to start Snaptravel, now Snapcommerce.

Snapcommerce is a messaging service that helps customers find the right products at the right places. After raising more 100 million dollars, Snapcommerce has also become one of the hottest Tech startups in Toronto!