AI Loves Data Podcast

What was it like to move from a physics lab into the data scientist's chair?  How did she find that first job? And what elements of her PhD experience have proven especially valuable in her machine learning work?  Join us in this conversation to find out. Dr Sarkar works on machine learning at Slice . (She's hiring!) You can also find her on LinkedIn . Writer and Host: Anna Anisin Produced, edited...

Micheline has more than twenty years' experience at the intersection of data and money, and has been a Chief Data Officer (CDO) with 3 different organizations, leading and scaling data strategy, infrastructure, and platforms. She also led data commercialization efforts at Ford.  Her career includes early data brokers, automotive and logistics companies, financial services and insurance, health car...

Data scientists and ML engineers write a lot of code: building data pipelines, wiring up models, and sometimes translating concepts from research papers into algorithms.   Once in a while, that code runs into performance problems.  These can be painful to debug when you don't come from a formal software development background.  That's why Formulatedby's Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum rang up Ma...

We recorded this episode at our February 2021 Data Science Salon Virtual on Healthcare, Finance & Technology. Formulated.by’s Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, sat down with Ayda Farhadi, Senior Data Scientist at UPS, and Vasileios Stathias, Lead Data Scientist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to discuss applying AI to healthcare. Writer and Host: Anna Anisin Produced, edited, and mixed...

Our Senior Content Advisor  Q McCallum  sat down with  Otakar Hubschmann , Head of Applied Data at TransRe, to talk about ML/AI in the world of reinsurance.  They take a deep dive into the insurance industry and the role reinsurance plays there, with a side-trip to show how this differs from the quantitative finance you see in hedge funds.  Along the way, Otakar offers his favorite tips for hiring...

We recorded this episode at our December 2020 Data Science Salon Virtual on Finance & Technology. Formulated.by’s Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, sat down with some new friends to discuss trends and challenges in the world of AI. Writer and Host: Anna Anisin Produced, edited, and mixed by the Formulatedby Team

Phillip Rossi , Head of Data Science at Shopify,  Laya Shamgah , Data Scientist at Lowe's Company,  Jeffrey Yau , Head of Data Science at Walmart Labs,  Samantha Cvetkovski , Data Science Manager at Mindbody Writer and Host: Anna Anisin Produced, edited, and mixed by the Formulatedby Team

Today's podcast is about the intersection of AI and the law.  Formulatedby's Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum , spoke with Shane Glynn , an attorney who has deep knowledge of the tech and AI worlds.  He's worked for a couple of law firms that you may have heard of, and for a tech company that you have most certainly heard of. Shane gave us an attorney's view on AI practices, explored the ways in...

We recorded this episode at our September 2020 Data Science Salon virtual event on Media, Advertising, & Entertainment. Formulatedby's Senior Content Advisor, Q McCallum, sat down with some new friends to discuss trends and challenges in the world of AI: Anne Bauer | Director of Data Science at The New York Times Yves Bergquist | Director of the AI & Neuroscience in Media Project, at USC Kim Marti...

Richard Dunks served as a member of the US Army and the intelligence community (IC), where he honed skills that he now uses in his civilian pursuits as a data scientist, trainer, and educator.   He recently caught up with Q McCallum (Senior Content Advisor at Formulatedby, the company behind Data Science Salon) to talk about what his time in the IC taught him about data analysis, having a sense of...

Q McCallum (Senior Content Advisor at Formulatedby , the company behind Data Science Salon ) met up with Marcello La Rocca , someone who compiled his extensive knowledge of algorithms into a rather hefty book on the topic.  In this episode, the author of Algorithms and Data Structures in Action talks about the study of algorithms, why they're useful, and how he's applied them to oversized datasets...

Our guest for this episode is Jean-Georges Perrin, the author of Spark in Action, 2nd edition. We talk about his career path (he's been doing "big data" since before the term existed), what inspired him to write Spark in Action, and where Spark fits in your company's data efforts. He also shares his thoughts on data quality. Writer and Host: Anna Anisin Produced, edited, and mixed by the Formulate...

The Media and Entertainment industry has undeniably been heavily disrupted by changes in technology. Listen as Ayan Battacharya, Advanced Analytics Specialist Leader at Deloitte Consulting and Harini Krishnan, Data Scientist at Capsule8, share observations they've garnered from their own experience on the state of data science in Media & Entertainment, live from DSS NYC 2019. Writer and Host: Anna...

In June 2019, over 200 data scientists gathered at Viacom HQ in New York to hear key industry players’ takes on what makes an effective data-driven strategy. Q McCallum, Senior Content Adviser at Formulated.by, took a deeper dive into the major topics of concern for data science when he spoke with DSS NYC speakers Lauren Lombardo, Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen and Sergey Fogelson, Vice Presiden...