Salim Fadel, Colleen Hayes & Frankie Chalupsky

Cream City Calculation

Three friends talking about data and how it impacts our lives and the lives of others.

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Salim Fadel, Colleen Hayes & Frankie Chalupsky

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Technology

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Latest episode

Dec 5, 2025

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Episodes

Data Driven Retail IQ 05.12.2025

Sal, Colleen, and Frankie talk about how retail has changed from before, during, and after the pandemic. The goal of the episode is to prepare you for your holiday shopping and provide data and insights around retail and advertisement. Here are the sources utilized in the discussion: The Post-Pandemic Retail Evolution: A look back on the last five years https://www.placer.ai/anchor/articles/the-po...

The Evolution of AI: NLP to LLM 24.10.2025

Join Colleen Hayes, Frankie Chalupsky, and Sal Fadel as they explore the history of AI, its current state, and how we use it daily—highlighting its benefits and challenges. Relevant articles: In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses, MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1122288/google-gemini-ai-energy/

Disastrous Data Decisions 02.09.2025

5 Examples of Bad Data Quality in Business — And How to Avoid Them https://www.montecarlodata.com/blog-bad-data-quality-examples/ 8 Jaw Dropping Ways Bad Data Changed World History https://rivery.io/blog/8-jaw-dropping-ways-bad-data-changed-world-history/ 4 Most Damaging Decisions That Could Undermine Your Data Analytics Initiatives https://medium.com/@grow.com/4-most-damaging-decisions-that-could...

Behind the Mic: Colleen Hayes 08.08.2025

Behind the Mic with Colleen Hayes: From Journalism to Data Storytelling In this special Behind the Mic episode of Cream City Calculations , we turn the spotlight on our own Colleen Hayes — a 20-year veteran in data analytics and data products whose career began in a completely different field: journalism. Colleen shares her winding path from inside sales at a tech reseller to law firm databases, m...

Will AI take your job? 07.07.2025

There's been a lot in the news lately regarding AI replacing people's jobs. Frankie, Sal and Colleen break it down for you and provide their thoughts on the reality of this concept, and suggest ways to make yourself ready for a more AI-embedded world. Articles referenced in this episode include: These Jobs Will Fall First As AI Takes Over The Workplace https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackke...

Behind the Mic: Frankie Chalupsky 16.06.2025

In this episode, Colleen Hayes and Sal Fadel interview their cohost, Frankie Chalupsky. This series is designed for listeners to get to know us better as well as learn our best practices.

AI in the NFL: Tracking Players, Preventing Injuries, and Changing the Game 09.05.2025

In this episode of Cream City Calculations , Colleen, Frankie, and Sal huddle up to explore how artificial intelligence and data analytics are transforming the NFL and professional sports more broadly. From RFID chips in shoulder pads to Amazon Web Services processing over 500 million data points each season, the team breaks down the cutting-edge tech driving decisions on the field—and in front of...

Behind the Mic: Sal Fadel 01.04.2025

In this episode, Colleen Hayes and Frankie Chalupsky interview their cohost, Sal Fadel. This series is designed for listeners to get to know us better as well as learn our best practices. The Coding Train: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw Rajistics - data science, AI, and machine learning: https://www.youtube.com/c/Rajistics

Nuclear Power & AI 24.03.2025

Hosts: Colleen, Frankie, and Sal The Data Pulse: Microsoft announces $3.3 billion investment in Wisconsin to spur artificial intelligence innovation and economic growth https://news.microsoft.com/2024/05/08/microsoft-announces-3-3-billion-investment-in-wisconsin-to-spur-artificial-intelligence-innovation-and-economic-growth/ DeepSeek sparks AI stock selloff; Nvidia posts record market-cap loss htt...

Empower Your Startup 01.02.2025

Sal Fadel, Colleen Hayes, and Frankie Chalupsky interview Naveen Lalit Kankate about his success in using data in entrepreneurship.  Interview References: Naveen's profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naveenkankate/ StayThanks websites: https://www.staythanks.com/luvmke?target=e4ee6751719d49f482a4b9a6639cd71b&params=%7B%7D Data Pulse Sources: https://news.microsoft.com/2024/05/08/microsof...

Winning Edge: Data’s Role in Olympic Fencing 01.11.2024

Podcast Notes: ****Sorry for the sound quality. We had technical difficulties, which should be much improved at our next show!**** Hosts: Colleen, Frankie, and Sal Guest: Abbas Fadel, Olympic fencing coach and three-time Olympian The Data Pulse: Can AI Compete with Human Data Scientists? OpenAI’s new benchmarking tool, MLE-bench, puts AI capabilities to the test against 75 real-world data science...

Data & Democracy 18.10.2024

Podcast Notes: Hosts: Colleen, Frankie, and Sal The Data Pulse: A New Group Is Trying to Make AI Data Licensing Ethical As the first wave of major generative AI tools used publicly available data, now the Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA) is pushing for an opt-in data system, which could reshape how AI models are trained and licensed. https://www.wired.com/story/dataset-providers-alliance-ethical-g...

Crafting the Perfect Brew 10.09.2024

On this month's episode, in our installment of the Data Pulse, we chat about a candidate for mayor from Wyoming who's suggesting a chat bot could run the government. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/wyoming-mayoral-candidate-promises-let-openai-bot-govern-capital-city-faces-backlash-from-tech-giant We then go on to chat with Ron Hockersmith of Amorphic Beer about the unique ways his...

"Tap" Into Your Data 01.08.2024

Podcast Description: In this episode of Cream City Calculations, Colleen, Frankie, and Sal explore the fascinating intersection of beer and data. They discuss how breweries are using data-driven insights to improve business operations, capture market share, and enhance customer satisfaction. The episode also touches on Tesla’s hidden autopilot data, privacy concerns in AI, and industry trends like...

Decoding the Melody 01.07.2024

Podcast Description: In this episode of Cream City Calculations, Colleen, Frankie, and Sal delve into the fascinating world of data analytics in the music industry. They explore how big data is being utilized to enhance everything from playlist recommendations to tour planning and music production. The team also discusses how platforms like Spotify use algorithms to shape your music experience and...

Betting on Analytics 01.06.2024

Podcast Notes :  Matt’s educational content recommendations:  Unabated . The site is built and run by winners. Their articles/videos/podcasts cut through a lot of noise and buzzwords and give true signal. They stay away from giving picks while trying to educate users on how to use tools to win.   For those wanting a book, the logic of sports betting is the best relevant piece of material around. ...

Who Manipulated Who? How Data Manipulation Can Skew Your Reality. 01.05.2024

Sal Fadel, Colleen Hayes, and Frankie Chalupsky discuss how data can be manipulated or skewed to show results in a biased way. They discuss the following:  -Data poisoning and how it can be used for good and evil  -Purposeful data manipulation recent news  -Accidental data manipulation, how it can be handled, and the impacts it may have on a company or an industry  Thank you to Continuus Technolog...

Who are you fooling your data's everywhere! 27.03.2024

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