Ken's Nearest Neighbors

Sadie St Lawrence is the Founder and CEO of Women in Data, the #1 Community for Women in AI and Tech. She has trained over 350,000 people in data science and has developed multiple programs in machine learning and career development. Sadie was named 10 Most Admired Business Women to Watch in 2021, and has been listed as a Top 21 Influencer in Data.  Her work has been featured in USA Today, Dataver...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Yannic Kilcher. Yannic is a YouTuber covering state of the art Machine Learning research topics. He has a PhD from ETH Zurich and is currently the CTO of DeepJudge, a LegalTech NLP startup. In this episode we learn about how Yannic decided on a PHD in Ai, how he is able to make advanced research so digestable, and the reason why he wears sunglasses on camer...

Ben has spent his entire adult life trying to understand how the world works by looking at the stories buried in data. Ben's career in data started in 1998 at the telecom industry with the company MCI. Since then Ben has consulted at silicon valley’s biggest companies and led the charge at Pluralsight to become a data-driven organization and help millions elevate their skillsets. In 2016 Ben...

 Naveed Ahmed Janvekar is a Senior Data Scientist working at Amazon in the United States. He works on solving fraud and abuse problems on the platform that impacts millions of customers of Amazon in the US and other parts of the world using Machine Learning and deep learning. He has 7+ years of expertise in the Machine Learning space which includes classification algorithms, clustering algorithms,...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Seamus McGovern. Seamus is the founder of the Open Data Science Conference otherwise known as ODSC. One of the world's leading successful AI conferences. ODSC runs numerous virtual and in person data science conferences around the globe. Seamus also founded ai plus training, which is dedicated to bridging the AI talent gap with on demand live training...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing  @Sundas Khalid . Be sure to check out her YouTube Channel! Sundas is a data science leader and a passionate advocate for diversity in the workplace. Sundas currently works at Google as Sr. Analytical Lead, leading Google Search Engine analytics. Prior to Google, Sundas was at Amazon where she received awards for her work as a data science leader driving la...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Richad Nieves Becker. Richad is a self-taught data scientist with an eclectic background. He currently leads the data science function at Revantage, a real estate shared service organization in the Blackstone family, and enjoys regularly sharing his perspective on the field on LinkedIn. Richad got a BA in Neuroscience and Anthropology and was on the PhD pat...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Ajay Halthor ( @CodeEmporium ). Ajay is a Data Scientist with an interesting life story. Born in Los Angeles, he spent half his life in the States and the other half India. He dabbles in all that is data during the weekdays. And on weekends, you'll find him on a mountain. Today we’ll talk about his journey from a Computer Science major in India to Data...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Demetrios Brinkmann. Demetrios is one of the main organizers of the MLOps Community and currently resides in a small town outside Frankfurt, Germany. He is an avid traveler who taught English as a second language to see the world and learn about new cultures. Brinkmann fell into the Machine Learning Operations world, and since, has interviewed the leading n...

Today, I had the pleasure of interviewing Andres Slaughter. Andres is a digital marketing specialist who has worked in various capacities for over 5 years. He’s worked in several sectors including technology, education, and food services with nearly 10 years of experience in marketing. He runs a YouTube channel called Andres Slaughter where he discusses the oddities of life and dives into topics t...

This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Sergio Ramos. Sergio is a self taught data analyst from Fort Worth Texas. Coming from a background of blue collar construction and warehouse work, Sergio was fired at the beginning of the COVID pandemic and taught himself all of the prerequisite skills to become a data analyst from home with the help of his mentor In his spare time, Sergio enjoys readi...

 This week I am speaking with Andrada Olteanu. They are currently a Data Scientist at Endava, Kaggle Notebooks Grandmaster, Dev Expert at Weights&Biases and Data Science Global Ambassador at ZbyHP. They have a bachelors in Statistics and a masters in Data Science and Analytics. They work to combine the artsy side of data with the technical side to create fun, educative and insightful notebooks...

 Christopher P Willis is Acrolinx’s Chief Marketing & Pipeline Officer, responsible for all aspects of the company’s Marketing strategy and pipeline health. Christopher has over 20 years of experience growing companies in the technology sector. Before joining Acrolinx, Christopher held leadership roles in marketing, creative, technical, and business development at companies including Perfecto,...

 Ben Rogojan is a data engineering solutions architect with expertise in data architecture and statistics. He focuses on developing end-to-end data solutions that help take data from raw format into data products and analytics. He has delivered on projects for clients across healthcare, finance, SaaS, and technology and previously worked as a data engineer at Facebook. He maintains a strong online...

 Dhaval Patel is a data engineer at Bloomberg (EX: NVIDIA). He has 17 years of industry experience and has worked in different big tech companies mainly as a software engineer. He runs a youtube channel called codebasics where he teaches data science, machine learning, python, data structures and algorithms, and career guidance. 

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Cole. Scott is technically a machine learning engineer in the fintech space, but stubbornly prefers a “data scientist” title. He studied bioengineering at Clemson University before moving to UC San Diego for grad school where he developed algorithms and python packages to analyze brain wave data. Scott then went through the Insight Data Science progra...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Nick Singh. Nick is a career coach, and the best-selling author of "Ace the Data Science Interview". Previously, he held a variety of Software & Data roles at Facebook, Google, and VC-backed startups. He aspires to be the Drake of Data Science....whatever that means!" Today we learn about Nicks fascinating career journey through tech, the...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Gilbert Eijkelenboom. As a former professional poker player, you can find Gilbert wherever psychology and data meet. After studying behavioral science, Gilbert has built an amazing consulting career in the data and analytics space. Combining both worlds, Gilbert founded the company MindSpeaking: The human side of data. His training programs help data scient...

This episode of Ken's Nearest Neighbors is powered by z by hp. Hp's high compute workstation grade line of products and solutions. Ben Taylor has over 18 years of machine-learning experience. After studying chemical engineering Taylor worked for Intel/Micron in applied semiconductor building process control and fault models. After that, he worked as a quant at a hedge fund on a 600 GPU c...

 Jack Raifer Baruch is a Behavioral Scientist turned Data Scientist. A believer in lifelong learning, entrepreneur and passionate about using Data Science to improve socio-emotional development for individuals and organizations. Currently he heads the Data team at Ada Intelligence. In this episode we talk about the intersection of human behavior and data, why Jack loves online learning and certifi...

This episode of Ken's nearest neighbors is powered by z by hp, hp's high compute workstation grade line of products and solutions. Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Mikiko Bazeley. Miki is an informally-taught Machine Learning Engineer, focused on combining 5+ years of experience in data analytics + data science, growth, & engineering to help make machine learning useful by d...

 Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Kurtis Pykes. Kurtis is a self-taught ML Engineer from London England but describes himself as a global citizen. He currently works as a freelancer for various companies and also maintains his own Medium blog. In the past year, he was voted to have some of the best medium blog content by his peers on linkedin. In his spare time, he likes to read, exercise,...

 Dr. Wanless researches advanced analytics application to various aspects of sport organization operations from customer relationship management to the diffusion of natural language processing (NLP). In 2021, Dr. Wanless was awarded the Ohio University College of Business Excellence Intellectual Contributions Award as well as the Outstanding Teaching Recognition. Dr. Wanless published more than 20...

We are actually giving away 4 copies of Tyler's book! Comment on the YouTube video with why you want to learn streamlit for a chance to win one of the copies! You can also win by commenting on the twitter post, my instagram post, or my linkedin post related to this podcast!  Tyler is a data scientist at Facebook who recently published a book on the Python library Streamlit called 'Gettin...

 As an analytics manager, Karen is passionate about how data science and analytics can support businesses and help them better understand their customers. While she finds digging into data fun, she believes that it comes with responsibility, and her uncompromising focus on data integrity enables her to build trust and strong relationships with stakeholders. Most of all, she strives to help others...