Ken's Nearest Neighbors

Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer, has helped countless companies by enlightening business executives to the strategic value of proper data management. He focuses on business alignment and the “strategic WHY” rather than system implementation and the “technical HOW.” As Principal Consultant for MetaMeta Consulting, he helps Enterprises and Tech Brands tell their data story. His book – TELLING YOUR...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Al Bellamy. Al is a data analyst who recently retired from the Marine Corps. He just started working as a Senior Marketing Intelligence Analyst at Annalect, a Marketing and Advertising Analytics agency based in New York. Until recently, he was the social media manager for the How to Get an Analytics Job podcast. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and...

Mark Freeman is a community health advocate turned data scientist interested in the intersection of social impact, business and technology. His life’s mission is to improve the well-being of as many people as possible through data – especially among the marginalized. As the founder of On the Mark Data, Mark uses this platform to share impactful ideas via content creation, as well as push for innov...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Jacqueline Nolis. Jacqueline is a data science leader with over 15 years of experience in leading data science teams and projects at companies ranging from DSW to Airbnb. Today she is the Head of Data Science at Saturn Cloud. For fun Jacqueline likes to use data science for humor—like using deep learning to generate offensive license plates. In this epi...

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 interviewing Nicholas Renotte. Nicholas is a Data Science Specialist at IBM with a bunch of experience in helping clients make the most of their data and leverage the best in Machine Learning and Deep Learning. But he didn't...

This episode of Ken’s Nearest Neighbors is powered by z by hp. hp’s high computer, workstation grade line of products and solutions.  Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Shashank Kalanithi. Shashank currently works at Nordstrom as a Data Analyst and was kindly introduced to me through John David over at the how to get an analytics job podcast. Shashank studied chemistry in undergrad and quick...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Vin Vashishta. Vin works in applied machine learning and strategy. He builds and brings projects to market with ARR in the hundreds of millions. He has spent over 25 years in tech and the last 10 working in the data science and machine learning field. Since 2015, he has been frequently recognized as one of the fields thought leaders. In this episode we talk...

 This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Avery Smith. Avery is on a mission to help working professionals break into data science. He is also completely obsessed with data. He has a dashboard to track his iphone app usage and even analyzes his dog's fitbit data.   Avery is the creator of data career jumpstart and the founder of Snow data science.  In this episode we learn about how Avery...

Joe Reis is a “recovering data scientist”, CEO of Ternary Data, and a business-minded data nerd who’s worked in the data industry for 20 years, with responsibilities ranging from statistical modeling, forecasting, machine learning, data engineering, data architecture, and almost everything else in between. He’s the host of the popular data show and podcast, the Monday Morning Data Chat, interviews...

 Harpreet Sahota is a friend, a father, a data scientist and a fellow content creator that hosts the artists of data science podcast. He also has built an incredible community around his twice a week data science office hours.  Harpreet mentors over 2500+ aspiring and early-career data professionals because wants to see them level up in this field. He holds himself personally responsible for their...

Hyoun Park is the CEO and Founder of Amalgam Insights, an industry analyst firm focused on managing data and the finance of technology at scale. Over the past 20+ years, Park has been at the forefront of trends such as Moneyball, social networking, Bring Your Own Device, data monetization, and the Subscription Economy working with startups, large enterprises, and the investment community.  Park ha...

Luke is a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate from Ole Miss who served 7 years as an officer in the U.S. Navy as part of the submarine force. For the first half of his career, he was stationed on the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) leading engineering teams and deploying 4 times. For the second half of his career, he was part of the training department for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program sending t...

 Will is a junior in high school, he has been super involved with data science. He is innovating the data collected on twitch and esports. He self taught himself how to code from a young age and is now using what he has learned to create tools for esports and analyze data from twitch.

Stefanie Molin is a software engineer and data scientist on Bloomberg's Security Data Science team, which researches and develops solutions using data and machine learning to help improve and automate Bloomberg’s information security processes. She focuses on identifying and answering security-related questions using data and developing software to address them. She holds a bachelor’s of scie...

Greg Watson is a content creator and sports enthusiast currently living in the Washington DC area. By day he is a data scientist working for the IRS, where he uses machine learning to detect fraud. After that he can be found at local happy hours, watching the game and figuring out where to travel to next. In this episode we learn how Greg landed a data science job with a less than stellar undergra...

Jakub Jurovych is a founder and CEO of Deepnote, where he and his team are developing a collaborative data science notebook. Jakub studied Computer Science at Cambridge University, focusing on Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning and Computer Vision. As an engineer, Jakub built tools for JavaScript development and worked on Firefox DevTools. Later on in his career, Jakub became the CTO of...

 Chelsea is a full time faculty member teaching undergraduate Data Science and Computer Science, and earned her PhD this year in Computational and Data Science. She also does casual statistical consulting at the Chatistician which aims to empower people to do their own statistics well. In her free time, Chelsea makes educational and just-for-fun statistics memes, TikToks and art. 

This week's guest is Vivek Viswanathan. Vivek is the portfolio manager of the Rayliant Quantamental China Equity ETF and is the Global Head of Research and Portfolio Management at Rayliant Global Advisors. He has a Ph. D. in Finance from UCI, a Master’s in Financial Engineering from UCLA, and a Bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Chicago. He has worked 15 years in quantitative inve...

Special thanks to Allie Miller for introducing me to this guest! I met Ale Koretzky soon after I moved to Hawaii and we became fast friends. I was hooked on the stories that he told me each time we met. From traveling to the US from Argentina to pursue his fascination with signal processing, to landing his band's music video on MTV Latin America, the passion the has for music and machine lear...

Chanin Nantasenamat is a good friend of mine and an incredible teacher. He is probably best known for his educational videos about data science and coding on YouTube via the Data Professor and Coding Professor channels. Chanin’s research interest is at the interface of biology, chemistry and computer science (encompassing interdisciplinary areas such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, chemogenomi...

With advanced degrees in computers and secondary education, along with several IT certifications, Dr. Perez brings more than 35 years' experience to the podcast as an IT/higher ed. professional. Having served as Business Intelligence Specialist at NC State University and currently serving as Senior Systems Analyst/Team Lead at the NC Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS), Perez sta...

Welcome to Ken's Nearest Neighbors 50th episode special! Today we are going to mix it up. One of our favorite guests, Christina Stathopolous volunteered to turn the tables and interview me today. Super excited to get to share a bit more of my own story with you. I also always love chatting with Christina! Before we start, I have another bit of great news. the KNN team has signed an exclusive...

Aash Viswanathan is a Senior Data Scientist at Atlassian with a focus on monetization. He was previously a Product Data Scientist at LinkedIn supporting new feature development on LinkedIn Learning. Aash was also a Data Analyst at scooter-rental startup Lime, where he worked on fleet analytics. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Chicago. In this episode we learn about Aash'...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Eugene Yan. he works at the intersection of machine learning and product to build pragmatic, customer-facing ML systems. He also writes & speaks about effective data science, data/ML systems, and career growth. Currently, He is an Applied Scientist at Amazon shipping ML and recommends systems to help customers read more. On his website, he shares what he’s le...

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Edward Raff. Edward a Chief Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton where he leads their Machine Learning research group. He’s also a Visiting Professor at UMBC where he works closely with the DREAM and IRAL labs, and teaches courses in the Data Science department. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2018) while w...