The Data Scientist Show

Pauline Chow is a data scientist and former legal attorney and active transportation advocate. She worked in banking, fashion and education start-ups, and Amazon. Currently, she is the data engineering lead for Thrackle, a blockchain research and modeling company. She has a master degree in computer science, Machine learning, from Georgia Institute of Technology, she also has a law degree JD from...

Avery Smith is a data science consultant and career coach at Data Career Jumpstar, and TA at MIT professional education. Previously, he was working on optimization and predictive analytics at ExxonMobil. We talked about his journey from from chemical engineer to data analytics, optimization problems in energy sector, why he left ExxonMobil, and his best advice for people to get into data science....

Vin Vashishta is a chief data officer and AI strategist at V Squared, a company he founded in 2012 that  provides AI strategy, transformation, and data organizational build-out services. He teaches data professionals about strategy, communications, business acumen, and applied machine learning research methods. Vin has 130k+ followers on Linkedin talking about AI, analytics, and strategy. His webs...

Greg Tanaka is a computer scientist turned CEO of an AI company. He started coding when he was 6, studied computer science at UC Berkeley, and has built many machine learning applications, he is the the founder and CEO of Percolata developing ”Forecast as a Service”. He is also the council member of Palo Alto in California, and just finished his campaign for congress. Today we’ll talk about his ca...

Jesper Dramsch is a scientist for machine learning at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather forecasts. They have a phd in applied Machine Learning to Geoscience from Technical University of Denmark. They are a Kaggle Kernals Expert and TPU star, ranking at top 81/100k worldwide. We talked about weather forecasting, things they learned from Kaggle, how to deal with missing data and ourliers,...

Susan Shu Chang is a principal data scientist at clearco, helping ecommerce founders' by building machine learning-powered investing. In her previous role, she developed the company’s very first ML powered website recommender system, deployed to millions of customers, and created a custom OpenAI Gym environment for a reinforcement learning project in production. She is also the founder and dev...

Laura Gabrysiak is a senior manager of data products and solutions at Visa. Previously, she's a data scientist, building machine learning models and decision tools to enable Visa clients. She has a college degree in computational and linguistics and has masters in design thinking. She's building the local data science community in Miami, and a co-founder of our Ladies. If you like the show...

Nick Handel was a senior data scientist leading the launch of the data side of this Airbnb Trips and later built a team that designed aribnb’s end-to-end machine learning platform, bighead. Currently, he is the cofounder and CEO of Transform, he first centralized 'metrics store' that empowers data analysts to deliver insights. He was recognized as 30 under 30 by Forbes in 2018. If you like...

Pavel is a decision scientist and co-founder at Pytho, using decision science to measure and improve human judgment & prediction. He has a phd in psychology and decision science from the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on crowd predictions. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on da...

James Verbus is Staff Machine Learning Engineer at LinkedIn. He has a PhD in Physics from Brown university. He is the tech lead of the Anti-Scraping and Automation AI Team, working on protecting LinkedIn's Members from bots and abusive scripted behavior, pioneering the use of deep learning to detect abusive automated sequences of user activity ( blog post ). If you like the show subscribe to t...

Patrick Mineault is a neural data scientist. He has worked at Google and Facebook after he did a postdoc at UCLA. He worked on Brain Computer Interface (BCI) at Facebook Reality Labs, building a BCI that allows you to type with your brain . He tweets about neuro-AI @patrickmineault , and writes a blog ( https://xcorr.net ) sharing his career journey and learnings along the way. If you like the sho...

Harpreet Sahota is a data scientist and ML developer advocate, he is also the host of “artist of the data science” podcast and weekly data science happy hours, he is the principal data science mentor at data science dream job. He is also a philosophy nerd. He had some struggles when he tried to get into data science, and today we’ll talk about his experience as a biostatistician, data scientist, l...

Youyang Gu is the creator of http://covid19-projections.com . In 2020, while most Covid prediction model failed, without any experience in medicine he created a forecasting model that outperforms almost all medical experts. Y ann LeCun, Facebook's chief AI scientist and professor stated that Gu's model "is the most accurate to predict deaths from COVID-19", surpassing the accuracy of the well-fund...

Willem is the creator of Feast, an open-source feature store (feast.dev), building tools at the intersection of engineering, data, and ML. Currently, he work as a Principal engineer at Tecton, Leading the development of Feast, an open source feature store. Previously, he has worked in South Africa, Thailand, Singapore before he moved to San Francisco in the US. Today we’ll talk about machine learn...

Muazma Zahid is a leader in data and AI, speaker and researcher in Biomedical Engineering with several international publications and awards. We talked about machine learning in healthcare, how to scale data science solutions, her journey from a ML researcher to data engineer to engineering manager to a product leader.  She joined Microsoft in 2018 as a data engineer, later became a senior ma...

Rami leads the data science and engineering team at Apple Finance Decision Support. He uses advanced statistical and machine learning models to help leadership make better decisions. He is also an open-source contributor and the author of Hands-On Time Series Analysis with R and several R packages for time series analysis and machine learning applications. He has a master degree in applied econome...

Kyle Kranen is a Deep Learning Software Engineer at Nvidia. Researching, implementing, and optimizing state of the art distributed deep learning models, using mainly Pytorch and Tensorflow. He has a unique combination of skillset of both hardware and software engineering. We talked about Graph Neural Network (GNN), Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT), time series, and other deep learning research to...

Auren Hoffman is CEO of SafeGraph: the place for data about physical places. We talked about how to use analytics and machine learning to find truth in data, geospatial data and their use cases, the impact of DaaS, and what he looks for when he develops talents. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for m...

Gilbert Eijkelenboom is the founder of Mindspeaking, a training program helping data & analytics professionals improve their business understanding, persuasion, and storytelling skills. He wrote the best-selling book “people skills for analytical people”. We talked about to get buy-in from stakeholders, how to build work relationships as introverts, how to earn trust, how to tell compelli...

Ken Jee is the head of data science@Scouts Consulting Group and a YouTube creator with over 180k followers. Today we talked about sports analytics, how to grow your career and get promoted, how to explain complex concepts to stakeholders, how to build personal brands as data scientists.   If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newslet...

Logan Kilpatrick is a machine learning engineer at Apple, Developer Community Advocate of Julia. He is a teaching fellow at Harvard extension school, and currently doing a master program of science in Law. Today we’ll talk about how he became a Machine learning engineer, the internship he did in NASA, why you should care about open source communities, Julia, what the future of machine learning loo...

Nathan Landi is a principal quantitative researcher at TEKSystems. He is on the advisory board of MLOps world. We talk about pre-model analysis using information value, MLOps best practices, multi-stage modeling, tackling complex problems with simple models, interview tips, and how he grew his career from marketing analyst to principal ML researcher. If you like the show subscribe to the channel a...

Dennis Yu is a Revenue and Strategy Leader, currently he is the Merchant Success Team Lead at Shopify, he’s on the advisory board of USC startup accelerator, and he is also leading Talent and Professional Development for Asian ERG at Shopify. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science....

Amit Gandhi is a technical fellow and VP at Airbnb. He is a professor in economics at the Wharton School in the University of Pennsylvania. He gave as a master class on economic thinking and a mini-MBA tailored for data scientists. We also talk about his career journey, decision-making, machine learning, economics, and his advice to data scientists, make sure you stick to the end. If you like the...

Dan Lee is the an ex-Google data scientist turned founder of DataInterview - an interview prep platform for data scientist. We talked about how to translate model results into dollar amount, fraud detection models, quantitative thinking, data storytelling, best practices in exploratory data analysis (EDA), and interview prep tips . If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star...