The Minhaaj's Podcast

Probably one of the richest conversations I have had from a business perspective on Data Science, Infonomics, AI and Psychology of Patterns. Here are some of the key takeaways: 1. The Wall Street Journal quoted Doug Laney saying ‘ Its flummoxing that companies have better accounting for their office furniture than their information assets’. 2. United and American Airline’s third party valuation ba...

On Tuesday, February 16th,2021 I will be talking to one of the leading psychometricians Dr. Okan Bulut. He is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta and has worked at premier institutions developing assessments at Pearson, PluralSight, and the American Institute of Research. He is the author of the book 'Handbook of educational measurement and psychometrics using R.'

It was a true blast talking to Greg Coquillo. It is always a pleasure talking to such a good sport and insightful leader and he truly is Amazon material. Here are some of the highlights of our conversation: 1. The trick to coming out of college debt-free is to go to a community college first. 2. Gamestop has really changed the world for the better. 3. Greg would invent the internet if given a chan...

On February 3rd, I talked to Zapata scientist, Dr. Luis Serrano , the author of the best-selling ‘Grokking Machine Learning’ book published by Manning Publications Co. He has worked at Google as a machine learning engineer, at Udacity as the head of AI content, and at Apple as a lead AI educator. He runs a popular YouTube channel where he explains machine learning in layperson terms.

Dr Soumya Ray is an Associate Professor, ISS, NTHU Director of Center for Service Innovation and Analytics in Taiwan.

Marko Sarstedt is a chaired professor of marketing at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany) and an adjunct professor at Monash University Malaysia. His main research interest is the advancement of research methods to further the understanding of consumer behavior. His research has been published in Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Academy of Marke...

Jason Mayes is a developer advocate at Google. He defines himself as a Hybrid Web Developer, Programmer, Technical Consultant, and Analyst, with a creative twist who loves to innovate, inspire, and simplify solutions

What if AI could measure human emotions also and is sensitive to how we feel? How do we measure pain? Is data science able to predict human emotions with reasonable accuracy? Find out by joining my podcast with the world's leading AI in emotional psychology expert Hakan Silfvernagel from Miles AS Norway.   Håkan holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and in addition,...

Tools like Grammarly, Ref n Write and Scholarcy are all outcome of Natural Language Processing and helps in writing academic papers that are of high quality. On December 6th, i'll be talking to expert in computer assisted language teaching Vance Stevens. Vance has trained pilots in UAE and has spent 40 years working around the world teaching English using cutting edge technologies as SecondLife. W...

This weekend I am talking with the CEO of StatQuest and YouTube celebrity, Dr. Josh Stramer from StatQuest. Dr. Josh Starmer has been an assistant professor at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina and his fame comes from his visualization of statistical concepts. He has recently launched his Neural Networks series which has immensely become popular. We'll be talking about his neural network s...

On January 15th, 2021 I talked to my colleague and one of the most prolific researchers in personality psychology Dr. Alex Christensen about how the understanding self can be a window into self-growth. Alex is also creating, maintaining, and co-authoring several R packages: EGAnet, NetworkToolbox, SemNeT, SemNetCleaner, and SemNetDictionaires.

Dr Thom Ives, Ph. D. is the founder of UL, and Giovanna-Reggina Galleno-Malaga is a community builder in Data Science and Machine learning domains.

Mark Hannaford is an honorary associate professor awarded for his work in Extreme Medicine by the University of Exeter Medical School and is the founding director of World Extreme Medicine, an International Fellow of the prestigious New York-based Explorers Club, and Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. He founded an Msc Program in Extreme Medicine at Exeter...