Who's your Data? Podcast

I talk to Jerelyn Rodriguez, co-founder and CEO of The Knowledge House, an organization created with the purpose of closing the gaps in the education­-to-­employment pipeline by leading digital skills training in coding and design for underserved young people in the Bronx. TKH combines technology training, career support, and a comprehensive network of partners to help disconnected job seekers sec...

I chat with Dr. Ira Cohen, Founder and chief data scientist at Anodot, about how his company uses a machine learning technique called anomaly detection to help businesses avoid being impacted by surprises We discuss what anomaly detection actually is (spoiler: you learn what’s normal and then detect abnormalities), why it’s challenging to define quote/unquote “normal” behavior and how black swan e...

Who's Your Data goes Global.  I talk to Serial Entrepeneur and Growth Strategy expert Kristin Luck who has started multiple marketing technology companies and is currently president of ESOMAR, a Global association of market research companies that promotes data ethics, research standards and protection. We discuss her experience using data to grow and scale companies, her vision for ESOMAR during...

Voice data is the future. In this episode we talk to  Dr. Yared Alemu, founder and CEO of TQIntelligence, that uses AI and voice recognition technology to identify and diagnose trauma in at-risk, under-privileged youth. We discuss the lack of funding, expertise and data in public mental health services today and how TQIntelligence addresses this challenge and strives to provide quality mental heal...

Journalist/pop-culture-expert-turned-tech-entrepeneur Chris Witherspoon joins me to discuss his social app startup PopViewers and how it democratizes the space of content reviews by a social community that creates an innovative set of data points around content consumption that traditional media companies do not capture.  Chris discusses his journey from journalism into tech and how an outsider's...

Jason Scott, head of Google Startup Accelerator in the US, discusses how the Black Founders Accelerator and Women Founder Accelerator programs came into being, the challenges of being an underrepresented founder in the tech entrepreneur space, the importance of thinking about inclusivity early in a startup's life - avoiding bias in the data, the team and the product to prevent the exclusion of add...

Join us as my guest Dr. Melinda Han Williiams, Chief Data Scientist at DStillery, and I discuss creating your own voice and career path, whether or not a PhD is necessary for a career in Data Science and how AI-based desserts may just be the end of human civilization as we know it.

Trailer for season 1 of the new Who's Your Data podcast! Join us to learn how Life affects data and how Data affects life. Thoughts on a career in Data Analytics and Data Science, inclusivity and representation in Tech, and conversations with interesting people in the industry are all on the menu.