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Staff AI Engineer - Tatiana Gabruseva

2023-02-17 Listen
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Tatiana’s background Going from academia to healthcare to the tech industry What staff engineers do Transferring skills from academia to industry and learning new ones The importance of having mentors Skipping junior and mid-level straight into the staff role Convincing employers that you can take on a lead role Seeing failure as a learning opportunity Preparing for coding interviews Preparing for behavioral and system design interviews The importance of having a network and doing mock interviews How much do staff engineers work with building pipelines, data science, ETC, MPOps, etc.? Context switching Advice for those going from academia to industry The most exciting thing about working as an AI staff engineer Tatiana’s book recommendations

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tatigabru/  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/tatigabru Github: https://github.com/tatigabru Website:  http://tatigabru.com/

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html

The Journey of a Data Generalist: From Bioinformatics to Freelancing - Jekaterina Kokatjuhha

2023-02-11 Listen
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Jekaterina’s background How Jekaterina started freelancing Jekaterina’s initial ways of getting freelancing clients How being a generalist helped Jekaterina’s career Connecting business and data How Jekaterina’s LinkedIn posts helped her get clients Jekaterina’s work in fundraising Cohorts and KPIs Improving communication between the data and business teams Motivating every link in the company’s chain The cons of freelancing Balancing projects and networking The importance of enjoying what you do Growing the client base In the office work vs working remotely Jekaterina’s advice who people who feel stuck Jekaterina’s resource recommendations

Links:

Jekaterina's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jekaterina-kokatjuhha/

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Navigating Career Changes in Machine Learning - Chris Szafranek

2023-02-03 Listen
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Chris’s background Switching careers multiple times Freedom at companies Chris’s role as an internal consultant Chris’s sabbatical ChatGPT How being a generalist helped Chris in his career The cons of being a generalist and the importance of T-shaped expertise The importance of learning things you’re interested in Tips to enjoy learning new things Recruiting generalists The job market for generalists vs for specialists Narrowing down your interests Chris’s book recommendations

Links:

Lex Fridman: science, philosophy, media, AI (especially earlier episodes): https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman Andrej Karpathy, former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, who's now focused on teaching and sharing his knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy Beautifully done videos on engineering of things in the real world: https://www.youtube.com/@RealEngineering Chris' website: https://szafranek.net/ Zalando Tech Radar: https://opensource.zalando.com/tech-radar/ Modal Labs, new way of deploying code to the cloud, also useful for testing ML code on GPUs: https://modal.com Excellent Twitter account to follow to learn more about prompt engineering for ChatGPT: https://twitter.com/goodside Image prompts for Midjourney: https://twitter.com/GuyP Machine Learning Workflows in Production - Krzysztof Szafanek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4Gqd95j6k From Data Science to DataOps: https://datatalks.club/podcast/s11e03-from-data-science-to-dataops.html

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Preparing for a Data Science Interview - Luke Whipps

2023-01-27 Listen
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Luke’s background Luke’s podcast - AI Game Changers How Luke helps people get jobs What’s changed in the recruitment market over the last 6 months Getting ready for the interview process Stage “zero” – the filter between the candidate and the company Preparing for the introduction stage – research and communication Reviewing the fundamentals during preparation Preparing for the technical part of the interview Establishing the hiring company’s expectations Depth vs breadth Overly theoretical and mathematical questions in interviews Bombing (failing) in the middle of an interview Applying to different roles within the same company Luke’s resource recommendations

Links:

Luke's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukewhipps/

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Indie Hacking - Pauline Clavelloux

2023-01-20 Listen
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Pauline’s background Pauline’s work as a manager at IBM What is indie hacking? Pauline initial indie hacking projects Getting ready for launch Responsibilities and challenges in indie hacking Pauline’s latest indie hacking project Going live and marketing Challenges with Unreal Me Staying motivated with indie hacking projects Skills Pauline picked up while doing indie hacking projects Balancing a day job and indie hacking Micro SaaS and AboutStartup.io How Pauline comes up with ideas for projects Going from an idea on paper to building a project Pauline’s Twitter success Connecting with Pauline online Pauline’s indie hacking inspiration Pauline’s resource recommendation

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Website: https://wintopy.io/ Pauline's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pauline_Cx Pauline's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulineclavelloux/  Blog about Indiehacking: https://aboutstartup.io

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Doing Software Engineering in Academia - Johanna Bayer

2023-01-13 Listen
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Johanna’s background Open science course and reproducible papers Research software engineering Convincing a professor to work on software instead of papers The importance of reproducible analysis Why academia is behind on software engineering The problems with open science publishing in academia The importance of standard coding practices How Johanna got into research software engineering Effective ways of learning software engineering skills Providing data and analysis for your project Johanna’s initial experience with software engineering in a project Working with sensitive data and the nuances of publishing it How often Johanna does hackathons, open source, and freelancing Social media as a source of repos and Johanna’s favorite communities Contributing to Git repos Publishing in the open in academia vs industry Johanna’s book and resource recommendations Conclusion

Links:

The Society of Research Software Engineering,  plus regional chapters: https://society-rse.org/ The RSE Association of Australia and New Zealand: https://rse-aunz.github.io/ Research Software Engineers (RSEs) The people behind research software: https://de-rse.org/en/index.html The software sustainability institute: https://www.software.ac.uk/ The Carpentries (beginner git and programming courses): https://carpentries.org/ The Turing Way Book of  Reproducible Research: https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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Data-Centric AI - Marysia Winkels

2023-01-06 Listen
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Marysia Winkels (PyData)

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Marysia’s background What data-centric AI is Data-centric Kaggle competitions The mindset shift to data-centric AI Data-centric does not mean you should not iterate on models How to implement the data-centric approach Focusing on the data vs focusing on the model Resources to help implement the data-centric approach Data-centric AI vs standard data cleaning Making sure your data is representative Knowing when your data is good enough The importance of user feedback “Shadow Mode” deployment What to do if you have a lot of bad data or incomplete data Marysia’s role at PyData How Marysia joined PyData The difference between PyData and PyCon Finding Marysia online

Links:

Embetter & Bulk Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L---nvDw9KU

Free data engineering course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp

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From Software Engineer to Data Science Manager - Sadat Anwar

2022-12-09 Listen
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Sadat’s background Sadat’s backend engineering experience Sadat’s pivot point as a backend engineer Sadat’s exposure to ML and Data Science Sadat’s Act Before you Think approach (with safety nets) Sadat’s street cred and transition into management The hiring process as an internal candidate The importance of people management skills The Brag List The most difficult part of transitioning to management Focusing on projects and setting milestones Sadat’s transition from EM to data science management How much domain knowledge is needed for management? The main difference between engineering and management How being an EM helped Sadat transition no DS management 53:32 Transitioning to DS management from other roles How to feel accomplished as a manager Sadat’s book recommendations Sadat’s meetups

Links:

Sadat's Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/berlin-search-technology-meetup/ Meetup event "Bias in AI: how to measure it and how to fix it event": https://www.meetup.com/data-driven-ai-berlin-meetup/events/289927565/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Teaching and Mentoring in Data Analytics - Irina Brudaru

2022-12-02 Listen
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Irina Brudaru (AI Guild)

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Irina’s background Irina as a mentor Designing curriculum and program management at AI Guild Other things Irina taught at AI Guild Why Irina likes teaching Students’ reluctance to learn cloud Irina as a manager Cohort analysis in a nutshell How Irina started teaching formally Irina’s diversity project in the works How DataTalks.Club can attract more female students to the Zoomcamps How to get technical feedback at work Antipatterns and overrated/overhyped topics in data analytics Advice for young women who want to get into data science/engineering Finding Irina online Fundamentals for data analysts Suggestions for DataTalks.club collaborations Conclusions

Links:

LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinabrudaru/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Technical Writing and Data Journalism - Angelica Lo Duca

2022-11-25 Listen
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Angelica’s background Angelica’s books Data journalism How Angelica got into data journalism The field of digital humanities and Angelica’s data journalism course Technical articles vs data journalism articles Transforming reports into data storytelling Are reports to stakeholders considered technical writing? Data visualization in articles Article length The process of writing an article Finding writing topics How Angelica got into writing a book (communication with publishers) The process for writing a book Brainstorming Reviews and revisions Conclusion

Links:

Data Journalism examples (FENCED OUT): https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/border-barriers/europe-refugee-crisis-border-control/??noredirect=on Data Journalism examples (La tierra esclava): https://latierraesclava.eldiario.es/ Small medium publication aiming at being Stack Overflow of Medium: https://medium.com/syntaxerrorpub Example of a self-published book on Data Visualization: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Data-Visualization-Storytelling-Scientist-ebook/dp/B07VYCR3Z6/ref=sr_1_4?crid=4JRJ48O7K8TK&keywords=joses+berengueres&qid=1668270728&sprefix=joses+beremguere%2Caps%2C273&sr=8-4 My novels (in Italian) La bambina e il Clown: https://www.amazon.it/Bambina-Clown-Angelica-Lo-Duca/dp/1500984515/ref=sr_1_9?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2KGK9GMN0FAHI&keywords=la+bambina+e+il+clown&qid=1668270769&sprefix=la+bambina+e+il+clown%2Caps%2C88&sr=8-9 My novels (in Italian) Il Violinista: https://www.amazon.it/Violinista-1-Angelica-Lo-Duca/dp/1501009672/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=12KTF9EF5UKIG&keywords=il+violinista+lo+duca&qid=1668270791&sprefix=il+violinista+lo+duca%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-1 Course on Data Journalism: https://www.coursera.org/learn/visualization-for-data-journalism

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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From Digital Marketing to Analytics Engineering - Nikola Maksimovic

2022-11-18 Listen
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Nikola’s background Making the first steps towards a transition to BI and Analytics Engineering Learning the skills necessary to transition to Analytics Engineering The in-between period – from Marketing to Analytics Engineering Nikola’s current responsibilities Understanding what a Data Model is Tools needed to work as an Analytics Engineer The Analytics Engineering role over time The importance of DBT for Analytics Engineers Where can one learn about data modeling theory? Going from Ancient Greek and Latin to understanding Data (Just-In-Time Learning) The importance of having domain knowledge to analytics engineering Suggestion for those wishing to transition into analytics engineering The importance of having a mentor when transitioning Finding a mentor Helpful newsletters and blogs Finding Nikola online

Links:

Nikola's LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikola-maksimovic-40188183/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Product Owners in Data Science - Anna Hannemann

2022-11-11 Listen
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Anna Hannemann (METRO)

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About Anna and METRO Anna’s background The importance of a technical background for data product owners What are product owners? Product owners vs product managers Anna’s work on recommender systems at METRO Expanding the data team Types of algorithms used for recommender systems What kind of knowledge and skills data product owners need to have Problems and ideas should come from the business How Anna handles all her responsibilities The process for starting work on new domains Product portfolio management ProductTank and Anna’s role in it Anna’s resource recommendations

Links:

Data Science for Business Book: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Foster-Provost/dp/1449361323/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=data+science+for+business&qid=1666404807&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjg3IiwicXNhIjoiMS41MiIsInFzcCI6IjEuNDYifQ%3D%3D&sr=8-1 Article on Data Science Products: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/way-create-data-science-products-lessons-learnt-anna-hannemann-phd/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Building Data Science Practice - Andrey Shtylenko

2022-11-04 Listen
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We talked about:

Audience Poll Andrey’s background What data science practice is Best DS practice in a traditional company vs IT-centric companies Getting started with building data science practice (finding out who you report to) Who the initiative comes from Finding out what kind of problems you will be solving (Centralized approach) Moving to a semi-decentralized approach Resources to learn about data science practice Pivoting from the role of a software engineer to data scientist The most impactful realization from data science practice Advice for individual growth Finding Andrey online

Links: 

Data Teams book: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Teams-Management-Successful-Data-Focused/dp/1484262271/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Large-Scale Entity Resolution - Sonal Goyal

2022-10-28 Listen
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Sonal’s background How the idea for Zingg came about What Zingg is The difference between entity resolution and identity resolution How duplicate detection relates to entity resolution How Sonal decided to start working on Zingg How Zingg works What Zingg runs on Switching from consultancy to working on a new open source solution Why Zingg is open source Open source licensing Working on Zingg initially vs now Zingg’s current and future team Sonal’s biggest current challenge Avoiding problems with entity/identity resolution through database design Identity resolution vs basic joins, data fusions, and fuzzy joins Deterministic matching vs probabilistic machine learning Identity and entity resolution applications for fraud detection Graph algorithms vs classic ML in entity resolution Identity resolution success stories What Sonal would do differently given the chance to start over with Zingg Advice for those seeking to realize their own solution to a data problem Reading suggestion from Sonal Conclusion

Links:

Open-Source Spotlight demo "Zingg":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOabyZxN9b0 Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs book: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Selection-Inside-Apples-Process/dp/1250194466

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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From Data Science to DataOps - Tomasz Hinc

2022-10-21 Listen
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Tomasz’s background What Tomasz did before DataOps (Data Science) Why Tomasz made the transition from Data science to DataOps What is DataOps? How is DataOps related to infrastructure? How Tomasz learned the skills necessary to become DataOps Becoming comfortable with terminal The overlap between DataOps and Data Engineering Suitable/useful skills for DataOps Minimal operational skills for DataOps Similarities between DataOps and Data Science Managers Tomasz’s interesting projects Confidence in results and avoiding going too deep with edge cases Conclusion

Links:

Terminal setup video, 19 minutes long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2PSsnqgBiw Command line videos, one and a half hour to become somewhat comfy with the terminal: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIhvC56v63IKioClkSNDjW7iz-6TFvLwS Course from MIT talking about just that (command line, git, storing secrets): https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Data Science Career Development - Katie Bauer

2022-10-14 Listen
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Katie’s background What is a data scientist? What is a data science manager? Quality of the craft How data leaders promote career growth Supporting senior data professionals Choosing the IC route vs the management route Managing junior data professionals Talking to senior stakeholders and PMs as a junior The importance of hiring juniors What skills do data scientist managers need to get hired? How juniors that are just starting out can set themselves apart from the competition Asking senior colleagues for help and the rubber duck channel The challenges of the head of data Conclusion

Links:

Jobs at Gloss Genius: https://boards.greenhouse.io/glossgenius

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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From Testing Phones to Managing NLP Projects - Alvaro Navas Peire

2022-10-07 Listen
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Alvaro’s background Working as a QA (Quality Assurance) engineer Transitioning from QA to Machine Learning Gathering knowledge about ML field Searching for an ML job (improving soft skills and CV) Data science interview skills Zoomcamp projects Zoomcamp project deployment How to not undersell yourself during interviews Alvaro’s experience with interviews during his transition Alvaro’s Zoomcamp notes Alvaro’s coach The importance of mathematical knowledge to a transition into ML Preparing for technical interviews Alvaro’s typical workday Alvaro’s team’s tech stack The importance of a technical background to transitioning into ML

Links:

Alvaro's CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/89hkt3ug0toqa2n/CV%20nou%20-%20angl%C3%A8s.pdf?dl=0 Github profile: https://github.com/ziritrion LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaronavas/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcampJoin 

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Responsible and Explainable AI - Supreet Kaur

2022-09-30 Listen
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Supreet Kaur (DataBuzz)

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Supreet’s background Responsible AI Example of explainable AI Responsible AI vs explainable AI Explainable AI tools and frameworks (glass box approach) Checking for bias in data and handling personal data Understanding whether your company needs certain type of data Data quality checks and automation Responsibility vs profitability The human touch in AI The trade-off between model complexity and explainability Is completely automated AI out of the question? Detecting model drift and overfitting How Supreet became interested in explainable AI Trustworthy AI Reliability vs fairness Bias indicators The future of explainable AI About DataBuzz The diversity of data science roles Ethics in data science Conclusion

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/supreet-kaur1995/ Databuzz page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/databuzz-club/ Medium Blog Page: https://medium.com/@supreetkaur_66831

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Building Data Science Practice - Andrey Shtylenko

2022-09-30 Listen
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We talked about:

Audience Poll Andrey’s background What data science practice is Best DS practice in a traditional company vs IT-centric companies Getting started with building data science practice (finding out who you report to) Who the initiative comes from Finding out what kind of problems you will be solving (Centralized approach) Moving to a semi-decentralized approach Resources to learn about data science practice Pivoting from the role of a software engineer to data scientist The most impactful realization from data science practice Advice for individual growth Finding Andrey online

Links:

Data Teams book: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Teams-Management-Successful-Data-Focused/dp/1484262271/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Leading Data Research - David Bader

2022-09-16 Listen
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David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT))

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David’s background A day in the life of a professor David’s current projects Starting a school The different types of professors David’s recent papers Similarities and differences between research labs and startups Finding (or creating) good datasets David’s lab Balancing research and teaching as a professor David’s most rewarding research project David’s most underrated research project David’s virtual data science seminars on YouTube Teaching at universities without doing research Staying up-to-date in research David’s favorite conferences Selecting topics for research Convincing students to stay in academia and competing with industry Finding David online

Links: 

David A. Bader: https://davidbader.net/ NJIT Institute for Data Science: https://datascience.njit.edu/ Arkouda: https://github.com/Bears-R-Us/arkouda NJIT Data Science YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NJITInstituteforDataScience

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Dataset Creation and Curation - Christiaan Swart

2022-09-09 Listen
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Christiaan Swart (Comtura)

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Christiaan’s background Usual ways of collecting and curating data Getting the buy-in from experts and executives Starting an annotation booklet Pre-labeling Dataset collection Human level baseline and feedback Using the annotation booklet to boost annotation productivity Putting yourself in the shoes of annotators (and measuring performance) Active learning Distance supervision Weak labeling Dataset collection in career positioning and project portfolios IPython widgets GDPR compliance and non-English NLP Finding Christiaan online

Links:

My personal blog: https://useml.net/ Comtura, my company: https://comtura.ai/ LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiaan-swart-51a68967/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/swartchris8/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Data Mesh 101 - Zhamak Dehghani

2022-09-02 Listen
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Zhamak’s background What is Data Mesh? Domain ownership Determining what to optimize for with Data Mesh Decentralization Data as a product Self-serve data platforms Data governance Understanding Data Mesh Adopting Data Mesh Resources on implementing Data Mesh

Links:

Free 30-day code from O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/get-learning/?code=DATATALKS22 Data Mesh book: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/data-mesh/9781492092384/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhamak-dehghani

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Growing Data Engineering Team in a Scale-Up - Mehdi OUAZZA

2022-08-26 Listen
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We talked about:

Mehdi’s background The difference between startup, scale-up and enterprise Hypergrowth Data platform engineers in a scale-up environment What a data platform is and who builds it Managing the fast pace of a scale-up while ensuring personal growth Should a senior data person consider a scale-up or an enterprise? Should a junior data person consider a scale-up or an enterprise? Sourcing talent for hyper-growth companies and developing a community culture Generating content and getting feedback Generalization vs specialization for data engineers in a scale-up The ratio of work between platform building and use case pipelines Being proactive in order to progress to mid or senior level Caps and bass guitars MehdiO DataTV and DataCreators.Club (Mehdi’s YouTube Channel and podcast)

Links:

Mehdi's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiZxJB0xWfPBE2omVZeWPpQ Mehdi's Linkedin:  https://linkedin.com/in/mehd-io/ Mehdi's Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@mehdio Mehdi's data creators club: https://datacreators.club/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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Lessons Learned About Data & AI at Enterprises - Alexander Hendorf

2022-08-19 Listen
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Alexander Hendorf (Königsweg)

We talked about:

Alexander’s background The role of Partner at Königsweg Being part of the data and AI community How Alexander became chair at PyData Alexander’s many talks and advice on giving them Explaining AI to managers Why being able to explain machine learning to managers is important The experimentational nature of AI and why it’s not a cure-all Innovation requires patience Convincing managers not to use AI or ML when there are better (simpler) solutions The role of MLOps in enterprises Thinking about the mid- and long-term when considering solutions Finding Alexander online

Links: 

Alexander's Twitter: https://twitter.com/hendorf Alexander's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hendorf/ Königsweg: https://www.koenigsweg.com PyData Südwest: https://www.meetup.com/pydata-suedwest/ PyData Frankfurt: https://www.meetup.com/pydata-frankfurt/ PyConDE & PyData Berlin: https://pycon.de

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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MLOps Architect - Danny Leybzon

2022-08-12 Listen
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Danny Leybzon (WhyLabs)

We talked about:

Danny’s background What an MLOps Architect does The popularity of MLOps Architect as a role Convincing an employer that you can wear many different hats Interviewing for the role of an MLOps Architect How Danny prioritizes work with data scientists Coming to WhyLabs when you’ve already got something in production vs nothing in production Market awareness regarding the importance of model monitoring How Danny (WhyLabs) chooses tools ONNX Common trends in tooling setups The most rewarding thing for Danny in ML and data science Danny’s secret for staying sane while wearing so many different hats T-shaped specialist, E-shaped specialist, and the horizontal line The importance of background for the role of an MLOps Architect Key differences for WhyLogs free vs paid Conclusion and where to find Danny online

Links:

Matt Turck: https://mattturck.com/data2021/ AI Observability Platform: https://whylabs.ai/observability Danny's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dleybz/ Whylabs' website: https://whylabs.ai/ AI Infrastructure Alliance: https://ai-infrastructure.org/

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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