We talked about:

00:00 DataTalks.Club intro

00:00 DataTalks.Club anniversary "Ask Me Anything" event with Alexey Grigorev

02:29 The founding of DataTalks .Club

03:52 Alexey's transition from Java work to DataTalks.Club

04:58 Growth and success of DataTalks.Club courses

12:04 Motivation behind creating a free-to-learn community

24:03 Staying updated in data science through pet projects

26 :37 Hosting a second podcast and maintaining programming skills

28:56 Skepticism about LLMs and their relevance

31:53 Transitioning to DataTalks.Club and personal reflections

33:32 Memorable moments and the first event's success

36:19 Community building during the pandemic

38:31 AI's impact on data analysts and future roles

42:24 Discussion on AI in healthcare

44:37 Age and reflections on personal milestones

47:54 Building communities and personal connections

49:34 Future goals for the community and courses

51:18 Community involvement and engagement strategies

53:46 Ideas for competitions and hackathons

54:20 Inviting guests to the podcast

55:29 Course updates and future workshops

56:27 Podcast preparation and research process

58:30 Career opportunities in data science and transitioning fields

1:01 :10 Book recommendations and personal reading experiences

About the speaker:

Alexey Grigorev is the founder of DataTalks.Club.

Join our slack: https://datatalks.club/slack.html

In this podcast episode, we talked with Guillaume Lemaître about navigating scikit-learn and imbalanced-learn.

🔗 CONNECT WITH Guillaume Lemaître LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume-lemaitre-b9404939/ Twitter - https://x.com/glemaitre58 Github - https://github.com/glemaitre Website - https://glemaitre.github.io/

🔗 CONNECT WITH DataTalksClub Join the community - https://datatalks-club.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-2hu0sjeic-ESN7uHt~aVWc8tD3PefSlA#/shared-invite/email Subscribe to our Google calendar to have all our events in your calendar - https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r?cid=ZjhxaWRqbnEwamhzY3A4ODA5azFlZ2hzNjBAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ Check other upcoming events - https://lu.ma/dtc-events LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/datatalks-club/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/DataTalksClub Website - https://datatalks.club/

🔗 CONNECT WITH ALEXEY Twitter - https://twitter.com/Al_Grigor Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/agrigorev/

🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST At DataTalksClub, we organize live podcasts that feature a diverse range of guests from the data field. Each podcast is a free-form conversation guided by a prepared set of questions, designed to learn about the guests’ career trajectories, life experiences, and practical advice. These insightful discussions draw on the expertise of data practitioners from various backgrounds.

We stream the podcasts on YouTube, where each session is also recorded and published on our channel, complete with timestamps, a transcript, and important links.

You can access all the podcast episodes here - https://datatalks.club/podcast.html

📚Check our free online courses ML Engineering course - http://mlzoomcamp.com Data Engineering course - https://github.com/DataTalksClub/data-engineering-zoomcamp MLOps course - https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp Analytics in Stock Markets - https://github.com/DataTalksClub/stock-markets-analytics-zoomcamp LLM course - https://github.com/DataTalksClub/llm-zoomcamp Read about all our courses in one place - https://datatalks.club/blog/guide-to-free-online-courses-at-datatalks-club.html

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH If you want to support our community, use this link - https://github.com/sponsors/alexeygrigorev

If you're a company and want to support us, contact at [email protected]

Free ML Engineering course: http://mlzoomcamp.com Join DataTalks.Club: https://datatalks.club/slack.html Our events: https://datatalks.club/events.html

We talked about:

Alexey’s background Being a principal data scientist DataTalks.Club The beginning and growth of DataTalks.Club Sustaining the pace Types of talks Popular and favorite talks Making DataTalks.Club self-sufficient Alexey’s book and course Advice for people starting in data science and staying motivated Not keeping up to date with new tools Staying productive Learning technical subjects and keeping notes Inspiration and idea generation for DataTalks.Club

Links:

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/informal-mentors-alexey-grigorev/ 

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