Yuval is an Analytics and Data Science professional with extensive commercial and academic experience. His interests and goals are to be working on interesting and practical problems where there is a need to discover and act on meaningful patterns in data, through advanced analytics and data science. I'm the founder and co-organiser of two meetups: Data Science Melbourne and MelbURN, a user group for Melbourne-based users of the R statistical and data mining programming language. In this episode...
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Dr. Eric Daimler is an authority in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics with over 20 years of experience in the field as an entrepreneur, executive, investor, technologist, and policy advisor. Daimler has co-founded six technology companies that have done pioneering work in fields ranging from software systems to statistical arbitrage. Daimler is the author of the forthcoming book Every Business is an AI Business, a guidebook for entrepreneurs, engineers, policymakers, and citizens on how to ...
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 56
Martin Ford is a prominent futurist, New York Times bestselling author, and leading expert on artificial intelligence and robotics and their potential impact on the job market, economy and society. His 2015 book, "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In this episode, Martin discusses his best-selling books and describes some of the themes he writ...
Jun 13, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Annie South is the General Manager of Data at ME Bank. She is an Information Management professional with twenty years’ experience of complex information environments spanning the full spectrum of structured data to unstructured information. Annie has in-depth technical knowledge of various specialisms, including metadata, data warehousing, data governance, data quality, enterprise architecture, data lineage, Big Data, data analytics, and regulatory requirements. In this episode, Annie explains ...
Jun 06, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Pavel Pleskov is a data scientist at Point API (NLP startup) and currently ranks number 3 out of 109,624 on Kaggle, making him a Grandmaster. Pavel has started companies in the past and has worked in many different industries before becoming a data scientist and Kaggle Grandmaster. In this episode, Pavel explains his background and how he started in the data science space. When Pavel’s girlfriend went to pursue her master’s degree in London, Pavel began interviewing for a quantitative research j...
May 30, 2019•57 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Danielle Timmins is the Chief Data Analytics Officer for Free Range Creatives. Free Range Creatives is a digital marketing agency that is deeply rooted in data and analytics. They have a different view on agency life and challenge the existing ways of working. They believe that work should be fun (well, at least most days) and that our work must be insightful, inspirational and effective. In this episode, Danielle tells us how she did not start in the data space but initially wanted to be a doct...
May 23, 2019•46 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Peter Elger is the founder and CEO of fourTheorem; his focus is on delivering business value to his clients through the application of cutting edge serverless cloud architectures and machine learning technology. His experience covers everything from architecting large-scale distributed software systems, to leading the internationally-based teams that built them. In this episode, Peter tells us how his first real passion was in physics. After graduating with a BSc in Physics and a master’s degree...
May 16, 2019•57 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Prakash Baskar is the Founder and President of Khyanafi. He helps data leaders to rapidly transition and accelerate the success of data, analytics, and digital initiatives. Previously, Prakash was the Chief Data Officer at Santander Consumer USA where he led enterprise data governance, risk infrastructure & information (risk data aggregation), data quality, business data strategy & solutions, and business & reporting analysis functions. In this episode, Prakash tells us how he starte...
May 10, 2019•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 50
Valeriy Babushkin is the Head of Data Science at X5 Retail Group where he leads a team of 50+ people (4 departments: Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Computer Vision, R&D) and increases profit in a 25+ billion USD company. Also, Valeriy is a Kaggle competition master; ranking globally in the top 60. In this episode, Valeriy explains his background and how he started in the data science field. At one point, he received an offer for a senior position at a bank; it was the largest privately own...
May 04, 2019•55 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Jay Liu is the Chief Data Scientist at Digital-Dandelion specializing in helping insurance, and medical organizations innovate by integrating the latest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning and big data into their systems. Knowing the best way to learn is by putting your money where your mouth is, Digital-Dandelion launched an online brand and built a customer AI to promote it. There were numerous technical and modeling challenges that were overcome, but in the end, they sold all th...
Apr 26, 2019•43 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Marek Rucinski is the Deputy Commisioner leading the Smarter Data Program at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Marek has taken part and driven the evolution and transformation of Marketing, Analytics, Data and Digital capabilities for over 20 years. This has been done in both industry roles and consulting services capacity, across Australian, Asian and Global clients, across Retail, Telco, Consumer Goods, Financial Services, Mining & Utilities sectors. His passion centers on helping clie...
Apr 19, 2019•39 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Jonny Bentwood is the Global Head of Data & Analytics at Golin. Jonny is an innovative leader with 15+ years of experience in communications - winning, retaining and working for Fortune 100 clients such as Facebook, Unilever, Heineken, Barclays, HP and Microsoft. He has a proven record as a creator of pioneering solutions with ability to transform business to radically impact bottom line. Jonny presents complex information in an engaging and informative style and is a strategic consultant to...
Apr 12, 2019•55 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Warwick Graco is the Senior Director of Data Science at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). He has worked in defence, health, and taxation and has been involved in analytics for 25 years. He is a practicing analytics professional and is currently convenor of the Whole of Government Data Analytics Centre of Excellence and is a senior data scientist in Data Science and Special Acquisition Group of the Smarter Data Program of the ATO. He has a BSc from the University of New South Wales and a Ph.D...
Apr 05, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Caroline Worboys is a data expert, investor, advisor, COO at Outra & Vice Chair at DMA Group. She has been working in the data industry for over 30 years. In this time, she’s had a fascinating journey. She has worked, created, mentored and consulted through many data driven organisations. She’s played all the different roles: technical lead, a business lead, a founder and investor. While Caroline doesn’t describe herself as a data scientist and didn’t go to university, she has always worked ...
Mar 29, 2019•58 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Kevin Harrison is working as Chief Data Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer for the City of Oakland in California. Prior to this he worked as the first ever Chief Data Officer for the State of Illinois. During that time he designed the blueprint for the State Data Practice. Operating under the new Department of Innovation and Technology agency, he implemented an enterprise approach to Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, covering all 60 State Agencies to create a collaborative and ...
Mar 23, 2019•46 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Mike serves as Head of Data Science at Uber ATG and lecturer for UC Berkeley iSchool Data Science master’s program. Mike has led several teams of Data Scientists in the bay area as Chief Data Scientist for InterTrust and Takt, Director of Data Sciences for MetaScale, and Chief Science Officer for Galvanize he oversaw all data science product development and created the MS in Data Science program in partnership with UNH. Mike began his career in academia serving as a mathematics teaching fellow f...
Mar 16, 2019•39 min•Season 2Ep. 42
David Niemi is Vice President of Measurement and Evaluation at Kaplan, Inc., where he oversees efforts to improve the quality of measurement across all education units, evaluate the effectiveness of curricula and instruction, and study the impact of innovative products and strategies. Previously he was Vice President Evaluation and Research, at K12 Inc., where he directed assessment development and validation, evaluation of products and services, and research studies used to drive curriculum dev...
Mar 05, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Kjersten Moody joined State Farm in July 2017 as Vice President and Chief Data & Analytics Officer in Bloomington, Illinois. Previously, Kjersten led Data & Analytics and IT groups at global companies, such as FICO (Braun), Thomson Reuters and Unilever. She has a record of delivering tangible, positive business results, and a depth of experience in scaling operations, planning/executing mission-critical business initiatives, and achieving profitability objectives. Kjersten is a graduate ...
Feb 27, 2019•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 6
In this episode I talk to Matt Kuperholz. Matt currently works for PWC as a Partner in their Analytic Intelligence Area and is their Chief Data scientist. As a kid, Matt was fascinated by computers and while training to be an actuary started developing his computer science skills. This led to working as a data scientist and consulting with top tier companies. In this episode Matt and I talk about his career journey, why it’s important to focus on the real world and not just the data and how data...
Feb 22, 2019•59 min•Season 2Ep. 5
In this episode, I talk about data scientists and ways you can attract the best talent to your team. Instead of telling your employees what they can do better, make them curious as to what they could do better. Then, I reveal the three things to look for when analyzing your pool of applicants. Once you have your team, now what? Once you have a decent pay settled, I explain the three things you will need to have for a capable team. Later, I tell you the elements, as a manager, you should be doing...
Feb 15, 2019•25 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this episode I talk to Kristen Sosulski who is the Data Visualization Professor at NYU Stern School of Business. She has just written the book Data Visualization Made Simple: Insights Into Becoming Visual. An interest in using technology to help students learn has led to helping people to understand how to use data visualizations to communicate insights to others. Kristen and I discuss guidelines on creating data visualizations, why presenting data visualizations is as important as creating t...
Feb 12, 2019•47 min•Season 2Ep. 3
A lot of listeners have asked what have been my takeaways from the 30+ discussions with the guests on this podcast so far. To launch 2019 I’ve done a look back at all episodes from 2018. This is part 2 where I discuss episodes 19 to 34. I hope you enjoy my recollection of these conversations. I’d love to hear what were your favourite takeaways! Support Data Futurology on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/datafuturology Thank you to our sponsors: JCU Master of Data Science - Online Program Fyrebox...
Feb 05, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 2
A lot of listeners have asked what have been my takeaway points from the 30+ discussions with the guests on this podcast so far. To launch 2019 I’ve done a look back at all episodes from 2018. This is part 1 where I discuss episodes 1 to 18. I hope you enjoy my recollection of these conversations. I’d love to hear what were your favourite takeaways! Support Data Futurology on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/datafuturology Thank you to our sponsors: JCU Master of Data Science - Online Program Fy...
Feb 02, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Sally is the General Manager of Insights at the Australian Motoring Services. She previously spent 10 years working in banking and today she shares her story. We speak about: * Fraud analytics in big banks * End to end analytics * Importance of fast feedback loops * Shocks of early working life * Balancing speed & accuracy * 80/20 vs 95/5 * Exposures in strategy & politics * Helping the business ask the right questions * Leading with the work * Career breaks: how to * Importance of worki...
Dec 20, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Graeme started in actuarial science and developed a love for algorithms and automation. He worked in data warehousing before moving into data analytics. He spent 16 years in several Head of Data roles at The Automobile Association (AA) before joining Addison Lee as their Chief Data Officer, where he is today. We speak about: * What is actuarial science * Data warehousing & GIS systems * Overview of the Chief Data Officer role * Automation in the data space * How to build a data warehouse * T...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 3 min
Carole had an unusual path into data science. She's worked as a content project manager, in strategic planning and in sales before getting into data through Business Intelligence at Fyber where she eventually became their Head of Analytics. Today she is the Head of Data Science & Analytics at Tenjin. We speak about: * The strengths of being a generalist * Upskilling throughout your career * Focus on self service reporting * The skills needed in a BI team * Creating internal user groups to sh...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Scott started his career pushing trolleys at Woolworths. In his career he rose to management levels in retail with Woolworths, consumer goods with Kraft Foods, Fonterra SPC and PZ Cussons, then in media with 21st Century Fox. He then became the CEO of iSelect, a role he left earlier this year to start his own AI company Wilson AI. We speak about: * Focus on customer needs * Digitising industries to access more data * Helping companies in multiple industries to begin their data analytics journey ...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr 5 min
Aaron started his career working in accounting and building management information systems (MIS). He had his own company, worked in multiple industries and then got into biology and genomics. Today he is the Chief Data Officer at the Inova Translational Medicine Institute. We speak about: * How to take research into scaled applications * The importance of sharing your knowledge and helping others understand * Why you're only as good as your team members * How to engage many different types of st...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Klaus started his career doing internships at Yahoo! and the port of Hamburg. He worked as a consultant and completed a PhD in Quantitative Marketing. Today he is the Chief Analytics Officer at YAS.life We speak about: * The importance of getting applied experience as early as possible * Defining KPIs for businesses * Using data to change organisational behaviour and increase safety * How to navigate organisations to create data definitions * Realities of consulting: positives and negatives * Wh...
Nov 12, 2018•1 hr 1 min
Jennifer started her career as a particle physicist before becoming a data scientist. After gaining experience in many fields including high frequency algorithmic trading & advertising, she was Atlassian's first Chief Data Scientist. Today she is the VP of Machine Learning at Figure Eight and an Expert and Advisor at the International Institute for Analytics. We speak about: * How to see the results of your work sooner and faster * The importance of choosing your manager * Making data strate...
Nov 05, 2018•1 hr 8 min
