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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

The latest machine learning, A.I., and data career topics from across both academia and industry are brought to you by host Dr. Jon Krohn on the Super Data Science Podcast. As the quantity of data on our planet doubles every couple of years and with this trend set to continue for decades to come, there's an unprecedented opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact in your lifetime. In conversation with the biggest names in the data science industry, Jon cuts through hype to fuel that professional impact. Whether you're curious about getting started in a data career or you're a deep technical expert, whether you'd like to understand what A.I. is or you'd like to integrate more data-driven processes into your business, we have inspiring guests and lighthearted conversation for you to enjoy. We cover tools, techniques, and implementation tricks across data collection, databases, analytics, predictive modeling, visualization, software engineering, real-world applications, commercialization, and entrepreneurship − everything you need to crush it with data science.
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Episodes

304: The Law of Attraction

Can you think of examples when the law of attraction worked in your life? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/304

Oct 11, 201911 min

303: Proper Hypothesis Testing For Every Field

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with Astrophysicist and Online Data Science Instructor, Sam Hinton. You will hear about the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting, where he met Nobel Prize winners and you will also hear about his appearance on the Survivor TV show. You will learn about quantum mechanics. You will also learn about the course he launched in Python for Statistical Analysis, as well as going in-depth on hypothesis testing. You will hear about Python versus R, statist...

Oct 09, 20191 hr 10 min

302: What is Data Science to you?

What is Data Science to you? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/302

Oct 04, 20196 min

301: Finding Your Edge

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with Data Scientist at TD Bank, Ayobami Ayodeji. You will hear Ayobami's valuable insights about the takeaways from DataScienceGO 2019, including productization of data science products, the 3 types of data science teams, and building character and resilience. You will also learn about Ayobami's career journey from project manager to data scientist and the sacrifices he made on that journey. If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes...

Oct 02, 20191 hr 9 min

300: Legacy

What are you leaving for the next generation on this planet? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/300

Sep 27, 201910 min

299: Becoming Seasoned At Failure

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with Head of Data Science and Machine Learning, Michelle Keim. You will hear what working remotely is all about in data science. You will learn about the importance of failure, and why everyone should lose their job at least once. You will hear about churn and segmentation, what they meant 10 years ago and what they mean now. You will also learn about the imposter syndrome and what to do when you feel like an imposter while applying for a r...

Sep 25, 20191 hr 10 min

298: The Six Months Rule

What would you change about the things you do in your life if you thought you only had 6 months to live? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/298

Sep 20, 20195 min

297: Fortitude & Passion in the Data Science Journey

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with data scientist Ayodele Odubela. You will hear how and why she chose to do a Masters in Data Science and supplemented that with online education. You will also hear about self-discovery, fortitude and passion, and how she got one of her data science jobs through Twitter. You will learn about some of Ayodele's projects like using SVM for detecting poisonous vs. edible mushrooms, using random forests and decision trees for ranking wines b...

Sep 18, 20191 hr 6 min

296: Who You Become

Do you take time to reflect on who you became or actions you took while on a path to achieving a goal? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/296

Sep 13, 201911 min

295: A Deep Conversation About Tech & Life

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with my friend and business partner, Hadelin de Ponteves. You will hear what new exciting things are happening in Hadelin's life now. You will hear some preview of his upcoming presentation at DataScienceGO 2019, which will cover NLP, especially the BERT model, which raised a whole new level in NLP. You will also learn about reinforcement learning and Hadelin's new course on Twin-Delayed DDPG. If you enjoyed this episode, check out show not...

Sep 11, 201955 min

294: Perception of AI in Big Companies

What about AI worries you in the professional world? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/294

Sep 06, 201910 min

293: True Personalization Through Reinforcement Learning

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with Data Scientist, Peyman Hesami. You will find out what reinforcement learning is and how it works on an intuitive level. You will hear about the differences between reinforcement learning versus classification, or other supervised learning methods, and how it's used for personalization specifically. You will learn about six distinct advantages of reinforcement learning, what role reinforcement learning is going to play in the future of ...

Sep 04, 20191 hr 1 min

292: Introverts and Extroverts

How can you find a way to balance your energy through recharging in the way that works best for you? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/292

Aug 30, 20199 min

291: Changing the World With Theory & Data

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with founder and CEO at Daisy Intelligence, Gary Saarenvirta. You'll learn about dangerous implicit assumptions, the power of theory and theory versus data. You'll also learn about two types of decisions, the spacial interaction model, traffic flow model, the concept of dividing the world in two and what humans should be doing, and what artificial intelligence should be doing. You will hear about the difference between artificial intelligen...

Aug 28, 20191 hr 5 min

290: The Passion Paradox

How does your inner voice compare to your passions? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/290

Aug 23, 201911 min

289: AI, Deepfakes and Call of Duty

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with top AI influencer, Ben Taylor. You will learn some very cool concepts about artificial intelligence such as active adverse impact mitigation, what that means and how that can help train on your dataset without bias. You will hear about AI ethics, deepfakes and Ben's current passion project, building an artificial intelligence that plays Call of Duty, which he will actually demonstrate at DataScienceGO this year at the end of September....

Aug 21, 20191 hr 5 min

288: Love Yourself

Can you pick one activity to implement for yourself this week to engage in loving yourself? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/288

Aug 16, 201912 min

287: How To Be Social About Data Science

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with a data scientist, public speaker and the mastermind behind the Let’s Go Data Science meetups, Ashwin Chirag. You will learn why it is very important to attend meetups and what are the benefits and advantages you get from meetups. You will hear some great stories on how in-person connections with data scientists can take your career to the next level. You will also hear Ashwin’s experience in standup comedy and what it has taught him. A...

Aug 14, 20191 hr 6 min

286: Solitude Deprivation

Can you give yourself an hour this weekend to physically separate from your phone? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/286

Aug 09, 201911 min

285: Bringing Dev & Diverse Communities Into Data Science

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with the top contributor on Stack Overflow, Jon Skeet. You will learn what is versioning, how that affects developers and how that affects data scientists. You will hear about compiled versus interpreted languages, what is the silver bullet in cold diagnostics, what kind of problems you want to diagnose and the 'divide and conquer' principle. You will also hear about the importance of community, what it means to be part of a community and h...

Aug 07, 20191 hr 16 min

284: Proximity is Power

Who in your life can you get more inspiration and learning from by increasing your proximity? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/284

Aug 02, 201910 min

283: Getting The Most Out of Data With Gradient Boosting

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with one of the key people behind the Python package scikit-learn, Andreas Mueller. You will learn about gradient boosting algorithms, XGBoost, LightGBM and HistGradientBoosting. You will hear Andreas's approach to solving problems, what machine learning algorithms he prefers to apply to a given data science challenge, in which order and why. You will also hear about problems with Kaggle competitions. You will find out the four key question...

Jul 31, 20191 hr 2 min

282: Learning Something New

What can you spend time learning that’s new to you and how can it help your lifestyle and career? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/282

Jul 26, 201911 min

281: Futureproofing Your Digital Marketing Tactics

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with the Founder and Director of Digital Strategy at Webfor, Kevin Getch. You will learn what digital assistants are and where they're going with the help of people like Ray Kurzweil at Google. You will hear Kevin's philosophy on 'what gets measured gets managed' and what it means for marketing and data science. You will also learn why websites are less and less important, how segmentation is slowly transitioning to personalization, creatin...

Jul 24, 20191 hr 6 min

280: Gap Year

Is there a period in your life you can look at and feel grateful for your freedom and experience? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/280

Jul 19, 201910 min

279: Embedding Data Science in Business

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with Head of Data Science at Scribd, Kevin Perko. You will learn what it's like to be a data science manager, or a data science leader, and what it's like to manage a team, and more so two teams, in two different locations, and how that is different to actually doing the technical work. Also, you'll learn about the Book Genome Project at Scribd, what it's like when a company sees data science as a product, as opposed to an auxiliary functio...

Jul 17, 20191 hr 9 min

278: Your Core Strength

What do you do extremely well that no one else around you does quite as well and how can you leverage it? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/278

Jul 12, 201916 min

277: The New Age of Reason

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with Serial Entrepreneur, Khai Pham. You will learn why data science is an advantage in terms of mindset even to be an entrepreneur. You will hear about general artificial intelligence versus superintelligence, what are the differences and why you don't really need general artificial intelligence to get to superintelligence. You'll also learn how questions are more important than answers, and hence the reasoning engine versus a search engin...

Jul 10, 20191 hr 4 min

276: Data Science in Wealth Management

How can you use these processes in your industry? If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes, resources, and more at www.superdatascience.com/276

Jul 05, 201916 min

275: Machine Learning Through Reinforcement & Contextual Bandits

In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with the Machine Learning Research Scientist, John Langford. You will hear about unsupervised, supervised learning and reinforcement learning, and the differences between the three. You will learn about applications of contextual bandits and reinforcement learning in general, YOLO style algorithms versus simulator algorithms, technics for avoiding local optimums. You will also learn about the balance between exploration and exploitation, le...

Jul 03, 20191 hr 2 min
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