Is burnout on the horizon for you and your team? Christina Maslach, author of the new book "The Burnout Challenge," joins Jon Krohn to help us identify the common signs of looming burnout while steering us in a healthier direction. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/622 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.
Cryptocurrency and blockchain take center stage this week as we welcome Chief Economist at Chainalysis, Philip Gradwell, to discuss the data science applications in this exciting field. This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts, and by Bunch (superdatascience.com/bunch), the AI driven leadership coach. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode...
What’s your secret to superb audio recognition? Whisper it. We mean that literally—Whisper is the latest in OpenAI’s growing suite of models aimed to benefit humanity. On this episode of Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn reviews OpenAI’s latest model, Whisper. This tool will vastly improve the way human speech is recognized and converted to text. Jon gets under the hood to show how the team managed to get such a powerfully accurate recognition model. Listen to the episode and find out how you c...
Jon Krohn speaks with Erik Bernhardsson, the man who invented Spotify’s original music recommendation system. They address the different ways to interview a data science candidate, how to deploy a data model into the cloud, and the approach he took that made Spotify go from a digital music startup to an AI-driven streaming giant. This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-qualit...
Telic and atelic activities take center stage this week as Jon Krohn contemplates how our daily actions contribute to our overall sense of fulfillment. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/618Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.
Dr. Sean Taylor, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Motif Analytics, joins Jon Krohn this week for yet another perspective on causal modeling. Tune in for a great conversation that covers large-scale causal experimentation, Information Systems, Bayesian parameter searches, and more. This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, and by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperD...
10,000 hours of study: Will it make you an expert? On this episode of Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn explores whether increasing your skills is just a numbers game or if there is more to becoming proficient in your area of interest, whether that’s flute playing or data wrangling. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/616Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.
“Being a great data scientist” and “being great at a data science interview” are not one and the same. Jon Krohn speaks with Nick Singh about how to strengthen your interviewee skills, and how you can even beat out more senior competition to land a coveted data science role.This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, and by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScien...
World-leading futurist, author and entrepreneur, Ross Dawson joins us for the first of our extended Five-Minute Friday episodes. As information overwhelm becomes increasingly unavoidable, Dawson is here to share the five powers from his new book 'Thriving on Overload', to help us transition from overwhelm into abundance. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/614Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.
Dr. Emre Kiciman, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research joins the podcast to share his world-leading knowledge on causal machine learning.This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, and by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn:• What is causal m...
Some exciting changes are coming to our popular Five-Minute Friday series! From longer episodes to new guests, tune in to hear what's next. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/612Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.
Dr. Ken Stanley, a world-leading expert on Open-Ended AI and author of the genre-bending book "Why Greatness Cannot be Planned," joins Jon Krohn for a discussion that has the potential to shift your entire view on life. Tune in now to learn more about the complex topics of genetic ML algorithms, the Objective Paradox, Novelty Search, and so much more.This episode is brought to you by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience...
On this episode of Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn shares his life motto, “Who dares, wins”, and the sentiment behind it: that to get anywhere in life, it is first necessary to try. Jon believes that “daring”, in this instance, simply means taking action when we have a good idea or when a new opportunity becomes available. Listen to the end for constructive advice on how to be daring in your own life right now. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/610Interested in sponsoring a Super...
Jon Krohn speaks with Zhamak Dehghani, the empathetic technologist who coined the term “data mesh”. They explore what a data mesh is, and how its approach toward secure interconnectivity will help solve a roster of data-led business problems. This episode is brought to you by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: • Th...
Company meetings should be held to solve problems. So, why do we often feel like the weekly stand-ups and check-ins are a waste of everyone’s time? On this episode of Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn brings his habit-making practices into the dreaded meeting room. Make every meeting productive and positive with his five-step method for assigning deliverables. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/608
We welcome Dr. Jennifer Hill, Professor of Applied Statistics at New York University, to the podcast this week for a discussion that covers causality, correlation, and inference in data science. This episode is brought to you by Pachyderm, the leader in data versioning and MLOps pipelines and by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. In this episode you will learn: • How causality is central to all applications of data science [4:32] • How correlation does not impl...
Four thousand weeks equate to roughly 80 years—a lifetime for those of us lucky enough to get there. What do we choose to do with this time? How can we stop ourselves from feeling like time in general is slipping away? In this episode, host Jon Krohn reviews the book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by journalist Oliver Burkeman. He outlines how he has personally benefited from this essential reflection on our thirst for productivity and efficiency. Additional materials: www.supe...
Kian Katanforoosh, CEO of Workera and Lecturer at Stanford University, joins Jon Krohn to reveal the tools, frameworks, and machine learning models that power his platform and remote team. In this episode you will learn: • What a skills intelligence platform is [3:11] • How mentorship can be life-changing [7:45] • Four ways that ML drives Kian’s skills intelligence platform [10:57] • Kian's day-to-day responsibilities as the CEO of Workera [21:00] • What frameworks and software languages Kian an...
During this week's Five-Minute Friday episode features, Jon explores recent groundbreaking developments in nuclear fusion –ignition–and what that signals for the future. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/604
Christina Stathopoulos, Analytical Lead for Waze and Adjunct Professor at IE Business School, joins the podcast to shed light on her work with geospatial data and how she nurtured an entire data career while abroad in Spain. In this episode you will learn: • Christina's tips on navigating an unconventional path into a data career [3:05] • Geospatial data and open-source packages for working with it [10:08] • Guidance to help women and other underrepresented groups to thrive in tech [22:28] • The...
Inspired by a quote from by science fiction writer, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Jon Krohn reflects on the notion of living in ancient times and the machine learning-related implications that arise from this perspective. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/602
This week, Sarah Catanzaro, General Partner at Amplify Partners joins Jon for an episode that dives into the venture capital side of data science. Learn how to fund your data science business idea, take note of what start-ups can do to survive or raise capital in the current economic climate, and discover how to break into the field of venture capital yourself. In this episode you will learn: • Angel vs. venture capital vs. private equity investment [7:27] • How early-stage investment is made pr...
Rest and relaxation await as Steve Fazzari joins us this week for a special edition of the podcast! Tune in for a rejuvenating session of Yoga Nidra led beautifully by the expert. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/600
This week, Mikiko Bazeley, Senior Software Engineer at Mailchimp joins the podcast to share her in-depth knowledge of MLOps: Machine Learning Operations. Tune in to hear her discuss what it entails, why it's so critical for the efficiency of any data science team, and the most important tools you need to master for career success in this field. In this episode you will learn: • What MLOps is [11:40] • Mikiko’s role at Mailchimp and why MLOps is critical for the efficiency of any data science tea...
Ben Taylor makes a fourth appearance on Five-Minute Friday to discuss the best ways to introduce STEM to children. Tune in to hear the many ways in which he thinks STEM education will evolve in the future. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/598
Dr. Miles Brundage, Head of Policy Research at OpenAI, joins Jon Krohn this week to discuss AI model production, policy, safety, and alignment. Tune in to hear him speak on GPT-3, DALL-E, Codex, and CLIP as well. In this episode you will learn: • Miles’ role as Head of Policy Research at OpenAI [4:35] • OpenAI's DALL-E model [7:20] • OpenAI's natural language model GPT-3 [30:43] • OpenAI's automated software-writing model Codex [36:57] • OpenAI’s CLIP model [44:01] • What sets AI policy, AI safe...
Ben Taylor returns for a third Five-Minute Friday episode! This week, he looks ahead and digs into what we can expect from the A.I. platforms of the future. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/596
Tune in as Joe Reis and Matt Housley, co-founders of Ternary Data and co-authors of the book “Fundamentals of Data Engineering” join Jon Krohn to discuss major undercurrents across the data engineering lifecycle, and their top tools and techniques. In this episode you will learn: • What is data engineering? [3:55] • Why Joe and Matt identify as “recovering data scientists” [6:12] • What kinds of people tend to become data scientists vs. data engineers [10:38]? • Key components of Joe and Matt’s ...
This week, Jon Krohn and A.I. industry veteran Ben Taylor discuss the driving factors that push CEOs to prioritize A.I. over other technologies. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/594
Jon welcomes Professor Philip Bourne, Founding Dean of the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia to discuss his biomedical data science research, the importance of open-source and open-access within the industry and the data science skills you need to succeed today. In this episode you will learn: • Why Philip founded a School of Data Science [6:08] • How computing and data science have evolved across academic departments [15:55] • The improvements needed in higher education [26:4...
