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Towards Data Science

Towards Data Science

65 episodes

Note: The TDS podcast's current run has ended. Researchers and business leaders at the forefront of the field unpack the most pressing questions around data science and AI.

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131. Jeremie Harris - TDS Podcast Finale: The future of AI, and the risks that come with it

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 4:17 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 26 seconds

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130. Edouard Harris - New Research: Advanced AI may tend to seek power *by default*

Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 1:31 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 22 seconds

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129. Amber Teng - Building apps with a new generation of language models

Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 3:27 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 21 seconds

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128. David Hirko - AI observability and data as a cybersecurity weakness

Published: Sept. 28, 2022, 3:07 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds

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127. Matthew Stewart - The emerging world of ML sensors

Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 1:58 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 34 seconds

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126. JR King - Does the brain run on deep learning?

Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 2:29 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 43 seconds

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125. Ryan Fedasiuk - Can the U.S. and China collaborate on AI safety?

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 4:40 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 19 seconds

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124. Alex Watson - Synthetic data could change everything

Published: May 18, 2022, 3:07 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 47 seconds

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123. Ala Shaabana and Jacob Steeves - AI on the blockchain (it actually might just make sense)

Published: May 12, 2022, 2:08 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 43 seconds

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122. Sadie St. Lawrence - Trends in data science

Published: May 4, 2022, 2:22 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 2 seconds

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121. Alexei Baevski - data2vec and the future of multimodal learning

Published: April 27, 2022, 2:13 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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120. Liam Fedus and Barrett Zoph - AI scaling with mixture of expert models

Published: April 20, 2022, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 47 seconds

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119. Jaime Sevilla - Projecting AI progress from compute trends

Published: April 13, 2022, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds

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118. Angela Fan - Generating Wikipedia articles with AI

Published: April 6, 2022, 2:59 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 44 seconds

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117. Beena Ammanath - Defining trustworthy AI

Published: March 30, 2022, 3:39 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 46 seconds

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116. Katya Sedova - AI-powered disinformation, present and future

Published: March 23, 2022, 2:34 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 24 seconds

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115. Irina Rish - Out-of-distribution generalization

Published: March 9, 2022, 4:03 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 12 seconds

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114. Sam Bowman - Are we *under-hyping* AI?

Published: March 2, 2022, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 48 seconds

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113. Yaron Singer - Catching edge cases in AI

Published: Feb. 9, 2022, 3:46 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 20 seconds

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112. Tali Raveh - AI, single cell genomics, and the new era of computational biology

Published: Feb. 2, 2022, 4:22 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 4 seconds

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111. Mo Gawdat - Scary Smart: A former Google execs perspective on AI risk

Published: Jan. 26, 2022, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 seconds

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110. Alex Turner - Will powerful AIs tend to seek power?

Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 2:25 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 57 seconds

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109. Danijar Hafner - Gaming our way to AGI

Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 2:52 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 6 seconds

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108. Last Week In AI 2021: The (full) year in review

Published: Jan. 5, 2022, 3:21 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds

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107. Kevin Hu - Data observability and why it matters

Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 56 seconds

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106. Yang Gao - Sample-efficient AI

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 3:26 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 53 seconds

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105. Yannic Kilcher - A 10,000-foot view of AI

Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 4 seconds

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104. Ken Stanley - AI without objectives

Published: Nov. 24, 2021, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 27 seconds

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103. Gillian Hadfield - How to create explainable AI regulations that actually make sense

Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 4:34 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 7 seconds

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102. Wendy Foster - AI ethics as a user experience challenge

Published: Nov. 10, 2021, 3:33 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 36 seconds

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101. Ayanna Howard - AI and the trust problem

Published: Nov. 3, 2021, 2:51 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 15 seconds

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100. Max Jaderberg - Open-ended learning at DeepMind

Published: Oct. 27, 2021, 2:49 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 25 seconds

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99. Margaret Mitchell - (Practical) AI ethics

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 43 seconds

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98. Mike Tung - Are knowledge graphs AIs next big thing?

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 2:24 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 56 seconds

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97. Anthony Habayeb - The present and future of AI regulation

Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 3:01 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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96. Jan Leike - AI alignment at OpenAI

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 2:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 17 seconds

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95. Francesca Rossi - Thinking, fast and slow: AI edition

Published: Sept. 22, 2021, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 42 seconds

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94. Divya Siddarth - Are we thinking about AI wrong?

Published: July 28, 2021, 2:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 44 seconds

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93. 2021: A year in AI (so far) - Reviewing the biggest AI stories of 2021 with our friends at the Lets Talk AI podcast

Published: July 21, 2021, 1:34 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 31 seconds

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92. Daniel Filan - Peering into neural nets for AI safety

Published: July 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 2 seconds

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91. Peter Gao - Self-driving cars: Past, present and future

Published: July 7, 2021, 1:47 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 21 seconds

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90. Jeffrey Ding - Chinas AI ambitions and why they matter

Published: June 30, 2021, 2:31 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 7 seconds

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89. Pointing AI in the right direction - A cross-over episode with the Banana Data podcast!

Published: June 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 35 seconds

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88. Oren Etzioni - The case against (worrying about) existential risk from AI

Published: June 16, 2021, 1:26 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 34 seconds

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87. Evan Hubinger - The Inner Alignment Problem

Published: June 9, 2021, 2:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 32 seconds

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86. Andy Jones - AI Safety and the Scaling Hypothesis

Published: June 2, 2021, 1:56 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 44 seconds

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85. Brian Christian - The Alignment Problem

Published: May 26, 2021, 3:09 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 19 seconds

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84. Eliano Marques - The (evolving) world of AI privacy and data security

Published: May 19, 2021, 7:36 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 38 seconds

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83. Rosie Campbell - Should all AI research be published?

Published: May 12, 2021, 1:25 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 37 seconds

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82. Jakob Foerster - The high cost of automated weapons

Published: May 5, 2021, 3:17 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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81. Nicolas Miailhe - AI risk is a global problem

Published: April 28, 2021, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 3 seconds

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80. Yan Li - The Surprising Challenges of Global AI Philanthropy

Published: April 21, 2021, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 4 seconds

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79. Ryan Carey - What does your AI want?

Published: April 14, 2021, 5:44 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 20 seconds

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78. Melanie Mitchell - Existential risk from AI: A skeptical perspective

Published: April 7, 2021, 3:49 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 50 seconds

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77. Josh Fairfield - AI advances, but can the law keep up?

Published: March 31, 2021, 2:53 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 20 seconds

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76. Stuart Armstrong - AI: Humanity's Endgame?

Published: March 24, 2021, 3:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 2 seconds

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75. Georg Northoff - Consciousness and AI

Published: March 17, 2021, 2:11 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds

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74. Ethan Perez - Making AI safe through debate

Published: March 10, 2021, 2:46 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 17 seconds

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73. David Roodman - Economic history and the road to the singularity

Published: March 3, 2021, 3:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 22 seconds

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72. Margot Gerritsen - Does AI have to be understandable to be ethical?

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 9:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 2 seconds

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71. Ben Garfinkel - Superhuman AI and the future of democracy and government

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 4:12 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 58 seconds

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70. Sarah Williams - What does ethical AI even mean?

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 3:28 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 6 seconds

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69. Anders Sandberg - Answering the Fermi Question: Is AI our Great Filter?

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 57 seconds

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68. Silvia Milano - Ethical problems with recommender systems

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 46 seconds

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67. Joaquin Quinonero-Candela - Responsible AI at Facebook

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 4:50 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 23 seconds

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66. Owain Evans - Predicting the future of AI

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 2:53 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 58 seconds

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65. Helen Toner - The strategic and security implications of AI

Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 4:06 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 9 seconds

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64. David Krueger - Managing the incentives of AI

Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 59 seconds

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63. Geordie Rose - Will AGI need to be embodied?

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 3:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 9 seconds

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62. Nicolai Baldin - AI meets the law: Bias, fairness, privacy and regulation

Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds

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61. Ben Goertzel - The unorthodox path to AGI

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 5:16 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 38 seconds

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60. Rob Miles - Why should I care about AI safety?

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 1:46 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds

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59. Matthew Stewart - Tiny ML and the future of on-device AI

Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 43 seconds

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58. David Duvenaud - Using generative models for explainable AI

Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 57 seconds

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57. Dylan Hadfield-Menell - Humans in the loop

Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 32 seconds

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56. Annette Zimmermann - The ethics of AI

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 27 seconds

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55. Rohin Shah - Effective altruism, AI safety, and learning human preferences from the state of the world

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 15 seconds

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54. Tim Rocktaschel - Deep reinforcement learning, symbolic learning and the road to AGI

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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53. Edouard Harris - Emerging problems in machine learning: making AI "good"

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 20 seconds

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52. Sanyam Bhutani - Networking like a pro in data science

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 3:39 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 45 seconds

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51. Adrien Treuille and Tim Conkling - Streamlit Is All You Need

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 1:43 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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50. Ken Jee - Building your brand in data science

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 3 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 58 seconds

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49. Catherine Zhou - The data science of learning

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 2:28 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 54 seconds

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48. Emmanuel Ameisen - Beyond the jupyter notebook: how to build data science products

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 32 seconds

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47. Goku Mohandas - Industry research and how to show off your projects

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 50 seconds

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46. Ihab Ilyas - Data cleaning is finally being automated

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 2:06 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 20 seconds

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45. Kenny Ning - Is data science merging with data engineering?

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 1:40 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 10 seconds

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44. Jakob Foerster - Multi-agent reinforcement learning and the future of AI

Published: July 29, 2020, 4:18 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 24 seconds

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43. Ian Scott - Data science at Deloitte

Published: July 22, 2020, 3:19 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 57 seconds

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42. Will Grathwohl - Energy-based models and the future of generative algorithms

Published: July 15, 2020, 3:22 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 8 seconds

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41. Solmaz Shahalizadeh - Data science in high-growth companies

Published: July 8, 2020, 3:28 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 27 seconds

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40. David Meza - Data science at NASA

Published: July 1, 2020, 2:42 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 18 seconds

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39. Nick Pogrebnyakov - Data science at Reuters, and the remote work after the coronavirus

Published: June 24, 2020, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 20 seconds

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38. Matthew Stewart - Data privacy and machine learning in environmental science

Published: June 17, 2020, 2:19 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 22 seconds

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37. Sean Knapp - The brave new world of data engineering

Published: June 10, 2020, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 4 seconds

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36. Max Welling - The future of machine learning

Published: June 3, 2020, 1:59 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 44 seconds

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35. Ruben Harris - Learning and looking for jobs in quarantine

Published: May 27, 2020, 2:41 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 20 seconds

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34. Denise Gosnell and Matthias Broecheler - You should really learn about graph databases. Heres why.

Published: May 20, 2020, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 18 seconds

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33. Roland Memisevic - Machines that can see and hear

Published: May 13, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 52 seconds

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32. Bahador Khaleghi - Explainable AI and AI interpretability

Published: May 6, 2020, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 41 seconds

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31. Russell Pollari - Building habits and breaking into data science

Published: April 29, 2020, 2:47 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 25 seconds

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30. Interviewing the Medium data science team

Published: April 22, 2020, 2:39 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 9 seconds

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29. Cameron Davidson-Pillon - Data science at Shopify

Published: April 15, 2020, 4:08 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 13 seconds

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28. Emily Robinson - Building a Career in Data Science

Published: April 7, 2020, 4:36 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 49 seconds

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27. Alayna Kennedy - AI safety, AI ethics and the AGI debate

Published: March 30, 2020, 4:07 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 54 seconds

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26. Jeremy Howard - Coronavirus: the data behind the disease

Published: March 20, 2020, 4:32 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

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25. Chris Parmer - Plotly founder on what data science is, and where it's going

Published: March 18, 2020, 3:06 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 34 seconds

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24. Xander Steenbrugge - Machine learning as a creative tool, and the quest for artificial general intelligence

Published: March 10, 2020, 3:23 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds

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23. Iain Harlow - Leaving academia for industry and optimizing how you learn

Published: March 3, 2020, 3:18 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 48 seconds

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22. Luke Marsden - Data Science Infrastructure and MLOps

Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 3:38 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 31 seconds

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21. Adam Waksman - Data science is becoming software engineering

Published: Feb. 16, 2020, 1:09 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 2 seconds

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20. Chanchal Chatterjee - Real Talk with AI Leader at Google

Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 2 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 55 seconds

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19. Will Koehrsen - Self-Learning Data Science and Sharing the Knowledge on Medium

Published: Jan. 25, 2020, 1:12 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 52 seconds

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18. Edouard Harris - Mastering the data science job hunt

Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 5:31 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 18 seconds

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17. Nate Nichols - Product instinct and data storytelling

Published: Jan. 7, 2020, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 28 seconds

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16. Helen Ngo - Real Talk with Machine Learning Engineer

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 3 seconds

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15. Ian Xiao - Why Machine Learning Is More Boring Than You May Think

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 2:57 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes

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14. Jeremie Harris - Building a Data Science Startup & Getting Into Data Science

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 4:05 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds

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13. Jessica Li - Predicting Snowmelt Patterns with Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 4:06 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 47 seconds

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12. Rachael Tatman - Data science at Kaggle

Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 19 seconds

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11. Sanjeev Sharma - DataOps and data science at enterprise scale

Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 3:49 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 36 seconds

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10. Sanyam Bhutani - Data science beyond the classroom

Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 15 seconds

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9. Ben Lorica - Trends in data science with O'Reilly Media's Chief Data Scientist

Published: Oct. 15, 2019, 7:22 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 29 seconds

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8. George Hayward: comedian, lawyer and data scientist

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 7:04 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 4 seconds

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7. Serkan Piantino - From Facebook to startups: data science is becoming an engineering problem

Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 6:23 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 16 seconds

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6. Jay Feng - Data science in the startup world

Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 12:47 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 1 second

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5. Rocio Ng - Data science and product management at LinkedIn

Published: Sept. 19, 2019, 3:56 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 19 seconds

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4. Akshay Singh - The thin line between data science and data engineering

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 6:53 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 6 seconds

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Susan Holcomb - Nontechnical career skills for data scientists

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 41 seconds

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Tan Vachiramon - Choosing the right algorithm for your real-world problem

Published: July 16, 2019, 3:04 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 21 seconds

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Joel Grus - The case against the jupyter notebook

Published: July 16, 2019, 2:58 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 32 seconds

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