

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
Ben Lorica
A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].
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Jun 2, 2022 • 41min
Narrative AI
This week’s guest is Hilary Mason, co-founder of Hidden Door, a startup that uses AI and machine learning to help create and power role-playing games (RPG). Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results: https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

May 26, 2022 • 40min
Machine Learning Model Observability
Oren Razon is CEO and co-founder of Superwise, a startup that builds tools to streamline observability for machine learning models. This episode provides a comprehensive overview of tools and best practices for deploying, monitoring, and managing machine learning models in production.Download the FREE Report: Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?utm_source=DEpodcastSubscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

May 19, 2022 • 47min
Dataflow Automation
Jeremiah Lowin is co-founder and CEO of Prefect, the company behind the popular open source data workflow orchestration system with the same name. We discussed the major design changes in Prefect 2.0, their move towards treating “code as workflows”, data engineering challenges facing data and ML teams today, and implications of looming trends in machine learning and AI.Download the FREE Report: State of Workflow Orchestration → https://www.prefect.io/lp/gradientflow?utm_source=gradientflow&utm_medium=newsletterSubscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

May 12, 2022 • 48min
Practical Machine Learning and Deep learning
Sebastian Raschka is lead author of a new book from Packt entitled “Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn”. He is also an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), and serves as the Lead AI Educator at Grid.ai. Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results: https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

May 5, 2022 • 26min
Machine Learning for Optimization
This week’s guests are Ade Fajemisin (Postdoctoral Researcher) and Donato Maragno (PhD Student) of the University of Amsterdam. They were co-authors of a recent paper (“Optimization with Constraint Learning: A Framework and Survey”) that explores how machine learning can be used to learn constraints in optimization problems. Download the FREE Report: Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?utm_source=DEpodcastSubscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Apr 28, 2022 • 27min
Efficient Scaling of Language Models
This week’s guests are Barret Zoph and Liam Fedus, research scientists at Google Brain. Our conversation centered around Large Language Models (LLM), specifically recent work by Barret, Liam, and their collaborators on efficient scaling of large language models.Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results: https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Apr 21, 2022 • 31min
Data Science at Stitch Fix
Olivia Liao is Senior Director of Data Science at Stitch Fix, a company that uses data science and expert stylists to deliver personalization at scale. We discuss how they blend data science and domain expertise, how they tune recommendations in light of logistics and supply chain constraints, and how they incorporate new developments in large language models, multimodal models and Responsible AI.Download a FREE copy of our recent NLP Industry Survey Results: https://gradientflow.com/2021nlpsurvey/Subscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Apr 14, 2022 • 45min
The 2022 AI Index
Jack Clark is co-director of the AI Index Steering Committee. In this episode we discuss key findings of the fifth edition of the AI Index. The report uses multiple metrics (benchmarks, publications, patents, legislation, etc.) to track progress in AI (mainly deep learning) in key areas that include computer vision, speech recognition, and language models. Download the FREE Report: Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?utm_source=DEpodcastSubscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Apr 7, 2022 • 46min
Why You Need A Time-Series Database
This week’s guests are Ajay Kulkarni (CEO) and Mike Freedman (CTO), co-founders of Timescale, the startup behind the popular relational database for time-series and analytics. Mike is also a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Our conversation took place a few weeks after Timescale raised a massive funding round and achieved unicorn status. Download the FREE Report: 2022 Data Engineering Survey Report → https://gradientflow.com/2022desurvey/?utm_source=DEpodcastSubscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.

Mar 31, 2022 • 35min
Data Science at Shopify
This week’s guest is Wendy Foster, Director of Engineering & Data Science at Shopify. We discussed applications of data science within Shopify, how they organize their data teams, the lifecycle of a data science project within the company, and how they approach emerging challenges like Responsible AI, large language models, and multimodal models.Download the FREE Report: Trends in Data, Machine Learning, and AI → https://gradientflow.com/2022trendsreport?utm_source=DEpodcastSubscribe: Apple • Android • Spotify • Stitcher • Google • AntennaPod • RSS.Detailed show notes can be found on The Data Exchange web site.


