Best Computational Propaganda Podcasts (2024)

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The Data Dilemma: How Blind Insight is Revolutionizing Secure Analytics for Enterprises ft. Jackie Peters and Nick Sullivan 27:16

7h ago27:16

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The Data Dilemma: How Blind Insight is Revolutionizing Secure Analytics for Enterprises ft. Jackie Peters and Nick Sullivan Jackie Peters: Co-founder and CEO of Blind Insight, Jackie brings over 25 years of experience in tech, with a strong focus on healthcare and privacy. Her career spans product development, health tech, and decentralized technol…

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Elevating Computer Vision and Female Voices with Alex Levinson and Sheila Beladinejad 21:00

4d ago21:00

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In this episode of the DSS Podcast, Anna Anisin introduces two powerhouse guests in the realms of AI and robotics.First, Anna welcomes Alex, Principal Algorithms/AI Engineer at Elbit Systems of America, based in Miami. Alex shares her journey into the field of AI, particularly computer vision, and discusses common use cases, pitfalls, and success s…

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Patrick Obeid: How AI Simplifies ESG Reporting and Data Infrastructure w/ ESG Flo 38:31

12d ago38:31

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Patrick Obeid: How AI Simplifies ESG Reporting and Data Infrastructure w/ ESG Flo [Audio] Patrick Obeid, is the founder of ESG Flo, the leading ESG software that leverages artificial intelligence to seamlessly automate the collection and transformation of ESG data into audit-ready metrics. In this episode we discuss: Introduction to the HumAIn podc…

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Using AI & Machine Learning to Develop Better Healthcare Experiences with Sumayah Rahman and Vaibhav Verdhan 21:25

19d ago21:25

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In this episode of the Data Science Salon Podcast, host Anna Anisin sits down with two leading experts in the ML/AI healthcare industry. First, Sumayah Rahman, Director of Data Science - Machine Learning and Infrastructure at Cedar, discusses optimizing the patient experience to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. She explains how ML-po…

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Lessons Learned from Applying Data Science in Finance and a Deep Dive into Drift with Mabu Manaileng and Adam Lieberman 20:44

26d ago20:44

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In this episode, Anna sits down with two leaders in the finance industry, exploring the forefront of AI and ML innovations.First, we have Mabu Manaileng, Lead Data Scientist at Standard Bank Group. Mabu shares his journey and current role, highlights the challenges of applied data science in the financial sector, and discusses the transformative im…

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Leveraging Statistical Models and ESG to Grow Your Business with Laura Gabrysiak and Rochelle March 36:20

1M ago36:20

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In this episode, Anna sits down with two leaders in the finance industry, exploring the forefront of AI, ML, and ESG innovations.First, let's welcome Laura Gabrysiak, Data Science Leader at Visa. Laura develops statistical models and decision analytics tools that enable Visa clients to transform massive amounts of data into actionable ML models and…

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FinTech Insights: AI Innovations, Privacy Strategies, and Synthetic Data with Harry Mendell & Supreet Kaur 32:06

1M ago32:06

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In this episode, Anna sits down with two distinguished leaders in the ML/AI finance industry. First, we have Harry Mendell, Technology Group Data Architect at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who brings over 30 years of expertise in FinTech. Harry shares compelling stories and discusses emerging trends in the finance sector.Following Harry, Su…

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Here’s How 173 – Hidden Faces 1:02:28

4M ago1:02:28

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Mathew Creighton is associate professor of sociology at UCD. ***** I’ve been on a low-information diet. I suppose I’m someone who is generally pretty well-informed but sometimes that can get a bit too much, so a few months ago I just tuned out, deleted all my news apps, Twitter – while it still had the […]…

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HH172 – Never Mind the Bullocks 57:00

4M ago57:00

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Andrew Wright is a fourth generation dairy farmer near Omagh in Co Tyrone, with a big following on Tiktok. We talked about this video he published. ***** In the world of what used to be called PR, these days they call themselves other things, information management or whatever. PR has PR’d itself. In the world […]…

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Max Galka: How AI Transforms Decision-making on the Blockchain 30:53

5M ago30:53

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Max Galka: How AI Transforms Decision-making on the Blockchain [Audio] Max Galka is the CEO of Elementus, the first universal search engine for blockchain and institutional grade crypto forensics solution. In this episode, we talk about all things Blockchain, Bitcoin, Data, and AI. Episode Links: Max Galka LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxg…

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Here’s How 171 – Tilting at Monoliths 1:08:12

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David Maddox is the political editor of Express Online. ***** Kevin and myself always appreciate feedback from listeners, we try to reply when we can, but Aengus Ryan send in a sound file, which is great cos I can include it in the podcast. I think this is an important question, and I think that […]By William Campbell

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Here’s How 170 – Nobody Tells Us What to Do 56:31

6M ago56:31

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Pádraig Mac Lochlainn is Sinn Féin’s chief whip. *****By William Campbell

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Here’s How 169 – Gift of the Gab 1:08:12

7M ago1:08:12

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Mario Rosenstock is a comedian and impressionist, and creator of TodayFM’s Gift Grub. ***** Here’s something about the Chinese economy. China’s ‘investment’ in real estate makes Ireland’s property obsession seem breezy and carefree. Just before our crash, 12 per cent of our economy was house-building. Even if Chinese GDP figures are true, then thei…

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Here’s How 167 – Holes in the Net 40:41

8M ago40:41

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Aubrey McCarthy is the founder and chairman of Tiglin, a charity that provides services to homeless people. ***** I listen to podcasts quite a bit in arrears. I’m not too worried about being current, I suppose, and I was just listening to a David McWilliams podcast from August, he was talking about the banks, not […]…

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Here’s How 166 – Tsar Wars 54:02

9M ago54:02

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James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and recognition in international politics. ***** Donald Trump is going to jail. That’s a whole big story in itsel…

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Context Matters: Generative AI, the spectrum of worldviews, and understanding propaganda's appeal 50:45

9M ago50:45

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Ben Dubow studied the Middle East during his undergrad and took a job tracking terrorist groups. After a brief stint at a large tech company, he launched Omelas, a company that combines AI and subject matter expertise to deliver intelligence to national security professionals.In today's episode, our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum caught up with …

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HH165 – A Step into the Dark 1:06:29

10M ago1:06:29

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Janie Lazar is the chair of End of Life Ireland. ***** Some people have said some things about my level of political insight, thanks to them, even if I don’treally think it’s that impressive most of the time. Actually, whatever level of insight that I do have, Ithink is just down to two habits. One […]…

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HH164 – Uncivil Liberties 55:21

11M ago55:21

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Josie Appleton is the director of the Manifesto Club. ***** You might think that you’re not familiar with the CE symbol, but you probably are, I’m sure you’ve seen it thousands of times. I can’t show you a picture of it in audio format, but the symbol is two semi-circles, the first one making a […]By William Campbell

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Here’s How 163 – Guilty Speech 1:00:52

11M ago1:00:52

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Pauline O’Reilly is the Green Party spokesperson on Education and Higher Education and Senator and the cathaoirleach of the Green Party. ***** I heard Mark O’Halloran on an old episode the Mario Rosenstock Podcast recently, he talked very articulately about how the housing crisis affects him, how he as a man in his 50s has […]…

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Here’s How 162 – Gravy Trains and Spin Cycles 1:00:36

12M ago1:00:36

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Repeats on podcasts don’t always make a lot of sense, but if you are subscribed, you’ll know that I put up a podcast from 2019 into the feed again last week; the podcast was an investigation into RTÉ and their relationship with the AA which supplied them with AA Roadwatch, the erstwhile traffic news segments. […]…

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Here’s How 161 – Once Again for Those at the Back 55:33

1y ago55:33

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I think that it’s about time to hear this edition of the podcast from 2019 again. Dr Michael Foley is professor emeritus at the school of media at TU Dublin – formerly DIT – also a member of the NUJ’s Ethics Council, and has been invited by the International federation of Journalists and UNESCO to […]…

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Here’s How 160 – Heading South 58:27

1y ago58:27

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Uki Goñi is a historian, journalist and author who has lived in the United States, Ireland, and Argentina. ***** Sometimes it helps to draw a parallel between two events in the news, but two big recent stories – in Ireland, the scandal of RTÉ lying about Ryan Tubridy’s salary, and internationally the over-before-it-began apparent coup […]…

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Here’s How 159 – War and Peace 1:00:46

1y ago1:00:46

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James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and recognition in international politics. He has created many Youtube videos explaining his subject. ***** The F…

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Here’s How 158 – Up with this sort of thing Part II 1:24:56

1y ago1:24:56

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Freda Wallace is the cohost of the Gender Nebulous podcast. Statistics of the sharp rise in the number of referrals to the Tavistock clinic, and their age distribution are here, and here. False claims that puberty blockers, given to children to delay typical-age puberty are ‘completely reversable’ are incredibly common, and have been made by the ta…

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Here’s How 157 – Up with this sort of thing Part I 54:49

1y ago54:49

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Freda Wallace is the cohost of the Gender Nebulous podcast. ***** I want to comment on a rant that was previously posted on this podcast. The rant in question was posted with episode 120 Levelling the Field and the topic was Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol or MUP. MUP, long-time listeners may recall, prohibits the […]…

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When companies try to "sprinkle some AI" on a product 58:18

1y ago58:18

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If you've been in the data game long enough, you've probably seen this before: a stakeholder or product owner approaches you with a project that's 95% done, and they'd like you to … "sprinkle some AI on it." They've heard that this "AI" thing can be useful so they want some of it in their latest effort.Data scientist-turned-product person Noelle Sa…

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Here’s How 156 – Down with this sort of thing 1:11:20

1y ago1:11:20

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Graham Linehan, now back on twitter, is the creator of numerous famous TV shows including Father Ted. *****By William Campbell

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Here’s How 155 – Computer says Tá 28:05

1+ y ago28:05

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Annabel Fenwick Elliott is a British freelance journalist who previously worked for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. ***** It might have been Tomorrow’s World, that science programme from the BBC from my dim and distant childhood, where they demonstrated an early chatbot, although I think it wasn’t called that. You typed in some […]…

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Here’s How 154 – Faithful Translations 51:23

1+ y ago51:23

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Dan McClellan is a public scholar of the Bible and religion and author of the book YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach. ***** I don’t much talk about Jordan Peterson, I don’t think that he is as interesting a character as the internet makes out, certainly not as interesting as he thinks he is himself. […]…

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Here’s How 153 – Tax Reform 46:22

1+ y ago46:22

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Graham Neary is a financial commentator who has been a fund manager and analyst in the London financial markets. ***** The transport minister, Eamon Ryan who is also leader of the Green Party, it has been announced will set up an inter-departmental group to make sure the transport sector meets its emissions reduction targets. Related […]…

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Building data products with Solomon Kahn 1:21:47

1+ y ago1:21:47

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Sometimes the most valuable data IN your company ... is the data LEAVING your company.That's Solomon Kahn's view on data products, as well as the premise behind his latest venture: Delivery Layer.For this episode, our Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum reached out to Solomon to check in on the new startup, and to tap his expertise in the world of da…

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Here’s How 152 – We Are Still Here 44:18

1+ y ago44:18

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Dafydd Iwan is the former president of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. ***** Bertie Ahern, we are told, had been readmitted, to Fianna Fáil. It might be better to use the term rehabilitated. Fianna Fáil activists gave him a standing ovation at an event recently, it was to mark the 25th anniversary of the […]…

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Here’s How 151 – Never Mind the Ballots 55:03

1+ y ago55:03

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John Rentoul is the chief political commentator for the Independent. ***** I’m pessimistic. I’m not naturally a pessimistic person, but I’m pessimistic. Maybe I’m getting older, maybe I’m entering the ‘the whole world is going to hell’ phase of my life, maybe I’m right to be pessimistic, maybe I’m not paying attention to the right […]…

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Here’s How 150 – I Wanna Be Anarchy 1:17:21

1+ y ago1:17:21

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Jesse Spafford is a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin working on the project REAL – Rights and Egalitarianism. His research is focused on ethics and political philosophy with particular attention paid to debates between libertarians, socialists, and anarchists over the moral status of the market and the state. ***** I was talking to someone…

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Here’s How 149 – Schrodinger’s Cake 1:01:56

1+ y ago1:01:56

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Brooks Newmark was a British Conservative Party MP for the constituency of Braintree and is now a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. ***** I’ve got a proposal for tax reform. The idea is to make tax easier and simpler to understand, simpler for the government to collect, thereby lower costs which would lower […]…

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Here’s How 148 – Labouring Forward 1:08:05

1+ y ago1:08:05

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Brendan is the Labour Party TD for Wexford, and former party leader. ***** So, we’re talking about a war. We’re talking about a war where a huge, nuclear-armed superpower, attacks a territory to its south that this formerly-communist superpower views not as a real country, it views but as an integral part of its own […]…

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Here’s How 147 – Makey-up Nonsensical Propaganda 1:18:41

1+ y ago1:18:41

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Eoin Ó Murchú was the political editor for Raidió na Gaeltachta. *****By William Campbell

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Here’s How 146 – Another Calm Discussion 1:05:28

1+ y ago1:05:28

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Aoife Gallagher is a research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author.By William Campbell

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Probabilistic Thinking with James "JD" Long 1:17:00

1+ y ago1:17:00

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In this episode, James and Q explore: The ideas of risk and uncertainty. What is "probabilistic thinking" and why is it important for data scientists? The career progression of a data analyst, and what it means to develop statistical acumen. Thinking in terms of distributions, and thinking in different moments of a distribution. Seeing BI, AI, and …

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Here’s How 145 – A Calm Discussion 54:30

2y ago54:30

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Aoife Gallagher is a research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author. *****By William Campbell

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Here’s How 144 – Stuck in the Middle with you 1:02:29

2y ago1:02:29

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Kellie Armstrong an Alliance party MLA for the Strangford constituency. ***** I saw a load of comments from commentators online, from talking heads on radio and TV, from people on Twitter, that the mobilisation ordered by Putin last week to try to shore up his invasion of Ukraine was stupid. It was stupid to try […]…

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Steven Banerjee: How Machine Intelligence, NLP and AI is changing Health Care 30:39

2y ago30:39

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Steven Banerjee: How Machine Intelligence, NLP and AI is changing Health Care [Audio] Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Steven Banerjee is the CEO of NExTNet Inc. NExTNet is a Silicon Valley based technology startup pioneering natural language based Explainable AI platform to accel…

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Here’s How 143 – Question Time 43:36

2y ago43:36

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It’s Q&A time! Thank you to everyone who sent in a question!By William Campbell

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Here’s How 142 – Both Sides Now 1:11:10

2y ago1:11:10

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Joel Keys is a Belfast Loyalist activist and prolific tweeter. ***** I discovered a big discrepancy. Well, I didn’t so much discover it as notice it. And it isn’t really isn’t a big discrepancy, it is an enormous discrepancy. A gigantic discrepancy. A sort of a so-big-you-could-see-it-from-space. discrepancy This is the discrepancy. Have a look […]…

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Here’s How 141 – Defender of the Faiths 45:51

2y ago45:51

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Marc Coleman is a business consultant, former broadcaster and journalist. He is currently working on a book on the persistence of western democracy. ***** ‘Magical thinking’ is a great phrase that I learnt years ago, it’s a concept that’s useful to understand someone’s thought processes, maybe even your own. If you know what it is, […]…

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The roles of economists in data science, with Dr. Amar Natt 43:20

2y ago43:20

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We've all heard the term "economist," sure. But exactly what does and economist do? And as economics is a very data-driven field, where does their work intersect with data science, machine learning, and AI? To answer that question, Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum spoke with Amar Natt, PhD. She's an economist at Econ One Research, and her work foc…

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Here’s How 139 – German Divisions Part I 55:45

2y ago55:45

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Professor Julian Nida-Rümelin is is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was the State Minister for Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany under Gerhard Schröder. Professor Nida-Rümelin, along with dozens of other prominent Germans signed a letter in Die Zeit, a leading German newspaper, a…

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ML at The Home Depot with Pat Woowong: The Falloff Model and Lead Scoring 1:05:56

2y ago1:05:56

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When people think about The Home Depot, they probably think more about lumber and tile than they do ML models. Sure, there is plenty of lumber. But machine learning also plays a key role in the business, in places that customers can see as well as the behind-the-scenes operations.Senior Content Advisor Q McCallum met up with Pat Woowong, Director o…

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Here’s How 138 – Market signals 45:34

2y ago45:34

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Seán Keyes is the finance correspondent for the Currency, a subscription news website. ***** I spoke to a Sinn Féin supporter in the years after the Good Friday Belfast agreement, I think it was during one of the interminable negotiations trying to get DUP to participate and have the institutions up and running, and she […]…

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Episode 137 – Ellie O’Byrne 55:20

2y ago55:20

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Ellie O’Byrne is co-editor of Tripe and Drisheen, a Cork-based local news substack, and we discussed a recent article of hers. ***** In talking to Ellie, I mentioned a tweet from Cllr Fiona Ryan of People Before Profit, who claimed that there are 25,000 ‘Airbnb vacancies’ in Ireland. I used the website InsideAirbnb.com to show […]…

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