Cam Ahler and Dan Luttrell on digital transformation at Bridgestone Most people associate Bridgestone with tires, but they’re way more than just that. Bridgestone is constantly innovating to keep their fleets and customers happy and on the road. This week Clinton is joined by Cam Ahler and Dan Luttrell from the Bridgestone team to discuss how they …

What goes into building a spreadsheet application in Python that runs in the browser? How do you make it launch quickly, and where do you store the cells of data? This week on the show, we speak with Chris Laffra about his project, PySheets, and his book “Communication for Engineers.” As a software engineer, Chris has worked at IBM, Google, Uber, a…

The Launch and NTT DATA teams on how embracing AI can build a stronger, more caring workforce It’s time to lean into AI literacy. This week on Catalyst, Launch by NTT DATA’s President Tammy Soares is joined by two AI experts, Kim Curley and Wendy Collins, to discuss the human side of AI. They discuss how generative AI can help with the difficulties…

What changes are happening under the hood in the latest versions of Python? How are these updates laying the groundwork for a faster Python in the coming years? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. Christopher shares an article about Python’s recent performance improvem…

Megan Wang and Lisa Woodley on transforming the customer experience with data science and AI This week Clinton is joined by Megan Wang and Lisa Woodley from NTT DATA to discuss how to improve the customer experience in the digital age. From the impact of digitalization on service delivery, to the role of AI in enhancing customer interactions, to th…

How does a Python tool support all types of DataFrames and their various features? Could a lightweight library be used to add compatibility for newer formats like Polars or PyArrow? This week on the show, we speak with Marco Gorelli about his project, Narwhals. Narwhals is a project aimed at library maintainers rather than end users. We discuss how…

In this episode, we honor the memory of Abhishek Gupta, who was an instrumental figure in the Green Software Foundation and a Co-Chair of the Standards Working Group. Abhishek's work was pivotal in the development of the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification, now adopted globally. His tireless efforts shaped the future of green software, le…

William Chumley on prioritizing customer experience at the state level There’s no wrong door to get to government. Every citizen should have an avenue to access government services in some form or another, be it digital or in person. This week Clinton sits down with William Chumley, the Chief Customer Officer for the Governor's Office of Informatio…

Python 3.13 is here! Our regular guests, Geir Arne Hjelle and Christopher Trudeau, return to discuss the new version. This year, Geir Arne coordinated a series of preview articles with members of the Real Python team and a showcase tutorial, “Python 3.13: Cool New Features for You to Try.” Christopher’s video course “What’s New in Python 3.13” cove…

In this episode of Environment Variables, host Chris Skipper introduces "Backstage," a new segment offering behind-the-scenes insights into the Green Software Foundation's key projects. The episode highlights the "Transforming Organizations for Sustainable Software" (TOSS) project, led by Pindy Bhullar, which aims to embed sustainable practices acr…

Brant Beard on how to lead teams towards success Encourage your team to be fearless and you can create a culture of collaboration. In this episode from the archives Brant Beard, Assistant Vice President of Application Services at Parallon, joins Launch by NTT DATA’s Clinton Bonner and Robbie Elliott to discuss fostering healthy team dynamics. They …

This Week in Green Software, the affable Anne Currie is joined by Sara Bergman, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft and co-author of Building Green Software. Together, they dive into the complexities of sustainable data in relation to AI and cloud computing. They explore the environmental impact of managing and storing vast quantities of data, an…

Greg Larkin on how to have the hard conversations that catalyze new growth In every industry there are insiders and outsiders. Greg Larkin prides himself on being an outsider. Greg was the first person to publicly predict the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and has since gone on to launch dozens of transformative products for Fortune 500 companies. T…

Should you use a Python virtual environment in a Docker container? What are the advantages of using the same development practices locally and inside a container? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. We share a recent post by Hynek Schlawack about building Python projec…

Host Chris Adams sits down with CEO Olivier Corradi and Tech Lead Íngrid Munné Collado of Electricity Maps, a company that leverages data to enable decarbonization of electricity grids. They discuss the complexities of carbon intensity data, the role of accurate forecasting in renewable energy, and how this data helps optimize electricity usage for…

Can large companies contribute to society, be sustainable, and be profitable? Vito Mabrucco thinks so. This week on Catalyst, Clinton is joined by Vito Mabrucco, NTT Corporation's Global Chief Marketing Office, to discuss how NTT balances ethics, collaboration, innovation and sustainability. Vito shares some of NTT's current innovations and delves …

What are strategies for being a productive developer with ADHD? How can you help your team members with ADHD to succeed and complete projects? This week on the show, we speak with Chris Ferdinandi about his website and podcast “ADHD For the Win!” Chris struggled with productivity early in his career as a developer. He shares systems and strategies …

Host Chris Adams is joined by Asim Hussain to dive into The Week in Green Software, exploring the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence and how the growing adoption of AI technology affects carbon emissions, as well as the growing complexities in the measurement and reduction of these. They discuss a primer on AI's direct environmental f…

Mik Kersten on transforming value streams with the flow framework What's the best way to connect strategy to delivery? Dr. Mik Kersten wrote the book on it. This week Clinton is joined by Dr. Mik Kersten, the CTO at Planview and author of Project to Product, and Keith Buehlman, Senior Director of Business Value Acceleration at Launch by NTT DATA, t…

How do you take advantage of Git pre-commit hooks? How do you build custom software checks and rules that run every time you commit your code? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. We share a trio of articles by previous guest Stefanie Molin about Git pre-commit hooks. A…

Host Chris Adams is joined by special guest Philipp Wiesner, a research associate and PhD student at TU Berlin, to discuss how computing systems can better align energy consumption with clean energy availability. Contributing to Project Vessim, Philipp explains how researchers are now able to model different energy consumption scenarios, from solar…

In this bonus episode for Season 3, Madhuri Karak speaks with Michelle Thorne (Green Web Foundation) and Shannon Dosemagen (Open Environmental Data Project), two co-founders of Open Climate. Together, they delve into curated collision, a knowledge commons for climate information, and the importance of open for climate action.…

Per Kristian Stoveland on his generative art series The Harvest Generative artists are trailblazing a brand new, technology-based future. In this archived episode Clinton sits down with Per Kristian to hear all about how he developed his ambitious generative art collection The Harvest. Per Kristian explains what generative art actually is, how it d…

Are you interested in practicing your Python skills while learning how to solve astrophysics and astronomy problems? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. Christopher shares a pair of his recent Real Python video courses about exploring astronomy and astrophysics with Py…

This week we are joined by two PhD researchers, Silke Kaiser and Chiara Fusar Bassini, from the Hertie School in Berlin. With host Chris Adams they discuss their use of data science and machine learning and how they are using them to tackle some of today’s most pressing environmental challenges. Silke shares insights into her research on predicting…

Nate Berent-Spillson on the power of platform thinking In the enterprise world, there are three main reasons for why an organization may be struggling to gain momentum: organizational muscle memory, structural friction, and legacy technical debt. In this archived episode Clinton is joined by Nate Berent-Spillson, NTT DATA’s VP of Engineering, to di…

Arlene Harris on the transformation of the telecommunications industry Telecommunications has come a long way since the 60s. This week Clinton is joined by telecom pioneer, Arlene Harris, and NTT DATA’s Devin Yaung to discuss how platforms and the telecom industry have changed over the past 60 years. They delve into Arlene’s incredible journey from…

Are you interested in learning robotics with Python? Can physical electronics-based projects grow a child’s interest in coding? This week on the show, we speak with author Marwan Alsabbagh about his book “Build Your Own Robot - Using Python, CRICKIT, and Raspberry Pi.” Marwan discusses his two conferences talks about building electronics projects w…

TWiGS host Chris Adams is joined once again by Gaël Duez to discuss the latest news in green software around AI. They discuss insights from recent reports by Google, Meta, and Amazon, as well as looking at the implementation of the GSF’s Software Carbon Intensity metric. Similarly, the conversation touches on the distribution of renewable energies …

Two design experts on the costs of accruing design debt We hear a lot about technical debt but what about its equally bothersome cousin design debt? This week on Catalyst Clinton sits down with NTT DATA design experts Mohit SantRam and Kevin McGrath to talk about design debt. They share the tell-tale signs of how to spot design debt and the first s…

What are the best practices for organizing data analysis projects in Python? What are the advantages of a more package-centric approach to data science? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. We discuss Joshua Cook’s recent article “How I Use Python to Organize My Data An…

In this episode, we look into the painstaking compilation of data previously inaccessible and scattered between different government agencies, that is finally shedding light on an extractive industry with massive environmental climate and livelihood consequences: sand mining. In this episode, Madhuri Karak speaks with Siddharth Agarwal about India …

We need to burn fewer and fewer fossil fuels to keep greenhouse gas emissions low and ensure the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold isn't breached. But can we manage and reduce something that we didn't measure accurately in the first place? National governments signed the Paris agreement to limit global warming and cut emissions, but the data on fossil …

Los datos son una pieza clave para que las comunidades puedan reclamar sus derechos y recursos, y la ausencia de datos puede dificultar ese proceso. En este episodio, la presentadora Madhuri Karak habla con José Luis Rengifo, director del Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN) y Omaira Bolaños, directora de los Programas de América Latina y Justicia d…

Data is a key piece of how communities make claims on rights and resources—and the absence of data can make that claims making process difficult. In this episode, host Madhuri Karak speaks with Jose Luis Rengifo, the director of the Process of Black Communities (PCN) and Omaira Bolaños, the director of the Latin America and Gender Justice Programs …

Jason Aitchison on good IT architecture practices The saying goes “all together all from the start,” and that goes for architects too. This week Clinton is joined by Jason Aitchison, Senior Director at NTT DATA, to discuss what makes a good IT architect. Jason shares the traits he looks for in an architect, from creativity to proven problem solving…

What hurdles must be cleared when starting an international organization? How do you empower others in a community by sharing responsibilities? This week on the show, we speak with Jay Miller about Black Python Devs. Jay shares how the idea of forming a community began through attending conferences. They wanted to welcome more black developers into…

Shahid Ahmed on how Edge AI is transforming factory floors Factory floors can sometimes be tough and rough. Luckily, new Edge AI solutions can help to make factories more efficient. This week, Clinton is joined by Shahid Ahmed, Group EVP at NTT DATA, to discuss how Edge AI is being used in factories to improve working conditions and environmental t…

How do you integrate GraphQL into your Python web development? How about quickly building graph-based APIs inside Django’s battery-included framework? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects. Christopher shares a recent tutorial for building GraphQL APIs in Django using the…

What does it mean to take back knowledge and data about our environments, from the hands of those who monopolize this knowledge for centuries, and use that knowledge to extract value from land and people alike? In this episode, Madhuri Karak speaks with Scott Eustis, the community science director at Healthy Gulf, about what taking back ownership o…

OpenAQ: https://openaq.org/#/ OpenAQ Explorer: https://explore.openaq.org/ Predicting What We Breathe: https://airquality.lacity.gov/ World Health Organization Ambient Air Quality and Health fact sheet: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(outdoor)-air-quality-and-healthBy OpenAQ, Colleen Rosales, Chris Hagerbaumer, Open Environmental Data Project, Michelle Cheripka, Madhuri Karak, Karen Yang

Lisa Woodley on the topic that took the Forrester CX Summit by storm In June, the Forrester CX Summit kicked off in Nashville. NTT DATA’s Head of Design, Lisa Woodley, attended the event and noticed that there was one topic that permeated every track of the summit - AI. This week Lisa chats with Clinton about the main topics that were discussed at …

Do you need help making data tables in Python look interesting and attractive? How can you create beautiful display-ready tables as easily as charts and graphs in Python? This week on the show, we speak with Richard Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit about the Great Tables Python library. Michael and Richard discuss the design philosophy and histo…

Host Chris Adams and guest Romain Jacob delve into the often-overlooked energy demands of networking infrastructure to discover A Greener Internet that Sleeps More. While AI and data centers usually dominate the conversation, networking still consumes significant power, comparable to the energy usage of entire countries. They discuss innovative pra…

Climate information exists in a lot of different formats: there are reports, datasets, peer reviewed research articles, blogs, videos, and more. If we're going to have a real shot at tackling the climate crisis, then the knowledge we've produced about climate change needs to be open—but how do we give permission while protecting creators from harm?…

The latest UN IPCC report (AR6) runs... 30,000 pages. For those of us who don't have the time to read this in full, how do we incorporate the golden standard of climate science into our own work? In this episode, Madhuri speaks with Shweata Hegde, a developer at #semanticClimate, who is building a tool that will break AR6 down and turn it into an a…

When we first start learning about something, Wikipedia is often our first stop. But where does Wikipedia fit in when it comes to climate change - a complex, multi-dimensional, and urgent topic like no other? In this episode, Madhuri speaks with Evelin Heidel, the Program Director of Wikimedistas de Uruguay about how Wikipedia lays the groundwork f…

Danny Presten on how to improve flow through value stream management Organizations are often engaged in a flurry of day to day activities that may appear productive, but fail to yield meaningful results. This is why it’s so important to explore the intricacies of value stream management, Agile methodologies, and the transformative power of problem-…

What are discrete optimization problems? How do you solve them with constraint programming in Python? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder’s Weekly articles and projects Christopher discusses an article about constraint programming using Python. He describes the fundamentals and how the problems resem…

Producer Chris Skipper is joined by guests Marjolein Pordon of ladylowcode.com fame and Andri Johnston from Cambridge University Press & Assessment to discuss the sustainability challenges associated with AI's increasing energy demands and the role of data centers in addressing these challenges. Marjolein emphasizes the need for sustainable infrast…