This week on DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, Hugo speaks with Gabriel Straub, the Head of Data Science and Architecture at the BBC, where his role is to help make the organization more data informed and to make it easier for product teams to build data and machine learning powered products. They’ll be talking about data science and machine le ...…

This week Hugo speaks with Dr. Brandeis Marshall, about people of color and under-represented groups in data science. They’ll talk about the biggest barriers to entry for people of color, initiatives that currently exist and what we as a community can do to be as diverse and inclusive as possible. Brandeis is an Associate Professor of Computer ...…

In episode 50, our Season 1, 2018 finale of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, Hugo speaks with Cathy O’Neil, data scientist, investigative journalist, consultant, algorithmic auditor and author of the critically acclaimed book Weapons of Math Destruction. Cathy and Hugo discuss the ingredients that make up weapons of math destruction, which are ...…

Hugo speaks with Wes McKinney, creator of the pandas project for data analysis tools in Python and author of Python for Data Analysis, among many other things. Wes and Hugo talk about data science tool building, what it took to get pandas off the ground and how he approaches building “human interfaces to data” to make individuals more productiv ...…

In this episode of DataFramed, the DataCamp podcast, Hugo speaks with Angela Bassa about managing data science teams. Angela is Director of Data Science at iRobot, where she leads the team through development of machine learning algorithms, sentiment analysis, and anomaly detection processes. iRobot are the makers of consumer robots that we all ...…

Hugo speaks with Peter Bull about the importance of human-centered design in data science. Peter is a data scientist for social good and co-founder of Driven Data, a company that brings cutting-edge practices in data science and crowdsourcing to some of the world's biggest social challenges and the organizations taking them on, including machin ...…

In this episode of DataFramed, a DataCamp podcast, Hugo speaks with Arnaub Chatterjee. Arnaub is a Senior Expert and Associate Partner in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Products group at McKinsey & Company. They’ll discuss cutting through the hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare by looking at practical ...…

In this episode of DataFramed, Hugo speaks with Cassie Kozyrkov, Chief Decision Scientist at Google Cloud. Cassie and Hugo will be talking about data science, decision making and decision intelligence, which Cassie thinks of as data science plus plus, augmented with the social and managerial sciences. They’ll talk about the different and evolvi ...…

In this episode of DataFramed, Hugo speaks with Brian Granger, co-founder and co-lead of Project Jupyter, physicist and co-creator of the Altair package for statistical visualization in Python. They’ll speak about data science, interactive computing, open source software and Project Jupyter. With over 2.5 million public Jupyter notebooks on git ...…

Hugo speaks with Andrew Gelman about statistics, data science, polling, and election forecasting. Andy is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University and this week we’ll be talking the ins and outs of general polling and election forecasting, the biggest challenges in gaug ...…

Hugo speaks with Vicki Boykis about what full-stack end-to-end data science actually is, how it works in a consulting setting across various industries and why it’s so important in developing modern data-driven solutions to business problems. Vicki is a full-stack data scientist and senior manager at CapTech Consulting, working on projects in m ...…

Hugo speaks with Allen Downey about uncertainty in data science. Allen is a professor of Computer Science at Olin College and the author of a series of free, open-source textbooks related to software and data science. Allen and Hugo speak about uncertainty in data science and how we, as humans, are not always good at thinking about uncertainty, ...…

Hugo speaks with Renee Teate about the many paths to becoming a data scientist. Renee is a Data Scientist at higher ed analytics start-up HelioCampus, and creator and host of the Becoming a Data Scientist Podcast. In addition to discussing the many possible ways to become becoming a data scientist, they will discuss the common data scientist pr ...…

Hugo speaks with Eric Colson, Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix, an online personal styling service reinventing the shopping experience by delivering one-to-one personalization to their clients through the combination of data science and human judgment. Eric is responsible for the creation of dozens of algorithms at Stitch Fix that are per ...…

Meet Tanya Cashorali, a founding partner of TCB Analytics, a Boston-based data consultancy. Tanya started her career in bioinformatics and has applied her experience to other industries such as healthcare, finance, retail, and sports. We’ll be talking about what it means to be a data consultant, the wide range of industries that Tanya works in, ...…

Hugo speaks with JD Long, VP of risk management for Renaissance reinsurance, about applications of data science techniques to the omnipresent worlds of insurance, reinsurance, risk management and uncertainty. What are the biggest challenges in insurance and reinsurance that data science can impact? How does JD go about building risk representat ...…

Hugo speaks with Christie Bahlai, Assistant Professor at Kent State University, about data science, ecology, and the adoption of techniques such as machine learning in academic research. What are the biggest challenges in ecology that data science can help to solve? What does the intersection of open science and data science look like? In scien ...…

Hugo speaks with Yves Hilpisch about how data science is disrupting finance. Yves’ name is synonymous with Python for Finance and he is founder and managing partner of The Python Quants, a group focusing on the use of open source technologies for financial data science, artificial intelligence, algorithmic trading and computational finance. Why ...…

Hugo speaks with Amber Thomas about data journalism, interactive visualization and data storytelling. Amber is a journalist-engineer at The Pudding, which is a collection of data-driven, visual essays. We’ll discuss the ins and outs of what it takes to tell interactive journalistic stories using data visualization and, in the process, we’ll fin ...…

What are the biggest challenges in Pharmaceuticals that data science can help to solve? How are data science and statistics generally embedded in organizations such as Pfizer? What aspects of the pharmaceutical business run the gamut of nonclinical statistics? Hugo speaks with Max Kuhn, a software engineer at RStudio who was previously Senior D ...…

Hugo speaks with Derek Johnson, an epidemiologist with Doctors without Borders. Derek leverages statistical methods, experimental design and data scientific techniques to investigate the barriers impeding people from accessing health care in Lahe Township, Myanmar. If you thought data science was all machine learning, SQL databases and convolut ...…

Hugo speaks with Alan Nichol about chatbots, conversational software and data science. Alan is co-founder and CTO of Rasa, who build open source machine learning tools for developers and product teams to expand bots beyond answering simple questions. Which verticals are conversational software currently having the biggest impact on? What are th ...…

Hugo speaks with Taras Gorishnyy, a Senior Analytics Manager at McKinsey and Head of Data Science at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company. They discuss the role of data science in management consulting, what it takes to change organizations through data science, how the different moving parts of data science have evolved over the past decade and in ...…

Omoju Miller, a Senior Machine Learning Data Scientist with Github, speaks with Hugo about the role of data science in product development at github, what it means to “use computation to build products to solve real-life decision making, practical challenges” and what building data products at github actually looks like. Machine learning has th ...…

What are best practices for organizing data science teams? Having data scientists distributed through companies or having a Centre of Excellence? What are the most important skills for data scientists? Is the ability to use the most sophisticated deep learning models more important than being able to make good powerpoint slides? Find out in thi ...…

What are the biggest challenges currently facing data security and privacy? What does the GDPR mean for civilians, working data scientists and businesses around the world? Is data anonymization actually possible or a pipe dream? Find out in Hugo's conversation with Katharine Jarmul, a data scientist, consultant, educator and co-founder of KI pr ...…

Why are spreadsheets ubiquitous in data analytics, why are so many data scientists anti-spreadsheet? Join Jenny Bryan, a software engineer at RStudio & recovering biostatistician who takes special delight in eliminating the small agonies of data analysis, and Hugo to discover why spreadsheets are in fact necessary in data analytics and how spre ...…

Community building is an essential aspect of data science. But how do you do it? Find out in Hugo's conversation with Jared Lander, organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup and the New York R Conference. Jared is also the Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics, a data science consultancy based in New York City and an Adju ...…

"Cloud computing is a huge revolution in the computing space, and it's also probably going to be one of the most transformative technologies that any of us experience in our lifetime. " Paige Bailey, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, in this episode of DataFramed. In this conversation with Hugo, Paige reports from the frontier of cl ...…

What do online experiments, data science and product development look like at Booking.com, the world’s largest accommodations provider? Join Hugo's conversation with Lukas Vermeer to find out. Lukas is responsible for experimentation at Booking in the broadest sense of the word: from Infrastructure and Tools used to run experiments, Methodology ...…

Building models of the world is dangerous and there are pitfalls everywhere, even down to the assumptions that you make. To find out about many statistical pitfalls, and how to build more robust data scientific models using statistical modeling, whether it be in tech, epidemiology, finance or anything else, join Hugo's chat with Michael Betanco ...…

How can data science help in the fight against cancer? What are its limitations? Find out in this conversation from the frontier of research. Hugo speaks with Sandy Griffith from Flatiron Health, a healthcare technology and services company focused on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care. Sandy is Principal methodologist on F ...…

Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle, speaks with Hugo about Kaggle, data science communities, reproducible data science, machine learning competitions and the future of data science in the cloud. If you thought that Kaggle was merely a platform for machine learning competitions, you have to check out this chat, because these ML comps account for l ...…

"We should be looking at Automated Machine Learning tools as more like data science assistants, rather than replacements for data scientists" -- Randy Olson, Lead Data Scientist at Life Epigenetics, Inc. Randy specializes in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and created TPOT, a Data Science Assistant and a Python Automated Machine Lear ...…

Michelle Gill, a deep learning expert at NVIDIA, an Artificial Intelligence company that builds GPUs, the processors that everybody uses for deep learning, speaks with Hugo about the modern superpower of deep learning and where it has the largest impact, past, present and future, filtered through the lens of Michelle's work at NVIDIA. Where is ...…

Sebastian Raschka, a machine learning aficionado, data analyst, author, python programmer, open source contributor, computational biologist, and occasional blogger, speaks with Hugo about the role of data science in modern biology and the power of deep learning in today's rapidly evolving data science landscape. How is Sebastian using deep lear ...…

Mara Averick, self-labelled data nerd and Tidyverse developer advocate at RStudio, speaks with Hugo about all things data: what it means to be a data nerd and how data science impacts all of our lives from thinking about toxicology to sports analytics to data for social good and civic tech; how can thinking about data make you a better citizen ...…

Drew Conway, world-renowned data scientist, entrepreneur, author, speaker and creator of the Data Science Venn Diagram speaks with Hugo about how to build data science teams, along with the unique challenges of building data science products for industrial users. How does Drew now view the Venn circles he created, those of hacking skills, mathe ...…

How can data science be leveraged to inform business decisions around all the text data that businesses have and what can text mining all the open text data out there tell us about society? For example, what can analyzing film scripts tell us about gender dynamics in Hollywood? Join Julia Silge, data scientist at Stack Overflow, as she takes a ...…

Fake news: how can data science and deep learning be leveraged to detect it? Come on a journey with Mike Tamir, Head of Data Science at Uber ATG, who is building out a data science product that classifies text as news, editorial, satire, hate speech and fake news, among others. We'll also see what types of unique challenges Mike faced in his wo ...…

Nuclear engineering, data science and open source software development: where do these all intersect? To find out, join Hugo and Katy Huff, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois where she leads the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles research group.…

How does data science help Buzzfeed achieve online virality? What type of mass online experiments do data scientists at BuzzFeed run for this purpose? What products do they develop to make all of this easy and intuitive for content producers? Find out about all of this and more in this episode when Hugo talks with Adam Kelleher, Principal Data ...…

Air pollution, the environment and data science: where do these intersect? Find out in this episode of DataFramed, in which Hugo speaks with Roger Peng, Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab and co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Data S ...…

Etsy, online experiments and data science are the topics of this episode, in which Hugo speaks with Emily Robinson, a data analyst at Etsy. How are data science and analysis integral to their business and decision making? Join us to find out. We'll also dive into the types of statistical modeling that occurs at Etsy and the importance of both d ...…

Jake VanderPlas, a data science fellow at the University of Washington's eScience Institute, astronomer, open source beast and renowned Pythonista, joins Hugo to speak about data science, astronomy, the open source development world and the importance of interdisciplinary conversations to data science.…

Airbnb's business depends on data science. In this episode, Hugo speaks with Robert Chang, data scientist at airbnb and previously at twitter. We'll be chatting about the different types of roles data science can play in digital businesses such as airbnb and twitter, how companies at different stages of development actually require divergent ty ...…

Chris Volinsky, AT&T Labs' Assistant Vice President for Big Data Research and a member of the team that won the $1M Netflix Prize, an open competition for improving Netflix' online recommendation system, speaks with Hugo. We'll be discussing the role data science plays in the modern telecommunications network landscape, how it helps a company t ...…

Claudia Perlich, Chief Scientist at DStillery, a role in which she designs, develops, analyzes and optimizes the machine learning algorithms that drive digital advertising, speaks with Hugo about the role of data science in the online advertising world, the predictability of humans, how her team builds real time bidding algorithms and detects b ...…

The trucking industry is being revolutionized by Data Science. And how? Hugo speaks with Ben Skrainka, a data scientist at Convoy, a company that provides trucking services for shippers and carriers powered by technology to drive reliability, transparency, efficiency, and insights. We'll dive into how data science can help to achieve such a tru ...…

Maelle Salmon, a data scientist who has worked in public health, both in infectious disease and environmental epidemiology, joins Hugo for a chat about the role of data science, statistics and data management in researching the health effects of air pollution and urbanization. In the process, we'll dive into the continual need for open source t ...…