We talked about:

• David’s background
• A day in the life of a professor
• David’s current projects
• Starting a school
• The different types of professors
• David’s recent papers
• Similarities and differences between research labs and startups
• Finding (or creating) good datasets
• David’s lab
• Balancing research and teaching as a professor
• David’s most rewarding research project
• David’s most underrated research project
• David’s virtual data science seminars on YouTube
• Teaching at universities without doing research
• Staying up-to-date in research
• David’s favorite conferences
• Selecting topics for research
• Convincing students to stay in academia and competing with industry
• Finding David online
  

Links: 

• David A. Bader: https://davidbader.net/
• NJIT Institute for Data Science: https://datascience.njit.edu/
• Arkouda: https://github.com/Bears-R-Us/arkouda
• NJIT Data Science YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NJITInstituteforDataScience

ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp

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