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Nov 5, 2023 • 55min
From Marketing to Product Owner in Search - Lera Kaimashnіkova
We talked about:
Lera’s background
Lera’s move from Ukraine to Germany
The transition from Marketing to Product Ownership
The importance of communication and one-on-ones
The role of Product Owner
Utilizing Scrum as a Product Owner
Building teams and cross-functionality
Lera’s experience learning about search
The importance of having both technical knowledge and business context
Open developer positions at AUTODOC
What experience Lera came to AUTODOC with
How marketing skills helped Lera in her current role
Lera’s resource recommendations
Everything is possible
Links:
Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leracaiman_elasticsearch-ecommerce-activity-7106615081588674560-5WQO
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Oct 27, 2023 • 56min
Collaborative Data Science in Business - Ioannis Mesionis
Ioannis Mesionis, an expert in collaborative data science in business, discusses topics such as collaborating with business stakeholders, optimizing digital marketing, agile project management in data science, and finding time for hands-on work in data science.

Oct 20, 2023 • 54min
Bridging Data Science and Healthcare - Eleni Stamatelou
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Oct 12, 2023 • 58min
DataTalks.Club Anniversary Interview - Alexey Grigorev, Johanna Bayer
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Oct 6, 2023 • 54min
Data Engineering for Fraud Prevention - Angela Ramirez
Angela Ramirez, a data engineer with experience in fraud prevention, talks about her career journey, the usefulness of knowing ML as a data engineer, best practices for system design and data engineering, working with different types of databases including document and network-based databases, and selecting the appropriate database type to work with. She also discusses the importance of software engineering knowledge in data engineering, data quality check tooling, debugging failed jobs, and working with external data sources.

Sep 29, 2023 • 57min
From Data Manager to Data Architect - Loïc Magnien
We talked about:
Loïc's background
Data management
Loïc's transition to data engineer
Challenges in the transition to data engineering
What is a data architect?
The output of a data architect's work
Establishing metrics and dimensions
The importance of communication
Setting up best practices for the team
Staying relevant and tech-watching
Setting up specifications for a pipeline
Be agile, create a POC, iterate ASAP, and build reusable templates
Reaching out to Loïc for questions
Links:
Loiic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loicmagnien/
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Sep 8, 2023 • 54min
Pragmatic and Standardized MLOps - Maria Vechtomova
We talked about:
Maria's background
Marvelous MLOps
Maria's definition of MLOps
Alternate team setups without a central MLOps team
Pragmatic vs non-pragmatic MLOps
Must-have ML tools (categories)
Maturity assessment
What to start with in MLOps
Standardized MLOps
Convincing DevOps to implement
Understanding what the tools are used for instead of knowing all the tools
Maria's next project plans
Is LLM Ops a thing?
What Ahold Delhaize does
Resource recommendations to learn more about MLOps
The importance of data engineering knowledge for ML engineers
Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marvelous-mlops/
Website: https://marvelousmlops.substack.com/
Free MLOps course: https://github.com/DataTalksClub/mlops-zoomcamp
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Aug 25, 2023 • 56min
Democratizing Causality - Aleksander Molak
We talked about:
Aleksander's background
Aleksander as a Causal Ambassador
Using causality to make decisions
Counterfactuals and and Judea Pearl
Meta-learners vs classical ML models
Average treatment effect
Reducing causal bias, the super efficient estimator, and model uplifting
Metrics for evaluating a causal model vs a traditional ML model
Is the added complexity of a causal model worth implementing?
Utilizing LLMs in causal models (text as outcome)
Text as treatment and style extraction
The viability of A/B tests in causal models
Graphical structures and nonparametric identification
Aleksander's resource recommendations
Links:
The Book of Why: https://amzn.to/3OZpvBk
Causal Inference and Discovery in Python: https://amzn.to/46Pperr
Book's GitHub repo: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Causal-Inference-and-Discovery-in-Python
The Battle of Giants: Causality vs NLP (PyData Berlin 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd1XtGZhnmw
New Frontiers in Causal NLP (papers repo): https://bit.ly/3N0TFTL
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Aug 18, 2023 • 47min
Mastering Data Engineering as a Remote Worker - José María Sánchez Salas
Topics include moving from Spain to Norway, organizing the day as a remote worker, company's expertise and data collection process, challenges of finding a remote job in Norway, finding inspiration and writing interesting topics, benefits and challenges of remote work as a data engineer.

Aug 4, 2023 • 51min
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of GPT - Sandra Kublik
We talked about:
Sandra's background
Making a YouTube channel to break into the LLM space
The business cases for LLMs
LLMs as amplifiers
The befits of keeping a human in the loop when using LLMs (AI limitations)
Using LLMs as assistants
Building an app that uses an LLM
Prompt whisperers and how to improve your prompts
Sandra's 7-day LLM experiment
Sandra's LLM content recommendations
Finding Sandra online
Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrakublik/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sandra_kublik
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sandra_kublik
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