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May 9, 2019 • 38min

Librosa: Audio and Music Processing in Python with Brian McFee - TWiML Talk #263

Today we continue our PyDataSci series joined by Brian McFee, assistant professor of music technology and data science at NYU, and creator of LibROSA, a python package for music and audio analysis. Brian walks us through his experience building LibROSA, including: • Detailing the core functions provided in the library  • His experience working in Jupyter Notebook • We explore a typical LibROSA workflow & more! The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/talk/26
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May 7, 2019 • 49min

Practical Natural Language Processing with spaCy and Prodigy w/ Ines Montani - TWiML Talk #262

In this episode of PyDataSci, we’re joined by Ines Montani, Cofounder of Explosion, Co-developer of SpaCy and lead developer of Prodigy. Ines and I caught up to discuss her various projects, including the aforementioned SpaCy, an open-source NLP library built with a focus on industry and production use cases. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/talk/262. Check out the rest of the PyDataSci series at twimlai.com/pydatasci.
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May 6, 2019 • 34min

Scaling Jupyter Notebooks with Luciano Resende - TWiML Talk #261

Today we're joined by Luciano Resende, an Open Source AI Platform Architect at IBM, to discuss his work on Jupyter Enterprise Gateway. In our conversation, we address challenges that arise while using Jupyter Notebooks at scale and the role of open source projects like Jupyter Hub and Enterprise Gateway. We also explore some common requests like tighter integration with git repositories, as well as the python-centricity of the vast Jupyter ecosystem.
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May 3, 2019 • 59min

Fighting Fake News and Deep Fakes with Machine Learning w/ Delip Rao - TWiML Talk #260

Today we’re joined by Delip Rao, vice president of research at the AI Foundation, co-author of the book Natural Language Processing with PyTorch, and creator of the Fake News Challenge. In our conversation, we discuss the generation and detection of artificial content, including “fake news” and “deep fakes,” the state of generation and detection for text, video, and audio, the key challenges in each of these modalities, the role of GANs on both sides of the equation, and other potential solutio
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May 1, 2019 • 38min

Maintaining Human Control of Artificial Intelligence with Joanna Bryson - TWiML Talk #259

Today we’re joined by Joanna Bryson, Reader at the University of Bath. I was fortunate to catch up with Joanna at the conference, where she presented on “Maintaining Human Control of Artificial Intelligence." In our conversation, we explore our current understanding of “natural intelligence” and how it can inform the development of AI, the context in which she uses the term “human control” and its implications, and the meaning of and need to apply “DevOps” principles when developing AI sy
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Apr 29, 2019 • 45min

Intelligent Infrastructure Management with Pankaj Goyal & Rochna Dhand - TWiML Talk #258

Today we're joined by Pankaj Goyal and Rochna Dhand, to discuss HPE InfoSight. In our conversation, Pankaj gives a look into how HPE as a company views AI, from their customers to the future of AI at HPE through investment. Rocha details the role of HPE’s Infosight in deploying AI operations at an enterprise level, including a look at where it fits into the infrastructure for their current customer base, along with a walkthrough of how InfoSight is deployed in a real-world use case.
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Apr 26, 2019 • 52min

Organizing for Successful Data Science at Stitch Fix with Eric Colson - TWiML Talk #257

Today we’re joined by Eric Colson, Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix, whose presentation at the Strata Data conference explored “How to make fewer bad decisions.” Our discussion focuses in on the three key organizational principles for data science teams that he’s developed while at Stitch Fix. Along the way, we also talk through various roles data science plays, exploring a few of the 800+ algorithms in use at the company spanning recommendations, inventory management, demand forecasting, a
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Apr 24, 2019 • 49min

End-to-End Data Science to Drive Business Decisions at LinkedIn with Burcu Baran - TWiML Talk #256

In this episode of our Strata Data conference series, we’re joined by Burcu Baran, Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn. At Strata, Burcu, along with a few members of her team, delivered the presentation “Using the full spectrum of data science to drive business decisions,” which outlines how LinkedIn manages their entire machine learning production process. In our conversation, Burcu details each phase of the process, including problem formulation, monitoring features, A/B testing and more.
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Apr 22, 2019 • 44min

Learning with Limited Labeled Data with Shioulin Sam - TWiML Talk #255

Today we’re joined by Shioulin Sam, Research Engineer with Cloudera Fast Forward Labs. Shioulin and I caught up to discuss the newest report to come out of CFFL, “Learning with Limited Label Data,” which explores active learning as a means to build applications requiring only a relatively small set of labeled data. We start our conversation with a review of active learning and some of the reasons why it’s recently become an interesting technology for folks building systems based on deep learning
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Apr 19, 2019 • 38min

cuDF, cuML & RAPIDS: GPU Accelerated Data Science with Paul Mahler - TWiML Talk #254

Today we're joined by Paul Mahler, senior data scientist and technical product manager for ML at NVIDIA. In our conversation, Paul and I discuss NVIDIA's RAPIDS open source project, which aims to bring GPU acceleration to traditional data science workflows and ML tasks. We dig into the various subprojects like cuDF and cuML that make up the RAPIDS ecosystem, as well as the role of lower-level libraries like mlprims and the relationship to other open-source projects like Scikit-learn, XGBoost and Dask.

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