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May 16, 2022 • 46min

Polarizing Trends in the Gig Economy

On the show today, Fabian Braesemann, a research fellow at the University of Oxford, joins us to discuss his study analyzing the gig economy. He revealed the trends he discovered since remote work became mainstream, the factors causing spatial polarization and some downsides of the gig economy. Listen to learn what he found.
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May 12, 2022 • 25min

Remote Learning in Applied Engineering

On the show today, we interview Mouhamed Abdulla, a professor of Electrical Engineering at Sheridan Institute of Technology. Mouhamed joins us to discuss his study on remote teaching and learning in applied engineering. He discusses how he embraced the new approach after the pandemic, the challenges he faced and how he tackled them. Listen to find out more. Click here for additional show notes on our website! Thanks to our sponsor! https://neptune.ai/ Log, store, query, display, organize, and compare all your model metadata in a single place  
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May 9, 2022 • 30min

Remote Productivity

It is difficult to estimate the effect on remote working across the board. Darja Šmite, who speaks with us today, is a professor of Software Engineering at the Blekinge Institute of Technology. In her recently published paper, she analyzed data on several companies' activities before and after remote working became prevalent. She discussed the results found, why they were and some subtle drawbacks of remote working. Check it out!   Click here for additional show notes on our website!
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May 1, 2022 • 48min

Does Remote Learning Work?

We explore this complex question in two interviews today.  First, Kasey Wagoner describes 3 approaches to remote lab sessions and an analysis of which was the most instrumental to students.  Second, Tahiya Chowdhury shares insights about the specific features of video-conferencing platforms that are lacking in comparison to in-person learning. Click here for additional show notes on our website! Thanks to our sponsor!ClearML is an open-source MLOps solution users love to customize, helping you easily Track, Orchestrate, and Automate ML workflows at scale.  
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Apr 25, 2022 • 31min

Covid-19 Impact on Bicycle Usage

In this episode, we speak with Abdullah Kurkcu, a Lead Traffic Modeler. Abdullah joins us to discuss his recent study on the effect of COVID-19 on bicycle usage in the US. He walks us through the data gathering process, data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model building. Abdullah also disclosed his results and key takeaways from the study. Listen to find out more.  Click here for additional show notes on our website. Thanks to our sponsor!Astrato is a modern BI and analytics platform built for the Snowflake  Data Cloud. A next-generation live query data visualization and analytics solution, empowering everyone to make live data decisions.    
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Apr 22, 2022 • 34min

Learning Digital Fabrication Remotely

Today, we are joined by Jennifer Jacobs and Nadya Peek, who discuss their experience in teaching remote classes for a course that is largely hands-on. The discussion was focused on digital fabrication, why it is important, the prospect for the future, the challenges with remote lectures, and everything in between. Click here for additional show notes on our website! Thanks to our sponsor! https://neptune.ai/ Log, store, query, display, organize, and compare all your model metadata in a single place
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Apr 18, 2022 • 38min

Remote Software Development

Today, we are joined by Denae Ford, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Denae discusses her work around remote work and its culminating impact on workers. She narrowed down her research to how COVID-19 has affected the working system of software engineers and the emerging challenges it brings.     Click here to access additional show notes on our website!   Thanks to our sponsor!  Weights & Biases : The developer-first MLOps platform. Build better models faster with experiment tracking, dataset versioning, and model management.  
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Apr 11, 2022 • 40min

Quantum K-Means

In this episode, we interview Jonas Landman, a Postdoc candidate at the University of Edinburg. Jonas discusses his study around quantum learning where he attempted to recreate the conventional k-means clustering algorithm and spectral clustering algorithm using quantum computing.  Click here to access additional show notes on our website!
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Apr 4, 2022 • 31min

K-Means in Practice

K-means is widely used in real-life business problems. In this episode, Mujtaba Anwer, a researcher and Data Scientist walks us through some use cases of k-means. He also spoke extensively on how to prepare your data for clustering, find the best number of clusters to use, and turn the ‘abstract’ result into real business value. Listen to learn.  Click here to access additional show notes on our website! Thanks to our sponsor! ClearML is an open-source MLOps solution users love to customize, helping you easily Track, Orchestrate, and Automate ML workflows at scale.
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Mar 28, 2022 • 34min

Fair Hierarchical Clustering

Building a fair machine learning model has become a critical consideration in today’s world. In this episode, we speak with Anshuman Chabra, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Networks. Chhabra joins us to discuss his research on building fair machine learning models and why it is important. Find out how he modeled the problem and the result found. Click here to access additional show notes on our webiste! Thanks to our sponsor! https://astrato.io Astrato is a modern BI and analytics platform built for the Snowflake Data Cloud. A next-generation live query data visualization and analytics solution, empowering everyone to make live data decisions.

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