The Data Scientist Show - Daliana Liu

Youyang Gu, creator of covid19-projections.com, shares how he built an accurate Covid forecasting model using the SCIR model. He discusses the challenges faced when working with Covid data, the process of adjusting and tweaking the model, and the inclusion of additional features like school reopenings. Gu's model gained attention, leading to its inclusion on the CDC's website. He explores the effectiveness of crowdsourcing and the importance of diverse sources in forecasting. Gu is currently working on a project analyzing Covid mortality and inequalities within and between countries.

Willem is the creator of Feast, an open-source feature store (feast.dev), building tools at the intersection of engineering, data, and ML. Currently, he work as a Principal engineer at Tecton, Leading the development of Feast, an open source feature store. Previously, he has worked in South Africa, Thailand, Singapore before he moved to San Francisco in the US. Today we’ll talk about machine learning in production, cool projects he worked, machine learning in startup and how to pick the right data science track for your career. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Willem's Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/willempienaar/

Muazma Zahid is a leader in data and AI, speaker and researcher in Biomedical Engineering with several international publications and awards. We talked about machine learning in healthcare, how to scale data science solutions, her journey from a ML researcher to data engineer to engineering manager to a product leader.  She joined Microsoft in 2018 as a data engineer, later became a senior manager in software engineering, and now she is a principal product manager. She won the mentor of the year award in 2020 by Women Tech Network. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Muazma's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muazmazahid/

Rami leads the data science and engineering team at Apple Finance Decision Support. He uses advanced statistical and machine learning models to help leadership make better decisions. He is also an open-source contributor and the author of Hands-On Time Series Analysis with R and several R packages for time series analysis and machine learning applications. He has a master degree in applied econometrics. We talked about time series, open source, MLOps and his career journey. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Rami's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rami-krispin/ Rami's Github: https://github.com/RamiKrispin Rami's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rami_Krispin Rami's Blog: https://ramikrispin.github.io/

Exploring deep learning research topics with Kyle Kranen, a Deep Learning Software Engineer at Nvidia. Topics include Graph Neural Network (GNN), Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT), time series, and other insights into his career journey.

Auren Hoffman is CEO of SafeGraph: the place for data about physical places. We talked about how to use analytics and machine learning to find truth in data, geospatial data and their use cases, the impact of DaaS, and what he looks for when he develops talents. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Auren's Twitter: @auren.

Gilbert Eijkelenboom is the founder of Mindspeaking, a training program helping data & analytics professionals improve their business understanding, persuasion, and storytelling skills. He wrote the best-selling book “people skills for analytical people”. We talked about to get buy-in from stakeholders, how to build work relationships as introverts, how to earn trust, how to tell compelling stories with data, and lessons he learned from playing poker. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Gilbert offers various free materials: Free self-assessment of your Data communication skills (3 min): mindspeaking.com/maturity-model  Free preview of People Skills for Analytical Thinkers: mindspeaking.com/book Free email course: mindspeaking.com/conversation

Ken Jee is the head of data science@Scouts Consulting Group and a YouTube creator with over 180k followers. Today we talked about sports analytics, how to grow your career and get promoted, how to explain complex concepts to stakeholders, how to build personal brands as data scientists.   If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Ken Jee's Linkedin, YouTube

Logan Kilpatrick is a machine learning engineer at Apple, Developer Community Advocate of Julia. He is a teaching fellow at Harvard extension school, and currently doing a master program of science in Law. Today we’ll talk about how he became a Machine learning engineer, the internship he did in NASA, why you should care about open source communities, Julia, what the future of machine learning looks like, make sure you stay till the end. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Logan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK?s=20 Logan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/logankilpatrick/ 

Nathan Landi is a principal quantitative researcher at TEKSystems. He is on the advisory board of MLOps world. We talk about pre-model analysis using information value, MLOps best practices, multi-stage modeling, tackling complex problems with simple models, interview tips, and how he grew his career from marketing analyst to principal ML researcher. If you like the show subscribe to the channel and give us a 5-star review. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com/ for more on data science. Daliana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu The mentorship service mentioned is SharpestMinds, it's free to sign up here. Nathan's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanielglandi/