Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

Carlos Aguilar, the founder and CEO of Glean, a data exploration and visualization platform, knows a thing or two about starting and growing a tech startup. After recently raising a $7 million seed round, he sits down with Jon Krohn to dive into the makings of his platform and shares tips for building a great founding team and how to delight early adopters.In this episode you will learn:• How Glean extracts actionable insights from their client's data warehouses [06:48]• What sets Glean apart from other platforms [12:43]• Glean's software stack [14:43]• Glean's recent fundraising journey [24:56]• The essential characteristics of a founding team [30:53]• How Carlos founded Glean [36:56]• Carlos's former role at Flatiron Health [40:49]• How Carlos created a robotic painter [48:57]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/653Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

MedTech, communications technology and computer vision: In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn investigates the technology that allows patients who have lost their ability to speak via medical ventilation to communicate clearly.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/652Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Data visualizations, color theories and color inclusivity: In this episode, Kate Strachnyi and host Jon Krohn discuss how color can make or break your data visuals, ways to make your charts and graphs more inclusive through color, and how Kate developed the tools and techniques to nail color for your data stories in her latest book, ColorWise: A Data Storyteller’s Guide to the Intentional Use of Color.In this episode you will learn:• What a “data storyteller” is [11:01]• Why color use should always be intentional [12:52]• Is color always necessary in data visualization? [29:41]• Color selection tips for your data visuals [31:19]• Three-color scales [34:54]• How to respect individual cultures in the color choices you make [38:25]• Best tools for data visualization [54:35]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/651Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

SparseGPT is a noteworthy one-shot pruning technique that can halve the size of large language models like GPT-3 without adversely affecting accuracy. In this episode, Jon Krohn provides an overview of this development and explains its commercial and environmental implications.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/650Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Looking for a short primer on Machine Learning concepts? SDS Founder Kirill Eremenko and AI expert Hadelin de Ponteves are back, joining Jon Krohn to review essential ML concepts. From classification errors to logistic regression, feature scaling, the elbow method and more. The popular data science instructors also introduce their latest course: Machine Learning in Python: Level 1.In this episode you will learn:• Kirill and Hadelin's new course [17:34]• Supervised vs unsupervised learning [26:23]• False positives and false negatives [31:21]• Logistic regression [43:00]• Holding out a set of test data [46:39]• Feature scaling [52:45]• The Adjusted R-Squared metric [59:44]• The five assumptions of linear regression [1:05:12]• The Elbow Method [1:11:41]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/649Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Text-to-speech gets a groundbreaking update with Microsoft’s VALL-E. On this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn investigates how the Microsoft team modeled their tool to replicate natural human speech using just three seconds of a person’s voice.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/648Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Knowledge management, trust of AI, and job automation: Tom Davenport speaks with Jon Krohn about the organizational obstacles to adopting AI, and why the C-suite also needs to learn how to handle data.This episode is brought to you by Kolena (kolena.io), the testing platform for machine learning. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:• Cognitive bias in understanding AI [14:13]• How AI will augment rather than replace human workers [24:27]• OpenAI and regulatory action [35:13]• Jobs that might be at risk of being automated [39:57]• The potential of citizen science in accumulating and analyzing data [1:02:18]• How AI will change the game for the C-suite [1:15:17]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/647

Are you still wondering how to get the most out of ChatGPT's game-changing technology? In this week's Five-Minute Friday guest episode, Jon Krohn sits down with longtime friend and e-commerce entrepreneur Zack Weinberg, to discuss the practical applications of this incredible AI tool.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/646Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Machine learning, security and Call of Duty collide this week as Jon Krohn sits down with Carly Taylor, Lead Machine Learning Engineer for Activision's COD franchise to discuss the importance of low-latency, the future of gaming and her favorite software packages. This episode is brought to you by Kolena (kolena.io), the testing platform for machine learning. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:• The relationship between data science and cyber security [4:49]• The importance of low-latency for an optimal gaming experience [9:15]• The future of gaming [18:13]• Carly's thoughts on the Metaverse [25:43]• Carly’s favorite operating systems, software packages, and keyboards [30:27]• How to transition from a quantitative academic background into data science [45:28]• Why Carly is called the “Rebel Data Scientist” [53:27]• How to file a patent [57:21]Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/645

Love and money matter in this week’s Five-Minute Friday, as Stanford University’s Myra Strober sits down with Jon Krohn to talk about her latest book, Money and Love, coauthored with Abby Davisson. In this unorthodox take on thinking with your head versus your heart, Myra and Abby address the life-changing impact that money and love have on each other and how to rethink this relationship to make better decisions.Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/644Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.