Episodes
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Filling Skill Gaps Crucial to Success in Data Roles
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Data Chats host Chris Richardson sits down with Ahmad Namini, a Business Analytics Professor at Brandeis University and data analytics instructor at The Data Incubator who has held leadership roles across the financial investment management industry. The two discuss key data roles and how to create a culture where data professionals can develop business knowledge and gain those "missing" skills that are crucial to success.
Friday Oct 01, 2021
What Makes a TDI Fellow
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Join Sierra King, director of admissions for TDI and Robert Schroll, data scientist and instructor with TDI, as they discuss in depth some amazing tips and tricks for creation of the perfect capstone project and how and what it means to be part of the TDI fellowship.
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Beyond Recommendations: Content Data Science @ Netflix
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Friday Jul 23, 2021
Join DS30 for our original discussion with Dr. Becky Tucker, senior machine learning scientist with Netflix, as she discusses how Netflix uses ML to predict what you may like to watch next and predict value.
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Navigating Your Career Transition out of Academia into Industry
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Friday Apr 09, 2021
Join Christine Plitt, Vice President of Operations & Educational Services, and TDI alumni, Newton Le and Andrew Graczyk as they discuss how one can navigate their career transition out of academia and into industry for data science.
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Operational Stability: Data Pipelines
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
In this episode of DS30, our host, data science instructor Ana Hocevar are joined by Zach Glassman, to discuss his interesting journey from atomic physicist to data scientist, as well as data pipelines and how to create useful data from the outputs. Listen now!
Friday Feb 19, 2021
The Art of Suggestion
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
In this episode of DS30, our host, data science instructor Michael Cullen is joined by Rohan Singh, a senior data scientist for Headspace, to discuss suggestion models and how Headspace leverages them. Rohan also details his journey into data science and how he arrived in his present role.
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Unique Perspectives: Alumni AMA
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
We’ve got a special treat for this episode of the DS30 podcast. Have you ever wanted to know more about our fellowship program, or wondered how some of our recent alumni are faring in the job market today?
Our director of fellowships and partnerships, Erika Underwood, is joined by some of our amazing alumni for an AMA about their experiences with the TDI fellowship program, challenges they faced when becoming a data scientist and how it has impacted their careers, as well as sharing some advice for those just starting their journey.
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Netflix is one of the biggest, most recognizable names in the world, and it’s one of the biggest, most recognizable names in data science. In this episode of DS30, our hosts, data science instructors Michael Cullan and Ana Hocevar are joined by Senior data scientist at Netflix, Dr. Becky Tucker, as they discuss how Netflix handles modeling in unstable environments and dive deeper into the tools and methodologies used there.
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Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Journey to Becoming Data Driven in the Financial Sector
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
How are financial institutions using data and data science to create better products and offer better services for their customers?
Senior vice president of financial and strategic analytics at Dime Community Bank Gavriel Giloni joins Rebecca Kalogeris, vice president of marketing at Pragmatic Institute, to talk about the importance of gathering and using data to improve a financial institution. By having a dedicated data team creating and building reports, product professionals are able to spend more time identifying and implementing opportunities and less time finding that information. But navigating the restrictions regarding financial data can prove difficult. Listen to this podcast to see how Gavi and his team are building a data-driven foundation for Dime Community Bank.
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Tuesday May 19, 2020
High Stakes Poker and Data Science - The Story of Ashley Mason
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
What does high-stakes poker and data science have in common?
In this episode of DS30, our hosts, data science instructors Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody and Ana Hocevar are joined by data science consultant and professional poker player, Ashley Mason. Ashley discusses his experience with The Data Incubator, time as a professional poker player and exciting projects he's working on.
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Welcome to DS30
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Welcome to the Data Science in 30 Minutes podcast, where our hosts discuss relevant and trending data science topics with experts from around the industry, in (roughly) 30 minutes.
In our inaugural episode, our hosts, data science instructors Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody and Gonzalo Diaz talk about their path to data science, what defines it and its importance in the future of business.