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Cryptocurrency and blockchain take center stage this week as we welcome Chief Economist at Chainalysis, Philip Gradwell, to discuss the data science applications in this exciting field. This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts, and by Bunch (superdatascience.com/bunch), the AI driven leadership coach. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn:• What the role of a chief economist entails [5:50]• What are blockchains and cryptocurrency? [8:23]• How analyzing cryptocurrencies differs from established fiat currencies [12:48]• Philip's work at Chainalysis [26:07]• Philip's crypto data analytics pipeline [34:48]• How Philip develops data products for a wide range of users [46:18]• How the blockchain facilitates innovative computing and machine learning technologies [51:52]• W

What’s your secret to superb audio recognition? Whisper it. We mean that literally—Whisper is the latest in OpenAI’s growing suite of models aimed to benefit humanity. On this episode of Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn reviews OpenAI’s latest model, Whisper. This tool will vastly improve the way human speech is recognized and converted to text. Jon gets under the hood to show how the team managed to get such a powerfully accurate recognition model. Listen to the episode and find out how you can try it yourself, for free! Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/620Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Jon Krohn speaks with Erik Bernhardsson, the man who invented Spotify’s original music recommendation system. They address the different ways to interview a data science candidate, how to deploy a data model into the cloud, and the approach he took that made Spotify go from a digital music startup to an AI-driven streaming giant. This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts, and by Bunch (superdatascience.com/bunch), the AI driven leadership coach. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn:• The data problem that Erik’s company Modal Labs solves [04:32]• Erik’s prolific blogging career [09:15]• Opportunities for making data teams more efficient and productive [14:42]• Erik’s views on interviewing data scientists and software developers [20:18]• Erik’s tips and tricks for da

Telic and atelic activities take center stage this week as Jon Krohn contemplates how our daily actions contribute to our overall sense of fulfillment. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/618Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Dr. Sean Taylor, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Motif Analytics, joins Jon Krohn this week for yet another perspective on causal modeling. Tune in for a great conversation that covers large-scale causal experimentation, Information Systems, Bayesian parameter searches, and more. This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, and by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn:• Sean on his new venture, Motif Analytics [4:23]• The relationship between causality and sequence analytics [15:26]• Sean's data science work at Lyft [22:21]• The key investments for large-scale causal experimentation [27:25]• Why and when is causal modeling helpful [32:34]• Causal modeling tools and recommendations [36:52]• Facebook's Prophet automation tool for forecasting [40:02]• What Sean looks for i

10,000 hours of study: Will it make you an expert? On this episode of Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn explores whether increasing your skills is just a numbers game or if there is more to becoming proficient in your area of interest, whether that’s flute playing or data wrangling. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/616Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

“Being a great data scientist” and “being great at a data science interview” are not one and the same. Jon Krohn speaks with Nick Singh about how to strengthen your interviewee skills, and how you can even beat out more senior competition to land a coveted data science role.This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, and by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.In this episode you will learn:• Nick’s inspiration for writing his bestselling book, Ace the Data Science Interview [06:21]• Why Nick believes in being a work generalist [12:37]• How DataLemur supports emerging data scientists for free [15:43]• Why Nick started DataLemur off the back of his book [21:31]• Portfolio essentials for any data scientist [22:36]• The three most common things data scientists get wrong at the interview [24:33]• How data

World-leading futurist, author and entrepreneur, Ross Dawson joins us for the first of our extended Five-Minute Friday episodes. As information overwhelm becomes increasingly unavoidable, Dawson is here to share the five powers from his new book 'Thriving on Overload', to help us transition from overwhelm into abundance.  Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/614Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Dr. Emre Kiciman, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research joins the podcast to share his world-leading knowledge on causal machine learning.This episode is brought to you by Datalore (datalore.online/SDS), the collaborative data science platform, and by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn:• What is causal machine learning? [5:52]• Causal machine learning vs correlational machine learning [10:10]• Emre’s DoWhy open-source library [16:17]• The four key steps of causal inference [21:24]• How and why Emre’s key steps of causal inference will impact ML [26:36]• Emre's thoughts on the future of causal inference and AGI [34:09]• How Emre leverages social media data to solve social problems [38:36]• What's next for Emre's research [46:02]• The software tools Emre highly recommends [55:16]• What he looks for in the data science r

Some exciting changes are coming to our popular Five-Minute Friday series! From longer episodes to new guests, tune in to hear what's next. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/612Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Dr. Ken Stanley, a world-leading expert on Open-Ended AI and author of the genre-bending book "Why Greatness Cannot be Planned," joins Jon Krohn for a discussion that has the potential to shift your entire view on life. Tune in now to learn more about the complex topics of genetic ML algorithms, the Objective Paradox, Novelty Search, and so much more.This episode is brought to you by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn:• Ken on his book 'Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" and the Objective Paradox [4:15]• The Novelty Search approach [24:14]• How open-ended algorithms like Novelty Search can be stopped from doing something potentially dangerous [1:00:00]• The future of open-ended AI and its intimate relationship with Artificial General Intelligence [1:07:34]• Ken's new company [1:13:34]• How AI could transform life for humans in the

On this episode of Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn shares his life motto, “Who dares, wins”, and the sentiment behind it: that to get anywhere in life, it is first necessary to try. Jon believes that “daring”, in this instance, simply means taking action when we have a good idea or when a new opportunity becomes available. Listen to the end for constructive advice on how to be daring in your own life right now. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/610Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information.

Jon Krohn speaks with Zhamak Dehghani, the empathetic technologist who coined the term “data mesh”. They explore what a data mesh is, and how its approach toward secure interconnectivity will help solve a roster of data-led business problems. This episode is brought to you by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: • The importance of data meshes [3:29] • How standardizing database interfaces helps tech giants like Amazon [6:40] • Current challenges with data meshes [9:33] • How data meshes give users the freedom to work with data [17:09] • The missing piece of the puzzle for data meshes [22:11] • How data meshes connect with the metaverse and Web3 [33:18] • The times when data meshes aren’t fit for purpose [42:24] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/609

Company meetings should be held to solve problems. So, why do we often feel like the weekly stand-ups and check-ins are a waste of everyone’s time? On this episode of Five-Minute Friday, host Jon Krohn brings his habit-making practices into the dreaded meeting room. Make every meeting productive and positive with his five-step method for assigning deliverables. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/608

We welcome Dr. Jennifer Hill, Professor of Applied Statistics at New York University, to the podcast this week for a discussion that covers causality, correlation, and inference in data science. This episode is brought to you by Pachyderm, the leader in data versioning and MLOps pipelines and by Zencastr (zen.ai/sds), the easiest way to make high-quality podcasts. In this episode you will learn: • How causality is central to all applications of data science [4:32] • How correlation does not imply causation [11:12] • What is counterfactual and how to design research to infer causality from the results confidently [21:18] • Jennifer’s favorite Bayesian and ML tools for making causal inferences within code [29:14] • Jennifer’s new graphical user interface for making causal inferences without the need to write code [38:41] • Tips on learning more about causal inference [43:27] • Why multilevel models are useful [49:21] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/607

Four thousand weeks equate to roughly 80 years—a lifetime for those of us lucky enough to get there. What do we choose to do with this time? How can we stop ourselves from feeling like time in general is slipping away? In this episode, host Jon Krohn reviews the book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by journalist Oliver Burkeman. He outlines how he has personally benefited from this essential reflection on our thirst for productivity and efficiency. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/606

Kian Katanforoosh, CEO of Workera and Lecturer at Stanford University, joins Jon Krohn to reveal the tools, frameworks, and machine learning models that power his platform and remote team. In this episode you will learn: • What a skills intelligence platform is [3:11] • How mentorship can be life-changing [7:45] • Four ways that ML drives Kian’s skills intelligence platform [10:57] • Kian's day-to-day responsibilities as the CEO of Workera [21:00] • What frameworks and software languages Kian and his team selected for building their platform and why [24:20] • What Kian looks for in the data scientists and software engineers he hires [31:48] • Kian’s Stanford Deep Learning class and mentors [34:58] • How Kian’s passion for EdTech began [42:47] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/605

During this week's Five-Minute Friday episode features, Jon explores recent groundbreaking developments in nuclear fusion –ignition–and what that signals for the future. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/604

Christina Stathopoulos, Analytical Lead for Waze and Adjunct Professor at IE Business School, joins the podcast to shed light on her work with geospatial data and how she nurtured an entire data career while abroad in Spain. In this episode you will learn: • Christina's tips on navigating an unconventional path into a data career [3:05] • Geospatial data and open-source packages for working with it [10:08] • Guidance to help women and other underrepresented groups to thrive in tech [22:28] • The hard and soft skills most essential to success in a data role today [39:26] • Christina’s #bookaweekchallenge and the top data-centric book recommendations [43:28] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/603

Inspired by a quote from by science fiction writer, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Jon Krohn reflects on the notion of living in ancient times and the machine learning-related implications that arise from this perspective. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/602