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AI Product Development Framework 04/24/2018

AI Product Development Framework Ivy Nguyen shares insights on: /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/6516859

Early Stage AI Startups and Product Market Fit 01/27/2018

Early Stage AI Startups and Product Market Fit In this episode, I invite Swaroop "Kittu" Kolluri to share his thoughts on: /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/6195097

Building a Data Startup 11/09/2017

Building a Data Startup In this episode, Tom shares his advice on: /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5928254

Grow Like Dropbox: Data Inspired Viral Marketing 10/08/2017

Grow Like Dropbox: Data Inspired Viral Marketing In this episode, I chat with Savvas Zortikis about an Analytical approach to Viral Marketing. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5819579

Crafting Engaging Content: A Data-Inspired Approach 09/10/2017

Crafting Engaging Content: A Data-Inspired Approach In this episode, I sit down with Aaron to learn about how he and his agency creates engaging content. Takeaways: Focus on copywriting basics. Make every word valuable. This means not using words like “just” or “really.” People love a good narrative. Give them a gift of emotional engagement. Pull the strings of your heart without holding back. Find personal stories from your daily work and translate that to something of value to people. This means approaching your day like a book, with each meeting as a chapter of a story. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5725491

Content Creation & Analytics: Writing Process for Top Writers 09/01/2017

Content Creation & Analytics: Writing Process for Top Writers I've always wondered if there were any patterns among the top writers when it comes to their writing process. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5698305

Data, Intuition, and Product Development 08/24/2017

Data, Intuition, and Product Development Olof Mathe, the founder of Mixmax, one of the most well-renowned email communication products, shares his thoughts on: /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5671956

Attributes of High-Quality Content 08/15/2017

Attributes of High-Quality Content In this podcast series, I sat down with the top writers from SF, LA, and NY to learn how they create great content. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5643428

Data Inspired Product/Market Fit 08/08/2017

Data Inspired Product/Market Fit I met up with Sean Sheppard to learn about his growth based product/market fit approach. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5619810

Content Creation & Analytics - Part I 07/28/2017

Content Creation & Analytics - Part I In this podcast series, I sat down with the top writers from SF, LA, and NY to learn how they create great content. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5587513

Real-Time Audience Behavior with AI 07/27/2017

Real-Time Audience Behavior with AI In this episode, Kevin Lyons shares his insights on: /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5582442

Analytics for Art 07/14/2017

Analytics for Art I had a chance to sit down with co-founders of Monicat Data. It's the first time I chatted with experts at the intersection of data science and art, so I took a lot of notes. What I learned: How to quantify art... This is the first time I heard some articulate it so well. A must listen for anyone who thinks Art cannot be quantified. How creative supporting organizations approach analytics Data Entrepreneurship learning lessons! Product Management - How is it done in Art Organizations! Covered tons of other topics - including my favorite - round of rapid fire questions! About Monicat Data: Jasmine, Cassie, and Kurt are co-founders of Monicat Data, a Data Management & Research agency specifically focused on bringing strategic data to Artists and Creative Supporting Organizations. Since launching September of 2016, Monicat Data has aided creative organizations with data solutions ranging from notable names such as Springboard for the Arts, Rhymesayers Entertainment, Forecast Public Art. Fashion Week MN, The Bush Foundation and Mu Performing Arts--to name a few."Monicat Data also offers 'Data for Art' workshops to the Minneapolis/St. Paul in the efforts of educating artists and creative supporting organizations on the power of data organization and strategy implementation. Jasmine has a background in marketing analytics and an MBA. Cassie has a background in music, computer science, and art. Both Jasmine and Cassie love working on data that makes people dream. Fun fact about Jasmine & Cassie: Aside from running their data startup, Jasmine is an avid yogi and Cassie is an opera singer. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5539271

Data Operations in the Era of AI 06/29/2017

Data Operations in the Era of AI In this episode, Jarah Euston discusses: How is Data Operations being redefined – 2015 Vs 2017 & Beyond Top challenges most data-driven executives face when it comes to gaining insights from their data. An opportunity that most data-driven organization are unaware of – this is going to be blow up in next couple of years Entrepreneur / Executive Special Edition: How to achieve unstoppable momentum for your startup (whether you work in a scrappy startup environment or a large org, this applies to you!) How to get better at making presentations Women Tech Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Path to Success Top stories she uses when communicating with C-Suite about Data Science About Jarah Euston: Jarah Euston is a growth and analytics leader who has propelled several Silicon Valley Startups to the top. Jarah is one of the Business Insider’s “28 Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising.” Jarah served as growth and analytics leader at Flurry, Yahoo, and most recently Nexla, an early stage next gen data ops startup, winner of several startup awards, including Strata Hadoop and TechCrunch Disrupt. Jarah has a background in Economics and an MBA from Wharton To learn more about Jarah and Nexla, please visit nexla.com or reach out to Jarah “at” nexla.com About Nexla: Nexla automates DataOps so companies can quickly derive value from their data, with minimal engineering required. Nexla’s secure platform runs in the cloud or on-premise. It allows business users to send, receive, transform, and monitor data in their preferred format via an easy to use web interface. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5493026

AI-Driven Empathy 05/24/2017

AI-Driven Empathy AI Entrepreneurs Series is where I invite top entrepreneurs from AI & Data Science field to share their journey and insights. In this show, Chris McKillop, Co-founder and CEO of Turalt, shares her insights on: Big opportunities at the intersection of AI and Psychology Learn one way in which most AI experts, conferences, and workshops screw up Women, AI, and Entrepreneurship: Some great learning lessons for most men in this field. I learned a ton from this discussion. Future of chatbots, customer service, and AI Tons of personal stories, anecdotes, and inspiring soundbites to help you take your AI vocabulary to the next level! References: Turalt: Connect with and follow . About Chris McKillop: Chris McKillop is the CEO and Co-Founder of Turalt, a company which develops AI products to help improve empathy in online communications. Chris has a degree in artificial intelligence and a Ph.D. in educational technology, where she investigated and developed techniques to understand the emotional dimensions of learning. Chris has a passion for learning and brings over 15 years’ experience of working to improve learning in universities and the workplace. Her expertise includes educational technology, qualitative research, and a person-centred approach to training and personal development. Her background in cognitive sciences and educational sector enables Chris to empathize with the challenges people face with workplace communication and to research and develop targeted solutions to deliver real impact in the workplace. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5383354

IOT & Deep Learning Applications 05/11/2017

IOT & Deep Learning Applications AI Entrepreneurs Series is where I invite top entrepreneurs from AI & Data Science field to share their journey and insights. Prateek Joshi shares his insights on: IOT and Deep Learning: How do they fuel each other Product Teams - Listen up to this one - Prateek shares his core idea on when to use AI and when to run away from it... Prateek's personal journey on what led him to create Pluto AI. Several other entertaining/informative insights! As always, I hope you enjoy listening to this much as much I enjoy creating it! /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5346096

Rise of Enterprise AI 05/04/2017

Rise of Enterprise AI In this episode, Rumman Chowdhury shares her insights on: Enterprise AI - What exactly is it and the right way to think of it Two key advantages Enterprise AI can provide to your organization Biggest barrier executive leaders face when it comes to Entreprise AI Humanity and AI - Current AI models and flawed reality How to create AI with Active Inclusion Education as it stands today - how it's about to be revolutionized And tons of other valuable insights... I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed created it! References: Rumman's Blog: Rumman's Twitter: AI Education Startup Hosted by Rumman Chowdhury and . 1000 women in data science: About Rumman Chowdhury Rumman Chowdhury is an AI Authority working on cutting edge applications of Artificial Intelligence at Accenture. She also serves on the Board of Directors for several AI startups. Rumman holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, and a Masters in Quantitative Methods of Social Sciences from Columbia University. Rumman also has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. Rumman has given several talks and tutorials, some of them include Intel Analytics Conference, Open Data Science Conference, Machine Learning Conference, Women Catalysts, PyBay, and Demystifying AI Conference.In mainstream media, Rumman has been interviewed for the PHDivas podcast, German Public Television, and fashion line MM LaFleur. In 2017, Rumman has upcoming talks at the Global Artificial Intelligence Conference, at Strata + Hadoop San Jose, Southern Data Science Conference, and Strata + Hadoop London /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5327110

Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning 04/23/2017

Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning In this episode, I sit down with Lukas Biewald of Crowdflower and we catch up on a very interesting and emerging topic of Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning. My takeaways: What is Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning and how can it you get the best out of your ML program? Origins of Human-In-The-Loop at scale How can C-Suite use Human-In-The-Loop Machine Learning References: You may connect with on his twitter or catch up with him at an event he is hosting in SF on May 17th: event (awesome lineup of ) About Lukas: Lukas Biewald is the founder of . Founded in 2009, CrowdFlower is a data enrichment platform that taps into an on-demand workforce to help companies collect training data and do human-in-the-loop machine learning. Following his graduation from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science, Lukas led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan. He then worked as a senior data scientist at Powerset, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008. Lukas was featured in Inc. magazine's 30 Under 30 list. Lukas is also an expert-level Go player. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/5291408

Fintech in 2017: Financial Services Growth Marketing with Mike Barlow 12/15/2016

Fintech in 2017: Financial Services Growth Marketing with Mike Barlow Financial services growth marketing series is where I invite top thought leaders from the financial services industry to share their wisdom on what drives growth. Mike Barlow shares his insights on: Integration Vs. Disruption: What's the right psychological mindset when it comes to growth Top challenges and opportunities for Fintech leaders in 2017 Evolving role of financial services CMO in light of AI and Data Science technologies And tons of other stuff: reading rituals, bias in AI, and favorite data anecdotes... You may follow Mike via or if you choose to keep up with his exciting adventures. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4914726

Financial Services Content Marketing 12/04/2016

Financial Services Content Marketing Financial services growth marketing series is where I invite top thought leaders from the financial services industry to share their wisdom on what drives growth. In this episode, Scott Wentworth shares his wisdom on: How to avoid the commoditization of financial services products & services Five step content creation process that took Scott several years to crystallize from having worked with some of the top financial services thought leaders... How to develop a unique point of view to improve resonance with your audience Last but not least - the impact of the political shift in financial services industry, and how it specifically affects you as a financial services growth leader. Scott was kind enough to put together his blueprint for our podcast listeners in a PDF format to make it easy to share with others in your organization: More options to reach Scott are his or his . /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4884455

Financial Data Science Meets Behavioral Neuroscience 11/14/2016

Financial Data Science Meets Behavioral Neuroscience In this episode, David Herman shared his insights on: How can financial service companies create value using the emerging integration between behavioral neuroscience and financial data science (the right way and the wrong way) How the consumers win when these two fields interact How to win consumer trust when building advanced AI products or campaigns, especially catering to finance industry. David Herman packed some powerful concepts and insights in quick 30 min conversation and it is definitely worth a listen or two :) Dave's been busy at , but his youtube channel has some great videos as well. For additional questions, you may reach out to David on his linked or his email dh.herman "at" gmail.com /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4828155

Financial Services Growth Marketing with Mika Carter 11/07/2016

Financial Services Growth Marketing with Mika Carter In this podcast, we discuss: Top challenges and opportunities financial services marketing leaders are experiencing Role of data and metrics in consumer journey Specific strategies to address financial services growth challenges Email marketing strategies for Financial Services companies Role of AI in modern marketing Mika is a growth marketing thought leader in financial services space where she is passionate about helping companies with modern data-informed marketing. Mika does this with significant breadth and depth of strategic management and hands-on experience across marketing communications, channel, digital, social media, mobile, and emerging marketing technologies. Mika has also presented at several marketing conferences and training events. Mika's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikacarter /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4809487

Growth Hacking Meets Machine Learning 09/18/2016

Growth Hacking Meets Machine Learning In this podcast episode, Gaurav discusses growth hacking, machine learning, and copywriting. Gaurav has been part of mission-critical teams at two San Francisco startups, LinkedIn Slideshare, and Klout. He previously cofounded ThisYaThat, an online book portal for the Indian market, which won the Wharton Entrepreneurship VIP Seed Award and was the first non-US venture to receive an entrepreneurial grant from Wharton’s Innovation Fund. He was featured in Hindustan Times, Yahoo Finance, YourStory, and TechCircle. He is also the co-inventor of an application-agnostic user search engine. Most recently, he has been building Profillic, a product to fix candidate screening by applying machine learning to the problem of skill validation. He is finishing up his Master’s, from Columbia University, with a focus on computational linguistics/natural language processing and machine learning, and he collaborated with the data services, machine learning, and business analytics team at Google Nest this summer. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4676950

Sports Analytics, Betting, & Team Building Using Data Science 08/12/2016

Sports Analytics, Betting, & Team Building Using Data Science Richard Demsyn-Jones has an extensive experience building predictive models. Currently, Richard is at Google Trust and Safety Analytics, Prior to that Richard helped Capital One with their data science opportunities as a principal data scientist. Richard has an academic background in economics. I bumped into Richard when he was presenting on sports analytics, and despite zero interest or prior experience in watching in Hockey, I found myself deeply immersed in Richard’s presentation where he discussed data analytics around goalie quality...This goes to show Richard’s compelling storytelling abilities. Couple of fun facts about Richard: He thinks cereal is good for any meal, also he’s from Canada, but doesn’t want you to hold that against other Canadians. In this podcast, Richard shares his thoughts on: When it comes to betting, is natural talent more important than quantitative skills Nate Silvers story on why he left the poker world... A key area for a sports analyst to focus on (even if you are a hobbyist, you may want to follow the advice here) How can data be applied when selecting lineups Going beyond sports, how to apply data when building new teams and increase team performance…where you can play off the way different strengths interact with each other. Round of rapid fire questions on data…my favorite part. Richard’s Blog: Richard’s email: fumble.to.victory [at] gmail.com Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are in my own, and do not represent my employer’s viewpoints on sports analytics or other projects. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4586744

TensorFlow Pros and Cons: Going Beyond The Headlines 07/02/2016

TensorFlow Pros and Cons: Going Beyond The Headlines Sam Abrahams is a TensorFlow evangelist and a kickass storyteller, programmer, and a statistician! In this podcast episode, Sam discusses his thoughts on TensorFlow coming from a hard-core practitioner point of view. We chat about: TensorFlow and how it compares to other machine learning frameworks Mastering TensorFlow: How to go from being zero to well-sought out TensorFlow expert Journey of a Data Scientist. What does it take to become one... And a round of intriguing rapid fire questions guaranteed to give you some golden nuggets! Show References: White Paper Sam's Github With Sam's Upcoming Book on Sam's Blog: /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4487979

Sean McClure on Deriving Real World Value From Data Science 06/07/2016

Sean McClure on Deriving Real World Value From Data Science Sean is the director of data science at Space-Time Insight, a leading provider of advanced analytics software for organizations looking to leverage machine learning for their business applications. Having worked across diverse industries, and alongside many talented professionals, Sean has seen the blend of approaches required to successfully convert raw data into real world value. Sean holds his doctorate in scientific computing, where he used advanced mathematics, parallel computing and optimization to solve challenges in nanotechnology, chemistry and renewable energy. After completing his Ph.D. Sean started his own data science consulting practice, helping companies automate decision-making and uncover patterns in large amounts of data. Sean has since joined a major technology consulting firm working with cross-discipline teams to build the next generation of adaptive, data-driven applications. Sean’s upcoming book is focusing on and will be published by O'Reilly. To connect with Sean McClure, reach out to him on or . In this conversation, we touch on Return of Investment on Data Science and other things like: Real World Value of Data Science Pitfalls of Data Science Building Data Science Teams and Culture Is Data Science a Boy's Club? How to Develop Storytelling skills as a Data Scientist? Be sure to check out the end of the podcast where Sean reveals his favorite data science product that had the most positive impact on his life. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4424690

Ben Spooner on Dashboard Building Process: Inception to Autonomous Decision Making 05/08/2016

Ben Spooner on Dashboard Building Process: Inception to Autonomous Decision Making Ben Spooner has several years of experience as an Army Officer at a battle post in Iraq, both in Intelligence as well as Executive capacities. I sat down with him to discuss his thoughts on activating a data driven work culture using data visualization and dashboards as primary weapons. Here's what we discussed: A complete dashboard lifecycle - from inception to decision-making How to build dashboards that drive decision making Up close and personal look at the data scientist who did data research and exploration at the front line trenches of insurgency in a war zone When is raw data the best form of reporting (instead of a fancy-schmancy dashboard) Two critical factors that fuels dashboard building process…They are C-words (hint: Curiosity and Collaboration) Data Driven culture has two key pursuits: truth and discovery. How to make a dashboard that builds this type of a data driven culture... How to deal with stakeholders who don’t appreciate the exploratory process of dashboard building… and how to set their expectations and empower them. Bonus: Self-correcting semi-autonomous system and its application to insurance claims processing... Reach out to Ben's through or to learn more about his exciting data science projects. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4352079

Peter Nelson on Unicorn Conversions & Mobile Devices: How to Break Through Mediocre Conversion Rate on Mobile Devices? 03/08/2016

Peter Nelson on Unicorn Conversions & Mobile Devices: How to Break Through Mediocre Conversion Rate on Mobile Devices? Peter Nelson, CEO of UnDelay.io, and I sat to discuss Adaptive Design and it’s impact on Conversion Optimization. Peter brings a breath of experience to Marketing Technology space and it was fun sitting down with him to discuss everything from his entrepreneurial philosophy to his home in Norway... /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4204774

Predicting the Next Pitch 01/28/2016

Predicting the Next Pitch For the past 2 years, Zach has been working as a data scientist at an industry leading data consulting firm. He works in fraud analytics space where he and his team has saved hundreds of millions of dollars of federal dollars using sophisticated data science techniques. He is also a recent graduate of data science program at UC Berkeley. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/4108320

Lisa Kirch on Intersection of Data Science and Smart Home 11/20/2015

Lisa Kirch on Intersection of Data Science and Smart Home Lisa Kirch has over 20 years of broad business experience and deep understanding of data science. As she was recently celebrating her graduation from Berkeley's data science program, I got together with her to chat about a very interesting project she has been working on for the last few weeks. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/3961946

Sharon Lin on Mobile Analytics, Behavioral Patterns, and Data Science 07/12/2015

Sharon Lin on Mobile Analytics, Behavioral Patterns, and Data Science Sharon Lin has big aspirations when it comes to big data. Sharon wants to apply data science to solve California’s mega drought problem by integrating real-time weather data into crop irrigation systems. Additionally, she wants to use advanced image recognition algorithms to predict, track, and monitor endangered wildlife migration patterns to help endangered species from being hunted. /episode/index/show/dataleaders/id/3670059

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