The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica
A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. Detailed show notes for each episode can be found on https://thedataexchange.media/ The Data Exchange podcast is a production of Gradient Flow [https://gradientflow.com/].
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 302
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
MLOps Anti-Patterns
This week’s guest is Nikhil Muralidhar, a Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Tech College of Engineering. He is the lead author of an excellent survey paper entitled “Using AntiPatterns to avoi…
Why You Need a Modern Metadata Platform
Pardhu Gunnam (CEO) and Mars Lan (CTO), are co-founders of Metaphor Data, creators of the first Modern Metadata Platform. As we noted in a previous post, a metadata fabric is the right foundation for…
Making Large Language Models Smarter
This week’s guest is Yoav Shoham, co-founder of AI21 Labs, creators of the largest language model available to developers. Yoav is also a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University…
AI Begins With Data Quality
This week’s guest is Jeremy Stanley, co-founder and CTO of Anomalo, a startup building SaaS tools to help companies with data quality. Prior to Anomalo, Jeremy was VP of Data Science at Instacart.
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Modernizing Data Integration
This week’s guest is Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte, a startup behind the popular open source project with the same name. While still a relatively young open source project, Airbyte has…
Deploying Machine Learning Models Safely and Systematically
This week’s guest is Hamel Husain, Staff Machine Learning Engineer at GitHub and a core developer for fastai. Prior to GitHub, Hamel worked on machine learning applications and systems at Airbnb and…
Large-scale machine learning and AI on multi-modal data
This week’s guest is Bob Friday, VP and CTO at Mist Systems a Juniper Company. Bob is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned technologist, and at Mist his team uses data technologies, machine learning …
Machine Learning in Astronomy and Physics
This week’s guest is Dr. Viviana Acquaviva, Associate Professor in the Physics Department at the CUNY NYC College of Technology and at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is an Astrophysicist with a strong…
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch
This week I have my annual check-in on the state of Julia with Viral Shah, Co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing. Since we spoke last year, Julia continues to make inroads and grow its user base, and…
How To Lead In Data Science
This week our special correspondent and editor Jenn Webb and I speak with Jike Chong and Cathy Chang, executives and seasoned leaders of data science teams. Our conversation is focused on their new b…
Why interest in graph databases and graph analytics are growing
In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Paco Nathan, author, teacher, and founder of Derwen.ai, a boutique c…
The State of Data Journalism
This week our special correspondent and editor Jenn Webb speak with Tara Kelly, Data Editor at DataJournalism.com (DJC) an organization created by the European Journalism Centre. DJC provides journal…
Auditing machine learning models for discrimination, bias, and other risks
This week’s guest are Rayid Ghani, Distinguished Career Professor in the Machine Learning Department and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and…
An oscilloscope for deep learning
This week’s guest is Charles Martin, independent researcher and founder of Calculation Consulting, a boutique consultancy focused on data science and machine learning. Along with Michael Mahoney and …
What’s new in data engineering
This week our special correspondent and editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Jesse Anderson, Managing Director at the Big Data Institute. Jesse is the author of a recent boo…
The evolution of the data science role and of data science tools
This week our managing editor Jenn Webb and I speak with Sean Taylor, Data Science Manager at Lyft. Sean was previously a research scientist and manager at Facebook where he was instrumental in the c…
Data Augmentation in Natural Language Processing
This week’s guests are Steven Feng, Graduate Student and Ed Hovy, Research Professor, both from the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. We discussed their recent survey pa…
Storage Technologies for a Multi-cloud World
This week’s guest is Brad King, CTO of Scality, a company that builds software-defined file and object storage systems for hybrid & multi-cloud settings. Storage and compute are the basic building bl…
Building a next-generation dataflow orchestration and automation system
In this episode, our managing editor Jenn Webb and I speak with Chris White, CTO of Prefect, a startup building tools to help companies build, monitor, and manage dataflows. Prefect originated from l…
Building a flexible, intuitive, and fast forecasting library
This week’s guests are Reza Hosseini, Staff Software Engineer, and Albert Chen, Staff Data Scientist, both at Linkedin. Reza and Albert are part of the team behind the new open source library Greykit…