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
Neural Models for Tabular Data
This week’s guest is Sercan Arik, Research Scientist at Google Cloud AI. Sercan and his collaborators recently published a paper on TabNet, a deep neural network architecture for tabular data. It use…
Training and Sharing Large Language Models
This week’s guest is Connor Leahy, AI Researcher at Aleph Alpha GmbH, and founding member of EleutherAI, (pronnounced “ee-luther”) a collective of researchers and engineers building resources and mod…
Questioning the Efficacy of Neural Recommendation Systems
This week’s guests are leading researchers in recommendation systems: Paolo Cremonesi is Professor of Computer Science and Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema is a Postdoc at Politecnico di Milano, where they a…
Automation in Data Management and Data Labeling
This week’s guest is Hyun Kim, co-founder and CEO of Superb AI, a startup building tools to help companies manage data across the entire machine learning application lifecycle. This includes tools to…
Reinforcement Learning For the Win
This week’s guest is Nicolas (Nic) Hohn, Chief Data Scientist, McKinsey/QuantumBlack Australia. Nic led a team of data scientists charged with helping America’s Cup winning team, Emirates Team New Z…
How Companies Are Investing in AI Risk and Liability Minimization
In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Andrew Burt, co-founder and Managing Partner of BNH.ai, a new law firm focused on AI compliance, risk mitigation, and related topics. BNH is the fir…
The Future of Machine Learning Lies in Better Abstractions
This week’s guest is Travis Addair, he previously led the team at Uber that was responsible for building Uber’s deep learning infrastructure. Travis is deeply involved with two popular open source pr…
Why You Should Optimize Your Deep Learning Inference Platform
In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Yonatan Geifman, CEO and co-founder of Deci, as well as with Ran El-Yaniv, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Deci and Professor of Computer Science …
AI Beyond Automation
In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Jerry Overton, who previously served as a DXC Fellow, Head …
Injecting Software Engineering Practices and Rigor into Data Governance
As the amount and importance of data grows within organizations, there is growing interest in tools that enable them to strategically utilize, manage, and unlock their data resources. This week’s gue…
Building a data store for unstructured data and deep learning applications
In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Davit Buniatyan, founder and CEO of ActiveLoop, a startup building data management tools for unstructured data types commonly associated with deep l…
How Technology Companies Are Using Ray
In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak Zhe Zhang, Engineering Manager at Anyscale where he leads the team that works on the Ray and its ecosystem of libraries and partners. Ray is an open sour…
Data quality is key to great AI products and services
In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Abe Gong, CEO and co-founder at Superconductive, a startup founded by the team behind the Great Expectations (GE) open source project. GE is one of…
Machine Learning in Healthcare
In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Parisa Rashidi, Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Florida. Parisa is a computer scientist and machin…
Measuring the Impact of AI and Machine Learning Research
In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Simon Rodriguez, Data Research Assistant at the Center for…
The Mathematics of Data Integration and Data Quality
In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Ryan Wisnesky, CTO and co-founder of Conexus, a startup that uses techniques from mathematics and incorporates them into novel tools for data integr…
Pricing Data Products
In this episode of the Data Exchange, I speak with Jian Pei, Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University. His research spans data science, big data, data mining, and database syst…
Challenges, Opportunities, and Trends in EdTech
In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb and I speak with Sharon Zhou, a PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University. Sharon has been t…
Towards Simple, Interpretable, and Trustworthy AI
In this episode of the Data Exchange I speak with Sheldon Fernandez, CEO at Darwin AI, and Alex Wong, Professor at the University of Waterloo, Co-Founder of DarwinAI (Chief Scientist) and Euclid Labs…
The Rise of Metadata Management Systems
In this episode of the Data Exchange, our special correspondent and managing editor Jenn Webb organized a mini-panel composed of myself and Assaf Araki, investment manager at Intel Capital. Assaf an…