Masters of Data Podcast

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The Most Connected Man on Earth (Guest: Chris Dancy) Sep 24, 2018

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Chris Dancy became the “most connected man on earth” by wrangling the data for over 700 sensors, applications, and services that analyzed his life.

A Data Science Super Hero Fighting the Creepy Algorithms (Guest: Cathy O'Neil) Sep 17, 2018

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More and more of our world today is being evaluated, analyzed, and driven by algorithms. You need look no further than your car insurance, your kids’ educations, or your mortgage to see the results of algorithms processing and delivering verdicts on you and your ability to do something you want to do. Our guest today is Cathy O’Neil, a data scientist, mathematician, activist, and author of the New York Times best-selling book “Weapons of Math Destruction”. She has spent years talking about the dangers of, as she calls them, “creepy algorithms”, and our need to take the effects they may cause seriously - both to ourselves, and those less advantaged than ourselves.

Confessions of a Converted Climate Skeptic and his Data (Guest: Dr. Richard Muller) Sep 03, 2018

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In the world of science, Physicists have a long and well-deserved reputation for being on the cutting edge of data acquisition, data analytics, and big data in general. Our guest today, Dr. Richard Muller, is a larger-than-life figure in the world of physics and beyond. Dr. Muller is a Professor of Physics Emeritus at Berkeley University, where he has had a long and successful career across particle physics, astrophysics, geophysics, and in the couple of decades - climate science. He has won multiple awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Prize. We reached out to him because of his unique and fascinating views on using data and data analytics in the climate science discussion.

How to Measure Ethical Behavior (Guest: Roberto Rigobon) Aug 27, 2018

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Dr. Roberto Rigobon is Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has been teaching and advising students at Sloan for over 20 years, and he has won both the "Teacher of the Year" award and the "Excellence in Teaching" award at MIT three times. He has an exuberant personality and made an interview effortless with his stories and analogies. We sat down in his office and talked about his theory of “Aggregate Confusion” and how we measure the wrong things at the wrong time.

Bringing the Human to Data (Guest: Christian Madsbjerg) Aug 20, 2018

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We don’t often read books that change how we think about the world. Our guest on this episode, Christian Madsbjerg, wrote a book “Sense Making” that did just that. Christian’s consulting firm ReD Associates has, in their own words, led a quiet revolution in business thinking. This book is a treatise on Christian’s underlying philosophical framework for ReD’s goal to bring the humanities and social sciences into today’s businesses dominated by technology, data, artificial intelligence, and analytics. We hope that you will find that Christian’s perspective will make your rethink your assumptions about the critical importance of the humanities in today’s fast paced world.

Intro to Data Bias (Guest: Christian Beedgen) Aug 13, 2018

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Christian Beedgen, the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Sumo Logic, has had a long history in the world of data and is a fantastic person to have deep conversations about meaty topics with. And that’s good because our topic is meaty! Christian has been spending a lot of time lately thinking about Bias - Bias in Data and Data Analytics, in particular - and that’s what we are going to talk about.

Critical Thinking, Ethics, and Analytics (Guest: Alistair Croll) Aug 06, 2018

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Our guest today has had a long and varied career in technology. Alistair Croll is a serial entrepreneur, much sought after speaker, prolific author - including the best selling Lean Analytics - which is a must read, an organizer of conferences like Forward50, and consultant to companies large and small. Alistair is a big thinker in the area of Data and Analytics, and we got to cover a lot of ground in this episode.

Confronting Our Humanity - and Bias - in Artificial Intelligence (Guest: Bill Welser) Jul 24, 2018

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Our guest today has had an amazing journey. He was a Captain in the Air Force, had a decade-long career at the RAND organization - a world-renowned, non-profit research organization, - and now as a partner at ReD Associates. ReD is a strategy consulting company based on the human sciences. Bill Welser has done groundbreaking work around privacy, artificial intelligence, industrial ecosystems, commercial drones, and cryptography. We talked about Artificial intelligence, and how our humanity - and our bias - creeps into it.

How People Really Use Data to Make Decisions (Guest: Matt Ballantine) Jul 10, 2018

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Our guest today has had a really long relationship with technology from learning to program on a BBC Micro as a child, to designing the first full-program streaming application at BBC, to Reuters, to Microsoft, and now being his own boss. Matt Ballantine loves to talk technology - he has his own podcast WB 40 - check it out at wb40podcast.com. It was a lot of fun to pick his brain. In this episode, we talked about how people really use data to make decisions, and how innovation happens. We also talked about his cool new CIO card game.

The Data Privacy and GDPR View from the U.K. (Guest: Bill Mew) Jun 19, 2018

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So far in our two episodes where we touched on the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we talked to two Americans. When I took a trip to Europe, it seemed like the obvious thing was to try to find a European and see how they think about it. And I found the right guy!! Bill Mew is the Founder and Owner at Mew Era Consulting and a Cloud Strategist at UKCloud. He is in the middle of the data privacy discussion, both for GDPR, as well as for Brexit. Listening to Bill was like taking a rapid masters course in Data Privacy!

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