Podcast

Datacast Episode 10: Linguist turned Data Scientist with Matthias Raess

Datacast Episode 10: Linguist turned Data Scientist with Matthias Raess

Matthias, a linguist turned data scientist, finished his Ph.D. in May 2018 and is currently working as a Manager, Data Analytics at LiveIntent. In his day-to-day, he builds dashboards and models, and runs analyses that drive business decisions and provide stakeholders with meaningful access to data. He enjoys empowering people with data by visualizing and analyzing various types of data visually and/or with statistical and machine learning approaches. He is an avid R/RStudio/RStudio Connect user.

Datacast Episode 7: Building Open-Source R Packages with Thomas Lin Pedersen

Datacast Episode 7: Building Open-Source R Packages with Thomas Lin Pedersen

Thomas is a bioinformatician, turned software engineer, who enjoys developing tools for data scientists. His main interests are in the tools that bring the scientist closer to their data, whether it be through intuitive and powerful APIs or through visualization. He describes himself as a creative spirit who enjoys photography as well as generative art and graphic design, and he tends to try and combine this with his interest in programming whenever possible. Thomas lives just north of Copenhagen with his wife and two kids.

Datacast Episode 3: How to Be a Social Media Data Whiz with Leni Krsova

Datacast Episode 3: How to Be a Social Media Data Whiz with Leni Krsova

Leni Krsová is social media data analyst from the Czech Republic, currently based in Prague. At the beginning of her career, she worked for Czech TV, a public broadcaster in the country, as a social media editor but switched quickly from marketing to the path of a data analyst. Since then she is interested more and more in data analysis of social media and online news media data with R, data privacy and academic research in these fields. She is planning to start her Ph.D. studies in near future.

Datacast Episode 2: Becoming a Deep Learning Expert with Deep Narain Singh

Datacast Episode 2: Becoming a Deep Learning Expert with Deep Narain Singh

Deep Narain Singh is Data Scientist with specialization in machine learning and deep learning. He has extensive work experience in building NLP/Computer Vision products using AI/ML/DL. He has spent 12 years in industry working with startups and large scale companies. He holds a Master’s degree in Data Science from the University Of New Haven/Galvanize and completed his undergraduate in Civil Engineering from NIT Jaipur.

Datacast Episode 1: From Molecular Biologist to Data Scientist with Dr. Jon Leslie

Datacast Episode 1: From Molecular Biologist to Data Scientist with Dr. Jon Leslie

Dr. Jonathan Leslie obtained his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of London, studying blood vessel formation at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute. After 20 years of researching the molecular processes underlying cancer, he turned to data science and founded a freelance consultancy business. He is passionate about promoting open-source software and routinely volunteers as a mentor in the R-programming and data science communities.