Ranked #1
The Essentials (and not-so essentials) of Data Science Pipelines
The Essentials (and not-so essentials) of Data Science Pipelines
In our season 2 inaugural episode, we’re debating how to approach data science pipelines (are they cyclical or linear? H... Read more
1 Nov 2019
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23mins
Ranked #2
AI Meets World: GDPR, the AI Job Apocalypse, and AI’s carbon footprint
AI Meets World: GDPR, the AI Job Apocalypse, and AI’s carbon footprint
When we release our AI into the world, its impact extends far beyond the business and tech we’re working on. On this epi... Read more
19 Jul 2019
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26mins
Ranked #3
A New Kind of Relationship with AI: Robopets, AI Art, and AI EQ
A New Kind of Relationship with AI: Robopets, AI Art, and AI EQ
As AI continues its embedding into our lives, humans will have to start evaluating how we as humans interact and build r... Read more
5 Jul 2019
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24mins
Ranked #4
What Makes a Good Data Science Practice
What Makes a Good Data Science Practice
For our season 1 finale, Triveni and Will give their two cents on the most important aspects of a data science practice.... Read more
13 Sep 2019
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29mins
Ranked #5
Life after Production, a Tale of Technical Debt with Dan Shiebler, Twitter Eng
Life after Production, a Tale of Technical Debt with Dan Shiebler, Twitter Eng
Triveni and Will sit down with Dan Shiebler, Senior ML Engineer at Twitter to tackle the final frontier of data science:... Read more
15 Nov 2019
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29mins
Ranked #6
Building accessible queries, codes, and speech using AI
Building accessible queries, codes, and speech using AI
Accessibility, by definition, is about making tasks more achievable. In episode 7 of the podcast, Triveni and Will explo... Read more
2 Aug 2019
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21mins
Ranked #7
Predicting AI Trends for 2020
Predicting AI Trends for 2020
As we near the end of the decade, Will and Triveni place their bets on the biggest data science trends for 2020- includi... Read more
7 Dec 2019
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24mins
Ranked #8
The future of data according to predictions, Python 3.0, and people.
The future of data according to predictions, Python 3.0, and people.
On episode 4 of Banana Data, we’re taking a look at how our data is changing. With models in the wild skewing our future... Read more
22 Jun 2019
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26mins
Ranked #9
Culpability in AI failures, Fooling NNs with NNs, AI for cancer screenings, and Epsilon Greedy Multi-Armed Bandits
Culpability in AI failures, Fooling NNs with NNs, AI for cancer screenings, and Epsilon Greedy Multi-Armed Bandits
This week we’re diving into some deeper impacts of AI’s successes and failures- asking where responsibility lies for an ... Read more
7 Jun 2019
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22mins
Ranked #10
The Death of Data Viz, Cross-Cultural AI, and AI Auditing
The Death of Data Viz, Cross-Cultural AI, and AI Auditing
In our second-to-last episode of the season, Triveni and Will explore the data world’s shifting attitude toward standalo... Read more
30 Aug 2019
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25mins
Ranked #11
Why Open Source? feat. Andreas Mueller, a Core Contributor of scikit-Learn
Why Open Source? feat. Andreas Mueller, a Core Contributor of scikit-Learn
Open Source software such as scikit-Learn, Python, and Spark form the backbone of data science. In a two-part series, we... Read more
20 Dec 2019
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27mins
Ranked #12
Finding Community in Data Science with Reshama Shaikh, key scikit-Learn sprint organizer
Finding Community in Data Science with Reshama Shaikh, key scikit-Learn sprint organizer
Now that we’ve covered how open source works, we’re looking to pull back the curtain and see who’s actually contributing... Read more
3 Jan 2020
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24mins
Ranked #13
Prioritizing training data, model interpretability, and dodging an AI Winter
Prioritizing training data, model interpretability, and dodging an AI Winter
This episode, Triveni and Will tackle the value, ethics, and methods for good labeled data, while also weighing the need... Read more
16 Aug 2019
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27mins
Ranked #14
The Future (and the now) of AI with Azalia Mirhoseini, Senior Researcher at Google Brain
The Future (and the now) of AI with Azalia Mirhoseini, Senior Researcher at Google Brain
AI constantly promises the cutting edge. So, what’s behind the newest, hottest AI trends out there? This episode, Triven... Read more
1 Feb 2020
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25mins
Ranked #15
Do I do AI?
Do I do AI?
This AI podcast has been live for two seasons - but we haven’t stepped back to ask - what even is AI? In this episode, T... Read more
17 Jan 2020
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24mins
Ranked #16
Analytics in the NFL & Revolutions in Data Discovery
Analytics in the NFL & Revolutions in Data Discovery
This episode, in honor of draft season, we’re discussing the NFL’s newest tactics to quantify and predict players’ succe... Read more
24 Apr 2020
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20mins
Ranked #17
Deepfakes & Data Upskilling
Deepfakes & Data Upskilling
In our season 3 kickoff, we’re challenging ourselves to ask --who grants authority to those in charge of validating cont... Read more
10 Apr 2020
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25mins
Ranked #18
Is AI Worth it?
Is AI Worth it?
In our season 2 finale, we’re asking about the business impact and ROI of data science - what are our measures of succes... Read more
27 Mar 2020
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23mins
Ranked #19
The Roles in Data Science, feat. Tristan Handy, CEO & Founder of Fishtown Analytics
The Roles in Data Science, feat. Tristan Handy, CEO & Founder of Fishtown Analytics
With Tristan Handy, CEO & Founder of Fishtown Analytics, we ask -- who should be part of the data science process? B... Read more
14 Mar 2020
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25mins
Ranked #20
How We Talk about AI, feat. Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review
How We Talk about AI, feat. Karen Hao, MIT Technology Review
On this week’s episode, Karen Hao, Senior AI Reporter at the MIT Technology Review, shares what it’s like to cover AI in... Read more
28 Feb 2020
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26mins