Ranked #1
Elena Grewal | From Education to Head of Airbnb Data Science
Elena Grewal | From Education to Head of Airbnb Data Science
Career paths don’t always follow a straight line. Just ask Elena Grewal, whose education culminated in a PhD in educatio... Read more
3 Dec 2018
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43mins
Ranked #2
Ya Xu | Using Data To Create Economic Opportunities For All Members Of Global Workforce
Ya Xu | Using Data To Create Economic Opportunities For All Members Of Global Workforce
Ya Xu manages LinkedIn’s global team of data scientists that manage data science projects across the company’s products,... Read more
15 Apr 2020
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40mins
Ranked #3
Sonu Durgia | Optimizing the Online Shopping Experience
Sonu Durgia | Optimizing the Online Shopping Experience
Consumers know Walmart as a retailing giant that has changed the face of retail in communities across America. But with ... Read more
26 Nov 2018
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28mins
Ranked #4
Bonus Episode: Margot Gerritsen | How to Get More Women Into Data Science
Bonus Episode: Margot Gerritsen | How to Get More Women Into Data Science
It was in 2015 when Margot Gerritsen was asked to speak at a data conference with not a single other woman on the progra... Read more
14 Nov 2019
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28mins
Ranked #5
Timnit Gebru | Advocating for Diversity, Inclusion and Ethics in AI
Timnit Gebru | Advocating for Diversity, Inclusion and Ethics in AI
Timnit recently completed her postdoc in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsof... Read more
23 Oct 2019
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36mins
Ranked #6
Montse Medina | Lessons Learned Building a Data Science Startup
Montse Medina | Lessons Learned Building a Data Science Startup
Montse Medina was pursuing her PhD at Stanford’s Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) when sh... Read more
12 Dec 2019
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36mins
Ranked #7
Chiara Sabatti | Algorithms and the Human Genome
Chiara Sabatti | Algorithms and the Human Genome
Data science and genetics are closely linked and have been for some time. But now, data science is playing an even large... Read more
10 Dec 2018
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34mins
Ranked #8
Susan Athey | Bringing an Economist’s Perspective to Data Science
Susan Athey | Bringing an Economist’s Perspective to Data Science
With a prolific career spanning academia and industry, Susan’s research focuses on the economics of digitization, market... Read more
16 Jan 2020
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51mins
Ranked #9
Janet George | The Multifaceted World of Data Storage
Janet George | The Multifaceted World of Data Storage
“Fail fast” has become something of a mantra in Silicon Valley. But Janet George, the chief data officer of data storage... Read more
5 Nov 2018
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31mins
Ranked #10
Marzyeh Ghassemi | Applying Machine Learning to Understand and Improve Health
Marzyeh Ghassemi | Applying Machine Learning to Understand and Improve Health
Ghassemi explains how she is tackling two issues: eradicating bias in healthcare data and models, and understanding what... Read more
28 Aug 2019
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36mins