Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets President(@KDnuggets), a top Big Data & Data Science Influencer

Data Podcast

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, PHD, is the President of KDnuggets, a leading site for Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, and Machine Learning. Gregory is a co-founder of KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data mining conferences), and a top research conference in the field... He is also a co-founder and past chair of ACM SIGKDD, a professional association for Data Mining and Data Science, and a well-known Data Scientist.

Interviewer: Rajib Bahar, Shabnam Khan

Agenda:

RB - According to Forbes, you're one of the top Big Data Influencers...Your KDNuggets site has well over 60 awards and mentions as a leading publication. I often find myself reading and tweeting your articles from KDNuggets. There are few places to find exciting articles on Data Science, AI, BigData... Please tell us a brief history of KDNuggets...

SB - I understand you have transitioned from researcher role to a high level editor role. What do you enjoy about it?

RB - What are your thoughts on Global trend on Machine Learning, AI, & Big Data?

SB - Where does automation of Data Science come into play? Is that a helpful process or distraction from useful analysis? How do you implement it?

RB - We all have bias. Does Big Data suffer from any bias such as implicit bias?

SB - Who are these so called Citizen Data Scientists? Why are they important? How can they serve society at large?

RB - How do we connect with you on twitter & social media?

Additional Reference Materials from Gregory for our listeners.

Data Science Automation:

Data Scientists Automated and Unemployed by 2025?

www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/data-sci…omated-2025.html

The Current State of Automated Machine Learning

www.kdnuggets.com/2017/01/current-…ne-learning.html

Trends:

Machine Learning overtaking Big Data

www.kdnuggets.com/2017/05/machine-…ng-big-data.html

Optimism about AI improving society is high, but drops with experience developing AI systems

www.kdnuggets.com/2017/07/optimism…-experience.html

Bias in Big Data

www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/ev…race-and-gender

www.theguardian.com/technology/2017…esearch-reveals

www.forbes.com/sites/mariyayao/2…-ai/#42d724d270b3

Mirage of a Citizen Data Scientist:

www.kdnuggets.com/2016/03/mirage-c…a-scientist.html

Citizen Data Scientist Cartoon:

www.kdnuggets.com/2016/03/cartoon-…a-scientist.html

Overfitting

The Cardinal Sin of Data Mining and Data Science: Overfitting

www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/cardinal…ata-science.html

Music: www.freesfx.co.uk

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