
Video Recommendations in Industry
In this episode, Kyle Polich sits down with Cory Zechmann, a content curator working in streaming television with 16 years of experience running the music blog "Silence Nogood." They explore the inter...
26 Des 202538min

Eye Tracking in Recommender Systems
In this episode, Santiago de Leon takes us deep into the world of eye tracking and its revolutionary applications in recommender systems. As a researcher at the Kempelin Institute and Brno University,...
18 Des 202552min

Cracking the Cold Start Problem
In this episode of Data Skeptic, we dive deep into the technical foundations of building modern recommender systems. Unlike traditional machine learning classification problems where you can simply ap...
8 Des 202539min

Designing Recommender Systems for Digital Humanities
In this episode of Data Skeptic, we explore the fascinating intersection of recommender systems and digital humanities with guest Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, a PhD student at Graz University of Te...
23 Nov 202536min

DataRec Library for Reproducible in Recommend Systems
In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, host Kyle Polich explores DataRec, a new Python library designed to bring reproducibility and standardization to recommender systems resea...
13 Nov 202532min

Shilling Attacks on Recommender Systems
In this episode of Data Skeptic's Recommender Systems series, Kyle sits down with Aditya Chichani, a senior machine learning engineer at Walmart, to explore the darker side of recommendation algorithm...
5 Nov 202534min

Music Playlist Recommendations
In this episode, Rebecca Salganik, a PhD student at the University of Rochester with a background in vocal performance and composition, discusses her research on fairness in music recommendation syste...
29 Okt 202552min

Bypassing the Popularity Bias
15 Okt 202534min



















