Proactive Agents for the Web with Devi Parikh - #756

Today we close out our PyDataSci series joined by Rebecca Bilbro, head of data science at ICX media and co-creator of the popular open-source visualization library YellowBrick. In our conversation, Rebecca details: • Her relationship with toolmaking, which led to the eventual creation of YellowBrick. • Popular tools within YellowBrick, including a summary of their unit testing approach. • Interesting use cases that she’s seen over time.

10 Maj 201941min

Today we continue our PyDataSci series joined by Brian McFee, assistant professor of music technology and data science at NYU, and creator of LibROSA, a python package for music and audio analysis. Brian walks us through his experience building LibROSA, including: • Detailing the core functions provided in the library  • His experience working in Jupyter Notebook • We explore a typical LibROSA workflow & more! The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/talk/26

9 Maj 201938min

In this episode of PyDataSci, we’re joined by Ines Montani, Cofounder of Explosion, Co-developer of SpaCy and lead developer of Prodigy. Ines and I caught up to discuss her various projects, including the aforementioned SpaCy, an open-source NLP library built with a focus on industry and production use cases. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/talk/262. Check out the rest of the PyDataSci series at twimlai.com/pydatasci.

7 Maj 201948min

Today we're joined by Luciano Resende, an Open Source AI Platform Architect at IBM, to discuss his work on Jupyter Enterprise Gateway. In our conversation, we address challenges that arise while using Jupyter Notebooks at scale and the role of open source projects like Jupyter Hub and Enterprise Gateway. We also explore some common requests like tighter integration with git repositories, as well as the python-centricity of the vast Jupyter ecosystem.

6 Maj 201933min

Today we’re joined by Delip Rao, vice president of research at the AI Foundation, co-author of the book Natural Language Processing with PyTorch, and creator of the Fake News Challenge. In our conversation, we discuss the generation and detection of artificial content, including “fake news” and “deep fakes,” the state of generation and detection for text, video, and audio, the key challenges in each of these modalities, the role of GANs on both sides of the equation, and other potential solutio

3 Maj 201958min

Today we’re joined by Joanna Bryson, Reader at the University of Bath. I was fortunate to catch up with Joanna at the conference, where she presented on “Maintaining Human Control of Artificial Intelligence." In our conversation, we explore our current understanding of “natural intelligence” and how it can inform the development of AI, the context in which she uses the term “human control” and its implications, and the meaning of and need to apply “DevOps” principles when developing AI sy

1 Maj 201938min

Today we're joined by Pankaj Goyal and Rochna Dhand, to discuss HPE InfoSight. In our conversation, Pankaj gives a look into how HPE as a company views AI, from their customers to the future of AI at HPE through investment. Rocha details the role of HPE’s Infosight in deploying AI operations at an enterprise level, including a look at where it fits into the infrastructure for their current customer base, along with a walkthrough of how InfoSight is deployed in a real-world use case.

29 Apr 201944min

Today we’re joined by Eric Colson, Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix, whose presentation at the Strata Data conference explored “How to make fewer bad decisions.” Our discussion focuses in on the three key organizational principles for data science teams that he’s developed while at Stitch Fix. Along the way, we also talk through various roles data science plays, exploring a few of the 800+ algorithms in use at the company spanning recommendations, inventory management, demand forecasting, a

26 Apr 201952min