
Healthy Friction in Job Recommender Systems
In this episode, host Kyle Polich speaks with Roan Schellingerhout, a fourth-year PhD student at Maastricht University, about explainable multi-stakeholder recommender systems for job recruitment. Roa...
2 Feb 26min

Fairness in PCA-Based Recommenders
In this episode, we explore the fascinating world of recommender systems and algorithmic fairness with David Liu, Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University's Center for Data Science for Enter...
26 Jan 49min

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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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




















