{"podcast":{"title":"Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI","slug":"gradient-dissent","podcast_index_feed_id":1020509,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/gradient-dissent/","website_url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/25fd1181-b46e-459b-85a5-d397eec4cdcf/JDLDW81K-wlJoAWL7ZnxLdTp.jpg","author":"Lukas Biewald","episode_count":136,"summary":"Join Lukas Biewald on Gradient Dissent, an AI-focused podcast brought to you by Weights & Biases. Dive into fascinating conversations with industry giants from NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Lyft, OpenAI, and more. Explore the cutting-edge of AI and learn the intricacies of bringing models into production.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent"},"episode":{"title":"Roger & DJ — The Rise of Big Data and CA's COVID-19 Response","slug":"roger-dj-the-rise-of-big-data-and-ca-s-covid-19-response","published_at":"2021-07-08T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/roger-dj-the-rise-of-big-data-and-ca-s-covid-19-response","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent","url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","audio_url":"https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/a4600a89-dc8a-4ea6-bad5-1bd6d91065f4/1068496090-wandb-gd-roger-and-dj.mp3","summary":"Roger and DJ share some of the history behind data science as we know it today, and reflect on their experiences working on California's COVID-19 response. --- Roger Magoulas is Senior Director of Data Strategy at Astronomer, where he works on data infrastructure, analytics, and community development. Previously, he was VP of Research at O'Reilly and co-chair of O'Reilly's Strata Data and AI Conference. DJ Patil is a board member and former CTO of Devoted Health, a healthcare company for seniors. He was also Chief Data Scientist under the Obama administration and the Head of Data Science at LinkedIn. Roger and DJ recently volunteered for the California COVID-19 response, and worked with data to understand case counts, bed capacities and the impact of intervention. Connect with Roger and DJ: 📍 Roger's Twitter: https://twitter.com/rogerm 📍 DJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dpatil --- 🌟 Transcript: http://wandb.me/gd-roger-and-dj 🌟 ⏳ Timestamps: 0:00 Sneak peek, intro 1:03 Coining the terms \"big data\" and \"data scientist\" 7:12 The rise of data science teams 15:28 Big Data, Hadoop, and Spark 23:10 The importance of using the right tools 29:20 BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front 34:44 California's COVID response 41:21 The human aspects of responding to COVID 48:33 Reflecting on the impact of COVID interventions 57:06 Advice on doing meaningful data science work 1:04:18 Outro 🍀 Links: 1. \"MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters\" (Dean and Ghemawat, 2004): https://research.google/pubs/pub62/ 2. \"Big Data: Technologies and Techniques for Large-Scale Data\" (Magoulas and Lorica, 2009): https://academics.uccs.edu/~ooluwada/courses/datamining/ExtraReading/BigData 3. The O'RLY book covers: https://www.businessinsider.com/these-hilarious-memes-perfectly-capture-what-its-lik…","meta_description":"Roger and DJ share some of the history behind data science as we know it today, and reflect on their experiences working on California's COVID-19 response…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3893,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gradient-dissent/episodes/roger-dj-the-rise-of-big-data-and-ca-s-covid-19-response/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/roger-dj-the-rise-of-big-data-and-ca-s-covid-19-response.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}