{"podcast":{"title":"The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica","slug":"the-data-exchange-with-ben-lorica","podcast_index_feed_id":1196000,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/682433.rss","website_url":"https://thedataexchange.media/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/ljk0yj7r22pi61grsmelnsoa9084?.jpg","author":"Ben Lorica","episode_count":345,"summary":"A series of informal conversations with thought leaders, researchers, practitioners, and writers on a wide range of topics in technology, science, and of course big data, data science, artificial intelligence, and related applications. Anchored by Ben Lorica (@BigData), the Data Exchange also features a roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of data, machine learning and AI. 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