Daliana interviewed 6 data scientists from her meetup in New York City. It's a unique episode where you get to hear the real frustrations of data scientists. We talked about struggles working in healthcare, finance, data quality and AI, how to advocate for yourself, and align with your managers. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on ⁠www.dalianaliu.com⁠ for more on data science and career. Daliana's Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu⁠ Daliana’s LinkedIn:...

Most experimentations fail, Kristi Angel shares her expertise on scaling experimentation and avoiding common A/B testing pitfalls. Learn five things that can help boost test velocity, designing impactful experiments, and leveraging knowledge repos. (Chapters below) Kristi Angel’s LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristiangel/ Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on ⁠www.dalianaliu.com⁠ for more on data science and career. Daliana's Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu⁠ Daliana’s...

Julia Silge is an engineering manager at Posit PBC, formerly know as R-studio, where she leads a team of developers building open source software MLOps. Before Posit, she finished a PhD in astrophysics, worked for several years in the nonprofit space, and was a data scientist at Stack Overflow where some of her most public work involved the annual developer survey. We talked about MLOps tools, challenges in survey data, text analysis, and balancing her interests in data science and...

Wes McKinney is the co-creator of pandas library and he is the cofounder of Voltron data. Currently he is a principal Architect at Posit and an investor in data systems. Daliana's Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu⁠ Daliana’s LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/⁠ Wes' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesmckinn/ (00:00:00) Introduction (00:00:44) How Pandas Started (00:06:40) Voltron Data (00:10:03) Benefits of Easy-to-Use Data Tools (00:13:20) The Rise of New...

Christopher Fricker is a senior director in analytics and BI at Renaissance Learning. He started his career in finance and later became a data science consultant working with Meta, Netflix, and pre-IPO tech companies doing analytics. We talked about the mental models that helped him grow from a finance analyst to an analytics leader. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on ⁠www.dalianaliu.com⁠ for more on data science and career. Chris’ LinkedIn:...

I interviewed Geoffery Angus, ML team lead @Predibase to talk about why adapter-based training is a game changer. We started with an overview of fine-tuning and then discussed five reasons why adapters are the future of LLMs. Later we also shared a demo and answered questions from the live audience. Try fine-tuning for free: https://pbase.ai/GetStarted Geoffrey’s LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyangus Daliana's Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu⁠ Daliana’s LinkedIn:...

Jay Feng created a viral project using Seattle crime data and later got into data science. He later founded "Interview Query" helping data scientists get jobs. We'll talk about how he landed his data science job through his blog, and his journey from data scientist to founder. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on ⁠www.dalianaliu.com⁠ for more on data science and career. Daliana's Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu⁠ Daliana’s LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/⁠ Jay...

Erik Gafni builds AI systems and teams. He founded Eventum AI (https://bit.ly/eventum-ai), an ML consulting company working with high-growth startups. We talked about GenAI projects he worked on, how he built production ML systems, how to scale ML teams, and his journey from biologist to ML researcher. Interested in working with Erik: https://bit.ly/erik-consulting Erik's LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/erik-gafni-LI (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:59) Is GenAI overhyped? (00:04:28) Ascent...

Jay Feng is the CEO of interview query, a service that help data scientists get jobs. Previously he worked as a data scientist at Nextdoor, Monster. We talked about data science job market, the rise of AI engineering, and the softskills people overlook during interviews. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Daliana’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ Jay Feng's...

We are joined by two data scientists who have firsthand experience with layoffs. We’ll talk about how to negotiate severance packages, how to handle stress, strategies for job hunting post-layoff, and how to reduce risks in full-time employment. Working with Daliana on personal branding: https://forms.gle/heNuZzaHjaAMQwLu6 Her email: [email protected] Guests: Susan Shu Chang: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-shu-chang/ Newsletter: susanshu.substack.com Sundar...

Jenny Wu is a data analyst turned sales engineer for data products at Hex. We talked about sales engineer vs data analyst, how to design a career based on your personality, and how to transition into a customer-facing role. Jenny’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-wu-... Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Daliana’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:34) What is a Sales Engineer? (00:09:35) Sales Engineering...

Barry McCardel is the cofounder and CEO of Hex(free trial: hex.tech/dsshow), a collaborative data workspace. Their customers include FiveTran, Notion, and Anthropic. We talked about what does the future of data team look like, how to tackle challenges of data team collaborations, and how to leverage AI in data science’s workflow. 60-day Free Trial: hex.tech/dsshow Barry’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrymccardel (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:25) Is AI replacing data...

Siddhartha Sharan is a Senior Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft, helping product teams make data-driven decisions. Currently he is working on an AI product built with OpenAI APIs for sentiment analysis. We talked about how he evaluates AI products built with large language models at Microsoft, product data science, and how he went from a business background to data science. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Sid’s LinkedIn:...

Jess Ramos is a Senior Data Analyst at Crunchbase, a LinkedIn Learning Instructor, and a content creator in the data space. She has a bachelor's degree in Math, Spanish, and Business from Berry University and a master's in Business Analytics from University of Georgia. Today we’ll talk about SQL in the real world, data analyst vs data scientist, is job hopping bad, how she negotiated her salary. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and...

Mehdi Noori is an applied science manager at the Generative AI Innovation Center at Amazon. I used to work with Mehdi while we were at the Machine Learning Solutions Lab at AWS. So before Amazon, Maddie was a data scientist working on marketing intelligence. Mehdi has a PhD from University of Central Florida in civil engineering and sustainability. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter for more on data science and career www.dalianaliu.com Mehdi Noori:...

My friend Misty moved to a farm in Portugal after her 20 years of career in finance. We talked about her experience moving from the busy corporate life to the farm life where she does a lot of manual work. Was it challenging, how does her finance work, and what is her advice to other people who also want to explore a different path outside of the modern city life. I hope this episode will give you a different perspective about your career. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on...

Pan Wu is a senior manager of data science at Meta. We talked about why he moved from machine learning to product data science, projects he worked on at Uber, Linkedin, and Meta, and how he transitioned from IC to manager. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Pan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/panwu/ Daliana's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DalianaLiu Daliana’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalianaliu/ (00:00:00)...

Betty Zhang is a data scientist currently working at a cloud security company, previously she was a data scientist at Amazon Web Services. Today we’ll talk about her computer vision projects in Sports, data science use cases in cyber security, from business major to data scientist, what’s her experience working in startups vs big tech companies. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Betty’s Linkedin:...

Che Sharma came back to discuss toxic behaviors in experimentation culture and provide actionable advice on how to handle those situations, how to have rigor and integrity when designing and analyzing A/B tests. Che was the 4th data scientist at Airbnb, later he joined Webflow as an early employee. In 2021 he founded Eppo, a next-gen A/B experimentation platform designed for modern data and product teams to run more trustworthy and advanced experiments. We talked about A/B testing best...

Jason Yosinski was a founding member of Uber AI Labs. He is also a co-founder of WinscapeAI a company dedicated to using custom sensor networks and machine learning to increase the efficiency and sustainability of wind farms. Jason holds a PhD in computer science from Cornell University. We talked about his experience at Uber AI, his research in deep learning, and ML for wind farms. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Jason’s Website:...

Jeff Li is a senior data scientist at Netflix, focusing on Ads forecast. Previously he was a data science manager at Spotify, worked on supply forecasting, demand forecasting, and data infrastructure. He studied business at the University of Southern California. We talked about Ads forecasting, career path as a manager vs IC, culture in Spotify vs Netflix vs Doordash. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Jeff Li’s LinkedIn:...

Che Sharma was the 4th data scientist at Airbnb, later he joined Webflow as an early employee. In 2021 he founded Eppo, a next-gen A/B experimentation platform designed for modern data and product teams to run more trustworthy and advanced experiments. We talked about A/B testing best practices, A/B testing for ML models, and Che’s career journey. Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Che’s LinkedIn:...

We talked about self-learning, productivity, how Tina navigates her career change and how she thinks AI could change the future of work. Tina's YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TinaHuang1 Lonely Octopus: www.lonelyoctopus.com Subscribe to Daliana's newsletter on www.dalianaliu.com for more on data science and career. Tina Huang is a data scientist turned YouTube creator with 500k subscribers. She is the founder of Lonely Octopus, an online program helping people gain data science, AI, and...

Vikram is the co-founder of Galileo – an AI diagnostics and explainability platform used by data science teams building NLP, LLMs and Computer Vision models across the Fortune 500 and high growth startups. 
 Prior to Galileo, Vikram led Product Management at Google AI, where his team built models for the Fortune 2000 across retail, financial services, healthcare and contact centers. He has a master degree from Carnegie Mellon University from the school of computer science. If you enjoy the...