Roger & DJ — The Rise of Big Data and CA's COVID-19 Response
Podcast: Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AIPublished On: Thu Jul 08 2021
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.---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, intro1:03 Coining the terms "big data" and "data scientist"7:12 The rise of data science teams15:28 Big Data, Hadoop, and Spark23:10 The importance of using the right tools29:20 BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front34:44 California's COVID response41:21 The human aspects of responding to COVID48:33 Reflecting on the impact of COVID interventions57:06 Advice on doing meaningful data science work1:04:18 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/BigData3. The O'RLY book covers: https://www.businessinsider.com/these-hilarious-memes-perfectly-capture-what-its-like-to-work-in-tech-2016-44. "The Premonition" (Lewis, 2021): https://www.npr.org/2021/05/03/991570372/michael-lewis-the-premonition-is-a-sweeping-indictment-of-the-cdc5. Why California's beaches are glowing with bioluminescence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVYSr19ReOs6.7. Sturgis Motorcyle Rally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgis_Motorcycle_Rally---Get our podcast on these platforms:👉 Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts👉 Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify👉 Google Podcasts: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts👉 YouTube: http://wandb.me/youtube👉 Soundcloud: http://wandb.me/soundcloudJoin our community of ML practitioners where we host AMAs, share interesting projects and meet other people working in Deep Learning:http://wandb.me/slackCheck out Fully Connected, which features curated machine learning reports by researchers exploring deep learning techniques, Kagglers showcasing winning models, industry leaders sharing best practices, and more:https://wandb.ai/fully-connected
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