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The O'Reilly Data Show explores the opportunities and techniques driving big data and data science. Through interviews and analysis, we highlight the people putting data to work.

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The author of Appcelerator Titanium: Up and Running describes how Titanium can be used to generate native mobile apps from JavaScript code. He distinguishes the Titanium platform from native API programming and from other popular JavaScript platforms for mobile devices. We look at the way Titanium exploits the expressiveness and flexibility of JavaScript, and some of the directions that the Appcelerator company is taking Titanium."

Building native apps from JavaScript using Titanium - John Anderson

Max Shron and Jake Porway talk with Jon Bruner about frameworks for making reasoned arguments with data. Max's recent book, <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029182.do"><i>Thinking with Data</i></a>, outlines the crucial process of developing good questions and creating a plan to answer them. Jake's nonprofit, <a href="http://www.datakind.org/">DataKind</a>, connects data scientists with worthy causes where they can apply their skills.

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Thinking with data

In this episode, I talk with Liza Kindred, founder of Third Wave Fashion and author of the new free report “Fashioning Data: How fashion industry leaders innovate with data and what you can learn from what they know.” Kindred addresses the evolving role data and analytics are playing in the fashion industry, and the emerging connections between technology and fashion companies. 

In the second segment, I chat with Max Firtman, founder of ITMaster, about the state of the HTML5 space and the future of mobile. He stresses that the change the Internet of Things will bring to the space will be significant and companies need to prepare: "All we know for sure right now is that everything is going to change."

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What happens when fashion meets data?

In this episode, Ben Lorica chats with Jay Kreps, a highly regarded data engineer and former technical lead for Online Data Infrastructure at LinkedIn, and most recently CEO/co-founder of Confluent, about Apache Kafka, data integration, event data, and the Internet of Things.

Building Apache Kafka From Scratch

O’Reilly’s big data guru Ben Lorica sits down with prominent data scientist DJ Patil to talk about his new ebook (written with Hilary Mason) and other topics in data science and big data.

A Brief Look At Data Science's Past And Future

O’Reilly’s Ben Lorica chats with Kira Radinsky, CTO and co-founder of SalesPredict, about predicting events using machine learning, NLP, and semantic analysis.

Forecasting events, from disease outbreaks to sales to cancer research

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica talks with Angie Ma, co-founder and president of ASI, about the concept of the ASI, the structure of their training programs, and the data and startup scene in the UK.

Turning Ph.D.s Into Industrial Data Scientists and Data Engineers

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with Michael Stack to get an update on the Apache HBase project.

Coming Full Circle With Bigtable and HBase

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with Anima Anandkumar about tensor decomposition techniques for machine learning.

The Tensor Renaissance In Data Science

O'Reilly's Jenn Webb chats with Filament co-founder and CEO Eric Jennings about how a decentralized Internet would work, what we need to do to get there, and why it will become necessary as the Internet of Things begins to scale. Eric also talks about why his company recently shifted its focus from the maker community to industrial manufacturing.

A Vision of a Decentralized IoT Stack

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler talks with information architect Jorge Arango about the state of IA and the importance of designers' understanding of context and perspective.

Information Architecture's Role in UX Design

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with Gary Kazantsev, who runs the R&D Machine Learning group at Bloomberg LP, about how big data and data science are making a difference in finance.

Data Science Makes an Impact on Wall Street

O'Reilly's Jenn Webb chats with Cait O’Riordan, VP of product, music and platforms at Shazam, about the current state of predictive analytics and how Shazam is able to predict the success of a song, and how the Internet of Things affects Shazam’s product life cycles as well as the behaviors of their users. Jenn also chats with Francine Bennett, CEO and cofounder of Mastodon C, about unintentional uses of data for evil and how data scientists can ensure their work stays on the data for good side of that line.

How Shazam Predicts Pop Hits

Marcus Schössow is back on his own imprint Code Red with 'Smile'. A happy disco influenced house track that once again proves the label stands for groovy house music. "I want our releases to have a good vibe and sexy feel", Schössow explains. 

With 'Smile', Code Red's founder shows again he isn't afraid to explore different genres and sounds. Schössow says Code Red has to become a community rather than just the next record label by a dj. "We are all our own A&R's, so why limit our taste and creativity?" 

Code Red's second release goes the name 'Smile' because it actually makes people smile. Not only because Schössow says so, but also according all the positive reactions online. A smile Marcus will bring to the USA and Asia during his Code Red tour this summer.

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In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Roger Chen, co-founder and CEO of Computable Labs, a startup focused on building tools for the creation of data networks and data exchanges. Chen has also served as co-chair of O'Reilly's Artificial Intelligence Conference since its inception in 2016. This conversation took place the day after Chen and his collaborators released an interesting new white paper, "Fair value and decentralized governance of data." Current-generation AI and machine learning technologies rely on large amounts of data, and to the extent they can use their large user bases to create “data silos,” large companies in large countries (like the U.S. and China) enjoy a competitive advantage. With that said, we are awash in articles about the dangers posed by these data silos. Privacy and security, disinformation, bias, and a lack of transparency and control are just some of the issues that have plagued the perceived owners of “data monopolies.”

Acquiring and Sharing High-Quality Data

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Cassie Kozyrkov, technical director and chief decision scientist at Google Cloud. She describes "decision intelligence" as an interdisciplinary field concerned with all aspects of decision-making, and which combines data science with the behavioral sciences. Most recently she has been focused on developing best practices that can help practitioners make safe, effective use of AI and data. Kozyrkov uses her platform to help data scientists develop skills that will enable them to connect data and AI with their organizations' core businesses.

We had a great conversation spanning many topics, including:

How data science can be more useful

The importance of the human side of data

The leadership talent shortage in data science

Is data science a bubble?

Make Data Science More Useful

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Alex Ratner, project lead for Stanford’s Snorkel open source project; Ratner also recently garnered a faculty position at the University of Washington and is currently working on a company supporting and extending the Snorkel project. Snorkel is a framework for building and managing training data. Based on our survey from earlier this year, labeled data remains a key bottleneck for organizations building machine learning applications and services.

Ratner was a guest on the podcast a little over two years ago when Snorkel was a relatively new project. Since then, Snorkel has added more features, expanded into computer vision use cases, and now boasts many users, including Google, Intel, IBM, and other organizations. Along with his thesis advisor professor Chris Ré of Stanford, Ratner and his collaborators have long championed the importance of building tools aimed squarely at helping teams build and manage training data. With today’s release of Snorkel version 0.9, we are a step closer to having a framework that enables the programmatic creation of training data sets.

Labeling, Transforming, and Structuring Training Data Sets for Machine Learning

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Kesha Williams, technical instructor at A Cloud Guru, a training company focused on cloud computing. As a full stack web developer, Williams became intrigued by machine learning and started teaching herself the ML tools on Amazon Web Services. Fast forward to today, Williams has built some well-regarded Alexa skills, mastered ML services on AWS, and has now firmly added machine learning to her developer toolkit.

Becoming a Machine Learning Practitioner

In this episode of the Data Show, I speak with Michael Mahoney, a member of RISELab, the International Computer Science Institute, and the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley. A physicist by training, Mahoney has been at the forefront of many important problems in large-scale data analysis. On the theoretical side, his works spans algorithmic and statistical methods for matrices, graphs, regression, optimization, and related problems. On the applications side, he has contributed to systems used for internet and social media analysis, social network analysis, as well as for a host of applications in the physical and life sciences. Most recently, he has been working on deep neural networks, specifically developing theoretical methods and practical diagnostic tools that should be helpful to practitioners who use deep learning.

Understanding Deep Neural Networks

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators. At O’Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what’s new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. For instance, we launched the first commercial Web site, GNN, in 1993; we organized the meeting at which the term “open source” was first adopted; we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. We call this predictive sense the “O’Reilly Radar.” And while we’re certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses.

Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.