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Stephanie Hare, Researcher and Broadcaster

Stephanie Hare is a researcher and broadcaster focusing on technology, politics and history. Selected as a part of the landmark BBC Expert Women initiative, she shares insights on television and radio. She also has a regular radio column that goes out on BBC World Service World Business Report and BBC Radio 4 Business Daily.

This podcast follows on from her talk at Data Summit where she spoke on biometrics and the legislation that exists and also is proposed around the area. Interviewed by Head of Data Science at The Data Lab, Brian Hills, the conversation weaves between this, 5G, data rights and also Stephanie's new book which will be out later this year. 

John Mertic, Director of Program Management, Linux Foundation

John Mertic is the Director of Program Management for The Linux Foundation. Under his leadership, he has helped ODPi, R Consortium, and Open Mainframe Project accelerate open source innovation and transform industries. John has an open source career spanning two decades, both as a contributor to projects such as SugarCRM and PHP, and in open source leadership roles at SugarCRM, OW2, and OpenSocial. With an extensive open source background, he is a regular speaker at various Linux Foundation and other industry trade shows each year. John is also an avid writer and has authored two books “The Definitive Guide to SugarCRM:Better Business Applications” and “Building on SugarCRM” as well as published articles on IBM Developerworks, Apple Developer Connection, and PHP Architect. In this episode he is interviewed by data scientist at The Data Lab and R Edinburgh organiser, Caterina Constantinescu. 

Liberty Vittert, Associate Editor, Harvard Data Science Review

Joanna McKenzie sits down with Liberty Vittert in this edition of The Data Lab's podcast. Liberty is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University in the Department of Statistics beginning summer of 2019.  She is a graduate of MIT as well as Le Cordon Bleu Paris and the University of Glasgow. Her current statistical research involves using facial shape analysis to help children with facial deformities and victims of warfare, and she discusses this at length in the podcast.

Liberty is a regular TV and Radio contributor to many news organizations including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, PBS, and FNC, as well as having her own TV series on STV (ITV). Her opinion editorials feature regularly in outlets such as Popular Science, US News, Newsweek, Business Insider, International Business Times, CBS News, The Conversation, and Fox News. As a Royal Statistical Society Ambassador, BBC Expert Woman, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, Liberty is writing a series of popular science books on how to lie with numbers from the viewpoint of multiple professions. She is also an Associate Editor for the Harvard Data Science Review and is on the board of USA for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

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Christopher Wylie, Whistleblower

We kick off the Data Summit series of podcasts with the enigmatic Christopher Wylie. The New Yorker calls him “a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future”. Best known for his role in setting up – and then taking down – the cyberwarfare firm Cambridge Analytica, Chris has been listed in TIME100 Most Influential People in the World, Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Politico’s 50 Most Influential People in Politics and Business Insider’s 100 Coolest People in Tech. 

Interviewed by The Data Lab's CEO, Gillian Docherty, you do not want to miss this one. 

All views and opinions expressed by our podcast participants are solely their opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Data Lab. The Data Lab does not warrant the completeness or accuracy of any statements made by our podcast participants.

Interested in learning more about cyber security? Join us at our upcoming MeetUp discussing this topic - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/if-they-cant-see-it-they-wont-be-it-cyber-security-meetup-tickets-60063525622

 

The DataFest Special

This episode features some of The Data Lab's finest; part of the team behind putting on our two week festival of data innovation, DataFest. Hear about each aspect of DataFest, from DataSummit to the Fringe events, and everything in between. This episode is hosted by Brian Hills, Head of Data, and the guests are Fraser Macdonald, Project Development Manager, Dr Caterina Constantinescu, Data Scientist, Cecilia Bouroncle, Marketing and Communications Manager, Victoria Clark, Business Development Executive, and Dan Montgomery, Business Development Executive. If DataFest is something that sounds of interest you can learn more here.

Alternatively please get in touch with datafest@thedatalab.com.

 

Richard Carter, Data Scientist at Previse

In this weeks podcast the tables are turned and former TDL podcast host Richard Carter takes the interviewees seat. Head of Data at The Data Lab, Brian Hills, leads the conversation in this episode. If you're interested in career development, award winning data science projects, and all sorts of James Bond trivia(including which Bond covered the most ground) this is the episode for you! 

Cathy O Neil, Data Scientist and Author of "Weapons of Math Destruction"

Join Cathy O Neil and The Data Lab podcast newcomer, Joanna McKenzie in an informal discussion that weaves between Cathy's latest book, responsibilities of data scientists, the point of algorithms and Star Trek. The podcast was recorded directly after Cathy's keynote presentation at the launch of DataFest19. 

Mhairi Aitken, Research Fellow on Public Engagement for the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research

The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal highlighted the need for all organisations to better engage with the public and understand their concerns when processing personal data. Listen to Mhairi Quiroz-Aitken to find out how she addresses these issues in the field of health research.

Dave Evans, Data Science Team Lead at FreeAgent

Recruiting data scientists has never been more competitive. Listen to Dave Evans - contributing-discoverer of the Higgs boson - to find out what he looks for during the recruitment process at FreeAgent. They're hiring!

Marios Michailidis, Competitive Data Scientist at H2O.ai

In this edition we are joined by former #1 Kaggler Marios Michailidis. Tune in to find out how Marios ranked top of nearly 500,000 Kaggle competitors, and why he believes data platforms like H2O.ai are changing the way people do data science.