Data Science With Sam

EP 11: Growing Technology Footprints in Insurance Sector

This podcast geared towards an effort to explore new technology toolkits that helping insurance professionals in their risk management and operational risk practices. The guest speaker provides an overview of a new technology called "Spark", a cloud-based logic engine, which has a lot of potential to automate some of excel-driven insurance business function modules into API. Furthermore, the discussion took a different tangent at the end just to touch upon the importance of AI and technological innovation in changing the paradigm of risk practices in the insurance realm in the foreseeable future.Podcast guest: Nick Leimer, Senior Director Of Technology at Coherent, ex-Microsoft Useful links: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/coherent1634571349676.coherent_spark?tab=Overviewhttps://www.soa.org/

EP 10: A thought-provoking chat with an actuary and TEDx speaker

This podcast session features a seasoned Actuary who shared his perspectives on various topics related to Actuarial science and the respective profession.Guest speaker: Charles Johnson, FSA, CEO at Actuarial Development Institute and TEDx speaker. Follow him on LinkedIn to learn more about Actuarial Science and public speaking.During this conversation the guest speaker and moderator Sam touched upon the following items:a) importance of actuarial role in the insurance sector and growing popularity of actuaries in other business verticals.b) an interesting take on the ongoing partnership of actuaries and data scientists and how this will be amplified more in the foreseeable futurec) Charles's opinion on how AI can help Actuaries in augmenting their efficiencies in driving business functionalities instead of posing a threat to their jobs.If you like this podcast, then drop a review and subscribe to my podcast channel to gain access to future episodes featuring academia and industry experts. #datascience #coffeechat #science #research #data

EP 9: ChatGPT and Education Systems

ChatGPT continues to show its potential of becoming a revolutionary multi-purpose artificial intelligence tool that can benefit society. On the contrary, there has been a growing concern about misutilization of this tool that can cause detrimental effect on school education systems. NY public schools have already banned ChatGPT to avoid students using the chat bot to cheat or plagiarize writing assignments.But do you think that putting a hold on using the AI tool may solve the purpose?In this podcast session, we pressed upon the same question from different aspects. Guest speaker: Joseph Strawder, owner/CEO of EdTech startupLinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/in/joseph-strawde...

EP 8: Implementation of AI in scientific research

This coffee chat session features a research scholar from academia who shared his perspectives and experience on how AI/ML plays a crucial role in scientific research in conjunction with the applicability of deep learning in profiling 🧬 expression analysis and other studies in molecular biology field. Guest speaker: Lukas Simon, PhD from Baylor College of Medicine http://linkedin.com/in/lukas-simon-01... Reading materials: If you are interested to know more about Lukas’s research work then please take a look at his publications related to implementation of deep learning to single-cell RNA sequencing data: 1. Autoencoders - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30674... 2.Triplet neural networks - https://www.nature.com/articles/s4225... 3.Positive-unlabeled learning - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34430...

EP 7: Data Science & MLOps

Latest coffee chat session on Data Science features Aaron Blythe, Data Scientist and Solution Architect at Google. During this discussion, Aaron talked about various topics such as 1) essential toolkit to become a Data Scientist, 2) fundamental difference between a Data Scientist and a ML Engineers and how they can work in collaborative environment to develop sophisticated pipeline for model deployment? 3) significance of MLOps practice to modernize the Data Science model deployment pipeline by bringing CI/CD culture in Data Science world. Important learning materials: https://martinfowler.com/articles/dat... https://ml-ops.org/ Share your questions/comments below. Today's guest speaker Aaron can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronblythe/

EP 6: Data Science & AI Talk

This coffee chat session features an academia personnel, who shared her fascinating journey from industry to academics during the talk, and it also covers a brief overview her ongoing research work geared towards artificial intelligence and deep learning. Guest speaker: Polina Nemkova, Research Assistant at University of North Texas For any future collaboration, Polina can be reached at nemkova.com If you interested to know more about her AI research work, follow her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nemkova/

EP 5: Implementation of data science in Cybersecurity

Due to the rising threats of cyberattacks and data breaches across different industries, the importance of cybersecurity has become more prevalent in recent years. Have you thought about how data science can help in alleviating this issue ??? Watch this vlog as it uncovers some key insights about how data science can be useful in the field of cybersecurity starting from detecting threat patterns to building classification models for fraud analytics or even predict security threat to safeguard company network infrastructure. Guest speaker 👉 Benjamin Larson, PhD https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-...

EP 4: A.I. talk with a Rocket Scientist from NASA

This coffee chat features a special guest Kofi Burney, Rocket Scientist and Deputy Chief Information Officer at NASA. 📍 During this intriguing chat Kofi shared her journey as a rocket scientist and also provided some great tips that will be beneficial for aspiring students/professionals who are planning to pursue their career at NASA or in space research field in general.Additionally, he shared his perspectives about how AI/machine learning 🤖 could be impactful on space research barring any unforeseeable pitfalls such as model bias, AI compliance issues.

EP 3: Demystifying the Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome, a feeling of inadequacy and incompetency, impacting working professionals and students in this current era. This episode makes an attempt to break down the intricacies of imposter syndrome and what measures can be taken to alleviate this mental issue.

EP 2: Data & Actuarial Science

This coffee chat session features a seasoned Actuary who shared her viewpoints on the importance of data and data management in Actuarial risk assessment study. Guest speaker: Mary Pat Campbell, FSA, MAAA Follow her blog to learn more about Actuarial Science and statistics/mathematics: https://marypatcampbell.substack.com/ After watching this video, you will gather information on the following topics: a) The importance of data in Actuarial risk assessment initiatives, b) a brief overview of Actuarial Standards of Practice(ASOP) and it's significance in managing data quality and data integrity issues in Actuarial world, c) Mary's opinion on how Data Scientists could provide additional support to Actuaries which might pave the way for future collaboration in Insurance industry. Subscribe to my podcast to gain access to future coffee chat sessions featuring academia and industry experts. #datascience #coffeechat #science #research #data