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Affiliate Nerd OutThe AI Boom in Affiliate - Limitations and Opportunities with Anika GuptaIf you’re managing an affiliate or influencer program and spending hours looking for new creators, then Everpilot has a fix for you. It’s going to save you time by recommending tons of great influencers for you, getting you their contact information, and even writing part of the outreach email for you. Sign up for a free 15-min demo call to see it in action - they’ll even give you a free list of high-value influencer matches. Check out Everpilot.com and use “Dustin” as your referral codehttps://www.everpilot.com/?utm_source...
2024-09-2735 min
Women Making Impact - IndiaAnika Malik Wadhera - Head - Marketing at Sirona Hygiene Pvt Ltd (Brands - PeeBuddy | Sirona | BodyGuard)Anika is a highly motivated, result driven digital marketing professional with over 12 year’s experience in developing digital strategy and digital brand management. She is a team leader with the ability to foster progress and manage attrition in a fast paced environment.Over the years she has had the opportunity to build and drive teams that led digital transformation and customer experience initiatives for some of the top brands in India, through social media marketing, online brand experience, performance marketing, content marketing, brand management, customer experience, mobile marketing, influencer marketing and media planning.
2024-07-1512 min
All Classical Radio | On Deck with Young MusiciansOn Deck with Anika GuptaAnika Gupta is one of All Classical’s 2024 Young Artist Ambassadors. She is currently a sophomore at Sunset High School. She has always loved music and picked up the guitar during middle school. Since then, her passion for guitar has only grown! She currently studies under Travis Johnson and loves to spread music in various ways. She has won several music competitions, attended festivals and camps, and likes to play at retirement homes in her free time. She enjoys everything about the world of music and truly believes that learning an instrument is an opportunity that should be accessible to ev...
2024-06-1605 min
Big Reputations64. Miss PiggyIn this episode, we discuss the history and origins of the most famous pig on the planet, Miss Piggy! From what people thought of her, to what she thought of herself, we explore how her image has changed over the years. From diva, who can do it all, to accusations of being a violent abuser, we chat about how her personality often rubbed people the wrong way. Lastly we cover how she became a feminist and gay icon, despite or because of her attitude.
Trigger Warnings - physical and emotional abuse
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2024-06-051h 19Big Reputations64. Miss PiggyIn this episode, we discuss the history and origins of the most famous pig on the planet, Miss Piggy! From what people thought of her, to what she thought of herself, we explore how her image has changed over the years. From diva, who can do it all, to accusations of being a violent abuser, we chat about how her personality often rubbed people the wrong way. Lastly we cover how she became a feminist and gay icon, despite or because of her attitude.
Trigger Warnings - physical and emotional abuse
Fo...
2024-06-051h 19
Maed in IndiaMaed Mixtape - BounceWe’re back with another Maed Mixtape, and keeping our series of Team Maed mixtapes going with the first one of the year by Sonali Gupta, an Assistant Producer here at Maed in India. From our vast selection of music submissions, she’s picked the songs that made her bounce the most! And she hopes these tracks make you bounce too. Swaying or rocking from side to side are also appropriate responses too. Song List: Komorebi x Curtain Blue - Birds And Bees (02:30 - 05:47) Punch.M - Back to You (ft. Joel Padikkal) (06:51 - 09...
2023-01-2228 min
Heart to Heart with Anuradha GuptaHeart to Heart Conversation with Anika ParasharAnuradha Gupta speaks to entrepreneur Anika Parashar about family, love, betrayal, loss and the triumph of the human spirit. Anika is the Founder CEO of The Women's Company, a company manufacturing biodegradable women's wellness products, she is also the Founder Director for ORGAN India, a charitable foundation that supports organ donation in India, a cause very close to Anika's heart. Among her many talents is also the work of a Women's Healthcare Advocate, it's no wonder that she has been featured in the 2nd edition '50 Women of Pure Wonder'. Listen to the inspirational journey and insights o...
2021-09-1741 min
Chasing LifeTeen Scientist Discovers Potential Covid-19 TreatmentFourteen-year-old Anika Chebrolu is the 2020 winner of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge. In this episode, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta hands things over to her to talk about her discovery of a potential therapy for Covid-19. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2021-01-0409 min
The Data PulseSeason 1 Wrap-upThank you for joining for Season 1 of the Data Pulse podcast. I hope you found the conversations over the past 6 months to be both enlightening and enjoyable.
With chaos dominating the world this year, the podcast for me has been a grounding force, tapping into the power that lies in using data science to effectively tackle some of the grandest challenges in biomedicine. I have thoroughly enjoyed diving into the minds of peers and mentors who I deeply admire, building a resource for a shared vocabulary—through both the conversations and the podcast glossary, and growing a co...
2020-12-2301 min
The Data PulseDesign for inference and massively parallel single cell -omics with Aviv Regev (Broad Institute -> Genentech)From single cells to international consortia and from striving despite fear to creating a "vector field" to inspire teams working in sync, Dr. Aviv Regev shares countless insights into how she has merged the worlds of computation and biomedicine, first at the Broad Institute and now at Genentech.
2020-12-2348 min
The Data PulseDiagnosing the undiagnosed and combining international health records with Isaac KohaneRare diseases present a unique challenge in both diagnosis and treatment, given the small number of cases, often leaving them undiagnosed. I talk with Professor Isaac Kohane of Harvard Medical School about the Undiagnosed Diseases Network's efforts to catalogue and diagnose rare diseases, focusing on the role that data science--specifically, merging genotype and phenotype information, can play in bringing about hope to the families of affected individuals. We also discuss efforts to aggregate EHR data from hospitals across the world in order to better predict COVID-related symptoms and outcomes, faster than most healthcare systems have been able to.
2020-12-2231 min
The Data PulseDigital diagnostics + therapies for autism with Dennis Wall (Stanford)Autism Spectrum Disorder remains a pressing yet elusive spectrum of conditions. In my conversation with Dennis Wall of Stanford University, we discuss the promise of technology- and augmented reality-based systems in both diagnosis and behavioral treatment for affected individuals. He shares the importance of understanding the context in which data is collected, as well as the ability for simple algorithms to yield actionable insights in the clinic.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-12-1528 min
The Data PulseSingle cell-based drug discovery with Greg Ryslik (Celsius Therapeutics)In my conversation with Greg Ryslik, previously Chief Data Officer and now Special Adviser to Celsius Therapeutics, we talk about single cell sequencing technologies and the nuance they enable with respect to identifying and targeting the cell populations that are responsible for driving diseases, as well as the machine learning frameworks he employs when approaching problems with large-scale datasets.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-12-0823 min
The Data PulseClinical trials and longitudinal studies with Manisha Desai (Stanford University)Working with humans poses significant challenges to acquiring robust and complete data, but also remarkable opportunity, as I learn in today's episode with Professor Manish Desai of Stanford University. We discuss inferring causality from longitudinal data, clinical trial and observational study considerations, and the intersection of statistics and medicine at large.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-12-0132 min
The Data PulseBiomedical data integration with Zainab Doctor (nference)Natural language processing has long yielded exciting predictions from word-based knowledge. Through my conversation with Zainab Doctor, Translational Science Head of nference, I chat about how we can now use text as a lens into the biomedical world, as well as the ability to integrate diverse data types to synthesize knowledge of all scales and yield clinically actionable insights.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-11-2428 min
The Data PulseBiologics and active learning in ML with Peyton Greenside (BigHat Biosciences)Can we create new biological therapies with machine-guided design? Today I chat with Peyton Greenside, Co-Founder and CSO of BigHat Biosciences, on using machine learning to design therapeutic proteins, the advantages of using "smart" data over "big" data, and the importance of interpretability.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-11-1725 min
The Data PulseProtective mutations with Vyas Ramanan (Third Rock Ventures, Maze Therapeutics)Today I discuss with Vyas Ramanan, of Third Rock Ventures and Maze Therapeutics, the evolution of the field's understanding of genetic modifiers and the role they play in disease, how drug discovery works when attempting to recapitulate protective effects of certain mutations, and how the convergence of certain advances in statistics and genomic sequencing and perturbation tools enable pressure testing of hypotheses at an unprecedented scale.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-11-1028 min
The Data PulseSystematizing drug development with Ankit Gupta (Reverie Labs)How should one think about building "the new wave" of biopharma teams? Turns out we can rely on principles from existing domains. In this episode, I talk with Ankit Gupta, CTO and Co-Founder of Reverie Labs, on systematization as a foundation, and on optimizing properties of a drug using machine learning and software-oriented frameworks.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-11-0331 min
The Data PulsePrescription digital therapeutics with Corey McCann (Pear Therapeutics)Prescription digital therapeutics are emerging as an entirely new therapeutic modality. Corey McCann, President and CEO of Pear Therapeutics, chats with me about what they are, how they evolve as more data are collected, and the subsequent changes that are made to the treatment paradigms of neurological and psychological disorders. We also discuss what it took to get FDA approval for "software as a therapy," what skills are essential to succeeding in the space, and the growing presence of remote and asynchronous care.
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2020-10-2726 min
The Data PulseUsing social media to infer health with computational epidemiologist Elaine Nsoesie (Boston University)What does an individual's digital presence reveal about imminent infectious disease outbreaks, obesity prevalence, and the spread of medical misinformation? How can Google Maps images reveal socioeconomic factors that contribute to disparities in health? When and how does community context matter? Elaine Nsoesie, Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, shares how she has led data-driven efforts to address these questions in the context of various diseases and communities around the world.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-10-2028 min
The Data PulseMolecular diagnostics and classifiers with Ava Soleimany (Harvard/MIT)Molecular diagnostics are emerging as a precise way to detect diseases early on in prognosis. In today's episode, I chat with Harvard+MIT PhD Student Ava Soleimany on the role of data science in activity-based molecular diagnostics for early cancer detection and how the confluence of classification techniques with feature representation of cancer biomarkers can enable non-invasive, early detection.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-10-1329 min
The Data PulseLinking the environment and public health through data with Francesca Dominici (Harvard)Climate change has been noted as perhaps the greatest public health crisis of our times--Professor Francesca Dominici of Harvard University agrees. We discuss her data-driven efforts to demonstrate the negative health impacts from air pollutants, particularly for resource-poor communities, and how the current pandemic has further elucidated these disparities. She shares the steps necessary to move from academic science to changing policy, as well as her work in bridging the gender representation gap in STEM.
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2020-10-0630 min
The Data PulsePartially automated pathology diagnoses with Andy Beck (PathAI)Deep learning has shown tremendous advances in making predictions from imaging data. Today I talk with Andy Beck, Co-Founder and CEO of PathAI, about deep learning specifically applied to pathology to both diagnose and lead to treatment options for patients, as well as the global implications that deploying such a technology could have.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-09-2927 min
The Data PulsePrecision medicine with Gaurav Singal (Foundation Medicine)In today's conversation, Gaurav Singal, who is the outgoing Chief Data Officer of Foundation Medicine, discusses the advent of molecularly-driven oncology in changing the paradigm of cancer diagnosis and treatment through precision medicine, the importance of using observational data, and the unpredictable nature of one's career that may yield a convergence of what were once disparate fields.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-09-2227 min
The Data PulseMachine-guided gene therapy design with Dyno therapeuticsGene therapies have emerged as a promising new modality for curing genetically-defined diseases; however, the naturally occuring variation remains limited. I chat with Sam Sinai and Jeff Gerold, Co-Founder/Lead ML Scientist and Head of Data Science, respectively, of Dyno Therapeutics about the role machine learning can play in better identifying and designing gene therapy vectors for a suite of traditional bottlenecks in the gene therapy development workflow, as well as the importance of building an environment where cross-talk between different domains is seamless.
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2020-09-1523 min
The Data PulseRadiology diagnostics & antibiotic development with Kyle Swanson (Marshall Scholar @ Cambridge University)Deep learning can be applied to tasks that involve a breadth of data types. I talk with Kyle Swanson, currently a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University and previously at MIT, about his projects with Regina Barzilay on predicting breast cancer from mammograms, with performance on par with radiologists, and on designing antibiotics in a high-throughput manner using a new class of neural networks, identifying a compound that traditional chemists may have overlooked.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-09-0828 min
The Data PulseBias in machine learning for healthcare with Marzyeh Ghassemi (University of Toronto)Humans tend towards bias, but are our algorithms objective? Today I discuss fairness and bias in machine learning for healthcare with Professor Maryzeh Ghassemi of the University of Toronto. We delve into the ways in which bias pops up in the data that are used to train computational models, the particular dangers of systemic inequalities in healthcare being perpetuated by algorithms, and some of the steps needed to combat these deeply rooted issues.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-09-0128 min
INFLUENCEWhat Makes a Great Online Community?Online communities (sometimes the only communities we have during a pandemic) can be magical places. Friendships forged, insights shared, and fun had by all. They can also become toxic, shouty cesspools. Why do some succeed while others devolve into chaos?Alli and Jen talk with Anika Gupta, a journalist who studied online community structures for her book How to Handle a Crowd: The Art of Creating Healthy and Dynamic Online Communities.Gupta shares the key to healthy moderation, the social norms of different platforms, why scale makes things complicated, and what online platforms can do...
2020-08-311h 06
The Data PulseDeep clinical annotation & hybrid startups with Vineeta Agarwala (Andreessen Horowitz + Stanford)Today I speak with Vineeta Agarwala, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a physician at Stanford. She shares the importance of capturing time-course, evolving data on patients that range from the molecular to the clinical levels ("deep clinical annotation"), as well as key ingredients of a successful tech-biotech hybrid startup.
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-08-2528 min
College Matters. Alma Matters.On Creating with Humility: Anika Gupta on her time at MIT.Episode summary introduction: Anika Gupta wasn’t very keen on MIT. A campus visit to MIT changed all that. She was taken in by the “air of humility” that she felt in the students she interacted with during the campus visit. Anika went on to get a joint major at MIT in Computer Science and Molecular Biology.
Anika shares her undergraduate MIT experience in vivid detail.
In particular, we discuss the following with her:
Why MIT ?
The Intense Academic Program, the Peers
Advice for MIT Aspirants
Topics discussed in this episod...
2020-08-1847 min
The Data PulsePhenomics + computer vision for drug discovery with Imran Haque (Recursion Pharma)Conventional drug discovery ignores the spatial relationships between cells when assessing the effects of drugs. I talk with Imran Haque, VP of Data Science at Recursion Pharmaceuticals, about their data-first approach that combines "cell painting" with deep learning to assess changes in cellular morphology, thus providing a crucial lens into the molecular wirings of a given drug's mechanism of action. We discuss his team's work in repurposing therapies to tackle COVID-19 and what it takes to successfully merge deep learning with cellular images in a way that yields therapies.
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2020-08-1827 min
Don’t Miss The Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook Experience!How to Handle a Crowd by Anika GuptaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/16817to listen full audiobooks.
Title: How to Handle a Crowd
Author: Anika Gupta
Narrator: Joy Osmanski
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
Release date: 08-18-20
Ratings: 3 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings
Genres: Content Creation & Social Media
Publisher's Summary:
Don’t read the comments. It’s advice that feels as old as the internet, yet more relevant than ever. The tools we once hailed for their power to connect people and spark creativity can also be hotbeds of hate and harassment. Gupta interviews people who have built and sustained fascinating online communities in our unpredictable digi...
2020-08-186h 20
The Data PulseRepresentative genomics and healthcare with Carlos Bustamante (Stanford, F-Prime Venture Partner)Genomics has been a largely homogeneous field--both with respect to the researchers and the individuals whose data has been collected. Carlos Bustamante, Professor at Stanford University and F-Prime Venture Partner, whose work studies populations of diverse ancestry, claims that COVID has brought these disparities to light and that we have a unique opportunity to sequence the next generation of babies as one step towards more equitable precision medicine and drug development. He also discusses how the patient, as the healthcare consumer, will soon govern what solutions are adopted, including digital medicine and continuous tracking.
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2020-08-1128 min
The Data PulseDeep learning-based imaging diagnostics with Lily Peng (Google Health)In 2016, a team at Google Health led by Product Manager Lily Peng accurately predicted diabetic retinopathy in patients solely from images of their eyes. Today I chat with Lily about this work in diagnosing diabetic retinopathy by tapping into advances in deep learning, what factors determine whether a medical problem is well-suited to machine learning tasks, and the iterative process to achieve model performance in the context of a clinical environment. We also discuss tactics to effectively deploy such technologies in resource-poor regions in a sustainable way.
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2020-08-0426 min
The Data PulseBuilding a bilingual culture for data-first drug discovery with Daphne Koller (insitro)What does a hybrid team working at the interface of machine learning and biomedicine look like? In this episode, I chat with Daphne Koller, Founder and CEO of insitro, about a data-first approach to drug discovery, building the systems that enable large-scale learning, and the importance of a bilingual culture in "digital biology".
Check out the glossary of terms, definitions, and resources (and get a sneak peak of the future conversations lined up!) here: bit.ly/datapulse-glossary
2020-07-2831 min
The Data PulseIntroducing The Data Pulse, featuring Anthony Philippakis (GV + Broad)Welcome to The Data Pulse, a podcast that explores the growing role that data science and computation play in the latest biotechnology and biomedical innovations. Join me as I speak with pioneers in the space, to learn more about how they use data-driven tactics to advance biology and medicine, to understand the principles that guide their work, and to better equip yourself with the language and thinking essential to effectively contributing to this space.
I’m your host, Anika Gupta, a PhD student in Bioinformatics at Harvard and the Broad Institute. To introduce the podcast, I'm joined by...
2020-07-2615 min
WorklifeIndiaFinding love, differentlyIt's Valentine's Day and love is being celebrated across the world. But the way we seek love has vastly changed, and India is no exception.Technology and modern living have morphed how we find romance and express love. While popular culture continues to be overwhelmingly straight, many are breaking free of the default 'hetero' norm, to acknowledge their preference for non-heterosexual sexuality.In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we ask: what are the different faces of modern love? Has the idea of romance changed? And how is it affecting our psyche, interactions with people, and the...
2020-02-1424 min
Self Evident: Asian America's StoriesSo Where Are We Really From?We asked our listener community, "How did you learn where you come from?" What came back was a wide range of personal stories about how tricky it can be to access our heritage. From kids going to culture camp, to adoptees making journeys to their birth countries, to Asian Americans of all ages realizing that they're inevitably going to lose a piece of themselves — we explore how we fit in with what came before us and figure out what comes next. We need your help! Please take this 1-minute survey, so we can ha...
2019-07-3150 min