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The Nonprofit PodcastEp 46: A R.O.C.K. Solid Start with Curt YagiSend us a textToday Jared Polivka meets Curt Yagi, the Executive Director of Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.) a nonprofit that helps children become successful and healthy adults. Curt and his team serve children in the Visitacion Valley area of San Francisco. With 28 years of providing resources for their young community, anchored in academic and social support that nurtures youth with love, courage, and hope, Curt and the R.O.C.K. team have a great deal of experience to share. In this episode, y...
2023-01-1832 min
The Nonprofit PodcastThe Nonprofit Podcast - Ep 19 Swipe Out HungerSend us a textOur Nonprofit Podcast field reporter, Jared Polivka, sits down with Rachel Sumekh CEO and founder of Swipe Out Hunger. As the catalyst behind this US-based national nonprofit committed to ending college student hunger, Rachel is the epitome of driving the change you want to see. The organization works with colleges and universities to design and implement a range of anti-hunger programs, including “The Swipe Drive” which enables students to donate meals to their peers facing food insecurity on campus.This is Part 1 of a two-part Summer Inspiration Special, a little something to he...
2022-06-3032 min
The Nonprofit PodcastThe Important Podcast - Ep 2 A Community for The Homeless - Amber FogartySend us a textOn the surface, it seems that housing would solve homelessness. However, it’s not that simple. A village on the outskirts of Austin, Texas was founded with the belief that community will solve homelessness. This ‘Community First Village’ currently houses 200 paying tenants who are no longer chronically homeless; they will house 1,000 formerly homeless tenants in the next 10 years, which would reduce the Austin homeless population by half. Their community approach is working, but how is this possible... In this episode, we’ll learn from Amber Fogerty, the Chief Goodness Officer at Mobile Lo...
2019-10-1354 minThe Nonprofit PodcastThe Important Podcast - Ep 1 Hello WorldSend us a textYes, you didn’t misread—that’s its name. Audience, meet: The Important Podcast. In this podcast, you will hear stories of people changing the world by helping others.From a village that houses the formerly homeless to a woman teaching Shakespeare to prison inmates… I can’t wait for you to hear these inspiring stories!In this Episode, You Will: learn why the show is called 'The Important Podcast'meet your host Jared Polivkahear about the types of stories you will hear on the showThe First...
2019-10-1302 min
Data Minds08 - Eli BressertInterview with Eli Bressert (Head of Data Science at Convoy)
*Note: At the time of this recording, Eli was Manager of Dat Engineering and Analytics at Netflix
You Will Learn:
- How Eli transitioned from academia to applied data science
- Stories from Eli’s time at Stitch Fix (when the data team grew from 6 to 80)
- Advice for newly minted data scientists (overcoming impostor syndrome, thinking as a unit, the importance of a “North Star,” etc.)
- How data teams are structured and what Eli’s team does at Netflix
- How to conduct better data science interviews with Eli’s Fo...
2018-07-261h 02Data Minds07 - Derek SteerIn this episode, I interview Derek Steer (co-founder/CEO at Mode).
You Will Learn:
- Why Derek doesn’t call himself a “data scientist”
- The founding story of Mode Analytics. A “crucible moment” / challenge along the way
- What Mode is and who uses it
- The most common misconceptions about analytics
- What makes an analytics team great
- How analytics teams can help others use data more often in decision making
- The skills that data people need to foster to become team leaders (eg “don’t be a house”)
- How data analysts and data scientists can make their c...
2018-07-261h 03Data Minds06 - Eric ColsonIn this episode, I interview Eric Colson (Chief Algorithms Officer, Stitch Fix)
You Will Learn:
- About Eric Colson’s career path to data science and to Chief Algorithms Officer
- A crucible moment (i.e. tough challenge / defining moment) in Eric’s life during his journey
- The history of Stitch Fix’s bold bet on algorithms and data science and how this would become a strategic point of differentiation and defensibility
- About the Data Science Team at Stitch Fix (structure, roles, etc.)
- How Eric built the StitchFix Data Team to over 80 people
- How Machine Learning with H...
2018-07-2650 minData Minds05 - Hilary MasonIn this episode, I interview Hilary Mason (Founder at Fast Forward Labs)
You Will Learn:
- About Hilary’s path to data science
- How FastForward Labs is different than a typical data science consulting company
- About FastForward Labs’ cutting edge Machine Learning research
- The importance of a diverse background / skillset in data science
- Hilary’s thoughts about data science as a service and Blackbox Machine Learning
- The importance of empathy and storytelling in data science
- How you can develop your domain expertise, empathy and storytelling skills
Bio:
Hilary Mason played a major role in defini...
2018-07-2656 minData Minds04 - Ian BlumenfeldIn this episode, I interview Ian Blumenfeld (Head of Data Science at Clover Health).
You will learn:
- Ian’s lessons learned as a startup founder
- Ian’s thoughts on data science as a service
- Importance of domain expertise in Data Science & how to build expertise
- The the tools used by Clover Health’s data science teams
- How Clover Health tackles the challenge of small sample sizes and slow operational feedback loops (getting data can take weeks…)
- How Ian defines data science
- How to hire data science unicorns
Blog post here:
https://medium.com/data-min...
2018-07-261h 15Data Minds03 - Jonathan MorraIn this episode, I interview Jonathan Morra (VP of Data Science at ZEFR).
You will learn:
-Jonathan Morra’s path to data science
- Jonathan’s data science career advice
- how matching works at eHarmony: Compatibility, Affinity and Distribution
- the main tools used by data scientists at eHarmony
- awesome algorithms and frameworks you may not have heard of
- how data teams and product teams can work together more effectively
- opportunities for data science tool creation
- the importance of community, evangelizing and storytelling in data science
*Note: at the time of this recording, Jonathan Morra was...
2018-07-261h 00Data Minds02 - Andreas MuellerInterview with Andreas Mueller, Lecturer in Data Science at Columbia University
In this episode, you will meet Andreas Mueller and learn about his passion for:
- democratizing access to high-quality machine learning algorithms
- promoting reproducible science
Andreas Mueller is a lecturer at the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, he is author of the O’Reilly book “Introduction to machine learning with Python”, he is a Software Carpentry instructor and he is one of the core contributors to the scikit-learn machine learning library.
Andreas holds a doctorate in Computer Vision from the University of Bonn in Germany.
Read the blog p...
2018-07-2654 minData Minds01 - Name this PodcastEpisode 1, naming the podcast.
Yep, I’m launching a data science podcast. This is my nights and weekends side project labor of love. You might be wondering… why?
Basically, “I’m lucky.” I’ve befriended hundreds of amazing data scientists in the past 18 months — I want you to have access to these amazing people too.
Read the full blog post here:
https://medium.com/data-minds/episode-0-name-this-data-science-podcast-f696eaf20dab
2018-07-2603 min