Gradient Flow #33: DataOps, Natural Language Benchmarks, Multimodal ML

Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 548 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read. “While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.”  – Jane Jacobs Data Exchange podcast How Technology Companies Are Using Ray  Zhe Zhang is an Engineering Manager at Anyscale where heContinue reading “Gradient Flow #33: DataOps, Natural Language Benchmarks, Multimodal ML”

Gradient Flow #32: Data Cascades, Demand for Data Engineers, Exploiting ML models

Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 428 words which will take you about 2 minutes to read. “I would believe only in a god who could dance.” – Friedrich Nietzsche. Data Exchange podcast Machine Learning in Healthcare  I speak with Parisa Rashidi, Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Intelligent HealthContinue reading “Gradient Flow #32: Data Cascades, Demand for Data Engineers, Exploiting ML models”

One Simple Chart: Data Engineering jobs in the U.S.

It’s been a few months since I looked at data on job postings. In my most recent post in Dec/2020 I focused on reinforcement learning (RL), which in terms of number of job postings, barely grew on a year-over-year basis. The good news is that it appears that employers are once again starting to postContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Data Engineering jobs in the U.S.”

Data Cascades: Why we need feedback channels throughout the machine learning lifecycle

A team from Google Research shares lessons learned from high-stakes domains. Data has been an undervalued component of AI development since the dawn of AI. We are now seeing the beginnings of a much-needed shift in how data is viewed. In a recent post, we described the growing interest in metadata management systems as aContinue reading “Data Cascades: Why we need feedback channels throughout the machine learning lifecycle”

Gradient Flow #31: AI in Healthcare, Data Quality, Understanding Neural Networks

Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 368 words which will take you about 2 minutes to read. “There’s a Fog of War, but there’s also a Fog of Peace.” – Eric Grosse Data Exchange podcast The Mathematics of Data Integration and Data Quality    Ryan Wisnesky is the CTO and co-founder of Conexus, a startup thatContinue reading “Gradient Flow #31: AI in Healthcare, Data Quality, Understanding Neural Networks”

2021 AI in Healthcare Survey Report

By Ben Lorica and Paco Nathan. Applications of AI in Healthcare ​pose a number of challenges and considerations which differ substantially from other business verticals. We conducted an industry survey specifically about AI in healthcare, to understand more about current trends and issues. A total of 373 respondents from 49 countries participated in the survey.Continue reading “2021 AI in Healthcare Survey Report”

Gradient Flow #30: Pricing Data Products, National AI Strategy, Elastic Computing

Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 560 words which will take you about 3 minutes to read. “We hoped for the best, but it turned out as usual.” – Viktor Chernomyrdin Data Exchange podcast Challenges, Opportunities, and Trends in EdTech   Stanford’s Sharon Zhou has been teaching very popular courses on GANs (generative adversarial networks) onContinue reading “Gradient Flow #30: Pricing Data Products, National AI Strategy, Elastic Computing”

Gradient Flow #29: Business at the Speed of AI, Information Security, Trading Bubbles

Subscribe • Previous Issues This edition has 344 words which will take you about 2 minutes to read. “But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.” – Margaret Atwood. Data Exchange podcast Towards Simple, Interpretable, and Trustworthy AI   I speak with Sheldon Fernandez, CEO at Darwin AI, and Alex Wong, Professor at the University of Waterloo,Continue reading “Gradient Flow #29: Business at the Speed of AI, Information Security, Trading Bubbles”