Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, PHD, is the President of KDnuggets, a leading site for Analytics, Big Data, Data Science, and Machine Learning. Gregory is a co-founder of KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data mining conferences), and a top research conference in the field... He is also a co-founder and past chair of ACM SIGKDD, a professional association for Data Mining and Data Science, and a well-known Data Scientist.

Interviewer: Rajib Bahar, Shabnam Khan

Agenda:

RB - According to Forbes, you're one of the top Big Data Influencers...Your KDNuggets site has well over 60 awards and mentions as a leading publication. I often find myself reading and tweeting your articles from KDNuggets. There are few places to find exciting articles on Data Science, AI, BigData... Please tell us a brief history of KDNuggets...

SB - I understand you have transitioned from researcher role to a high level editor role. What do you enjoy about it?

RB - What are your thoughts on Global trend on Machine Learning, AI, & Big Data?

SB - Where does automation of Data Science come into play? Is that a helpful process or distraction from useful analysis? How do you implement it?

RB - We all have bias. Does Big Data suffer from any bias such as implicit bias?

SB - Who are these so called Citizen Data Scientists? Why are they important? How can they serve society at large?

RB - How do we connect with you on twitter & social media?

Additional Reference Materials from Gregory for our listeners.

Data Science Automation:

Data Scientists Automated and Unemployed by 2025?
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/05/data-scientists-automated-2025.html

The Current State of Automated Machine Learning
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/01/current-state-automated-machine-learning.html

Trends:
Machine Learning overtaking Big Data
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/05/machine-learning-overtaking-big-data.html

Optimism about AI improving society is high, but drops with experience developing AI systems
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/07/optimism-ai-impact-experience.html


Bias in Big Data
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/even-artificial-intelligence-can-acquire-biases-against-race-and-gender
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/13/ai-programs-exhibit-racist-and-sexist-biases-research-reveals
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mariyayao/2017/05/01/dangers-algorithmic-bias-homogenous-thinking-ai/#42d724d270b3

Mirage of a Citizen Data Scientist:
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/03/mirage-citizen-data-scientist.html

Citizen Data Scientist Cartoon:
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/03/cartoon-citizen-data-scientist.html

Overfitting
The Cardinal Sin of Data Mining and Data Science: Overfitting

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/06/cardinal-sin-data-mining-data-science.html


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