Reinforcement learning is a paradigm of artificial intelligence in which we model both actor and environment, and let the actor explore that environmental space. Links Referenced in the Episode Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction IBM Data Science Community ..read more

Kinga and Cesar discuss his career at IBM and the skills he needed to learn to be a top data scientist. The key topics explored include: Learning to communicate the value of your work and why it matters, being succinct and focusing on what your stakeholder needs; although unintuitive, learning about product management as it has helped him focus on the customers for the model, and finally becoming a life long learner. Links mentioned in this episode: IBM Data Science Community ..read more

IBM Research recently introduced their perspective on a machine learning paradigm called Federated Learning in which multiple parties can all participate in training a single model with a shared goal. You can use data that is distributed between competitors, or even data distributed in one company across multiple geographies. They can participate in this so securely without sharing their raw data, and consequently get models that are much more generalizable than they would otherwise be able to achieve on their own. Links related to this episode: Nathalie Baracaldo, IBM Research - AI Security ..read more

Hector Dominguez PhD is the Open Data Coordinator for the city of Portland and part of the Smart City PDX team. Hector has led privacy and information initiatives for Portland focusing on use of ethical tools for technology solutions assessment, privacy and information protection principles. He has also worked on establishing Portland's citywide privacy and surveillance technology strategies/procedures as well as policy development for facial recognition and surveillance technologies. Links Referenced Ethics Canvas Mapping: https://www.ethicscanvas.org/ Social Responsibility: https://www.sli ..read more

Yao Yang is a journalist turned machine learning researcher/ developer. She leads the R&D at Accenture Tech Labs to create a new platform that checks bias in data and mediate the biases in models to present a fair outcome for use, including processing and verifying data from various sources, recognizing opportunities and developing techniques for programmatically monitoring and enhancing trust through model development and execution ..read more

In this episode of the new Data Scientist Series, IBM AI Tech Evangelist Trisha Mahoney interviews Karen Matthys, Executive Director at External Partners at Stanford’s Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) and co-Director of the Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS). The global WiDS Conference is on March 2, 2020 at Stanford University and 150+ regional events worldwide. The WiDS initiative aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and to support women in the field. Prior to the conference, WiDS hosts a Datathon competition on Ka ..read more

IBM's Data Science and AI Technical Marketing Team is launching a new series as part of the IBM Developer Podcast. In this short trailer, Will Roberts introduces himself and explains why his team is launching the Data Scientist Series and what they hope to achieve with it. Links mentioned in this episode: IBM Data Science Community ..read more