Episode 21: The Cold Start Problem for Becoming a DJ

Adversarial Learning

Our guest this week is Pardis Noorzad (@djpardis), former data science manager at Twitter and now Head of Data Science at Carbon Health. Our conversation spans a wide range of topics:

• the Tenderloin
• Carbon Health
• what Duran Duran has to do with Black History Month
• the "cold start problem" for becoming a DJ
• how long it takes to achieve domain expertise
• how many people there are in Canada
• how getting that first data science job is like DJ-ing
• loyalty
• the Go programming language
• the Hopper-Causey effect
• data science as quality control

Please listen to it.