Women in Big Data Podcast: Career, Big Data & Analytics Insights

Listen and get insights into Trustworthy Generative AI in this talk with Veronique Van Vlasselaer and Bart Baesens. Veronique is the Analytics and AI Lead for South, West, & East Europe at SAS. She is a true data science enthusiast. Bart is a Professor of Data Science at KU Leuven in Belgium and a Lecturer at the University of Southampton. Bart co-authored more than 10 books and 250 scientific papers. Besides, he has an online learning platform called BlueCourses.
We talk about: the definition of trustworthy generative AI; 4 requirements to make AI, especially generative AI, trustworthy; advantages and disadvantages; how Bart and Veronique use generative AI professionally and personally; does generative AI improve humanity or destroy it?; generative AI education for students, employees and customers; the future of generative AI.

Guest Info

• LinkedIn: Bart Baesens
• LinkedIn: Veronique Van Vlasselaer

Resources

• Linkedin: KU Leuven
• LinkedIn: SAS
• Website: Assessment List for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (ALTAI) for self-assessment
• Website: BlueCourses
• Website: KU Leuven
• Website: SAS (Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Data Management)

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Listen and get insights into Data Science & Presentation Skills in this talk with Margot Gerritsen, (Founder & Former Executive Director Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide, and Professor [Emerita] Stanford University).
We talk about: presentation framing and motivation; understanding your audience and the 2 - 3 messages you want them to remember; similarities between your presentation and writing a newspaper article; ending your presentation with a memorable takeaway; explaining where your data is coming from and how you look at the data; overcoming your fear of public speaking - you have nothing to lose, but you have something to gain; being honest about your data and the outcomes; practicing your presentation - the value of multiple dry runs; managing stage fright and anxiety; reducing presentation fears by inviting criticism early on - it will make you a better presenter.
Guest Info

• LinkedIn: Margot Gerritsen
• LinkedIn: Women in Data Science

Resources

• Book: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Michael Wheeler)
• Website: Women in Data Science
• YouTube: Women in Data Science

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Listen, and get insights into Data, Humanitarian Aid & Migration in this talk with Tuba Bircan, Research Professor of Sociology at the VUB, Social Scientist at the Wellcome Connecting Science and also at the Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public at Cambridge University. We talk about Tuba's interest in this episode's topic, the social initiative Needs Map, and the book Data Science for Migration and Mobility, co-authored by Tuba.

Podcast Partner

• FARI - AI for the Common Good Institute

Guest Info

• Website: www.tubabircan.com
• LinkedIn: Tuba Bircan
• Website: Tuba Bircan - Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Organizations

• Website: needsmap.coop - A social cooperative that brings people in need together with individuals, institutions and organizations that want to support.
• Website: Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public - Enabling global conversations on the ethical issues raised by cutting-edge science.

Book

• Data Science for Migration and Mobility

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Listen, and get insights into the Value of Data for Organizations in this talk with Lieve Lanoye, Team Leader Market Intro & Big Data Team, and Paola Masuzzo, Lead Data Scientist at TP Vision . We talk about when and why TP Vision started with their data program; measuring data value; how data can help your organization move forward; the biggest threats to data value and how to handle those; and we give you some resource recommendations to learn more about the value of data.
Guest Info

• LinkedIn: Lieve Lanoye
• LinkedIn: Paola Masuzzo

Resources

• Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities (Thomas Davenport)
• Newsletter: Data Products - Discussing Data Product Development, Semantic Layers, Data APIs, and Modern Data Modelling (Chad Sanderson)
• Storytelling with Data (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)
• The 6 most common types of bias when working with data (The Metabase Team)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

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Listen, and get insights into Robotics, Women & The Future in this talk with Greet Van de Perre, Postdoctoral Researcher at Brubotics - Human Robotics Research Centre at VUB, and Franziska Kirstein, Senior Scientific Domain Lead at Blue Ocean Robotics. We talk about how robotics helps to solve problems, Greet's and Franziska's journey into robotics, empowering more women to study and choose a career in this field, and the future of robotics.
Podcast Partner

• FARI - AI for the Common Good Institute

Guests Info

• Dr. ir. Greet van de Perre (Brubotics)
• Franziska Kirstein (Blue Ocean Robotics)

Organizations

• Brubotics - Human Robotics Research Centre at VUB
• Blue Ocean Robotics

Network

• Women in Robotics

Mentoring
Mentoring Program - Women in Big DataMentoring is essential to success at every stage of a women’s career, both as a mentee and mentor. The many WiBD mentoring programs are open to WiBD members and cover opportunities for junior, mid-career, and senior women in technology. Not yet a member? No worries. By joining a mentoring program, you automatically become a WiBD member. Both membership and mentoring are free of charge.

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Mentoring Program - Women in Big DataMentoring is essential to success at every stage of a women’s career, both as a mentee and mentor. The many WiBD mentoring programs are open to WiBD members and cover opportunities for junior, mid-career, and senior women in technology. Not yet a member? No worries. By joining a mentoring program, you automatically become a WiBD member. Both membership and mentoring are free of charge.

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