Pipeline Conversations

From Academia to Industry with Johnny Greco

March 3rd, 2022  |  56 mins 34 secs

academia, applied-ml, astronomy, industry, machine-learning, mlops, nlp

This week I spoke with Johnny Greco, a data scientist working at Radiology Partners. Johnny transitioned into his current work from a career as an academic — working in astronomy — where also worked in the open-source space to build a really interesting synthetic image data project.

We get into that project in our conversation but we also discuss his experience of crossing over into industry, the skills that have served him in his new job, and his experience of working in a world where the stakes around models in production are much higher.

Creating Tools that Spark Joy with Ines Montani

January 13th, 2022  |  43 mins 46 secs

data-science, machine-learning, nlp, open-source

Our guest this week is Ines Montani, co-founder and CEO of Explosion, a company based out of Berlin that produce tools that you probably know and love like Spacy, a Python Natural Language Processing library and Prodigy, a data annotation tool.