Data Brew by Databricks

Data Brew. Let’s talk data.

Welcome to Data Brew by Databricks with Denny and Brooke! In this series, we explore various topics in the data and AI community and interview subject matter experts in data engineering/data science. So join us with your morning brew in hand and get ready to dive deep into data + AI!

Season 2

For our second season, we will be focusing on machine learning, from research to production. We will interview folks in academia and industry to discuss topics such as data ethics, production-grade infrastructure for ML, hyperparameter tuning, AutoML, and many more.

Miss Season 1? You can still catch Season 1 on Data Lakehouses here, on YouTube, and on your favorite podcast service like Spotify and Apple Music.

ML in Production

In the season opener, Matei Zaharia discusses how he entered the field of ML, best practices for productionizing ML pipelines, leveraging MLflow & the Data Lakehouse architecture for reproducible ML, and his current research in this field.

Data Ethics

Have you ever wondered how your purchasing behavior may reveal protected attributes? Or how data scientists and business play a role in combating bias? We discuss with Diana Pfeil recommendations to reduce bias and improve fairness, from SHAP to adversarial debiasing.

Infrastructure for ML

Adam Oliner discusses how to design your infrastructure to support ML, from integration tests to glue code, the importance of iteration, and centralized vs decentralized data science teams. He provides valuable advice for companies investing in ML and crucial lessons he’s learned from founding two companies.

Hyperparameter and Neural Architecture Search

Liam Li is a leading researcher in the fields of hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search, and is the author of the seminal Hyperband paper. In this session, Liam discusses the evolution of hyperparameter optimization techniques and illustrates how every data scientist can benefit from neural architecture search.

ML Applications

Good machine learning starts with high quality data. Irina Malkova shares her experience managing and ensuring high-fidelity data, developing custom metrics to satisfy business needs, and discusses how to improve internal decision making processes.

AutoML

Erin LeDell shares valuable insight on AutoML, what problems are best solved by it, its current limitations, and her thoughts on the future of AutoML. We also discuss founding and growing the Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (WiMLDS) non-profit.

Interpretable Machine Learning

What does it mean for a model to be “interpretable”? Ameet Talwalkar shares his thoughts on IML (Interpretable Machine Learning), how it relates to data privacy and fairness, and his research in this field.

Feature Engineering

Is there ever a “one-size fits all” approach for feature engineering? Find out this and more with Amanda Casari and Alice Zheng, co-authors of the Feature Engineering for Machine Learning book.

Feature Engineering

We branch, version, and test our code, but what if we treated data like code? Tim Hunter joins us to discuss the open-source Data-Driven Software (DDS) package and how it leads to immense gains in collaboration and decreased runtime for data scientists at any organization.