This week Dr. Amy Brand, the pioneering Director of The MIT Press and executive producer of documentary films, leads discussion of the benefits of — and innovations in — open-access publishing.
In the episode, Amy details:
• What open-access means.
• Why open-access papers, books, data, and code are invaluable for data scientists and anyone else doing research and development.
• The new metadata standard she developed to resolve issues around accurate attribution of who did what for a given academic publication.
• How we can change the STEM fields to be welcoming to everyone, including historically underrepresented groups.
• What it’s like to devise and create an award-winning documentary film.
Amy:
• Leads one of the world’s most influential university presses as the Director and Publisher of the MIT Press.
• Created a new open-access business model called Direct to Open.
• Is Co-Founder of Knowledge Futures Group, a non-profit that provides technology to empower organizations to build the digital infrastructure required for open-access publishing.
• Launched MIT Press Kids, the first university+kids publishers collab.
• Was the executive producer of "Picture A Scientist", a documentary that was selected to premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival and was recognized with the 2021 Kavli Science Journalism Award.
• She holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from MIT.
Today’s episode is well-suited to a broad audience, not just data scientists.
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From Data Science to Cinema
SuperDataScience SuperStar Hadelin returns to report on his journey from multi-million-selling video instructor to mainstream-film actor — and he details the traits that allow data scientists to succeed at anything.
Hadelin has created and presented 30 extremely popular Udemy courses on machine learning topics, selling over two million copies so far. Prior to his epic creative period publishing ML courses, Hadelin studied math, engineering and A.I. at the Université Paris-Saclay and he worked as a data engineer at Google. More recently Hadelin has written a book called "A.I. Crash Course" and was co-founder and CEO of BlueLife AI.
Today's episode focuses on:
• Hadelin's recent shift toward acting in mainstream films
• The characteristics that enable an outstanding data scientist to excel in any pursuit
• How to cultivate your passion and achieve your dreams
• Bollywood vs Hollywood
• How to prepare for the TensorFlow Certificate Program
• Software modules for deploying deep learning models into production
Listen or watch here.