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Apr 2021
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AI Today Podcast: Leading Data Scientist...

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As organizations continue to hire more data scientists it’s important to make sure they are being utilized to emphasize their skill sets. In this episode of the AI Today podcast hosts Kathleen Walch and Ron Schmelzer interview Ylan Kazi, Vice President, Data Science and Machine Learning at UnitedHealth Group. He shares with us his thoughts on why it’s important to leading data scientists the right way, what are some of the key traits you look for when hiring data scientists, as well as some of the barriers to ML adoption he has seen.

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