In 2000, Enron was one of the largest and companies in the world, praised far and wide for its innovations in energy distribution and many other markets. By 2002, it was apparent that many bad apples had been cooking the books, and billions of dollars and thousands of jobs disappeared.
In the aftermath, surprisingly, one of the greatest datasets in all o ... Show More
Jul 2020
So long, and thanks for all the fish
All good things must come to an end, including this podcast. This is the last episode we plan to release, and it doesn’t cover data science—it’s mostly reminiscing, thanking our wonderful audience (that’s you!), and marveling at how this thing that started out as a side project g ... Show More
35m 44s
Jul 2020
A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data
A few weeks ago, we put out a call for data scientists interested in issues of race and racism, or people studying how those topics can be studied with data science methods, should get in touch to come talk to our audience about their work. This week we’re excited to bring on Tod ... Show More
23m 44s
Jan 2023
How Enron Fooled the World
Until the 2007, the largest single corporate bankruptcy was Enron, a $67 billion energy trading company. Its decline was breathtaking, and while it’s a fascinating story of corporate malfeasance and greed, it’s also about the lives of ruined workers.See omnystudio.com/listener fo ... Show More
59m 17s
Oct 2021
203. Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email
Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s leading web portal.Strik ... Show More
34m 18s
Jun 2023
HS050 The Tech Job Debacle
Google, Microsoft, Twitter, META/FB and a few others laid off an estimated 200,000 tech and tech-adjacent folks in recent weeks. Other companies like Fedex and Amazon have made layoffs, many impacting the IT teams. What does that mean for the tech industry? Between AI and our cor ... Show More
28 m
Dec 2023
Operational Safety With AI: Chevron's Ellen Nielsen
Ellen Nielsen, Chevron’s first chief data officer, sees data as the common thread throughout a career that has spanned systems, digital data, procurement, and supply chain. In her current role, she applies what she’s learned to Chevron’s wide-ranging AI and machine learning initi ... Show More
35m 13s
Aug 2023
"Bahnbrechende Technologien sind oft nicht neu", sagt Klemens Skibicki
"Nach 15 Jahren an der Hochschule hatte ich irgendwann genug", erzählt Klemens Skibicki. Seinen Job als Professor an der Cologne Business School in Köln hat er an den Nagel gehängt. Lehrende Berufe seien toll, aber die unternehmerischen Sachen "machen einfach so viel mehr Spaß". ... Show More
42m 10s