Data Revolution

In this episode Kate Carruthers covers her personal journey into the world of data and gives an overview of some key concepts for future episodes of the Data Revolution podcast.The picture on this episode is a waratah from one of my bushwalks.Thanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

In this episode Kate talks about why data governance is important and the features of a good data governance program. With a slight digression on why data is not the new oil and the problem with data.Thanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

In this episode I am having a chat with Mark Pesce - well known futurist, inventor, author, educator and broadcaster - about artificial intelligence (AI). We talk about how fast AI is moving, in weeks and days not months or years anymore. And we also talk about some of the scary stuff and how this technology does not have agency (yet), and about how it will change the ways that we all work. Mark also talks about how there are some amazing developments in the open source space in AI, and shares his vision for a future where AI works for us and does not destroy all life. You can find more about Mark and his work at https://markpesce.com/Thanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

Thinking about data protection. Transcript available here ENISA threat landscape: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/cyber-threats/threats-and-trends NIST Cyber Security Framework: https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework Thanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

For this episode I am joined by a well-known data leader - Felipe Flores - who is talking about things you need to do as a data leader when you start a new role.Felipe is a data science senior executive with almost 20 years experience. He has worked across data engineering/warehousing, reporting, business intelligence, analytics, data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is currently the CDAO at Healthcare AI company, and is the founder of Data Futurology.Data Futurology is one of my go-to places for data podcasts and events and is worth checking out.Thanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

Everyone seems to be running around trying to work out what the new surge in AI that is driven largely by the growth in generative AI. And so many people are being all doom and gloom about how AI will kill us all, and others saying we will all lose our jobs.And today I will discuss how we will need to look at how our data teams work and the new roles we will need to consider to support AI operations at scale.Links to stuff I talk about in the podcastMeesters, Marcel & Heck, Petra & Serebrenik, Alexander. (2022). What Is an AI Engineer? An Empirical Analysis of Job Ads in The Netherlands. 10.1145/3522664.3528594.Thanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

For this episode of the Data Revolution podcast my guest is Gladwin Mendez. Today we are going to be talking about the important other things that data and technology need to work - people and process. Gladwin is passionate about making a difference to the world through data and relishes the opportunity to expand that to the wider global stage. He is Chief Customer and Analytics Officer at Simply AI. Gladwin has more than 15 years' experience in technology, data and analytics. He has worked across New Zealand's large financial services and insurance organizations, as well as numerous organizations in Australasia, North America and Europe. His background includes leadership of analytics teams at Deloitte and KPMG. He successfully developed these companies' capabilities and led their analytics service lines across a portfolio of IT advisory, risk, tax and management consulting services. Thanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

This time my guest is Fiona Tweedie. She has been thinking about the need for explainable AI for a long time. We had a fascinating chat on why this is important, why we should care about AI being explainable, some of the risks associated with AI not being explainable. Fiona Tweedie fell in love with the transformative power of data when working on the Australian Government's Principles on Open Public Sector Information and has held numerous roles analysing, governing and wrangling data in the years since. She has worked on embedding ethical approaches to data in commercial and research organisations and is passionate about demystifying tech and increasing data literacy. Fiona holds a PhD in Ancient History and is still working on the blanket that she started crocheting during lockdown. Links to resources we discuss in the podcast:Technically WrongOpen Data Institute – Data Ethics CanvasNSW Government AIThanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

My guest today is Khaled Auf, and we will be talking about the benefits of a bi-modal approach to delivering Analytics, BI and Data Science . We also touch on tri-modal approaches (and even coin the very innovative quad-modal approach

In this episode my guest is Peter Leonard. He is a guru in the legal data and tech space and one of my primary go-to people when I am thinking about data governance, data sharing, regulation, and AI ethics. Today we are talking about some of the issues that folks are going to need to think about as we all wing our way into the AI era. Episode information links: Five Safes Framework UNSW Data GovernanceThanks for listening! You can find more episodes at datarevolution.tech© Kate Carruthers – Data Revolution Podcast 2023 https://datarevolution.tech/

To be fair it has been a hellish month at work so I decided to do a low key chat with a mate because I'm tired. This time my guest is Kobi Leins.Dr Kobi Leins (GAICD) is a global expert in AI, international law and governance. Leins provides strategic advice on selection, implementation and operation of technologies to drive business edge; creates systems for organisational and delegation of ownership for complex systems and data; and uses international benchmarking to analyse opportunities and risks in face of rapidly changing legal and governance landscapes and data literacy and public sentiment. Leins is an Honorary Senior Fellow of King's College, London; Advisory Board Member of the Carnegie AI and Equality Initiative; Member of Standards Australia as a technical expert on the International Standards Organisation's work on AI Standards; Affiliate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society; and former Non-Resident Fellow of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Leins is the author of New War Technologies and International Law: The Legal Limits to Weaponising Nanomaterials, Cambridge University Press (2022).” Kobi LeinsWe have known each other for years online and finally met IRL recently on panel and got on so well we decided to have a chat here. It had been a hard week for both of us so, armed with a glass of wine and a large dinosaur mug of Yorkshire Gold tea (it really is the best tea and I have no affiliation with this brand), we could not decide on a topic. Hence this episode is what it is

My guest for this episode is Steve Wilson from Lockstep. He is my go-to human for all things relating to identity. As we were contemplating this episode we started talking about identity (which might not actually be the best word for it) and then Steve said “identity is all about data” and that is where our discussion started.Steve Wilson“Steve is a researcher, innovator and analyst in data protection. He has been a lead digital identity adviser to the governments of Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Macau, New Zealand, and Singapore, and has been awarded 10 patents. In 2018, he was described by digital ethnographer Tricia Wang as “one of the most original thinkers in digital identity in the world today”. Starting in public key infrastructure in 1995, Steve saw the potential for this technology in digital credentials. In 2004, he was awarded his first patent for anonymously verifiable attributes. In 2011, he discovered an ecological explanation for the diversity of digital identities as ensembles of attributes, which in turn convinced him that all digital identity boils down to data.”https://lockstep.com.au/about/stephen-wilson/

This time my guest is the remarkable Dr Linda McIver, who is the CEO of the Australian Data Science Education Institute.We had a wide-ranging chat about the importance of educating the rising generation to make sense of data in the in the modern world. And, even though we did not talk explicitly about her book, Raising Heretics: Teaching Kids to Change the World , it really underpinned our conversation.

My guest for this episode is the charming and erudite Catherine Flick, who is an ethics researcher (and newly minted Professor) working with the Digital Observatory Research Cluster. We have been friends on social media for ages, most recently on the dear departed Pebble, and this was our first chance to chat.We had a fascinating discussion about her research findings using access to a unique and large gaming dataset.https://datarevolution.tech/2023/11/08/catherine-flick/

My guest this time is Adam Sharman from data consultants to the manufacturing sector https://dsifer.com/ - who “combine extensive experience in manufacturing, primary and food processing with world leading data analysis to help business leaders embrace the future of productivity”.We had an excellent chat about the uses of data in manufacturing businesses and, as so often, we came back to the secret sauce really being change management and understanding that at the end of the day data is about people.https://datarevolution.tech/2023/11/21/adam-sharman/

This time my guest is Mark Nicholls. He is CEO of the Information Professionals Group , who help businesses to leverage digital technology to achieve their business objectives. We had an excellent chat about all of the IT good practices that still need to be done to ensure that good clean data can drive our business processes.A bit about Mark:“With experience across almost every industry, Mark Nicholls brings more than 30 years of accumulated knowledge to each and every project, leading technology transformation within organisations across Australia. A member of the Australian Information Industry Association Board, Mark is at the forefront of technology transformation. Known for his ability to engage people at every level, he is adept at honing in on client priorities and finding the right formula to help organisations grow their way.https://www.informpros.com.au/about/our-team/mark-nicholls/

This time my guest is an old friend, Ray Fleming from InnovateGPT, who is co-host of the AI in Education podcast. And this a joint podcast where we had a chat about the future of education in the age of AI.

This time my guest is the intriguing Quinn Dombrowski, whom I have been keeping an eye on via social media for ages due to their Textile Makerspace project and general all-round niceness and humanity. We had a fascinating chat about some non-traditional approaches to data visualisation. You can even study data visualization with Quinn at Stanford.

Kate shares her thoughts on us being at the very start of the AI revolution - we are in the Netscape stage of the journey (not the TikTok stage). She also discusses how Generative AI might just be the start of a new generation of user interfaces. And how AI will merge into autonomous systems - which will make things much more interesting.Episode post hereShow notes are here.