Devoting Your Life to Reinventing a Broken System
At the a16z LP Summit, we brought hundreds of our limited partners and portfolio founders together in Las Vegas.
The event was truly overflowing with stories of how founders are challenging the status quo and harnessing technology to make the world a better place. Amidst these stories, it became clear that in the realms of public safety and healthcare, the stakes couldn't be higher—these sectors not only hold lives in balance but also stand as fertile ground for technological breakthroughs.
In this episode, a16z General Partner Vijay Pande chats with Ed and Todd Park, the visionary siblings behind Devoted Health. Their mission? To overhaul a healthcare system they describe as critically essential yet deeply flawed. The Park brothers delve into the genesis of their ambition to construct a healthcare system from scratch, underscoring the sector's urgent need for technological innovation and the game-changing role of AI.
Kicking off with an American dream story, this episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in how technology can reshape healthcare for the better.
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Roger & DJ — The Rise of Big Data and CA's COVID-19 Response
Roger and DJ share some of the history behind data science as we know it today, and reflect on their experiences working on California's COVID-19 response.
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Roger Magoulas is Senior Director of Data Strategy at Astronomer, where he works on data infrastructure, analytics, and community development. Previously, he was VP of Research at O'Reilly and co-chair of O'Reilly's Strata Data and AI Conference.
DJ Patil is a board member and former CTO of Devoted Health, a healthcare company for seniors. He was also Chief Data Scientist under the Obama administration and the Head of Data Science at LinkedIn.
Roger and DJ recently volunteered for the California COVID-19 response, and worked with data to understand case counts, bed capacities and the impact of intervention.
Connect with Roger and DJ:
📍 Roger's Twitter: https://twitter.com/rogerm
📍 DJ's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dpatil
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🌟 Transcript: http://wandb.me/gd-roger-and-dj 🌟
⏳ Timestamps:
0:00 Sneak peek, intro
1:03 Coining the terms "big data" and "data scientist"
7:12 The rise of data science teams
15:28 Big Data, Hadoop, and Spark
23:10 The importance of using the right tools
29:20 BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front
34:44 California's COVID response
41:21 The human aspects of responding to COVID
48:33 Reflecting on the impact of COVID interventions
57:06 Advice on doing meaningful data science work
1:04:18 Outro
🍀 Links:
1. "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters" (Dean and Ghemawat, 2004): https://research.google/pubs/pub62/
2. "Big Data: Technologies and Techniques for Large-Scale Data" (Magoulas and Lorica, 2009): https://academics.uccs.edu/~ooluwada/courses/datamining/ExtraReading/BigData
3. The O'RLY book covers: https://www.businessinsider.com/these-hilarious-memes-perfectly-capture-what-its-like-to-work-in-tech-2016-4
4. "The Premonition" (Lewis, 2021): https://www.npr.org/2021/05/03/991570372/michael-lewis-the-premonition-is-a-sweeping-indictment-of-the-cdc
5. Why California's beaches are glowing with bioluminescence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVYSr19ReOs
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7. Sturgis Motorcyle Rally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgis_Motorcycle_Rally
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355: DJ Patil on Harnessing the Power of Data Science Community
DJ Patil talks about ethics in data science and the importance of data science communities working together to make sure data science is an accelerant of solutions for our children and our children’s children.
In this episode you will learn:
How does it feel to be the person who created data science as we know it now? [3:17]
What data science is not [6:01]
Ethics and data science development in different countries [10:00]
What is the “biorevolution”? [16:02]
The importance of data sharing [20:10]
The current state of Chief Data Scientist of USA [24:07]
LinkedIn Q&A [26:03]
What to think about when you think about data science [44:08]
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/355
#89: A conversation with the Chief Data Scientist of the United States
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/89
Recode Decode: U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil
DJ Patil, America's first Chief Data Scientist, talks about his nearly two years in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, working on initiatives around health care and policing. Patil grew up in Silicon Valley, and has worked at Skype, LinkedIn and eBay; he says that techies in the private sector should consider a "tour of duty" in the government to be one of their civic duties. He says opening up the vast amounts of data collected by government agencies can make everyone better-off — as long as personal data like health records can be properly secured.
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