Enabling Edge Workers, AI & ML, and The Future of Data Science with Matthew Rocklin

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This episode features an interview with Matthew Rocklin, CEO of Coiled, the scalable Dask-based cloud platform. Prior to founding Coiled, Matthew worked on Dask at Anaconda and then NVIDIA where his teams focused on accelerating Dask through parallel computing and GPUs. Matthew is an industry speaker, author, and founding member of Pangeo, whose mission is to develop open source analysis tools for ocean, atmosphere, and climate science.

In this episode, Sam sits down with Matthew to discuss enabling edge workers, the future of data science, and the revolution of AI and ML.

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“There's all sorts of fun people using these tools and that's the most fun part of this job. You get to learn so much about so many different applications that are all so different and all so fascinating. You were thinking about all these different tools and technologies and I was talking to someone once, it's like, ‘Oh, it's like you're standing on the shoulders of giants.’ That's not quite right. There's lots of sort of normal size people all standing on each other's shoulders in like a massive pyramid. [...] Dask was designed to scale up an existing ecosystem. There's a legacy Python ecosystem that’ll provide a layer of parallel computing on top of it. You can do that either by rewriting the whole thing, which is not feasible, or you can do it by talking to lots of people and getting them to integrate in interesting, fun ways. That's actually been the fun parts of Dask. I think I've probably talked to every major maintainer group ever. I have worked with them to find out the ways to get everything to work smoothly together. And that's super fun. There's an interesting sort of technical and social hacking that occurs, which I think Python has done pretty well at, historically. Which is why it has success.” – Matthew Rocklin

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Episode Timestamps:

(00:58): What open source data means to Matthew

(03:29): Matthew’s motivations behind Python

(18:58): How Matthew is enabling edge workers

(34:46): What the future of data Python space looks like

(39:29): Matthew’s advice for the technical data audience

(41:36): Executive producer, Audra Montenegro's backstage takeaways

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Links:

LinkedIn - Connect with Matthew

Twitter - Follow Matthew

Visit Matthew’s Website

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Visit Coiled

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