Using Data to Make the World a Better Place. Guest: Mr. Jeremy Howard

April 16, 2013.  Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle. Jeremy Howard introduces the field of data science – a science that focuses on building the tools and techniques for data-driven decision making. His latest startup, Kaggle, is a community of 80,000 data scientists that have successfully solved some of the world’s toughest problems. Jeremy talks both about the creation and development of Kaggle, as well as his journey over the last 20 years to get to this point, which included creating the first global management consulting group to focus on analytics in business strategy, as well as two previous successful startups (both entirely bootstrapped, and sold to large international corporations). Q&A Begins at: 56’25”.