(Highlights below) Vin Vashishta is a chief data officer and AI strategist at V Squared, a company he founded in 2012 that  provides AI strategy, transformation, and data organizational build-out services.

He teaches data professionals about strategy, communications, business acumen, and applied machine learning research methods. Vin has 130k+ followers on Linkedin talking about AI, analytics, and strategy. His website: https://www.datascience.vin/

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Highlights:

(0:00) Intro 

(00:03:37) "ML strategy" with 'pricing' as an example 

(00:09:45) what is a good metric for ML 

(00:13:16) how to translate a business problem into a data problem 

(00:23:42) leverage users in the "Human Machine Teaming" 

(00:48:22) how he earned the trust 

(01:17:31) data science evolution from 2012 to 2022 

(01:31:06) how he learns new domain knowledge

(01:36:25) the mistakes he made 

(01:42:15) what he learnt from his mentor