Sal, Colleen, and Frankie analyze retail's evolution through the pandemic, offering data-driven insights to navigate holiday shopping trends and understand shifts in advertisement.
24 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT
The Evolution of AI: NLP to LLM
Colleen Hayes, Frankie Chalupsky, and Sal Fadel examine the evolution of artificial intelligence from natural language processing to large language models, noting both the advantages and disadvantages of AI; this is a discussion.
2 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT
Disastrous Data Decisions
This episode analyzes disastrous data decisions, highlighting examples of bad data quality and its impact on business and world history, offering insights on how to avoid such pitfalls.
8 Aug 2025
Behind the Mic: Colleen Hayes
Colleen Hayes discusses her career transition from journalism to data analytics and data products, highlighting the importance of curiosity and problem-solving skills in this interview.
7 Jul 2025
Will AI take your job?
Hosts Frankie, Sal, and Colleen discuss the potential impact of artificial intelligence on job security and provide strategies for adapting to an increasingly AI-driven professional landscape.
16 Jun 2025
Behind the Mic: Frankie Chalupsky
Colleen Hayes and Sal Fadel interview Frankie Chalupsky about his experiences as a cohost and his best practices, offering listeners a deeper understanding of the podcast team.
9 May 2025
AI in the NFL: Tracking Players, Preventing Injuries, and Changing the Game
Colleen, Frankie, and Sal examine how artificial intelligence and data analytics revolutionize the NFL by influencing decisions both on the field and in team management.
1 Apr 2025
Behind the Mic: Sal Fadel
Colleen Hayes and Frankie Chalupsky interview Sal Fadel about his background and best practices, offering listeners a chance to connect with the cohost.
24 Mar 2025
Nuclear Power & AI
Hosts Colleen, Frankie, and Sal discuss Microsoft's $3.3 billion investment in Wisconsin to boost AI innovation, along with DeepSeek's impact on AI stock selloffs.
1 Feb 2025
Empower Your Startup
Sal Fadel, Colleen Hayes, and Frankie Chalupsky interview Naveen Lalit Kankate about leveraging data to achieve entrepreneurial success, offering insights into data-driven strategies for startups in this interview.
1 Nov 2024
Winning Edge: Data’s Role in Olympic Fencing
Podcast Notes:****Sorry for the sound quality. We had technical difficulties, which should be much improved at our next show!****Hosts:Colleen, Frankie, and SalGuest:Abbas Fadel, Olympic fencing coach and three-time OlympianThe Data Pulse:Can AI Compete with Human Data Scientists?OpenAI’s new benchmarking tool, MLE-bench, puts AI capabilities to the test against 75 real-world data science competitions from Kaggle. The tool evaluates AI on more than computational ability, focusing on its capac...
18 Oct 2024
Data & Democracy
Podcast Notes:Hosts:Colleen, Frankie, and SalThe Data Pulse:A New Group Is Trying to Make AI Data Licensing EthicalAs the first wave of major generative AI tools used publicly available data, now the Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA) is pushing for an opt-in data system, which could reshape how AI models are trained and licensed.https://www.wired.com/story/dataset-providers-alliance-ethical-generative-ai-licensing/California Governor Newsom Vetoes AI Safety BillGov. Gavin Newsom vetoes a bill ...
10 Sept 2024
Crafting the Perfect Brew
On this month's episode, in our installment of the Data Pulse, we chat about a candidate for mayor from Wyoming who's suggesting a chat bot could run the government.https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/wyoming-mayoral-candidate-promises-let-openai-bot-govern-capital-city-faces-backlash-from-tech-giantWe then go on to chat with Ron Hockersmith of Amorphic Beer about the unique ways his company uses scientific data in the brewing process. If you're in the Milwaukee area, be sure to check them o...
1 Jul 2024
"Tap" Into Your Data
1 Jul 2024
Decoding the Melody
1 Jun 2024
Betting on Analytics
Podcast Notes:
Matt’s educational content recommendations:
Unabated (https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funabated.com%2Feducation&data=05%7C02%7Cfchalupsky%40continuus-technologies.com%7Ced424ed259954bcd221e08dc80e04c02%7C3e13a4836b5f4cb0b6b77b2ffec49193%7C0%7C0%7C638526948059315051%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FdyoIQxr72fGSTC2luwQrSd3cO%2F1IpWDp0y5MuwIfu8%3D&reserved=0). The site is built and run by winners. Their articles/videos/podcasts cut through a lot of noise and buzzwords and give true signal. They stay away from giving picks while trying to educate users on how to use tools to win.
For those wanting a book, the logic of sports betting (https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLogic-Sports-Betting-Ed-Miller-ebook%2Fdp%2FB07RG6H8C2&data=05%7C02%7Cfchalupsky%40continuus-technologies.com%7Ced424ed259954bcd221e08dc80e04c02%7C3e13a4836b5f4cb0b6b77b2ffec49193%7C0%7C0%7C638526948059323371%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=45jQlMkXqcZOIjhxb%2BYg1HS9Jvx1t26nyRGc2c636jU%3D&reserved=0) is the best relevant piece of material around.
The Data Pulse:
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/ai-is-fueling-a-data-center-boom-can-the-power-grid-keep-up/A7059830-C06B-47A8-97CD-D08031EF84CC?mod=Searchresults_pos3&page=3 (https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/ai-is-fueling-a-data-center-boom-can-the-power-grid-keep-up/A7059830-C06B-47A8-97CD-D08031EF84CC?mod=Searchresults_pos3&page=3)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/reddit-signs-data-licensing-deal-with-openai-14993757?mod=Searchresults_pos11&page=1 (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/reddit-signs-data-licensing-deal-with-openai-14993757?mod=Searchresults_pos11&page=1)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/paypal-is-planning-an-ad-business-using-data-on-its-millions-of-shoppers-cc5e0625?mod=Searchresults_pos4&page=1 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/paypal-is-planning-an-ad-business-using-data-on-its-millions-of-shoppers-cc5e0625?mod=Searchresults_pos4&page=1)
Thank you to our sponsor, Continuus Technologies, for providing us use of their space and technology.
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Podcast Description:
This episode discusses another unique way analytics can be used in our everyday lives: sports betting. 37% of the US has placed a bet on some sport in 2024 (https://www.shu.edu/business/news/sports-poll-finds-slowed-growth-for-sports-betting.html#:~:text=Among%20the%20general%20population%2C%2037,2022%20it%20was%2041%20percent (https://www.shu.edu/business/news/sports-poll-finds-slowed-growth-for-sports-betting.html#:~:text=Among%20the%20general%20population%2C%2037,2022%20it%20was%2041%20percent)). Because it’s so popular, we wanted to discuss how analytics can be used to improve sports betting with someone who has been extremely successful due to his analytical mindset. Matt Montgomery shares his insights on how he uses analytics, his betting history and thought process, and some great tips to be successful and have fun.
Unabated Sports: Your Direct Path to Intelligent Betting (https://unabated.com/education)
1 May 2024
Who Manipulated Who? How Data Manipulation Can Skew Your Reality.
Sal Fadel, Colleen Hayes, and Frankie Chalupsky discuss how data can be manipulated or skewed to show results in a biased way. They discuss the following:
-Data poisoning and how it can be used for good and evil
-Purposeful data manipulation recent news
-Accidental data manipulation, how it can be handled, and the impacts it may have on a company or an industry
Thank you to Continuus Technologies for sponsoring us and allowing us to use their space and equipment!
Data Pulse Sources:
Tesla Raising Pay for AI Engineers To Counter Poaching, Musk Says (investopedia.com) (https://www.investopedia.com/tesla-raising-pay-for-ai-engineers-to-counter-poaching-musk-says-8624619)
Aldi Is Overhauling Its Checkout Process with the Help of AI (foodandwine.com) (https://www.foodandwine.com/aldi-checkout-free-technology-aldigo-8636095)
LINGO-2: Driving with Natural Language - Wayve (https://wayve.ai/thinking/lingo-2-driving-with-language/?utm_source=tldrai)
Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/science/colorado-brain-data-privacy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare)
Other Sources:
How Misleading Statistics Works | Whatagraph (https://whatagraph.com/blog/articles/misleading-statistics)
https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitors-data-broker-leak/ (https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitors-data-broker-leak/)
Colorado Bureau of Investigation finds manipulated data, incomplete results in DNA testing process - CBS Colorado (cbsnews.com) (https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-bureau-investigation-finds-manipulated-data-incomplete-results-dna-testing-process/)
How Novartis’ data manipulation case is a cautionary tale for transparency | Pharma Manufacturing (https://www.pharmamanufacturing.com/compliance/regulatory-guidance/article/11300653/how-novartis-data-manipulation-case-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-transparency)
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/big-data-algorithms-manipulating-us/ (https://www.wired.com/2016/10/big-data-algorithms-manipulating-us/)
Harvard professor who studies dishonesty is accused of tampering with data : NPR (https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184289296/harvard-professor-dishonesty-francesca-gino)
Stanford head to resign after data manipulation probe (bbc.com) (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66251751)
https://www.wired.com/story/synthetic-data-is-a-dangerous-teacher/ (https://www.wired.com/story/synthetic-data-is-a-dangerous-teacher/)
As Generative AI Takes Off, Researchers Warn of Data Poisoning - WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/as-generative-ai-takes-off-researchers-warn-of-data-poisoning-d394385c?mod=Searchresults_pos9&page=1)
27 Mar 2024
Who are you fooling your data's everywhere!
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Data Driven Retail IQ
Published 5 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I feel like we've known big real retailers like Walmart and these bigger ones that have been doing this for years, but just curious, do you think it's going to shift into because data is becoming a lot easier to access and manage and then I feel like we can never not bring up AI. […]
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