In a role reversal, my friend and former colleague Brenton Mallon interviews me about my life, from growing up in West Virginia to my winding path through grad school, data science, and beyond.
30 Jan 2026
AI-Assisted SQL Generation with Till Döhmen
I sit down with Till Döhmen, AI Lead at MotherDuck, to explore the evolving landscape of AI-assisted SQL generation. Till brings a unique perspective from his PhD research in databases and his work building AI features at MotherDuck, the serverless data warehouse built on DuckDB.
We discuss how text-to-SQL has matured from academic benchmarks to practical tools, the importance of documentation and schema context for agents, and the emerging role of MCP servers and skills in customizing agent behavior. Till shares insights on building trust in agent-generated queries, why thinking about what a new hire would need to know helps you build better AI workflows, and how agents are reshaping the analyst's role from SQL writing to question refinement.
8 Jan 2026
The Evolution of AI Agents with Ben Labaschin
Tim speaks with Ben Labaschin, principal machine learning engineer at WorkHelix, about the role of AI agents in software development and enhancing organizational efficiency. ping the industry, and strat
18 Jan 2025
Writing a Math Textbook with Claude with Professor Ghrist
Dr. Robert Ghrist shares how he used Claude to "direct" the writing of a beautiful linear algebra textbook in 55 days.
17 Dec 2024
Building a Startup with AI with Jowanza Joseph
Jowanza Joseph shares how his startup leverages AI tools like Cursor to accelerate software development and compete with established players.
17 Sept 2024
AI Assisted Programming with Ravi Mody
I talk with data science veteran Ravi Mody about his use of large language models in programming practice.
6 Feb 2022
Apache Pulsar with Jowanza Joseph
I talk with Jowanza Joseph about his new book Mastering Apache Pulsar: Cloud Native Event Streaming at Scale
15 Sept 2021
Ocean Engineering to Data Science with Brenton Mallen
I talk with Brenton Mallen about his career progression from ocean engineering to data science.
30 Jun 2021
Hiring Data Scientists with Roy Keyes
I talk with Roy Keyes about his imporant new book
16 Jan 2021
Feature Stores with Willem Pienaar
Adam Laiacano and I talk with Willem Pienaar, software engineer at Tecton, about feature stores and his work on the Feast open source feature store library.
9 Oct 2020
Evolution of a Data Scientist with Adam Laiacano
I talk with Spotify Staff Machine Learning Engineer Adam Laiacano about his roots working on nuclear clocks and his evolution into leading machine learning projects at Spotify.
23 Jul 2020
Customer Focused Data Science with Mike Rogers
In this episode, I speak with Mike Rogers, Senior Director of Solutions Architecture at Tala Security, about the importance of customer-focused data science for enterprise software products.
15 Jul 2020
Fizz Buzz Book with Joel Grus
In this episode, Joel and I discuss his brilliant new book Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz Meditations on Python, mathematics, science, engineering, and design.
17 Feb 2020
Ten Years of Data Science with Josh Wills and Oscar Boykin
In this episode, we discuss metadata stores, the marketability of math skills, dreams for the data science language of the future, the career advantage of tackling easy problems, and machine learning as technical debt. Josh also bashes blockchains.
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
2 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 8 / 100
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Quality
4
Social presence
0
YouTube
0
Engagement
32
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