We talked about:

David’s background
A day in the life of a professor
David’s current projects
Starting a school
The different types of professors
David’s recent papers
Similarities and differences between research labs and startups
Finding (or creating) good datasets
David’s lab
Balancing research and teaching as a professor
David’s most rewarding research project
David’s most underrated research project
David’s virtual data science seminars on YouTube
Teaching at universities without doing research
Staying up-to-date in research
David’s favorite conferences
Selecting topics for research
Convincing students to stay in academia and competing with industry
Finding David online


Links: 

David A. Bader: https://davidbader.net/
NJIT Institute for Data Science: https://datascience.njit.edu/
Arkouda: https://github.com/Bears-R-Us/arkouda
NJIT Data Science YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NJITInstituteforDataScience


ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp
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