The Data Stack Show

33: ML is a Data Quality Problem with Peter Gao from Aquarium Learning

Episode Notes

On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with Peter Gao, co-founder, and CEO at Aquarium Learning. A former engineer at Cruise Automation, Peter and Aquarium Learning help ML teams improve their model performances by improving their data.

Highlights from this week's episode include:

• How getting hit by a drunk driver made researching self-driving cars personal for Peter (2:12)
• Filtering out the hype in self-driving car news to get a clear picture of its state today (6:52)
• The data required for a self-driving vehicle (13:56)
• Operation Vacation and how Aquarium can help provide the tools to make models better (16:53)
• Utilizing neural networks to index data (20:41)
• How Aquarium fits in the ML stack (30:25)
• Interesting use cases of Aquarium (33:59)
• Distinguishing subclasses of machine learning (40:05)
• Human involvement in machine learning (46:13)

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