Jon Krohn on Ken’s Nearest Neighbors Podcast #168

Data Science

Our Chief Data Scientist, Jon Krohn, joins Ken Jee in this episode of the “Ken’s Nearest Neighbors” podcast — a popular weekly show that features data professionals digging into their backgrounds, motivations and philosophies.

(The podcast name is a clever play on the “k-nearest neighbors” machine learning algorithm.)

In this episode, Ken Jee (sports data scientist and YouTuber with 250,000 subscribers) and Jon had a lot of laughs while discussing:
• “Type 1” versus “Type 2” fun
• The Nebula platform, where we automate and augment white-collar work with A.I.
• How Jon found meaning through publishing free educational resources.
• How Jon came to host SuperDataScience and how it’s grown it into the most listened-to podcast in the industry.
• The flywheel of being a data science practitioner and content creator.

You can listen to the episode (#168) of Ken’s Nearest Neighbors on all major podcast platforms.

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