Anne Cocos' podcast interview on location ML

Iggy's head of data science Anne Cocos recently sat down to discuss Iggy and location ML on the ML Ops Community podcast.

Tune in to hear Anne discuss: 

  • Motivations for iggy, based on our CEO Lindsay's experience as a data scientist at Airbnb,
  • How we build our core/canonical datasets,
  • Lessons learned from ingesting massive datasets with complex geometries (I.e. FEMA flood data),
  • How iggy can help w health outcomes,
  • Navigating the pre-PMF journey,
  • Why Anne thinks machine learning on geospatial data is particularly cool.

We hope you enjoy it! Reach out on Twitter or email w comments or questions.

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