Agentic Data Science with Eric Ma, PhD

Agentic Data Science with Eric Ma, PhD

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Agentic Data Science with Eric Ma, PhD

What does it mean to be a data scientist in the age of AI agents?

In this episode of the ODSC Ai X Podcast, Sheamus McGovern sits down with Eric Ma, Data Science Leader at Moderna, to explore how AI coding agents are changing the way data scientists work—and why human expertise matters more than ever.

Eric shares practical insights on agentic data science, coding agents, loop engineering, evaluation frameworks, fine-tuning, AI engineering, and why data scientists should focus on the science of measurement rather than trying to become full-stack software engineers.

00:00 Why Data Scientists Should Focus on Measurement
00:56 Introduction and ODSC AI West
02:10 Meet Eric Ma: From Bioengineering to Data Science
03:44 What Agentic Data Science Means in 2026
05:07 Delegating Analysis to Coding Agents
06:13 Why Data Scientists Still Need to Work by Hand
08:13 What Should Data Scientists Still Do Themselves?
10:14 Slowing Down and Verifying AI-Generated Analysis
12:51 How AI Coding Tools Free Up Cognitive Capacity
13:46 Using AI to Learn New Technical Domains
15:54 Does AI Widen the Gap Between Experts and Beginners?
18:10 The Most Important AI Skills for Data Scientists
20:12 Loop Engineering and Precise Agent Instructions
22:12 Thinking in Systems and Designing Feedback Loops
24:35 What Is an Agentic Harness?
25:01 Coding Agents, Marimo Notebooks, and Pair Programming
26:29 Building a Personal Knowledge Base with AI
29:31 When Should Teams Fine-Tune an LLM?
30:31 Cost, Privacy, and Security Considerations
32:19 Common Failure Modes in Agentic Data Science
34:03 Should Data Scientists Become Full-Stack Engineers?
35:17 Why Measurement Is the Core Data Science Skill
36:52 Data Scientists vs. AI Engineers
38:23 Essential Practices for Working with AI Agents
40:25 Will the Data Scientist Role Still Exist in 10 Years?
41:34 How Important Are Engineering Skills for Data Scientists?
42:09 Final Takeaways and Closing

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SAP Cloud ERP 3SL Migration at AAF with XEPTUM | Expert Talk

SAP Cloud ERP 3SL Migration at AAF with XEPTUM | Expert Talk

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SAP Cloud ERP 3SL Migration at AAF with XEPTUM | Expert Talk

Discover how AAF moved from a two-system landscape to a three-system landscape with SAP Cloud ERP to support ERP harmonization, governance, and future growth.

Join host Yannick from SAP Product Success with Uwe Detroy from AAF, Hans Tscherwitschke from implementation partner XEPTUM, and Calin Cernea from SAP Product Management as they explore AAF’s real-world transformation journey. AAF, also known as American Air Filter and part of Daikin Group, needed to consolidate multiple standalone ERP systems, standardize processes across Europe, and create a scalable foundation for continued rollout and innovation.

In this Expert Talk, you’ll:
✔️ Learn why AAF chose SAP Cloud ERP to harmonize ERP processes across European entities
✔️ Understand the business challenges behind fragmented systems, manual alignment, and master data complexity
✔️ Hear why the two-system landscape became difficult for transport management, governance, and rollout planning
✔️ See how AAF, XEPTUM, and SAP approached the move to a three-system landscape
✔️ Explore how test data conversion helped support continuity in the new test environment
✔️ Learn how SAP Cloud ALM, transport management, and localization capabilities can support scalability
✔️ Hear how the new landscape helps AAF prepare for faster innovation, future rollouts, and AI capabilities with Joule

Whether you’re running SAP Cloud ERP, evaluating a 2SL to 3SL migration, or supporting a multi-entity ERP rollout, this Expert Talk shows how a modern system landscape can help organizations move from technical complexity to a more flexible, governed, and innovation-ready ERP foundation.

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Chapters:
00:13 – Welcome and AAF transformation story
01:29 – Why AAF chose SAP Cloud ERP
03:23 – Standardizing processes across Europe
07:16 – Why the 2SL setup became challenging
10:52 – Moving from 2SL to 3SL
13:17 – The 3SL conversion journey with XEPTUM
20:19 – New capabilities, scalability, and AI readiness
25:28 – Key takeaways and closing

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Apple’s Strong Q3 2026 Earnings

Apple's Strong Q3 2026 Earnings

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Apple's Strong Q3 2026 Earnings

On MacBreak Weekly, Mikah Sargent, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell talk about Apple’s Q3 2026 earnings, why Apple’s stock took a slide following their earnings report, and why investors are worried about supply issues with Apple’s products in the future.

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Open Source Weekly: From AI Simulations to Vintage Code

Open Source Weekly: From AI Simulations to Vintage Code

AI & Simulations This week, the open source world buzzes with innovations in AI and simulation. MaterialSim introduces an AI agent that automates computational materials simulations, promising to accelerate research in chemistry and physics. On the educational front, a new simulation method helps students intuitively grasp why dividing by a whole number increases the denominator, … Read more

Open Source Weekly: MoE, Mice, and Massive Charts

Open Source Weekly: MoE, Mice, and Massive Charts

Introduction This week in open source, we’re seeing a fascinating mix of innovation, from a specialized MoE kernel for NVL72s to a new open-source mouse control tool. But beyond the headlines, there’s a deeper trend: the growing tension between openness and safety in AI, and the increasing role of open source in critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, … Read more

AI, Open Source, & Cloud: Weekly Digest

AI, Open Source, & Cloud: Weekly Digest

Open Source at the Core of AI Evolution This week’s digest showcases the dynamic intersection of open source, AI, and cloud-native technologies. From OpenAI’s playful Birding Pal project to Hugging Face’s deep dive into scaling laws, the theme is clear: open source remains the engine driving AI innovation. The release of MLflow’s tutorial on multi-agent … Read more

Multi-Agent Supervisor Pattern: LangGraph Routing, Tracing & Evaluation (Notebook 1.10)

Multi-Agent Supervisor Pattern: LangGraph Routing, Tracing & Evaluation (Notebook 1.10)

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Multi-Agent Supervisor Pattern: LangGraph Routing, Tracing & Evaluation (Notebook 1.10)

In the tenth and final tutorial of the Mastering MLflow for GenAI series, Jules Damji (Databricks) builds a multi-agent supervisor pattern with LangGraph and MLflow, routing queries to specialized agents, synthesizing results, and evaluating the full workflow with granular traces and scorers.

This session simulates a Databricks Agent framework–style supervisor using LangGraph’s StateGraph for acyclic, state-machine-like execution. The use case is a FEMA disaster-response assistant over roughly simulated records.

What You’ll Learn:
🔹 Multi-agent supervisor pattern: a supervisor fans out queries to specialized agents, then returns one cohesive answer
🔹 Supervisor router (Node 1): classify natural-language queries and route to a Genie-like agent, a knowledge assistant, or both
🔹 Genie-like agent (structured data): Natural Language → SQL with an LLM chain, executed against FEMA data via Python Pandas + SQLite
🔹 Knowledge-based assistant (unstructured data): document retrievers, OpenAI embeddings, and cosine similarity over in-memory files like PDFs
🔹 Synthesizer (Node 3): combine one or both agent outputs into a single response
🔹 Granular MLflow tracing: define agent tools: query, tool, embedding, and retriever functions with MLflow span markers
🔹 Built-in scorers: use MLflow’s 60+ scorers for answer relevance, safety, and guideline adherence on an evaluation dataset
🔹 Custom routing accuracy: implement a customer MLflow @scorer metric that compares supervisor fan-out against ground truth
🔹 Extra practice: supplementary notebooks for Deep Agents and CrewAI multi-agent frameworks

Resources:
🔗 Notebook 1.10: https://github.com/dmatrix/mlflow-genai-tutorials/blob/main/10_multi_agent_supervisor.ipynb
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Unconference: FSI OSS Supply Chain Resiliency in the Era of AI – Dov Katz, Morgan Stanley

Unconference: FSI OSS Supply Chain Resiliency in the Era of AI - Dov Katz, Morgan Stanley

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Unconference: FSI OSS Supply Chain Resiliency in the Era of AI - Dov Katz, Morgan Stanley

Dov Katz (Managing Director at Morgan Stanley) presents a deep-dive walkthrough of the Risk Navigator tool built for the OSERA (Open Source Enterprise Resiliency Alliance) initiative. He demonstrates how platform engineering and security teams can parse complex Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), prioritize back-patching requirements across thousands of repositories, and use automated OpenRewrite pipelines to burn down transitive CVE vulnerabilities at enterprise scale.

🗽 Catch Us in New York! Ready to secure your software supply chain and scale automated patch management? Join the enterprise security community at OSFF New York on November 4–5, 2026.

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🕒 Timestamps:
0:00 Unconference Kickoff: Why Banks Are Commissioning Shared Back-Patches
1:00 Navigating Shared Infrastructure Priorities and Commissioned Capacity
1:39 Introducing Risk Navigator: Mapping Enterprise Dependency Data Sets
2:30 Quantifying Productivity: Using Reduced CVE/CWE Counts over Merged PRs
3:35 Navigating Transitive Dependencies: High-Leverage Upgrades vs. Developer Friction
4:20 Spec-Driven Local Deployments: Tailoring Risk Navigator for Corporate Estates
5:30 Dashboard Walkthrough: Filtering Patch-Level Opportunities and Version Offsets
6:10 Setting CVSS Vulnerability Thresholds and Evaluating Active Exploits
7:20 Identifying "Dead Ends": When Software Requires Commissioned Back-Patching
8:00 The Version-Bumping Shopping Cart: Generating OpenRewrite YAML Automations
8:41 Back-Patch Priority Matrices: Mutualizing Morgan Stanley, Citi, and Deutsche Bank Lists 9:30 Targeting Amplifiers: Base Container Images and Transitive Spring Framework CVEs
10:00 Privacy and Execution: Running Static JSON Data Pipelines Privately Behind Firewalls
10:40 Transitioning to Scale: Remediation Workflows with Moderne

📊 The Problem: The Transitive Dependency Patching Nightmare
When security scanners flag tens of thousands of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) across an enterprise codebase containing 60,000 source repositories, platform teams face paralysis. Sending thousands of individual developers to manually add transitive overrides creates massive technical debt that becomes impossible to unwind when official patches release. Furthermore, many critical enterprise dependencies hit "dead ends"—where upstream maintainers have stopped supporting legacy versions—leaving banks with high-risk vulnerabilities and no clear upgrade path.

🏗️ The Solution: Risk Navigator & OpenRewrite Mutualization

Dov Katz demonstrates how financial institutions can use Spec-Driven decision support tools to prioritize remediation:

High-Leverage Amplifiers: Locating core framework and base container image dependencies (such as Spring or base Linux RPMs) where a single patch closes thousands of downstream vulnerability touchpoints simultaneously.

Dead-End Identification: Distinguishing between software that can be immediately bumped to minor/patch versions versus legacy packages requiring joint industry-commissioned back-patching.

Automated Shopping Carts: Selecting vetted dependency targets and exporting OpenRewrite YAML scripts to automatically execute version updates across thousands of repositories.

⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial Engineering

Quantifying True Security ROI: Shifting engineering metrics away from vanity signals (like merged PR counts) to measurable security burn-down rates (reducing active CVE touchpoints from 500,000 to 100,000).

Local Data Privacy: Running static, spec-driven analysis engines completely offline inside corporate environments without sending internal dependency trees or proprietary code to external APIs.

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