In 2016, Ben Lorica, then program chair of the O'Reilly Strata Data and AI Conferences, predicted that soon "some features of AI will be incorporated into every application that we touch, and we won't be able to do anything without touching an application." For people working in data, that day has arrived. The worlds of data and AI are converging. Whether you need to learn data science with Python, build foundational data infrastructure, prepare your training data, productionize ML pipelines, work with NLP, or learn how to iterate AI projects--you'll get it all here.

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Check out the Strata Data and Artificial Intelligence conference series, which cover the topics and key issues discussed in the Data Show Podcast. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. For the end-of-year holiday episode of the Data Show, I turned the tables on Data Show host Ben Lorica to talk about trends in big data, machine learning, and AI, and what to look for in 2019. Lorica also showcased some highlights from our upcoming Strata Data and Artificial Intelligence conferences.