Talks and press
Talks, podcasts, press, papers and art projects by and about Mahir Yavuz. Each one links to where it was published.
Talks
- New Way Now: Etsy keeps human connection at the heart of commerce with Google Cloud AIGoogle Cloud Google Cloud’s film on how Etsy uses AI in search and discovery, with Mahir interviewed.
- Five lessons Etsy learned building on Microsoft AI | BRK258Microsoft Session at Microsoft Build 2024, given with colleagues from Etsy and Microsoft.
- The New Real: Experiental AI and the AI LabArs Electronica Panel at the Ars Electronica Festival 2020 with Jake Elwes, Caroline Sinders and Anna Ridler, moderated by Drew Hemment.
- Speak to the Eyes - Mahir Yavuz | Studio-X IstanbulColumbia GSAPP Talk on data visualization at Studio-X Istanbul.
- Chemistry of Intelligence / Ars Electronica 2016 / FIS StageArs Electronica Talk at the Ars Electronica Festival 2016 in Linz.
- Data Visualization Projects for Cities and CitizensNYC CIDI Lecture in the Innovation Lecture Series of New York City’s Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence.
- Who will govern "smart" cities? | Mahir Yavuz | TEDxViennaSalonTEDx Talks Talk at TEDxVienna’s CityX salon.
- Veri arayan adam: Mahir Yavuz at TEDxReset 2014TEDx Talks TEDx talk in Istanbul, “The man seeking the data”. In Turkish.
Podcasts
- That custom gift for your mom takes more work than you thinkStack Overflow The Stack Overflow Podcast, on the engineering behind Etsy’s marketplace.
- AdaptasyonManifold A podcast on new technology that Mahir made with Onur Akmehmet. In Turkish.
- 081 | The Hustle with Mahir Yavuz and Jan Willem TulpData Stories Data Stories episode 81, on the business side of data visualization.
- Inspiration or Plagiarism? w/ Bryan Connor and Mahir YavuzData Stories Data Stories episode 23, with Bryan Connor of The Why Axis.
Press
- Preparing Engineers for an AI-Driven WorldColumbia Engineering On Columbia Engineering’s AI workshops, among them Mahir’s Product Management with AI.
- Maps, pandemics, and reckoning with historyPenn Today On mapping at Penn, with Mahir on the COVID-19 data compiler that Topos built.
- Topos Utilizes A.I. to Understand Cities and Map Micro-NeighborhoodsInverse On how Topos reads cities with machine learning, with Mahir and co-founder Will Shapiro.
- How one data-driven art and technology company is understanding cities with AIStorybench A write-up of Mahir’s talk on Topos at Northeastern University.
- Here’s How N.Y.C.’s Five Boroughs Should Really Be DefinedFast Company On Topos, which used AI to redraw New York’s five boroughs.
- Sense of PatternsMetalocus On Sense of Patterns, Mahir’s series of printed data visualizations.
- NewsknitterMake: On News Knitter, made with Ebru Kurbak, which knits the day’s headlines into sweaters.
- UndatedEtsy: Connecting nearly 90 million buyers with special items using gen AI and "algotorial curation"Google Cloud Google Cloud’s customer story on Etsy, which quotes Mahir.
Papers and essays
- Efficient Large-Scale Visual Representation Learning And EvaluationarXiv Paper with colleagues at Etsy on visual representation learning at scale.
- adSformers: Personalization from Short-Term Sequences and Diversity of Representations in Etsy AdsarXiv Paper with colleagues at Etsy on personalizing Etsy Ads from a shopper’s recent activity.
- Rethinking ‘distance’ in New York CityTopos Essay with Will Shapiro on new ways to understand a city’s neighborhoods.
- News KnitterACM Paper with Ebru Kurbak on News Knitter.
Art projects
- Orkan Telhan & Mahir M. Yavuz: United Colors of DissentARTE Creative Short film on United Colors of Dissent, from the Connecting Cities series.
- United Colors of DissentConnecting Cities A data-driven performance for public screens, made with Orkan Telhan.
- Work 2007–2011casualdata Mahir’s own archive of News Knitter, Value Machine, Newshaper, Social Bits and Sense of Patterns.