Blog Tips for Designing Good Data Visualizations I have been teaching Data Visualization for a while now. One of the many reasons I loved training is that my thoughts are structured further and I get to practice
Blog Getting to Good Data Visualization Most of us have sat through bad presentations and data visualizations that make us cringed and scratched our heads, wondering what the visualization is trying to "share". And we tolerate
Book Review Human Compatible - Stuart Russell This is a fantastic, well-researched and well-thought-through book. I have a lot of fun reading it. The basic premise of the book is saying that we need to start paying
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Guest: Thia Kai Xin We have a special guest for this episode. He is Thia Kai Xin, co-founder of DataScience SG and currently a Senior Data Scientist in Refinitiv Labs working on Natural Language
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Sebastian Thrun Sebastian Thrun is one of the greatest roboticists, computer scientists, and educators of our time. He led development of the autonomous vehicles at Stanford that won the 2005 DARPA Grand
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Getting into Data Science as a Career In this episode, we discussed how someone, regardless of their background, can get into data science. The topics include the necessary skills and knowledge he/she need to be equipped
Blog Hiring Data Scientists - "Real" vs "Fake" In one of the conversations I have recently, there was a discussion on how to determine whether a person is a data scientist because of experience and capability data scientist
Blog Data Science Mentor For Your Business Saw the following in Harvard Business Review Jan/Feb 2020 issue, titled "The Transformer CLO". Here is the article if you are interested. "One priority, for instance, is to get
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Andrew Ng "Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial intelligence and technology space in general. He co-founded Coursera and Google Brain, launched deeplearning.ai,
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - What is Data Science, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence? In this episode, we explore what is Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. We also discussed the relationship and differences between them. How did Data Science come about, what
Blog Metadata, Overlooked but Important Have you heard about Metadata? Metadata in short is data about data. For instance, the dataset name, when is the dataset created, what are the columns in the dataset, etc.
Blog Four levels of Analytics/Data Science I notice a lot of companies have challenges trying to gain value from the data they have collected. There are many considerations before we can start discussing on gaining value
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Symbolic AI vs Connectionist AI My co-host, Thu Ya Kyaw, and I have launched our first episode on our podcast series, called Symbolic Connection. Here is the first episode! In this episode, we did a
Book Review AIQ - By Nick Polson & James Scott What captured my attention the most was the subtitle on the front cover, "How People and Machines are Smarter Together" That is a philosophy on Artificial Intelligence that I subscribe
Podcast Podcasting Coming Soon! Hello everyone! I am preparing my podcast. The reason why it took this long is that I am finding a co-host that can cover other aspects of Data Science and
Blog Covid-19 And World of Data How Covid-19 pandemic might impact the use of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in Business
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Paul Krugman Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and columnist at the New York Times. His academic work centers around international economics, economic geography, liquidity traps,
Blog Data Collection Challenges: Examples A lot of people can quote the common mantra of "Rubbish In Rubbish Out" and understand that getting data correct, of the right quality is a must but how many
Blog Coding Best Practices for Beginners I am an economist by training and (gladly) stumble upon the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. You can see that my coding experience/training is very minimal during
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Greg Brockman Greg Brockman is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenAI, a research organization developing ideas in AI that lead eventually to a safe & friendly artificial general intelligence that benefits and
Book Review A World Without Work - Daniel Susskind Book Review on "A World without Work", where our economy is heading given better Artificial Intelligence.
Blog Seeking Data Science Mentors I find having mentors helps a lot in your Data Science learning journey. The reason is when you are structuring your thought process, you might need resources that have not
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - David Silver David Silver leads the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind and was lead researcher on AlphaGo, AlphaZero and co-lead on AlphaStar, and MuZero and lot of important work in reinforcement
Blog Economist become Data Scientist? Came across an interesting thread in Reddit. Recent graduate, here. Any advice? from datascience TLDR: The OP's question was "As an Economist by training, can he/she be a data
