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
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Christof Koch Christof Koch is the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at CalTech. Cited more
Blog Data Science Myth (2) - It is a Magic Pill! There was a time, I keep hearing people propose doing "Data Science" for any kind of business challenges as though its a magic pill that once you pop it in
Blog Machine Learning in a Crisis Given the COVID-19 pandemic, I have more time to work on my website these days. So I made a call to my LinkedIn community (post) to find out what they
Blog Data Science Myths (1) - Most Accurate Wins? Timothy has just graduated from a Data Science degree program and started work in Lifestyle Coupon, a company that sells consumers discount coupons similar to Groupon. Lifestyle Coupons has just
Blog Must Consider the Impact to Stakeholders During my training classes, when the topic of common machine learning models was being discussed, I usually will also discuss this sub-topic and that is the usage of insights from
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Yoshua Bengio My learning and thoughts after watching the YouTube video of Lex Fridman interviewing Yoshua Bengio
Blog "Complex" Machine Learning Models is ALWAYS Better? I have been mentoring many "green" data professionals for the past few years. I notice that there is a handful of the recent graduates (degrees or bootcamps) that is caught
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Stuart Russell My learning and thoughts after watching the YouTube video of Lex Fridman interviewing Stuart Russell
Blog Data Scientist Need Business Acumen Many a times, I get the question, “How can I have more ‘business sense’ in analyzing my data?” In other words, how does one know the insights gained from data
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Tomaso Poggio Next video interview by Lex Fridman I have watched is the interview with Tomaso Poggio, video below. Tomaso Poggio is a professor at MIT and is the director of the
Blog Why this Obsession with Machine Learning? If you are looking to break into Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and considering training options such as bootcamps, this is a blog post for you. Based on my observation,
Blog Learning to Build Artificial General Intelligence (Part 1) In 2018, I came across two resources that help me understand better about the current state of Artificial Intelligence and what do we need to move into and build a
Blog You Should Learn Programming As an economist by training, I did a lot of mathematics and statistics modules during my university days. I only had a one-module experience in programming and that was with
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Pieter Abbeel For those of you who are in the field of Artificial Intelligence, you will have come across Lex Fridman from MIT. He actually has series of videos where he interviews
Blog Really? You need a Data Scientist? Recent years (or shall I say in the past decade), data has been identified as the new oil. The world is collecting tons of it, no thanks to the advancement
Blog Big Data? Nope! Relevant Data! In one section of my training, I need to cover what Big Data is. So most of you may already know there are 4 "V"s that describe what Big
Blog Difference Between Data Science Competition & Reality Most of you may be familiar with Kaggle or the likes, a place where machine learning enthusiasts are competing with one another to find a machine learning model that ultimately
Blog Selecting Data Science Bootcamp/Training Currently, there are tons of bootcamp training on Data Science or Artificial Intelligence, depending on the buzzword of the day. Why is that so? Capitalism is the culprit here because
Blog Quick Win from Data - Start with Visualization During my work, many have asked the following question, in one form or another. “How can I score quick wins from my existing data?”It is a reasonable question, given
Blog Starting the Artificial Intelligence Learning Journey In my previous blog posts, I have stated down the knowledge and skills that a Data Scientist or AI Scientist should have. Here is the post if you have missed
Blog Ethics in Artificial Intelligence: Let's Start Now! Last July, I had the privilege to attend a panel discussion on Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. It was an interesting discussion and I felt that such discussion can be pretty
Blog Three Stages to Data Science Maturity for Business Often, businesses have this view that "Data science is good for my organization. My organization has collected data! We CAN do data science! Let's do it!" In my opinion that
Blog Tips for Data Insights Presentation In my many years of experience in the Data Science industry, I’ve noticed there are two main groups of data scientists: Those that focus on building data productsThose that
Blog Data Cleaning for Data Scientist A lot of us might have heard about the urban myth that if you are a data analyst/data scientist, data cleaning (or known as data munging as well) forms
