Blog Data Science New Year Aspirations! (Part 2) So in my last post, I talked about the six levels to prepare yourself in becoming a data scientist. To recap, the six levels are: Level 0 - Calculus, Linear
Blog Data Science New Year Aspirations! (Part 1) Happy 2021 everyone! I figure most of you are preparing your New Year aspirations and if it is to have a successful career change to Data Science or Artificial Intelligence,
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Ong Chin Hwee, Data Engineer @ ST Engineering We have another guest on our show! We have Chin Hwee, another data engineer to share her work and how she got into the field. She has spoken about data
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Debunking Data Myths (Part 1) In this episode, Thu Ya and Koo will be debunking some common myths that are swirling around in the industry. The myths that will be debunked are the following: 1
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Loo Choon Boon, Data Engineer with Sephora SEA Loo Choon Boon, a data engineer from Sephora SEA is our guest for this episode. He will be sharing how he become a data engineer and how to do well
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Sky You, Talent Hunter @ ThoughtWorks Symbolic Connection reached a milestone! We have our tenth episode. In this episode, we invited Sky You, Talent Hunter from ThoughtWorks to share a typical hiring process in hiring a
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Leo Tay, Data Science Engineer @ Allianz We invited Leo Tay who is also an AIAP graduate like Thu Ya and currently working as a Data Science Engineer at Allianz. He shared his interesting journey of becoming
Blog Lex Fridman Interview - Karl Friston Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history, cited over 245,000 times, known for many influential ideas in brain imaging, neuroscience, and theoretical neurobiology, including the fascinating
Blog Data Science Learning Strategy Learning data science can be frustrating because it is multi-disciplinary. There is much context switching, tools switching, etc. This is further exacerbated if you have taken boot camps that hope
Blog Using Excel is not Data Science? "If you use Excel, it is NOT data science." Surprisingly, I heard similar comments a lot of times. So this post I am going to discuss it and share my
Book Review The Robots are Coming - Andres Oppenheimer This book was published in the early 2019. I bought it because of the title and wanted to know more about the different state of automation in different industries. In
Blog Domain Knowledge - Picking Them Up Recently, I was asked the question “How can I go about to pick up domain knowledge?” To be fair to a lot of boot camps and degree programs, it is
Blog Learn Concepts First, Tools Later A common mistake that data science trainees have is they focus very much on the tools rather than the concepts that are evergreen. They usually ask, "Which tool shall I
Book Review You Look Like a Thing and I Love You - Janelle Shane The title of the book caught my attention, especially when it was placed under the "Artificial Intelligence" section of Kinokuniya Singapore. So I went to dig deeper, trying to get
Blog Why Data Science Failed in Business (Part 3) Continuing from my previous two posts, today I am going to discuss the last 3 reasons of failure in data science from the article "Data Science: Reality Doesn't Meet Expectations"
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Cliff Chew, Senior Data Analyst at Grab This episode, we have Cliff Chew, a Data Analyst with Grab. He will be sharing his transition from economist-by-training into a data analyst. He also shares some tips on how
Blog Finding the Right Data Science Talent In the last few months, given the employment situation, many people are in transition looking for jobs. There are a lot of LinkedIn posts on interviews with different businesses and
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - What is Good Visualization and How to Get There We are discussing about Data Visualization! We discuss why is data visualization important in the Big Data era, talked about the different tools of visualization and more importantly what is
Blog Why Data Science Failed in Business (Part 2) Continuing from my previous post, today I am going to discuss two more reasons of failure in data science from the article "Data Science: Reality Doesn't Meet Expectations". Photo by
Blog Why Model Validation: Overfitting & Underfitting One question I get a lot is why model validation is important in a data science process, specifically in supervised learning. In this blog post I will be talking about
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Guest: Charin Polpanumas Our next guest is Charin Polpanumas from Bangkok! He is the Lead Data Scientist at Central Retail, Thailand's largest owners of shopping malls, supermarkets, office depots, and so on. He
Blog Data Literacy - New Age Literacy Every one of us has this strong innate desire to get the best for our lives. Possibly due to our survival instinct that we behave that way. Every time there
Blog Why Data Science Failed in Business (Part 1) Recently, there was an article posted at Data Science SG, an interest group that I co-founded. In the article, "Data Science: Reality Doesn't Meet Expectations". Seven (7) common reasons were
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Guest: Thu Ya Kyaw In this episode, we turned the table around. Koo interviewed Thu Ya Kyaw, his co-host, to find out how he becomes a machine learning engineer at NE Digital (a subsidiary
