Blog Algorithm War Coming! In March 2023, Bill Gates published on his blog site titled, “The Age of AI has Begun.” I must say it was a captivating read for me. How so? Bill
Blog Tech Layoffs 2023 (Validated) Today I came across the following Business Times article that talks about the tech layoff development in Singapore. https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/singapore/economy-policy/laid-tech-workers-still-demand-elsewhere-may-not-be-jobs-they-preferThe newspaper validated my point
Blog Role of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Recently, I was asked an interesting question, “What is the role of a CTO?” Took me a short while and my business education (MBA) comes to craft my answer. My
Blog Building Data Science & AI Capabilities in Businesses I've been asked many times how will I go about to build capabilities in businesses, capabilities that can tap onto the data collected after digital transformation. The biggest issue right
Blog Determining the Success of Data Science Projects “What is the FIRST thing you look at to determine the success and failure of data science project?” The above was a question I got at a friend’s party.
Blog Common Misunderstanding Businesses Have I had many interesting discussions in the last few days. One of them is, "What is the common misunderstanding business have when it comes to data analytics/ data science?" My
Blog How Should Start Up Build Data Capabilities? "How should startups embark on their data journey, to start building their data-related capabilities?" This is a question I got twice in a day! :D Thought I do a post
Blog How Do Businesses Build Data Capabilities? "How do I start building my data capabilities?" My answer to the above is, " All organizations to kick start your data journey, your first Proof-Of-Concept (POC) is important! It must
Blog Project Scoping: What are its challenges? Often I am asked by my clients and training participants, what are the common challenges in scoping data projects so I thought of putting some of my thoughts on it.
Blog Thoughts on AI Index Report 2022 (Stanford) - Part 2 This is a continuation post (Part 1 here), on my thoughts on the AI Index Report found here. The rise of AI ethics everywhere I always believe to do good
Blog Data & AI in 2022 and beyond Three points made a trend, before the end of each year, I have started to write an opinion piece on what are the trends to lookout for in AI. To
Blog Stop Saying Lack of Talents! Going to be heretical here! STOP saying the lack of talents is the reason why Data Science or Artificial Intelligence is not adopted in organizations! We will not be able
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 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
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 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
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 Covid-19 And World of Data How Covid-19 pandemic might impact the use of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in Business