Blog Not Only Machine Learning! As a data scientist, our work does not stop at machine learning model training alone. We definitely need to do more than that. It is similar to the forward or
Blog Data Scientists Should Focus On This Question What is the KEY question that any data scientist should ALWAYS FOCUS ON? It is “How can I solve Challenge X with data?” Because any data scientist, in my opinion,
Blog Learning Skills for Data Scientists What are the learning skills that are needed by Data Scientist? They are the following: 1 - Research Often times we are exposed to new tools and algorithms. It is
Blog How Much Maths Do I need for Data Science or AI? I get asked this question a lot and will like to answer this in a post here. :) There are a lot of "rumors" swirling around that machine learning is very
Blog Completed Bootcamp! What's Next? Are you fresh out of a bootcamp? Then in my opinion, these are a few things you need to learn and apply, to score the data science career you are
Blog How to Know If One is a Good Data Scientist? Someone asked me this question,”How do I know if I’ve hired someone who is a good and experienced data scientist.” My answer is “It takes one to know
Blog Critical Skills To be a Great Data Scientist I got an interesting career question related to data scientists today, and I thought of sharing with the LinkedIn community and seek some feedback too. “What is the ONE single
Blog How to be a Good Mentor Yesterday, I attended a short training session on being a Good Mentor. Although I have been doing mentoring, and training for quite a while, I still picked up quite a
Blog How To Learn Data Tools As a data professional, be it data scientist, data engineers or machine learning engineers, we are solution providers. We design solutions, based on the nature of the challenge, the business
Blog Millennials Misunderstood? I keep seeing posts that have hiring managers feedback that Millennials are very challenging to work with. Here is an example. In this blog post, I attempt to explain why
Blog Writing Efficient Codes One thing I found, given my limited experience in writing codes, is that to write codes that are efficient (take up as less computation resource such as I/O, memory,
Blog How Should One Learn Data Science or Artificial Intelligence? “How should one learn data analytics, data science or artificial intelligence?” That was the common question I get a few weeks ago when I was having a chat with ‘green’
Blog Selecting the Right Tech Community I’ve always been a strong advocate that everyone should at least join a tech community for the networking and growth opportunity. However, choosing a good one is not easy
Blog Tip for New Coders, Please Note I am not familiar with technical debt but what I know is that it is something you cannot avoid. Especially when we are in a world to push out software
Blog Learn This and Give Your Data Career a LIFT! Psst…I’m going to share with you a secret! Very sure you want to be successful as a data analytics or data science professional right? There is this single
Blog After Data Project Portfolio, What Is Next? After you have finished your data science or artificial intelligence project portfolio, what is next? Yes, looking for a job is definitely important but the most important next step is
Blog Essential Success Factors of Data-Related Career What are the essential ingredients to be successful in a data career? If I were to really distill it to the bare minimum, it will be passion and having a
Blog Avoid the "Complexity Trap" This is to all beginners of the data science & data analytics. DO NOT get caught by the “Complexity Trap”!!! The "complexity trap" is especially deadly for beginners. What is
Blog Future of Work: Portfolio of Jobs We are in an era where we start to see tasks gets replaced by Artificial Intelligence (or more clearly Artificial Narrow Intelligence). These "smarter automation" led to the increase in
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 An Important Skill of 21st Century: How to Learn In this day and age, whether you are in the "hottest" job or thinking of expanding your career options or life choices one cannot run away from learning. The concept
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Michael Ng, Data Analytics Manager @ Agilent Technologies This week we invited Michael Ng from Agilent Technologies to share his background and career journey. :) What got him interested in the field? What are the key skills in dealing
Blog Can Extracting Data for Request be Faster? One common scenario I hear a lot is, "You are an expert in data right? Can you give me X broken down by Y for the past N years? Can
Blog Managing Impostor Syndrome At times, we will feel that we are inadequately skilled for a job/project. It is called the impostor syndrome. Not sure what is "Impostor Syndrome"? Check out this YouTube
Blog Blind Spot in Data Science Training In recent days, I notice there is this blind spot with regards to beginners, besides the "complexity trap" that I keep talking about. And this blind spot is perpetuated, unfortunately,
