Blog Building a Strong Reading Culture in a Country Every time I visit a city, there is a must-go place for me to go and that is the bookstore, the biggest they can offer! Why is that a must-go
Artificial Intelligence Does Customization Really Help? I have been in the line of teaching data science and data analytics for a long while, since 2007 till now. I always get this question and that is "Can
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 "Being Human" vs "Being Machine" This is an inspired post. As I continue my work in sharing and helping more people to understand Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. I find the comment,"You need to
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 Be Better at Project Scoping I was asked recently, “What is the biggest challenge for fresh/green data analyst or data scientist?” First thing that comes to mind is - Scoping of Project. A lot
Blog Tech Layoff 2023 - My Thoughts I am writing this on the back of announcements of tech worker layoffs, such as Salesforce, Amazon, Meta, Shopee (SEA Singapore) and my reader may worry that the technology sector
Blog When to Start Working Open-Ended Project? “When do we start working on an open-ended question?” This was a question I have gotten today when sharing with a large group of students on Data Science and Artificial
Blog Underrated Competency for I4.0 I was asked, “What is the ONE underrated competency that everyone should be equipped with in Industry 4.0?” My answer so far is, “Being able to look at visualization,
Blog Take Charge of Your Learning “What is the one piece of career advice I will give to graduating cohorts from bootcamp/degree?” “Taking charge of your learning for the rest of your life and career.
Blog Programming for Learning Project vs Commercial Want to know the difference between programming for boot camp project vs programming for commercial projects? Here are a few BIG difference: 1 - Data Collection & Transformation In view
Blog How to Be Ready for Opportunities? Posting something different and sharing my experience. :) Did an opportunity pop in front of you recently and you are still deciding to take it up? Can I share with you
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
