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,
Blog Working on Your CV/Resume I often have to review resumes of fresh talents for my clients, part of the consulting services that I offer, to help my clients build up their data science and
Blog Getting Data Science Job - Certification vs Self-Study I was asked a question before, which one is a better route towards getting that data science job, certifications, or self-study. I will give the most common answer any data
Blog Importance of Documentation in Data Science If you want to be a data professional, then you cannot run away from documentation, no matter how dreaded you feel. It is a necessary "evil", so to speak. So
Blog Why Work on a Data Science Project? I have been asked many times on LinkedIn how to get started on Data Science. Of course, there are some theories you have to go through like what is Machine
Blog Data Science New Year Aspirations! (Part 3) So in my last two posts (here & here), I talked about the six levels to prepare yourself in becoming a data scientist. To recap, the six levels are: Level
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 - 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 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
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Guest: Thia Kai Xin We have a special guest for this episode. He is Thia Kai Xin, co-founder of DataScience SG and currently a Senior Data Scientist in Refinitiv Labs working on Natural Language
