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 - Getting into Data Science as a Career In this episode, we discussed how someone, regardless of their background, can get into data science. The topics include the necessary skills and knowledge he/she need to be equipped
Blog Hiring Data Scientists - "Real" vs "Fake" In one of the conversations I have recently, there was a discussion on how to determine whether a person is a data scientist because of experience and capability data scientist
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
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - What is Data Science, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence? In this episode, we explore what is Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. We also discussed the relationship and differences between them. How did Data Science come about, what
Blog Four levels of Analytics/Data Science I notice a lot of companies have challenges trying to gain value from the data they have collected. There are many considerations before we can start discussing on gaining value
Blog Covid-19 And World of Data How Covid-19 pandemic might impact the use of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in Business
Blog Data Collection Challenges: Examples A lot of people can quote the common mantra of "Rubbish In Rubbish Out" and understand that getting data correct, of the right quality is a must but how many
Blog Coding Best Practices for Beginners I am an economist by training and (gladly) stumble upon the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. You can see that my coding experience/training is very minimal during
Blog Economist become Data Scientist? Came across an interesting thread in Reddit. Recent graduate, here. Any advice? from datascience TLDR: The OP's question was "As an Economist by training, can he/she be a data
Blog Data Science Myth (2) - It is a Magic Pill! There was a time, I keep hearing people propose doing "Data Science" for any kind of business challenges as though its a magic pill that once you pop it in
Blog Data Science Myths (1) - Most Accurate Wins? Timothy has just graduated from a Data Science degree program and started work in Lifestyle Coupon, a company that sells consumers discount coupons similar to Groupon. Lifestyle Coupons has just
Blog Must Consider the Impact to Stakeholders During my training classes, when the topic of common machine learning models was being discussed, I usually will also discuss this sub-topic and that is the usage of insights from
Blog Data Scientist Need Business Acumen Many a times, I get the question, “How can I have more ‘business sense’ in analyzing my data?” In other words, how does one know the insights gained from data
Blog Why this Obsession with Machine Learning? If you are looking to break into Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and considering training options such as bootcamps, this is a blog post for you. Based on my observation,
Blog You Should Learn Programming As an economist by training, I did a lot of mathematics and statistics modules during my university days. I only had a one-module experience in programming and that was with
Blog Really? You need a Data Scientist? Recent years (or shall I say in the past decade), data has been identified as the new oil. The world is collecting tons of it, no thanks to the advancement
Book Review What I Didn't Learn in Business School: How Strategy Works in the Real World by Jay B. Barney Just finished the audio-book. The book shares on what are some of the inadequacies of a degree program. Although the book is about how strategy works in real life but
Blog Big Data? Nope! Relevant Data! In one section of my training, I need to cover what Big Data is. So most of you may already know there are 4 "V"s that describe what Big
Blog Difference Between Data Science Competition & Reality Most of you may be familiar with Kaggle or the likes, a place where machine learning enthusiasts are competing with one another to find a machine learning model that ultimately
Blog Selecting Data Science Bootcamp/Training Currently, there are tons of bootcamp training on Data Science or Artificial Intelligence, depending on the buzzword of the day. Why is that so? Capitalism is the culprit here because
Blog Quick Win from Data - Start with Visualization During my work, many have asked the following question, in one form or another. “How can I score quick wins from my existing data?”It is a reasonable question, given
Blog Starting the Artificial Intelligence Learning Journey In my previous blog posts, I have stated down the knowledge and skills that a Data Scientist or AI Scientist should have. Here is the post if you have missed
Blog Three Stages to Data Science Maturity for Business Often, businesses have this view that "Data science is good for my organization. My organization has collected data! We CAN do data science! Let's do it!" In my opinion that
Blog Tips for Data Insights Presentation In my many years of experience in the Data Science industry, I’ve noticed there are two main groups of data scientists: Those that focus on building data productsThose that
