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 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 Choose A Bootcamp Want to know how I will choose my bootcamp/courses/modules (if I take up a degree or Masters)? It is a question that was posted to me last week
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 How To Manage Data For Best Quality We all know that data is the lifeblood of data analytics, data science and artificial intelligence, thus it is of UTMOST importance that we manage it. The overarching principles will
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 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 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
Getting Started Symbolic Connection Podcast - Guest: Low Yi Xiang This episode's guest is Low Yi Xiang, a previous data scientist at Traveloka. He is also a member of the DataScience SG Working Committee. He showed his unique perspectives on
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
Podcast Symbolic Connection Podcast - Guest: Thu Ya Kyaw In this episode, we turned the table around. Koo interviewed Thu Ya Kyaw, his co-host, to find out how he becomes a machine learning engineer at NE Digital (a subsidiary
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 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 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 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
Blog Data Cleaning for Data Scientist A lot of us might have heard about the urban myth that if you are a data analyst/data scientist, data cleaning (or known as data munging as well) forms
Blog Good Learning Resources for Data Scientists I get asked a lot of times what are the learning resources that I go to, to learn more about the Data Science or Artificial Intelligence. This blog post will
Blog Building the Thought Process to Solve Business Challenges through Data In my last post on preparing your data science resume and project portfolio, I was discussing about showcasing the thought process that one has, the thought process on how to
Blog How to Prepare Your Data Science Resume and Portfolio In the past few years, I have met up with a lot of employers and conducted interviews for training program. Through the conversations and interviews, and together with the end
Blog Should Start-Up do Data Science? Through my discussion with people on data science and artificial intelligence, I often hear people saying, “Start-ups do not need data science. Let’s focus on capturing users by building
