Category: Information Technology
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Building AI Factories: How Hong Kong Companies Can Create Scalable GenAI Infrastructure on a Budget
From Cost Centre to Competitive Engine: The “AI Factory” Mindset For Hong Kong’s dynamic businesses, the promise of Generative AI (GenAI) is tempered by a harsh reality: the perceived high cost and complexity of building a robust, scalable infrastructure. Many companies find themselves trapped in “Pilot Purgatory,” where impressive prototypes—like the autonomous agent systems we’ve…
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From Blocker to Builder: Transforming IT to Fuel Business Innovation
Introduction In today’s fast-paced business environment, technology is the backbone of growth, innovation, and efficiency. Yet, many organizations find their IT departments caught in a reactive mode, focused primarily on maintenance, security, and existing infrastructure, leaving little room for innovation or collaboration with other business units. As a result, IT can be viewed as a…
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Standing Firm on Professional Integrity: The Crucial Role of Data Scientists in Data Warehousing and Governance
In the realm of data science, maintaining professional integrity is not just a matter of ethics; it’s a cornerstone of effective and meaningful work. Recently, I encountered a situation during a data warehouse project that highlighted the importance of this principle. I authored a “Data Gap Analysis Report,” where I identified several internal data errors…
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Introducing Popular ETL Tool
As a person working in the data science industry for years, I have experienced with 6 different ETL tools for project implementations. For handling a new tool, I think it is likely for 3 working days to pick up the basic skills for implementation. Here’s an introduction to several popular ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tools…
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Importance of Primary Key
I have been working with relational database, NoSQL database and Hadoop HBase for years mainly for storing data for analysis. There is a fundamental problem for people still overlooking the importance of primary key in a table. In this article, I would like to go through the detailed information about primary key such as: definition,…
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VPN Service – More than Security & Privacy
There are many people who use VPN to surf the Internet for various reasons. The big question is for which provider is more reliable and worthwhile. In addition to hiding your identity, you may think that it is not worth to pay so much for only anonymous surfing and free services are available. However, there…
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Basic Linux Server Security
There are many developers and data science experts using cloud servers to do development or data science projects. However, I have found that most of them are always overlooking the basic security protection for these servers. I would like to declare that I am NOT a CISSP. Nevertheless, I would like to share my experiences…
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Forgettable CentOS Server
There was an announcement from CentOS team. CentOS is going to farewell by the end 2021 and to be replaced by CentOS Stream. CentOS Steam will be no longer positioned as a server OS and releases just ahead of a current RHEL version. Original Announcement: CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream – Blog.CentOS.org This…
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Bookshelf for a Data Scientist
As a data scientist, reading book is a daily activity and most of my skills are built from reading. However, I am always reading different types of books outside the data science tools and technology. I would like to share some of the books recommended across different areas. Methodology When doing Data Science, many…
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Different Jobs/Roles in a Data Science Team
People are always saying that Data Science is so hot and expected highly paid in the industry. There are lots of people trying to join in the industry. Everyone would like to become a data scientist. However, there are not many candidates really fit for the role as a data scientist. In this article, I…