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Technology is killing our brains
In this month, I would like to write an article not related to Data Science but a serious problem for the society as a whole. As a data science team lead, I am always bringing new blood for the team development. Unfortunately, there are many team members not able to perform reasonably. What’s wrong? They…
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Data Science & Design Thinking
Data Science is always being a hot topic in the market. Many people are seeking for Data Scientists to help their businesses. However, there are lots of failure cases in different industries. Why? Many technical people including data scientists are always focused on their own technical aspects like statistical model, machine learning algorisms, etc. On…
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How does an organization choose a Data Science consultant company?
First of all, you may say that the writer of this article is a consultant himself. With my experiences in the industry, I have been worked at “in-house” for risk management in a subsidiary of a bank and working as a consultant in most of my life including SAS Institute (HK) and other different consulting…
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The Road to Analytic Success – 5 Steps BADIR Approach
This article is aimed to share the BADIR approach by Piyanka Jain, who is running a data science consulting company in the state. My data analytic career was started the SAS Institute consulting team and I was applying Six Sigma – DMAIC approach for projects. After studying this approach by Piyanka, my project team is…
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Data Science Interest Group @ LinkedIn
Recently, I have created a new “Data Science Interest Group” on LinkedIn. Joining this group will allow you to find and contact other people interested in the Data Science, so you can stay in touch, gain knowledge, and view other attendees’ LinkedIn profiles. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10469946/ Hope to see you in the group! Samuel…
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IoT Security – Issues & Suggestions
In recent years, there are more & more IoT devices being introduced in the business environments and households. Personally, I am running a real-time environment monitoring platform on the Data Science / Computer Lab in Hong Kong. With the data produced by IoT devices, it has to be transmitted, processed and then stored in somewhere…
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Only 1 Project Management Approach in my Data Science Journey
As working in a leader role of a data science company, I would like to share my experience in managing different projects under different scales across industries. It could be concluded by one single word Iteration There is only one single project management approach being employed by our team. For this approach, it helps me…
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10 Myths of Data Science Exploded Totally
There are multiple myths floating around that add a false aura around data science roles and the related industry. The myths are built by people highlighting or even magnifying the benefits of data science with a number of use cases. I am always using my own term “verbal experts” to classify such people in the…
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Start your Data Analytics without Big Investment
Many small business owners would not start their first data analytics project due to price tag of Enterprise software like several hundred US dollar annual subscription for just data visualization of 1 user. For the investment, it could be US$100,000 to 400,000 for just payment on software. It is possible for organization to work…
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Data Lake VS Data Warehouse
Vendors are always saying that Data Warehouses are legacy data management platforms which should be replaced by data lakes (or even worse situation as Hadoop to replace data warehouse). In this article, I would like to share my opinion on data warehouse and data lake by the team experiences. Unfortunately, vendors position data lakes as…