Simple Steps for Testing the Waters I remember when I was first learning data science. Trying to parse out what to learn was a significant challenge, especially trying to do it on a budget. At the time deep learning wasn’t even a thing yet. It was more about understanding databases…

Or How NLP Became My New Mop When I was younger my mom used to force me to clean. I used to clean my room, the bathrooms, the kitchen. You name it, I cleaned it. …

How to Feel Better About Your Place in the Space You know what gets to me sometimes? Smart people. Smart people can really get to me, especially in data science. Despite being in this business for 15 years, data science can still make me feel dumb. Here’s how it went…

Top Tips for Punching Back Ethics hits hard for me because my background is in social psychology. I spent 5 years working closely with social psychologists and bio-psychologists to understand how social disadvantage affects both the brain and the body. My dissertation was on understanding how stereotyping is used to…

It’s Not New, It Just Begs Repeating! Every data scientist starts as a data analyst. In fact, studies have shown that data scientists spend over 60% of their time working with data, prior to training any models. Meaning, data scientists not only start as data analysts but also spend most…

My Process Isn’t Easy But It Works What separates the successful entrepreneurs from the unsuccessful ones? The same thing that separates the successful data scientist from the unsuccessful one, and it’s not how smart you are. It’s people. Friends, audiences, networks. Don’t believe me, check out this article from Inc.com…

Don’t Worry, It’s Not What You Think What happens when you have a deadline looming but a lot of $h*t to do? Stuff gets forgotten, mistakes are made. In data science this can be particularly annoying since there are often a lot things that we can do in order to…

3 Things to Do to Fight the Frustration & Wow Your Clients! When I first started consulting in data science, it was easy to get frustrated. My first few gigs really had nothing to do with data science. They had a lot more to do with data analysis and research…

Auto-Regenerative Artificial Intelligence Remember the movie The Terminator with Arnold Schwarzenegger! I’m talking about the original that came out back in the 80’s. Yeah that terminator. I may be dating myself a bit, but I remember watching this muscular humanoid robot, slowly shed his skin to reveal his mechanical skeleton…