Over the past few days, Elon Musk made a bold and likely false claim that the Social Security Administration (SSA)’s incompetence regarding data management has caused fraudulent spending of government funds. The phrasing of the tweet points to one of four conclusions: There are many valid reasons for having...

When coming out of undergrad, my only job offer was as a technical consultant at an IT Services company. I had completed a few programming courses in undergrad, but my exposure to the software development lifecycle was mostly nonexistent. I was constantly looking for advice online and through different...

Too many artificial intelligence correspondents are singing the praises for synthetic data without diving into the details. Synthetic data is currently a subset of one of the three driving factors that will decide the pace of advancement of AI models. These factors include: So far, more compute trained on...

The other day, I went to the dentist to get a regular cleaning. I was a new customer for this practice so I had to go through the whole rigamarole with the x-rays despite sending them files from my previous Dental office. After the x-rays, I was escorted to...

If you follow the news, you have likely seen that homes are more expensive now than anytime over the past 20+ years. Because there is no quick fix to a supply imbalance, I believe that the housing market will continue to be a “sellers market” in many places for...

Every emerging technology is accompanied by CEOs champing at the bit. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is no different. The C-Suite is throwing “AI” into as many conversations as possible to appease shareholders and give off the appearance of a technologically savvy company. While organizations love to embrace new technologies,...

In an era teeming with technological advancements, the fears surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) have become dramatized to say the least. The widespread concern that AI will displace tech workers, among many others, seems to be the prevailing narrative. Do not let the media’s obsession with doom and gloom get...

Society expects an 18-year-old to make one of the most important decisions in their life with little to no help. I’m talking about choosing your college major. I remember having conversations with my high school counselor, family, and college advisor, but most of the advice was unhelpful. Ironically, the...

An important part of every data science professional’s growth journey is evolving from data preparation and model training to owning the entire machine learning development cycle. The full cycle includes data ingestion, data cleaning and preparation, feature engineering, model training, model evaluation, model deployment, model serving, and model maintenance....

The bifurcation of markets into two extremes seems to be a common theme across many applications. Whether it is the right vs. left in journalism, the demand for data scientists, or the divide between discount vs. luxury retail; the stable state often settles at the extremes. When it comes...