When Does AI Make Sense?

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,...

AI Will Not Replace Tech Jobs

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...

How To Choose My College Degree

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...

Book Review: Designing Machine Learning Systems

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....

Product Managers Must Decide: Features or User Design

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...

Building a Climate Change MEME Generator

Memes are the most efficient messenger in society today. Is there any other vehicle that can carry a powerful statement across the world as quickly and efficiently as a good meme? This thought process was the inspiration for my group’s entry into OpenAI’s recent Climate Hackathon: The Climate Change...

Software Will Replace Your Financial Advisor

As a data scientist, I find it hard to believe that anyone would trust their financial portfolio to an advisor who doesn’t understand the basics of statistics and probability. Yet, how many investors do you know who blindly trust their advisor or financial planner? How many of those advisors...

Poor Data Quality Destroys Machine Learning Models

Whether it is Alexa answering a question or Elon preaching self-driving cars, business leaders see exciting machine learning use cases everywhere they look. The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is staggering. So much of the mainstream discussion centers around these exciting applications, but they often...

How to Buy Treasury Bonds and Bills?

Every week there is more fear mongering from the media about inflation, rising interest rates, and an impending recession; however, there is one silver lining from this situation: U.S. fixed income is worth buying again. This means that you can finally get a reasonable, nominal return on U.S. Treasury...

Is the Chase Sapphire Reserve Credit Card Worth It?

In the finance world you often hear that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. No matter how frequently you remind yourself of this principle, occasionally you will delude yourself into believing you found a great opportunity. This situation presented itself to me a few years back when...