and a list of some no-code / low-code tools to build data MVPs ultra fast — For my first sprint as a Data Scientist in an IoT company, I had to scrape a bunch of images from the internet which would later be used to train a neural network for image classification. My first thought is using either fastai or BeautifulSoup or Selenium + ChromeDriver. …

Sweet! You just got a new laptop. What should you install? — After working as a professional Data Scientist for some time, I was finally able to afford my own laptop. I only decided to finally purchase one because of the realizations I had during the ECQ. All of us inside our household require a laptop but we only have 1 laptop…

Leveraging AI to iterate on the design process faster — I am currently in the process of revamping my personal website, see here. Here are some of the assets generated in the process:

Recent reads on data, product and life — This year, I spent some of my extra time, afforded to me by my freedom from commute, playing the bass, making my cat even fatter and lots of reading. I was fortunate & blessed enough to get multiple offers from companies where majority of employees are distributed globally, hence, the…

Building a MVS for timetrack’s User Activity Prediction — In my previous blog, I shared some of my thoughts and proposals on how I would improve timetrack.io to solve some of the pain points I’m having with existing time-tracking technologies. Since then, I have reached out to the chief developer of timetrack, who replied back, discussed timetrack & the…

MVP for a personal time tracking app — In my previous article, I talked about my pain points with the existing time monitoring apps. I finally found an offline-first mobile time tracking app that fits my needs but still ran into a certain level of customization. Here’s the user story: You just got hired and got a new…

Adventures with Web Design Part III — Now that Terraza Data landing page is up, and now that I have endorsed the site on the multiple platforms that I am on, it’s “static”-ness finally kicked in. …

You got the job! now what?! — Very recently, I started as the new Product Lead of a multi-million dollar e-commerce company based in LA, California. …

What I learned and how you could do it too — There are so many resources online on this topic. You probably went into that rabbit hole, and if you did, then most likely, you are now overwhelmed with all this information. Here’s a tl;dr on how I got my foot in the door as an entry-level data scientist: I…