A walkthrough in critically evaluating charts and figures — Introduction A data analytics team’s objective is to help their organization make business decision based on data and insights. After doing all the hard work collecting the organization’s data across multiple departments over many months, through robustly engineered data pipeline, then carefully storing them in carefully designed data bases— your data…

Introduction The introduction of GPT-3’s generative writing capability to the mass market meant that authors can now leverage AI to assist them in the ideating storylines or improving the writing or sentence structure. Hell, one guy even wrote an entire poetry book using GPT-3 and had it published within 24 hour. …

The final entry of the lessons from the book. Introduction In Part 1 (chapter 1–3), we learned the importance of having a high talent density in an organization, the benefits of promoting candor, and how to liberate employees by loosening controls like vacation policies and expense approvals. In Part 2 (chapter…

With talent density, candor, and freedom being introduced in Part 1; Netflix ramps it’s cultural innovation to the next level. Introduction In my previous post, I covered the first three chapters of No Rules Rules book, where they learned that having a high talent density at their company resulted in a…

Introduction With it’s name being synonymous to being the platform that everyone thinks of when you talk about streaming-video, it’s rather hard to imagine that the company itself was actually founded way back in 1997 — back when it was renting out DVDs by mail. …

Introduction In this article, I summarize my learnings on the idea of growth hypothesis, a stage where startups/companies discover the best channel to grow its customer base after already validating it’s product-market-fit. …

Describing the lessons learned from organizing, reviewing and participating in a Usability Test. — For those that frequent my blog, you’d know that I mostly write about data science, machine learning, and sometimes — the occasional book review. This post isn’t going to be about that (unfortunately?). This post will talk about how to organize a Usability Test, essentially defined as assessing whether our…

Thoughts on how to balance the need for learning about SOTA vs the reality of work-life obligations. — Introduction This article serves as a summary of this tweet (below) by Sam Bowman. Much of the content is taken from the responses from the original thread, interlaced with my own experience.

A demonstration of how MLflow can improve your ML modelling experience — Introduction If you’re familiar with building machine learning models, either at work or as a hobby; you’ve probably come across the situation where you’ve built tons of different models, having different code bases, and tons of graphs or notebooks and metrics that you need to keep track of as you optimize…