How I learned to reframe my way of thinking to overcome my own shyness — This might come as a surprise to you, but I’m actually a relatively shy person. As recently as ten years ago, I would have labeled myself as critically shy. Throughout both grade school and undergrad, I struggled to gain and maintain friendships, and to be completely transparent, it’s because I…

My journey with ChatGPT through 15 prompts with 15 interesting answers — Needless to say, ChatGPT is the hottest topic in the AI/ML world right now. Many people have used it forU more benign cases to produce some very interesting results, so I thought I’d try to see if I could use ChatGPT in a “real world” business scenario. More specifically, I…

Attempting to understand an ambiguously defined role in the AI/ML industry — I am a principal machine learning (ML) engineer at a Fortune 50 company, and one of the questions that I am asked most often is the same one posed in the title of this post: “What is an ML engineer?” The truth is that there doesn’t seem to be a…

No tricks, just treats! Learn how to create cool, useful data visualizations with a Halloween candy dataset — Happy Halloween, friends! In the spirit of the season, I thought it would be fun to take this time to share how we can create some really neat and useful data visualizations using a Halloween candy dataset. Throughout this post, we’re going to cover a breadth of different types of…

Analyzing the value of ethics in the potential that we live in a computer-generated universe — “Universe - God = Chaos.” That’s basically the worldview I grew up with. As somebody who grew up in a Christian environment, I know all the little mechanisms the Christian worldview uses to justify why it is the correct worldview. Just to be clear before moving on, I want to…

There and back again! — If you’ve followed me on LinkedIn or through my other Medium articles, then you’ll know I’ve made a bit of a name for myself in using an iPad as a primary development machine. In fact, if you Google “iPad data science” right now, the top hit is this article where…

Kicking off a new natural language processing project using the Twitter API — Hello there friends! I’m excited to kick off a new project here that I think will be a fun one for learning purposes. Like many people in the data world, I have been equally curious if we can use data science in some capacity to be able to predict stock…

Tips on how a self-proclaimed introvert became a more confident extrovert — Hello there all! If you’ve met me in person particularly in a business context, you might have an opinion that I’m an outgoing, confident person. The truth is actually sort of the opposite. I would definitely consider myself an introvert, and outside of work, you’ll most likely find me doing…

A set of excellent books to help you on your own business career journey — Hello there, friends! So you might not be aware of this, but since I’ve not always had this inclination toward machine learning, my prior ambition was to grow my career in a more traditional business role. In fact, that’s just what I did prior to becoming a machine learning engineer…