Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy Confidence to Do Amazing Things Sometimes we just need to take a break from dealing with missing data, fixing AI hallucinations, counting number of fingers in AI-generated pictures, and other challenges in our work and life. For myself and many other data scientists, engineers, and technical people that I’ve met, many challenges also come from people challenges that drain us and sap our confidence from attempting greater things. Here's some encouragement for you to build...

Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy Full-Stack Data Scientist Unicorns Image by freepik A few years ago, I hired one of my best data scientists. Here’s the gist of how the interview went. Me: How well do you know Unix? Candidate: I run a Raspberry Pi cluster at home using Unix. Would that count? Me: You’re hired! This data scientist had a marketing degree, yet was hands-on in setting up Raspberry Pi computers as a hobby. I knew I found the mythical “unicorn” in the form of a full-stack data scientist. I...

Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy Drive Change Using Effective Communications For data scientists, AI experts, and frankly anyone to drive change, we all need effective communications to influence others. I believe communication skills to be among the top 5 skills to future proof your career. Image from Svitlana on Adobe used with permission What I Learned About Communicating to Executives Last week, our Data Leaders Community of Practice cohort met to discuss and learn about data storytelling and...