Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy AI Meeting Coach Guides Me to Slow Down Image from “be free” on Adobe used with permission Do I talk too fast? AI says I talk too fast, at least for a recent meeting I hosted. People have also given me helpful feedback that I present too fast at events--it’s a real known issue. But I never got numbers until now. My Speaking Speed Was Measured I spoke at a whopping 203 words per minute according to Zoom’s AI Companion feature for one team meeting that I hosted November. My...
19 days ago • 5 min read
Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy What I'm Grateful For Happy Thanksgiving to you if you’re in the US or in other countries which celebrate this tradition! It’s one of my favorite times of the year to reconnect with people. I miss you, my readers! I realize it’s been about a month since my last newsletter. You probably haven’t seen me online as much as well. Where have I been? Supporting relatives with medical care, including one who needed emergency room care 3 times in 2 weeks (typically requiring...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy Speaking on Leadership and Data Science Jimmy Wong outside Los Altos High School This week, I spoke twice at this year’s Los Altos High School STEAM Week event. The school is a two-thousand student public school in the heart of Silicon Valley with many families from big tech companies. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and White House Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil spoke at this same event in prior years. For 20 years, the school has brought in industry speakers to their STEAM...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy Goodbye Q3, Hello Q4! How was your third quarter? Can you believe there are only 53 more working days remaining in 2024? I've been quiet on my newsletters and online media presence temporarily in order to complete a number of key projects. As many of my readers wanted to learn what I'm up to, I'm giving you updates and key lessons today. In the third quarter, I completed three major client projects: Data strategy assessment and roadmap for an online media company Overhaul...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy Personal Branding Tips to Enhance Your Career Jimmy entering the stage at Expedia AI conference “Jimmy, you’re not just a data scientist. You’re half data scientist and half marketer.” This is what my previous data science manager told me several years ago. I think he meant it as a compliment. He saw that I had so much experience applying data science to help our company’s marketers market to marketing clients for Marketing Solutions products, that I became a Pi-shaped...
4 months ago • 7 min read
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...
4 months ago • 5 min read
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...
5 months ago • 4 min read
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...
5 months ago • 5 min read
Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy What the "Age of the IC" Means for Data Professionals Hello Reader! I just got back from my trip to Australia. Besides enjoying the delicious coffee there, we still continued to use math and AI while down under. Jimmy Wong in Sydney, Australia Last week, we went to Australia for my college undergraduate son to present two scientific papers at the 8th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME8) in Melbourne. We then extended our family...
5 months ago • 6 min read