Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy What I Told Future Biostatistics Leaders at UC San Diego Happy New Year! Can you believe January is more than half over? I still haven’t finished doomscrolling yet: Wildfires and earthquakes and plane crashes and severe storms and bird flu. Regime change in Canada, Korea, and Syria. Upcoming transition of power in US too. More layoffs from Microsoft and Meta and Amazon and Zillow. Swarming of US Tiktokkers into Chinese RedNote ahead of the ban. Price hikes from both...
18 days ago • 5 min read
Jimmy Wong AI Jimmy Happy Holidays! Hi Reader, As we approach the end of the year, I’d like to wish you happy holidays! Merry Christmas from llama and friends (image generated from Copilot) I’ll be taking most of next week off from work to celebrate Christmas. Like you might also be doing, I’ll use the time for reflection, to look back in the past, and to look forward to the future. I also need a short break from my usual pace. Tasks like year-end planning, 2025 budgeting, pro-forma financial...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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...
about 2 months 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...
2 months 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 months ago • 4 min read