Published inTowards Data Science·Dec 19, 2020The AI Business Gap — The Misunderstanding That Drives a $62b IndustryI am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. …Ai Product Management4 min readAi Product Management4 min read
Published inThe Startup·Dec 7, 2020Data Design Sprint — A Guide to Building AI That WorksVirtually all of the Big Tech companies — Microsoft, Google, and Facebook have invested millions of dollars and hired top talent to build AI solutions. Yet, many of them have ended in disaster: Microsoft’s AI, Tay, was a chatbot deployed on Twitter to have playful and casual conversations with its…AI6 min readAI6 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Nov 30, 2020Ethical AI starts with Good Data: Running a Data Design Sprint with your Team.The tech giants — Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Uber, Facebook — all spend millions of dollars on AI solutions. Yet, many end in failure: IBM Watson was pulled out of medical institutions when it began to frequently give bad advice to cancer patients. Amazon’s hiring AI showed bias towards hiring men…Product Management6 min readProduct Management6 min read
Published inThe Startup·Jan 23, 2019Grow your idea to a startup in 7 days: Make a sale with a paper prototype!I’ve been through 3 startups in my career, either as an early employee or as a founder. Two of those startups ended up “failing” while the third one was acquired. Needless to say, like you, I’ve spent many nights reading entrepreneurial books and blogs in hopes of learning the secret…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Published inWe’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news·Jan 19, 2019How to transition your career into Data Science — even if you don’t code today.(Don’t have time to read it all? I’ve summarized the entire article in the conclusion section!) During my PhD in Organizational Psychology I always found myself reading about Data Science — thinking, it’d be really cool to be a data scientist... …Data Science9 min readData Science9 min read
Published inTowards Data Science·Jan 17, 2019How I built a Cannabis Recommendation app using Topic Models and Latent Dirchlet Allocation (LDA) ~Non-Technical ~Background: On October 17th, 2018, cannabis became legal in Canada. As an entrepreneur, I’m always reading about the latest tech startups, following how markets are developing and sniffing out emerging opportunities. As a data scientist, I’m always looking for data driven solutions to problems I’ve identified. As a resident of Toronto…Data Science9 min readData Science9 min read
