How to Keep Living…and Living…and Living… — Humanity is on the brink of a new age. This new age is defined not by a new generation X/Y/Z but by the resilience of each generation — the extension of life. This shift in how we view ourselves and the process of aging will have far-reaching consequences from healthcare…

And Why You Should Give it a Chance Too — Asia is a truly amazing place. It has a wide array of cultures, some of the best food in the world and really, really great people. It’s also the place I’ve been lucky enough to call home for the last five years. My time working here has come to its…

A Framework for Data Analysts to Explore Data — “Weekly Purchases are down!! Why?? How?? Help!!” — if you’re a data analyst, you’ve no doubt heard something like this before from a distressed colleague. Change is a part of every business and occurs across all timescales. It can affect many areas, such as the weekly purchases on a website…

Using GENERATE_ARRAY for Histograms and More — When you stumble upon your first task of creating a histogram within BigQuery you might approach it with a simple GROUP BY, something like: SELECT hour, COUNT(*) AS num_accesses FROM accesses GROUP BY hour ORDER BY hour This is fine, it does a decent job and would earn you a…

A Wild Playground to Test Your Skills with Solutions — SQL is a useful skill to have for many roles. No matter the industry, there’s going to be data stored in databases and SQL is the best way to get to it. And Data Scientists, in particular, need to be experts for quick access to high quality data. While most…

Test Your General Intelligence with a Demo — If you’d like to jump straight in to giving it a go: ARC Testing Interface. Artificial Intelligence has made leaps and bounds in the last decade, solving many tasks we thought were impossible, but we’re still very far from a human-like intelligence. On top of this, the leading methods for…

After Searching the Entire Web — There’s no doubt that one of the best ways to learn the basics of any language is through song. Everyone has stories of having songs stuck in their heads for days, and you can likely remember songs that you used to sing every day in your teenage years. Using machine…

With Links to Lyrics — The following is a list of 100 songs for Chinese beginners, ordered by increasing difficulty. For those who have HSK 3 level, the songs at the top of the list should have onl …

And Why You Should Attend Conferences Too — This week I attended my first developer conference as a data scientist. It was a great experience to meet people, be exposed to new ideas and increase my motivation to keep learning. I’d like to share my experiences as well as a few things I learned. The conference I attended…