Do you only gather pieces of information that support your hypothesis? — What is “The Halo Effect”? First, let’s understand the term “Halo Effect” — The term “Halo Effect” was first coined by psychologist Edward Thorndike in a published paper called “The Constant Error in Psychological Ratings”. In this published paper, Thorndike discusses how a person judges another person based on their initial impression/perception of the person…

Are you confused about which GCP components would be more suitable? — Introduction As a data scientist, you will need to decide how to perform model deployment steps, which could involve converting your scripts and deploying them as a microservice. In my case, I was confused about which GCP components should I use to deploy the microservice. Should I deploy on Cloud Run…

Using the Scientific Method approach in a Data Science Project — Introduction A scientist uses the “Scientific Method” to conduct research. The term scientific method refers to a process of carrying out experiments that begins with an observation and starts by asking questions, performing hypotheses, carrying out experiments, observing and analyzing, drawing out conclusions. The approach of using the scientific method is…

Understand the context of Visualization and build a dashboard with Tableau — Introduction As a consultant working in the field of Data Science and Analytics, I often had to deal with a huge amount of data, building models and deriving insights from them. However, when it comes to communicating the data and findings to others, presenting the result in plain text, excel files…

Learn how to retrieve external Financial data that could be useful for your analysis Introduction Financial Information is generated every day and make available to the public over the internet. Analyzing and adding financial information as part of our analysis in Data Science is a common practice as many situations links…

Identifying duplicate records with a machine-learning approach — Introduction Most data are recorded manually by humans and most often is not reviewed, not synchronized, and simply because there were mistakes made such as typos. Think for a second, have you ever filled out the same form twice before but with a slight difference in your address? …

Understanding the difference between Monolithic Architecture and Microservice Architecture — Introduction Machine Learning deployments trends are moving towards agility, scalability, flexibility, and shift to cloud computing platforms. Organizations that previously managed and deployed applications with a central team and Monolithic architecture has reached the bottleneck when it comes to scaling with the increase of data volume and demand. …

Beginner tutorial to visualize and understand data better with Data Studio — Introduction Data Science is all about dealing with data and an important subset is Data Visualization where you communicate and present the information of your final result in an interactive and visual manner. Other than using data visualization for presenting results to end-user, I often used data visualization in different steps…

Understanding from a child perspectives — “ In whatever country a child may be born, he is endowed with what Dr. Montessori called “the absorbent mind”. — Quote Taken from the book : The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori- Who is Dr. Maria Montessori? Dr. Maria Montessori is the first woman to graduate in Medicine from the University of Rome…