Have you ever been totally motivated and started a course? Or bought a book? But then you never finished them and just felt bored by them and then felt bad because you didn’t finish it? Yeah, me too. This month I’m trying a different approach by setting more specific goals oriented by things that excite……
Author: GalaxyInferno
Looking back on June 2022: Wrapping up work projects and reviving this blog
It’s always amazing how you think your life is incredibly boring until you write a wrap-up like this post and realize that stuff actually happened!! This month, “stuff” included a mini vacation (or workation?), a “first” at work (I work as a Data Science Consultant, check this post if you want to know what that……
Are Decision Trees the Siblings of Neural Networks? – Interesting research
I recently stumbled upon a research paper about decision trees that made me feel interested in decision trees for the first time in my life. Let me tell you why. My fascination with Neural Networks During my master’s degree (2020-2021) in Computer Science I developed a fascination for neural networks. But not because of their……
5 Tips for Studying Math at University Level
No matter if you have an exam looming or you just want to improve your math knowledge for your job or as a hobby, we all come to a point where we get overwhelmed by math and it just doesn’t make any sense and maybe we even want to quit. Here are my tips that……
How to present data in context – Chapter 1 Summary Storytelling with Data
Summary of Chapter 1, called “The importance of context”, of the book Storytelling with Data. Book website. Book cover of the original book I’m talking about here, would recommend. Don’t have affiliate links, so please find it yourself in your favorite book store. Presenting data is a scientific and fact-based endeavor, right? “Storytelling with Data”……
My journey to becoming a Data Scientist – 12 stops
When I was a young child, I wanted to become an author – probably because I read a lot of books. Well, now we’re here and from the title you can see that my career went into a different direction… BUT you are also reading this blog post about my journey, so in a tiny……
Linear Algebra 101 for Machine Learning | Scalar, Vector, Matrix explained
[mathjax] Some math is necessary to get started with machine learning and understand most of the beginner discourse on the topic, especially if you are looking into the theory of it. So let’s get you started with some of the basic terminology and objects that are important from the area of linear algebra. Why do……
Agile & Kanban for Noobs
Are you starting your new job and suddenly people ask you to structure your projects in an “agile” way or use a Kanban board? At least that’s what happened to me this week. Maybe you are just curious about the topic. Disclaimer: After asking for advice and reading up a bit on agile practices, I……
I’m a Data Science Consultant – What even is that?
There has been a lot of talk about “the sexiest job” of… I think it was back in 2012?! I’m talking about the role of Data Scientist. So a few people know what that is about. But what then is a Data Science Consultant?! Since I have been recently hired in such a role, let……
Yearly Reflection of 2021 – Graduation, new job and self-discovery
I checked my Instagram for my 2021 Goal post – apparently I wanted to post weekly on my blog 😀 As you probably know, I did not quite reach this, but not all is lost. I published 18 blog articles which is 17 more than in 2020. And as we will see below, so many……