Eugene Yan works at the intersection of consumer data & tech to build machine learning products, and writes about effective data science, learning & career. https://eugeneyan.com An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection. Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2025-review/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2025-review/ Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change. Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/product-evals/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/product-evals/ Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/principal/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/principal/ An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools. Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/semantic-ids/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/semantic-ids/ Evaluation metrics, how to build eval datasets, eval methodology, and a review of several benchmarks. Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/qa-evals/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/qa-evals/ Recsys & search are converging with LLMs via semantic IDs, data augmentation, and unified foundation models. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/aie-2025/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/aie-2025/ What makes a good leader? What do good leaders do? And commando, soldier, and police leadership. Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/leadership/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/leadership/ Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux. Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/news-agents/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/news-agents/ Applying the scientific method, building via eval-driven development, and monitoring AI output. Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/eval-process/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/eval-process/ How I started, why I write, who I write for, how I write, and more. Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/writing-faq/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/writing-faq/ Chip Huyen and I share what we've learned, best practices, and insights at NVIDIA GTC 2025. Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/nvidia-gtc-2025/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/nvidia-gtc-2025/ Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs. Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recsys-llm/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recsys-llm/ Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like. Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/aireadingclub/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/aireadingclub/ A peaceful year of steady progress on my craft and health. Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2024-review/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2024-review/ With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all. Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/paradox/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/paradox/ Benefits of running a weekly paper club, how to start one, and how to read and facilitate papers. Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/paper-club/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/paper-club/ Setting up my new MacBook Pro from scratch Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mac-setup/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mac-setup/ ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette. Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/conf-lessons/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/conf-lessons/ Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels. Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/aligneval/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/aligneval/ Being a human judge at the Weights & Biases LLM-as-a-Judge Hackathon Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/hackathon-judge/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/hackathon-judge/ FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices. Sun, 08 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/web-frameworks/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/web-frameworks/ Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators. Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-evaluators/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-evaluators/ What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips. Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-interview/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-interview/ Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs. Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/aie-2024/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/aie-2024/ Challenges and lessons from deploying LLM experiences: evals, scalability, guardrails. Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/netflix-prs/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/netflix-prs/ Structured input/output, prefilling, n-shots prompting, chain-of-thought, reducing hallucinations, etc. Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/prompting/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/prompting/ From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy. Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-lessons/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-lessons/ Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number. Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/ai-coach/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/ai-coach/ Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity. Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/evals/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/evals/ How unit testing machine learning code differs from typical software practices Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/unit-testing-ml/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/unit-testing-ml/ Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining. Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/synthetic/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/synthetic/ Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club! Sun, 07 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-reading-list/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-reading-list/ An expanded charter, lots of writing and speaking, and finally learning to snowboard. Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2023-review/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2023-review/ Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot. Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/push/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/push/ How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks. Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/finetuning/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/finetuning/ The biggest deployment challenges, backward compatibility, multi-modality, and SF work ethic. Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/aieng-reflections/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/aieng-reflections/ Evals, retrieval-augmented generation, guardrails, and collecting feedback; all that good stuff. Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/ai-eng-summit/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/ai-eng-summit/ Reference, context, and preference-based metrics, self-consistency, and catching hallucinations. Sun, 03 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/abstractive/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/abstractive/ Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-problems/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-problems/ Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback. Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-patterns/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-patterns/ Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries. Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/obsidian-copilot/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/obsidian-copilot/ What's the big deal, intuition on query-key-value vectors, multiple heads, multiple layers, and more. Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/attention/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/attention/ It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community. Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/open-llms/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/open-llms/ Should chat be the main UX for LLMs? I don't think so and believe we can do better. Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-ux/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-ux/ 9 patterns including HITL, hard mining, reframing, cascade, data flywheel, business rules layer, and more. Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/more-patterns/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/more-patterns/ Generating Dr. Seuss headlines, fake WSJ quotes, HackerNews troll comments, and more. Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/raspberry-llm/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/raspberry-llm/ Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques. Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-experiments/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-experiments/ Asking LLMs to generate biographies to get a sense of how they memorize and regurgitate. Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-bio/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/llm-bio/ Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput. Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/labeling-guidelines/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/labeling-guidelines/ Collecting ground truth, data augmentation, cascading heuristics and models, and more. Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/content-moderation/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/content-moderation/ End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review. Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mechanisms-for-teams/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mechanisms-for-teams/ Pilot & copilot, literature review, methodology review, and timeboxing. Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mechanisms-for-projects/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mechanisms-for-projects/ How to migrate and sync notes & images across devices Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/roam-to-obsidian/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/roam-to-obsidian/ Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work. Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/getting-help/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/getting-help/ Travelled, wrote, and learned a lot, L5 -> L6, gave a keynote at RecSyS, and started a meetup. Sat, 24 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2022-in-review/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2022-in-review/ A quick overview of variational and denoising autoencoders and comparing them to diffusers. Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/autoencoders-vs-diffusers/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/autoencoders-vs-diffusers/ The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM. Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/text-to-image/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/text-to-image/ My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons. Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recsys2022/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recsys2022/ Invited keynote at the Workshop for Online Recommender Systems and User Modeling (ORSUM) Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/recsys2022-keynote/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/recsys2022-keynote/ Or why I should write fewer integration tests. Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/testing-pipelines/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/testing-pipelines/ Pushing back on the cult of complexity. Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/simplicity/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/simplicity/ Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries. Sun, 31 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/uncommon-python/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/uncommon-python/ 15 minutes a week to document your work, increase visibility, and earn trust. Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/15-5/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/15-5/ Understanding and spotting patterns to use code and components as intended. Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/design-patterns/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/design-patterns/ Mindset, 100-day plan, and balancing learning and taking action to earn trust. Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/onboarding/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/onboarding/ Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more. Sun, 08 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/bandits/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/bandits/ Introducing randomness and/or learning from inherent randomness to mitigate position bias. Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/position-bias/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/position-bias/ Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring. Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/counterfactual-evaluation/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/counterfactual-evaluation/ How they differ and why they work better in different situations. Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/intent-vs-requirements/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/intent-vs-requirements/ Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively. Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/project-quick-start/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/project-quick-start/ I'm heading into a team lead role and would like to define the vision and roadmap. Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/becoming-a-data-leader/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/becoming-a-data-leader/ What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc. Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/red-flags/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/red-flags/ Beyond getting that starting role, how does one continue growing in the field? Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-keep-learning/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-keep-learning/ Daliana and I had a 2hr chat on all things data science and machine learning. Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/data-science-show-eugene-yan/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/data-science-show-eugene-yan/ Met most of my goals, adopted a puppy, and built ApplyingML.com. Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2021-year-in-review/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2021-year-in-review/ More than two dozen interviews with ML Practitioners sharing their stories and advice Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/applyingml/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/applyingml/ Susan shares 5 lessons she gained from writing online in public over the past year. Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-learned-from-writing-online-susan-shu/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-learned-from-writing-online-susan-shu/ Write before you're ready, write for yourself, quantity over quality, and a few other lessons. Sun, 17 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-learned-from-writing-online/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-learned-from-writing-online/ Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try. Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recsys2021/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recsys2021/ Why this is the first rule, some baseline heuristics, and when to move on to machine learning. Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/first-rule-of-ml/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/first-rule-of-ml/ An overview of system design, candidate retrieval, and ranking, with industry examples. Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/mlops-community-recsys/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/mlops-community-recsys/ Focusing on long-term rewards, exploration, and frequently updated item. Sun, 05 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/reinforcement-learning-for-recsys-and-search/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/reinforcement-learning-for-recsys-and-search/ Why the Amazon applied scientist takes the time to break down his work for readers. Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/amazon-science-feature/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/amazon-science-feature/ How to generate labels from scratch with semi, active, and weakly supervised learning. Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/bootstrapping-data-labels/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/bootstrapping-data-labels/ Building semantic search; how to calculate recall when relevant documents are unknown. Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-bootstrap-relevant-docs/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-bootstrap-relevant-docs/ Why real-time RecSys? What does the system design look like in industry? How to build an MVP? Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/sf-data-meetup-recsys/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/sf-data-meetup-recsys/ Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more. Sun, 04 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/influencing-without-authority/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/influencing-without-authority/ Breaking it into offline vs. online environments, and candidate retrieval vs. ranking steps. Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/system-design-for-discovery/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/system-design-for-discovery/ A whirlwind tour of bandits, embedding+MLP, sequences, graph, and user embeddings. Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/patterns-for-personalization/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/patterns-for-personalization/ My favourite project, how I write weekly and how you can start, and content I would like to see more of. Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/tds-author-spotlight/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/tds-author-spotlight/ How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact. Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/machine-learning-metagame/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/machine-learning-metagame/ An overview and comparison of the various approaches, with examples from industry search systems. Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/search-query-matching/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/search-query-matching/ Even high achieving individuals experience impostor syndrome; here's how Susan learned to manage it. Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/imposter-syndrome-susan/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/imposter-syndrome-susan/ More education, achievements, and awards don't shoo away imposter syndrome. Here's what might help. Sun, 11 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/imposter-syndrome/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/imposter-syndrome/ What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that. Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/values-and-superpowers/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/values-and-superpowers/ We discussed about how to build and run data teams and engage better with business. Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/bukalapak-fireside/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/bukalapak-fireside/ Mike and I take a philosophical detour on Talk Python and discuss life lessons from machine learning. Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/talk-python/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/talk-python/ Short vs. long-term gain, incremental vs. disruptive innovation, and resume-driven development. Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-choose-problems/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-choose-problems/ I wish I started sooner. All have improved my life and several have compounding effects. Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/seven-habits-that-shaped-my-decade/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/seven-habits-that-shaped-my-decade/ Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process. Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/ml-design-docs/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/ml-design-docs/ Three documents I write (one-pager, design doc, after-action review) and how I structure them. Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/writing-docs-why-what-how/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/writing-docs-why-what-how/ Access, serving, integrity, convenience, autopilot; use what you need. Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/feature-stores/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/feature-stores/ What the top teams did to win the 36-hour data hackathon. No, not machine learning. Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-win-data-hackathon/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-win-data-hackathon/ Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned. Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/machine-learning-in-healthcare/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/machine-learning-in-healthcare/ What I learned about hiring and training, and fostering innovation, discipline, and camaraderie. Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-teams/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-teams/ Stop procrastinating, go off the happy path, learn just-in-time, and get your hands dirty. Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/you-dont-need-another-mooc/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/you-dont-need-another-mooc/ Why did I start writing? What's my writing process? What's the writing culture at Amazon like? Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/writing-for-a-tech-career/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/writing-for-a-tech-career/ How to increase the chances of getting called up by recruiters? Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-resume-for-experienced-ds/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-resume-for-experienced-ds/ Why real-time? How have China & US companies built them? How to design & build an MVP? Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/real-time-recommendations/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/real-time-recommendations/ A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related. Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2021-roadmap/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/2021-roadmap/ Wrapping up 2020 with writing and site statistics, graphs, and a word cloud. Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/retrospective-2020/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/retrospective-2020/ A short story on flying daggers and life's challenges. Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/flying-dagger/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/flying-dagger/ Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads. Sun, 06 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-i-reflect-and-plan/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-i-reflect-and-plan/ How he switched from engineering to data science, what "senior" means, and how writing helps. Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/informal-mentors-alexey-grigorev/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/informal-mentors-alexey-grigorev/ How did you set up your site and what's an easy way to replicate it? Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-blog-architecture/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-blog-architecture/ Data cleaning, transfer learning, overfitting, ensembling, and more. Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/life-lessons-from-machine-learning/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/life-lessons-from-machine-learning/ Interview questions you should ask and how to evolve your job scope. Sun, 15 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/role-title-mismatch/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/role-title-mismatch/ A personal take on their deliverables and skills, and what it means for the industry and your team. Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-roles/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-roles/ Setbacks she faced, overcoming them, and how writing changed her life. Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/informal-mentors-chip-huyen/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/informal-mentors-chip-huyen/ What questions do they answer? How do they compare? What open-source solutions are available? Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-discovery-platforms/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-discovery-platforms/ DNS server snafus led to email & security issues. Also, limited free build minutes monthly. Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/netlify-back-to-github-pages/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/netlify-back-to-github-pages/ Not 'How to build a data science portfolio', but 'Whys' and 'Whats'. Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-portfolio-how-why-what/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-portfolio-how-why-what/ Step-by-step walkthrough on the environment, compilers, and installation for ScaNN. Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-install-scann-on-mac/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-install-scann-on-mac/ Building prototypes helped get buy-in when roadmaps & design docs failed. Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/prototyping-to-get-buy-in/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/prototyping-to-get-buy-in/ As careers grow, how does the balance between writing & coding change? Hear from 4 tech leaders. Sun, 04 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/writing-and-coding/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/writing-and-coding/ Emphasis on bias, more sequential models & bandits, robust offline evaluation, and recsys in the wild. Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recsys2020/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recsys2020/ What if the alternative was nothingness? Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/present/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/present/ What's an average day like? What's great about the role? How's working in Amazon? Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/data-scientist-day-to-day/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/data-scientist-day-to-day/ For years I've refined my routines and found tools to manage my time. Here I share it with readers. Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/favorite-productivity-coffee-routines-habits/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/favorite-productivity-coffee-routines-habits/ My tools for organization and creation, autopilot routines, and Maker's schedule Sun, 13 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-accomplish-more-with-less/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-accomplish-more-with-less/ A step-by-step of how to migrate from json comments to Utterances. Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/migrating-to-utterances/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/migrating-to-utterances/ Checking for correct implementation, expected learned behaviour, and satisfactory performance. Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/testing-ml/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/testing-ml/ Should I switch from a regex-based to ML-based solution on my application? Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-pdf-fields/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-pdf-fields/ My chat with James Le about my experience, leadership, agile, ML in production, writing, and more. Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/datacast-eugeneyan/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/datacast-eugeneyan/ Why read papers, what papers to read, and how to read them. Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/why-read-papers/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/why-read-papers/ Becoming a senior after three years and dealing with imposter syndrome. Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-senior-ds/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-senior-ds/ How not to become an expert beginner and to progress through beginner, intermediate, and so on. Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/beginners-mind/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/beginners-mind/ Examining the broad strokes of NLP progress and comparing between models Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/nlp-supervised-learning-survey/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/nlp-supervised-learning-survey/ Why (and why not) be more end-to-end, how to, and Stitch Fix and Netflix's experience Sun, 09 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/end-to-end-data-science/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/end-to-end-data-science/ Updating our FastAPI app to let users select options and download results. Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/fastapi-html-checkbox-download/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/fastapi-html-checkbox-download/ Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction. Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-did-not-learn-about-writing-in-school/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-did-not-learn-about-writing-in-school/ Why OMSCS? How can I get accepted? How much time needed? Did it help your career? And more... Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/georgia-tech-omscs-faq/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/georgia-tech-omscs-faq/ I couldn't find any guides on serving HTML with FastAPI, thus I wrote this to plug the hole on the internet. Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-set-up-html-app-with-fastapi-jinja-forms-templates/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-set-up-html-app-with-fastapi-jinja-forms-templates/ Ever revisit a project & replicate the results the first time round? Me neither. Thus I adopted these habits. Sun, 19 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/why-you-need-to-follow-up-after-your-data-science-project/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/why-you-need-to-follow-up-after-your-data-science-project/ It's not enough to have a good strategy and plan. Execution is just as important. Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-do-during-a-data-science-project-to-ensure-success/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-do-during-a-data-science-project-to-ensure-success/ I wanted to add my recent writing to my GitHub Profile README but was too lazy to do manual updates. Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-update-github-profile-readme-automatically/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-update-github-profile-readme-automatically/ I thought giving it my all led to maximum outcomes; then I learnt about the 85% rule. Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/when-giving-your-100-gets-you-less-than-85/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/when-giving-your-100-gets-you-less-than-85/ Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/notes-from-sparkai-summit-application-specific/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/notes-from-sparkai-summit-application-specific/ Sharing my notes & practical knowledge from the conference for people who don't have the time. Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/notes-from-sparkai-summit-application-agnostic/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/notes-from-sparkai-summit-application-agnostic/ After this article, we'll have a workflow of tests and checks that run automatically with each git push. Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/setting-up-python-project-for-automation-and-collaboration/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/setting-up-python-project-for-automation-and-collaboration/ Does DS have business requirements? When does it make sense to split DS and DE?? Sun, 21 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-ds-requirements/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/mailbag-ds-requirements/ A curious discussion made me realize my expert blind spot. And no, Airflow is not late. Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/why-airflow-jobs-one-day-late/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/why-airflow-jobs-one-day-late/ Haste makes waste. Diving into a data science problem may not be the fastest route to getting it done. Mon, 15 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-do-before-a-data-science-project-to-ensure-success/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-do-before-a-data-science-project-to-ensure-success/ Initially, I didn't like it. But over time, it grew on me. Here's why. Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-love-about-scrum-for-data-science/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-i-love-about-scrum-for-data-science/ Crocker's Law, cognitive dissonance, and how to receive (uncomfortable) feedback better. Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-apply-crockers-law-for-feedback-and-growth/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-apply-crockers-law-for-feedback-and-growth/ Can maintaining machine learning in production be easier? I go through some practical tips. Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/practical-guide-to-maintaining-machine-learning/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/practical-guide-to-maintaining-machine-learning/ I thought deploying machine learning was hard. Then I had to maintain multiple systems in prod. Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/challenges-after-deploying-machine-learning/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/challenges-after-deploying-machine-learning/ An expansion of my Twitter thread that went viral. Sat, 09 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-write-david-x-sahil/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-write-david-x-sahil/ What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon. Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/evaluating-ideas-at-a-hackathon/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/evaluating-ideas-at-a-hackathon/ What I learned about measuring diversity, novelty, surprise, and serendipity from 10+ papers. Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/serendipity-and-accuracy-in-recommender-systems/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/serendipity-and-accuracy-in-recommender-systems/ Why you should give a talk and some tips from five years of speaking and hosting meet-ups. Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-give-a-kick-ass-data-science-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-give-a-kick-ass-data-science-talk/ Should I join a start-up? Which offer should I accept? A simple metaphor to guide your decisions. Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/commando-soldier-police-and-your-career/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/commando-soldier-police-and-your-career/ Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory. Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/note-taking-zettelkasten/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/note-taking-zettelkasten/ Writing begins before actually writing; it's a cycle of reading -> note-taking -> writing. Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/reading-note-taking-writing/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/reading-note-taking-writing/ Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster. Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/experimentation-workflow-with-jupyter-papermill-mlflow/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/experimentation-workflow-with-jupyter-papermill-mlflow/ How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder. Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/psych-grad-to-data-science-lead/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/psych-grad-to-data-science-lead/ Comparing baselines (matrix factorization) against novel approaches using graphs & NLP. Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/recommender-systems-beyond-the-baseline-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/recommender-systems-beyond-the-baseline-talk/ Beating the baseline using Graph & NLP techniques on PyTorch, AUC improvement of ~21% (Part 2 of 2). Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recommender-systems-graph-and-nlp-pytorch/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recommender-systems-graph-and-nlp-pytorch/ Building a baseline recsys based on data scraped off Amazon. Warning - Lots of charts! (Part 1 of 2). Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recommender-systems-baseline-pytorch/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/recommender-systems-baseline-pytorch/ OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded. Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6200-introduction-to-operating-systems/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6200-introduction-to-operating-systems/ In-depth sharing on how to put machine learning systems into production. Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/machine-learning-in-production-for-healthcare-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/machine-learning-in-production-for-healthcare-talk/ Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy. Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/olx-group-keynote-asia-tech-giants-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/olx-group-keynote-asia-tech-giants-talk/ OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products. Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6750-human-computer-interaction/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6750-human-computer-interaction/ Moving off wordpress and hosting for free on GitHub. And gaining full customization! Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/goodbye-wordpress-hello-jekyll https://eugeneyan.com//writing/goodbye-wordpress-hello-jekyll OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech. Sun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6440-intro-to-health-informatics/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6440-intro-to-health-informatics/ OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) - Don't sell your house to trade algorithmically. Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs7646-machine-learning-for-trading/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs7646-machine-learning-for-trading/ No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience. Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-does-a-data-scientist-really-do/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/what-does-a-data-scientist-really-do/ How we built an ML system to predict hospitalization costs at admission; sharing at DATAx Conference. Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/machine-learning-largest-hospital-group-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/machine-learning-largest-hospital-group-talk/ Taking the best from agile and modifying it to fit the data science process (Part 2 of 2). Sat, 02 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-and-agile-frameworks-for-effectiveness/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-and-agile-frameworks-for-effectiveness/ A deeper look into the strengths and weaknesses of Agile in Data Science projects (Part 1 of 2). Sat, 26 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-and-agile-what-works-and-what-doesnt/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/data-science-and-agile-what-works-and-what-doesnt/ What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google. Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/different-roles-in-data-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/different-roles-in-data-talk/ OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add intelligence. Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6601-artificial-intelligence/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6601-artificial-intelligence/ Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK. Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/data-science-and-agile-can-or-not-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/data-science-and-agile-can-or-not-talk/ OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology. Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6460-education-technology/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6460-education-technology/ OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its variants). Mon, 30 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs7642-reinforcement-learning/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs7642-reinforcement-learning/ Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit. Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/data-science-challenges-impact-lazada-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/data-science-challenges-impact-lazada-talk/ Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy. Sat, 12 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/building-a-strong-data-science-team-culture/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/building-a-strong-data-science-team-culture/ And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD. Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/insead-how-lazada-uses-data-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/insead-how-lazada-uses-data-talk/ OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques. Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs7641-machine-learning/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs7641-machine-learning/ How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor. Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/my-first-100-days-as-data-science-lead/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/my-first-100-days-as-data-science-lead/ What is data science, how to pick it up, and how to enter the field? A discussion with SMU undergrads. Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/sharing-at-singapore-management-university-on-data-analytics-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/sharing-at-singapore-management-university-on-data-analytics-talk/ OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) - Java and collaboratively developing an Android app. Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6300-software-development-process/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6300-software-development-process/ Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA. Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/my-sharing-with-tech-in-asia-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/my-sharing-with-tech-in-asia-talk/ Tools and skills to pick up and how to practice them. An Invited Talk with Masters in IT candidates. Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/how-to-get-started-in-data-science-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/how-to-get-started-in-data-science-talk/ Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them. Sun, 25 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-get-started-in-data-science/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/how-to-get-started-in-data-science/ OMSCS CS6476 Computer Vision - Performing computer vision tasks with ONLY numpy. Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6476-computer-vision/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/omscs-cs6476-computer-vision/ If things are not failing, you're not innovating enough. - Elon Musk Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/one-way-to-help-a-data-science-team-succeed/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/one-way-to-help-a-data-science-team-succeed/ Or how to put machine learning models into production. Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/product-categorization-api-part-3-creating-an-api/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/product-categorization-api-part-3-creating-an-api/ A web app to find similar products based on image. Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/image-search-is-now-live/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/image-search-is-now-live/ Cleaning up text and messing with ascii (urgh!) Sun, 11 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/product-categorization-api-part-2-data-preparation/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/product-categorization-api-part-2-data-preparation/ How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016. Fri, 09 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/shared-about-my-work-in-lazada-at-strata-hadoop-singapore-2016-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/shared-about-my-work-in-lazada-at-strata-hadoop-singapore-2016-talk/ A simple web app to classify fashion images into Amazon categories. Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/image-categorization-is-now-live/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/image-categorization-is-now-live/ Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters! Wed, 02 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/im-going-back-to-school/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/im-going-back-to-school/ A card sorting game to discover youl passion by identifying skills you like and dislike. Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/sortmyskills-is-now-live/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/sortmyskills-is-now-live/ Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories. Tue, 11 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/product-categorization-api-part-1-data-acquisition-and-formatting/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/product-categorization-api-part-1-data-acquisition-and-formatting/ Learning Scala from Martin Odersky, father of Scala. Sun, 31 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/thoughts-on-functional-programming-in-scala-course-coursera/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/thoughts-on-functional-programming-in-scala-course-coursera/ Time to start writing. Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/first-post/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/first-post/ Guest post of how DataKind SG worked with NGOs to frame their problems and suggests solutions Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//writing/datakind-sg-project-accelerator/ https://eugeneyan.com//writing/datakind-sg-project-accelerator/ Sharing about my first data science competition at DataScience SG. Sat, 20 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/dssg-kaggle-top-3-percent-talk/ https://eugeneyan.com//speaking/dssg-kaggle-top-3-percent-talk/