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Cancel your one-on-ones

One on ones should only exist for manager/leaders and direct reports One on ones are key meetings in most companies, they occurs between many employees and can fill up to 20h per week for managers (really)… Some examples While 1–1 are crucial in many ways … they are in most cases merely…

Management

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Management

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Apr 5, 2022

Red flags as Data Hiring Manager

A short story about the red flags I have learned during the last years as a hiring manager Hiring is the most critical function of a manager and leader. Hire the right people to make your job easier. …

Data Science

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Data Science

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Apr 4, 2022

A/B testing versus Multi-armed bandits

This escalated quickly into a robbery of A/B testing In my previous article, I stated numerous drawbacks of A/B testing when it comes to fixed sample sizes, the slow learning, and the insufficient insights you get out of A/B testing (unless a data analyst spends a tremendous amount of time…

Data Science

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Data Science

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Mar 20, 2022

A/B testing is dead

Long live A/B testing A/B testing is the backbone of tech companies. They try, fail, and implement fast what works and what does not work. They believe in it as if this was the C-level making decisions and they have to obey the A/B testing results. …

Data Science

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Data Science

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Jun 1, 2021

ML is getting automated and easy: What does it mean for your career?

I was looking around for material for people to move to ML. I came across the CS50 from Harvard on EDX and I thought I would try it. Doing most of the projects only take a couple of hours at most. But the one that struck me is the German…

Data

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ML is getting automated and easy: What does it mean for your career?

Data

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·Oct 30, 2020

Decision Scientists at Gojek — The Who, What, Why

Decision Scientists are one of the three pillars of our world of data. Here we explain what the role exactly is. — The world of data at Gojek At Gojek, the data world has been split between Analysts and Data Scientists. Analysts excel at analysing data, making sense of it, and driving critical business and product decisions that help us identify what makes us thrive and or what makes us irrelevant. …

Data

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Decision Scientists at Gojek — The Who, What, Why

Data

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Jun 29, 2020

Managing data teams for the first time: 6 things you should know

Scale your impact but keep time for learning and doing Some things I learned managing data in tech. Common sense but don’t underestimate them. It is not really about managing Managing is just about directing the right resources in the right place. Really in Data, it won’t mean a lot. For instance, knowing on which project…

Data

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Data

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Jun 27, 2020

How useful is an MBA to work in Data Science?

I have been asked this question at least 10 times over the last months, so I thought I would answer this in a more structured way My background I am a HKUST MBA graduate and I currently manage analytics and data science teams at Gojek. I saw HKUST MBA was…

Data Science

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Data Science

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Jun 27, 2020

Leading through a crisis and harvest long term impact

The last couple of months seem to be filled with crisis and societal change that deeply impact how businesses operate COVID crisis, like most other crises, comes with consumer behavior change and imperative for adaptation whether it is by adapting products or adapting to a new strategy and a radical…

Data

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Leading through a crisis and harvest long term impact

Data

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