who’s going to conquer the SQL kingdom? — Business battles tend to converge into a duopoly. Nike vs Adidas, Pepsi vs Cola, Visa vs MasterCard. Tech is not an exception, or should I say, especially in Tech. The duopoly of Google and Apple in the mobile space has been going on for more than a decade and likely…

How to handle anxieties beyond numbers and statistics — Last week, a friend of mine invited me to share my experience as a data analyst to his team in eFishery, an Indonesian aquaculture start-up. During the session, I talked about becoming a business-minded data analyst. In summary, I introduce an alternative perspective where we have to put ourselves in…

Sesame Streets and the Transformers are not threats to humanity — Anyone who try to catch up with the world of Natural Language Processing (NLP) may notice something strange. The researchers in the field casually borrowed Sesame Street characters, such as Bert and Elmo, and put them side-by-side to an image of Optimus Prime. What is happening here? In NLP, BERT…

About a month ago, I felt the need to refresh my memory on PyTorch. At the same time, I wanted to learn more about the recent development in Named Entity Recognition (NER), mainly because the topic is related to my thesis. Strangely, I could not find any comprehensive tutorial. Some…

In March 2020, a hacker claimed to have successfully collected a staggering 91 million user data from Indonesia’s e-commerce giant, Tokopedia. The previous year, its competitor, Bukalapak, experienced a similar affair. However, in both cases, users’ trust seems unaffected. The reason can be because the users are unaware of those…

It was 8.30am and the cold fall gust of the Netherlands was hitting us like there is no tomorrow. That day was such a crucial time for us, because finally, after sending a bunch of emails (i.e. spamming) many hospitals, we received a reply from a willing Hospital Pharmacist (HP)…

“Who is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.” Reid Hoffman — Founder of LinkedIn In the era of fast-changing markets and constant technological disruptions, those who do not innovate will become extinct. Innovation has been a central theme and at…

“data is the new oil” Tidak perlu lagi menyebutkan angka-angka yang mencengangkan mengenai pertumbuhan volume data karena Anda pasti sudah sering mendengar atau membacanya. Mirip dengan minyak bumi yang menjadi primadona perusahaan energi pada masanya, saat ini data ditambang oleh berbagai perusahaan teknologi dan menjadi sumber penghasilan. Selain Gross Domestic…

Media sosial telah menjadi bagian yang tidak bisa ditinggalkan ketika kita berjalan-jalan. Entah tertera di hukum yang mana, kita seolah diwajibkan untuk membagi pengalaman kehidupan melalui akun Instagram. Terusik dengan peran media sosial yang begitu dominan, saya sendiri mencoba memikirkan ulang apa sebenarnya tujuan saya berjalan-jalan? …