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Hi Eugene . Can you throw some light on this as you mentioned you worked in this in your initial stint at IBM . Interesting to know how the software companies manage their work bench and sales funnel .
thanks !!

Hi Eugene,
I really like the toggle feature using the <details> tag on your blog. Is that a custom template or did you build it on an open source template?

Hello! I've been working as a data scientist for close to 2 years now and would like to start applying for jobs again soon. Just wanted to ask for your opinion on what more I should include in my resume in addition to all the basic information (education, work experience etc) to increase the chances of getting called up by recruiters. There are quite a bit of resources on how to pass interviews and how to prepare your resume for people new to this field but I've not found much for existing data scientists. I've come up with some points below:

• Kaggle competitions
  • I know you did a very successful product classification challenge 6 years ago and ranked in the top 3% but these days I feel that Kaggle competitions are much harder to crack due to the many PhDs and geniuses there. And I think if you aren't in the top few % then it's probably not worth mentioning on your resume? It's definitely a nice-to-have but not the most bang-for-buck since it's very time consuming and not entirely representative of real world challenges.
• Personal side projects?
  • I actually have a friend who runs a shop that sells car accessories and performs car modifications. I have not asked yet but I think he would be open to letting me analyse his sales and coming up with ways to optimise his business or increase revenue. This seems a pretty exciting project to me since there are "real" implications as opposed to say a Kaggle project. Maybe I could somehow build an end-to-end product for this like how you did which is really interesting. The 'downside' (I think) is that some people may see this as an 'unsexy' project?
• School projects
  • I'm also doing OMSCS just like you did and I'm wondering if its worth including some of the more interesting projects on my resume, like the ones in Reinforcement Learning for instance. Another reason for including this is because it's really difficult to devote time to other side projects while in this program (I'm sure you can testify on this) so I guess it's sort of implicitly saying "hey I don't have many side projects because I'm studying, not slacking"
• Volunteer with DataKind or something but I heard they are pretty strict on accepting new members these days (my friend tried and got no response) so I'm not optimistic about this
• Nothing? Just relying on the descriptions of your achievements at your current job would do.
• other suggestions?

Do you have any opinions on this? If it helps, I'm based in Singapore. Looking forward to your reply. Thanks!

As someone who wants to get started in writing and technical blogging, I was thinking about a custom app but then got overwhelmed. Your app looks very well put together, and I was wondering what the architecture was and how easy it was to set up. Maybe a blog post about it would be good.