Episode 28: Excelling in Data Analytics with Vincent Tatan

Published: March 1, 2020, 12:47 a.m.

Show Notes:

  • (2:25) Vincent talked about his educational background, in which he studied Information Systems at the Singapore Management University
  • (4:20) Vincent talked about the capstone project on Data Analytics Practicuum that he completed for his degree. 
  • (5:47) Vincent went over his Software Development and Business Intelligence internship experience with VISA.
  • (9:30) Vincent landed a Data Science internship at Lazada Group, an international e-commerce company based in Singapore.
  • (11:09) Vincent decided to come back to VISA for a full-time software engineering role after college.
  • (12:32) Vicent worked on a variety of projects from designing micro-services to developing data dictionary management system during his 2-year stint at VISA
  • (15:30) Vincent shared Nigel Poulton's resources on Kubernetes and Docker.
  • (16:38) Vincent discussed his career move to become a Data Analyst at Google Singapore, focusing on Trust and Safety.
  • (20:16) Vincent went over the unique challenges of fighting abuse at Google’s scale.
  • (22:55) In the project "Stock Analysis with Pandas and Scikit-Learn," Vincent walked through an application that retrieves and displays the right financial insights quickly about a certain company stocks price.
  • (25:11) In the project “Build Your Own Data Dashboard,” Vincent showed a tutorial on how to work with Dash, an open-source Python library to build web apps which are optimized for data visualization.
  • (29:13) In the project “Deploy Your First Analytics Project,” Vincent showed a tutorial on how to deploy a dashboard web app with Heroku.
  • (31:48) Vincent shared tips on how to ace the data analysis and data science interviews from big companies in his article “Ace Your Data Analytics Interviews.”
  • (36:15) Vincent unpacked his article “Data Analytics Is Hard… Here’s How To Excel."
  • (43:52) Vincent unpacked his article "How I Overcome Imposter Syndrome in Data Analytics.”
  • (51:11) Vincent shared his thoughts regarding the tech and data community in Singapore.
  • (53:42) Closing Segment.
     

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