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Product Management

The Product Manager's Contribution

Key Takeaways from Marty Cagan's "Inspired"

Data Science

Notes on Multilingual Parsing and its significance

A universal grammar rule book that bridges language gaps.

Data Science

What are the latest trends in graph data science?

What are the latest trends in graph data science? Integration with Machine Learning and AI, Real-time Analytics, and much more.

Data Science

How do graph databases aid in business process optimization?

Graph databases play a pivotal role in business process optimization by leveraging the power of graph data science. This approach is highly effective in dealing with complex, interconnected data, which is common in business processes. Here's how.

Data Science

What is a Data Platform and why does it matter?

I asked this question to chatGPT. The work is impressive and speaks for itself. Answers ahead.

Productivity

How I Use a Mind Map to Brainstorm My Best Stories

With all the remote work in recent times, I miss the whiteboards sometimes. But honestly, I've always hoped for better virtual whiteboards vs the real thing. I have terrible handwriting.

Product Management

The Dark Souls of Product Management

Dark Souls is the name of one of my favorite video game series.It’s known for being brutally difficult. Your character will die. Many, many times. Get used to

Product Management

Notes on Product Insights

Notes on Chapter 49: Product Insights, from "Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products" by Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group. Goal: Leverage insights on few critical problems to focus on. This

Lessons Learned

5 Things I Learned About The Product Manager Interview Process at Google

I interviewed with one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Here's a retrospective and some lessons learned.

Ideas

Remembering Google Reader.

Reminiscing on a piece of tech that was too powerful to remain free.

Data Science

Notes on Amazon's AWS Cloud Data Services - Part 1

As a Product Manager, the question I'm trying to answer now: If the business were to invest in a classic, Oracle data warehouse, what do we lose STRATEGICALLY by NOT investing in modern cloud solutions?

Books

What is Multivariate Data Analysis?

I am a Tech Product Manager, currently involved in work related to the enablement of data for fact-driven decision making.

Technical

PageSpeed Insights by Google

I've been spending some time lately in the reporting and analysis of web application speed. Here's a few screenshots the PageSpeed Insights from my own website, for inspiration. This was

Product Management

Confluence, with Marie Kondo

As companies like the one I work for prep for the new fiscal year with a new round of planning, initiatives, and outcomes, I find myself in need of a retrospective.

Product Management

Pendomonium 2019 Highlights (Pendo User Behavior Analytics Conference)

I had the pleasure of attending Pendo’s yearly user conference in Raleigh, North Carolina.My number 1 take away from this conference, is that we can get a lot

Product Management

Designing a chatbot that communicates using your slang and dialect.

As an artist with a need to self-market, I need a way to stay on top of my social media, just to attain any level of visibility when compared to the multitude of loud and popular artists of this day. (No disrespect. I fucking love Billy Eilish’s whole art.)

Data Science

From OKRs to Insights to Data Lakes, Data Catalogs, and Data-Driven Decision Making.

Business leaders tend to worry and wonder. Are they behind the trend, in terms of being a data-driven company? Custom-built solutions are being replaced by managed solutions with managed cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. You’ll be hearing more about things like “Democratizing data”.

Product Management

On meaningful measures and better KPIs

When I was a newbie, I'd I often forget the difference between a KPI and an OKR, so let's start with that. OKR = Objectives and Key ResultsA popular leadership process

Product Management

The Role of Stories in Data Storytelling

How do you put yourself in the best position, to make sense of a mass of data, in order to gain insights, and then inspire people to change based on the discoveries?

Product Management

Splunk, and How Domino's Pizza Uses It For Insights, To Create a Better Food Experience

As a data product manager, it's come to my attention that I really need to pay closer attention to Splunk.I've heard it mentioned fairly often over the years. But

Data Science

How Spotify uses Google BigQuery for Data Insights

This evening, I spent some time looking in to how engineering/data-proud companies like Netflix and Spotify do their data analytics. Here are my notes on "DATA & ANALYTICS -

Product Management

Notes on First 90 Days as a newly-hired Product Manager

I like to be prepared. I like to be nimble, but I also like to be prepared. So prior to starting a new gig as a senior product manager at a major US tech company, I spent a lot of time reading and watching Youtube videos on Product Management. This one, presented by Product School, stood out to me.

Productivity

The Uncertainty Principle: What it means and why I like to “Take Things Slow”

The Uncertainty Principle is just a creative subtitle given to this post. The Uncertainty Principle in quantum mechanics asserts a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain physical properties