Ergest Xheblati

Ergest Xheblati

Aug
26
Celebrate Your Data Analysts - Before It's Too Late

Celebrate Your Data Analysts - Before It's Too Late

Data analysts are quitting their jobs in masse because they feel they have no impact. What can you do to change things before it's too late?
5 min read
Mar
19
How I Learned Data Science in 90 Days

How I Learned Data Science in 90 Days

I first encountered data science (aka data mining, machine leaning, artificial intelligence, etc) back in 2014. I was a newly
4 min read
Mar
18
Learning Strategy from First Principles - A Review of Wardley Maps

Learning Strategy from First Principles - A Review of Wardley Maps

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about the word strategy? If you’re
9 min read
Mar
18
The Data Executive Playbook: How to use Wardley Maps to Determine Strategy in Modern Organizations

The Data Executive Playbook: How to use Wardley Maps to Determine Strategy in Modern Organizations

This blog post is an exploration of strategic play inside an organization viewed through the lens of a hypothetical data
6 min read
Mar
18
Understanding the Data Landscape and Strategic Play Through Wardley Mapping

Understanding the Data Landscape and Strategic Play Through Wardley Mapping

A Wardley map is a form of mapping invented by Simon Wardley (@swardley [https://twitter.com/swardley]) that helps you
8 min read
Mar
18
Goals Aren't the Only Way

Goals Aren't the Only Way

> We assume that any worthy social accomplishment is best achieved by first setting it as an objective and then
4 min read
Mar
18
How to Recognize Hidden Opportunities

How to Recognize Hidden Opportunities

In a previous essay I wrote about the three elements that comprise serendipity: 1. Curious Tinkering, (the pursuit of ideas
5 min read
Mar
18
Extracting Text Tags from Product Descriptions using Machine Learning

Extracting Text Tags from Product Descriptions using Machine Learning

In the summer of 2019 I decided to enter the yearly company hackathon with a project that had been brewing
6 min read
Apr
26
How to Get Lucky - The Elements of Serendipity

How to Get Lucky - The Elements of Serendipity

> Luck favors the prepared mind -Louis Pasteur In the summer of 2019 I entered the annual 2.5 day
6 min read
Mar
07
The Making of a Self Educated Child Genius

The Making of a Self Educated Child Genius

At the age of 14, Taylor Wilson built a nuclear reactor in his parent's basement and achieved nuclear fusion, becoming the 32nd person in history to do so, and the first person to do it at his age.
10 min read