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It has been over a year...

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Or more, i guess I decided to take a break from social media, blogging, sharing and interacting with online communities ( not a full break, because I did some stuff here and there...) And it was for an actual good reason. I have taken this decision because I wanted to focus on more important things. Not that blogging is less important. Indeed it is one of the few things that allow me to think about other things than what I do at work everyday. However, it is not always possible to find time to write, and I am not the kind of people to write about everything and anything. I'd rather not publish anything, than publishing weekly crap with no added value, copying and pasting stuff you've already seen somewhere else. This break was a true break for me to think, organize my personal road-map and objectives and build a clear vision of what may come. I have been successfully working on new things . I've managed to do a career transition from one field to new one...

Why there are so many Imposters in Data Science?

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Over the past few years, We have all witnessed an explosion in the number of articles, videos, online courses and job offers that are all talking about "Data Science" and Data scientists". “Portrait of an Impasto Imposter” by Eric Wayne This explosion has attracted people curiosity, and resulted in more and more "hype" around this "new" Science ( I will explain later why I put "new" between " " ) The trend above, shows how the world got interested in the term data science over time. What we see here is a proof that around 2011-2012, the world became more and more interested in searching about data science. What is Data science after all? I have written previously about this, you can read the whole article here. It is a bit difficult to put a general definition to the Data Science field as many companies and data scientists prefer to generalize and to include various activities and tasks to suit the reality, the needs a...

Customer Segmentation: Revealing the mystery

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Every company has a different product and provides a different service to a particular set of customers. Customers pick a company for a particular reason: convenient prices, better product or service quality, brand name and reputation, more benefits and advantages…etc. These customers can be of different types and natures some are individuals, companies, governments or various types of organizations but the reasons of choosing their service provider or the product they are willing to buy can vary from customer to customer.

I was on Tv, and It was Awesome! (talking about data, statistics and economics)

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So I have been on the panel of the Tv show Called " The Expert ", aired on  Tounesna Tv. The show is mainly a show about the economy worldwide, but it talks about the Tunisian economy and the main events that happened in the financial world.

September Talk: Higher School of Statistics and Data analysis

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Hello there! I have been invited this year by the Junior Enterprise of the Higher School of Statistics and Data Analysis to talk about my (little) experience as a statistician and former student of this school. As usual, the crowed was interesting, current students of the school were very interested in what I had to say.