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New Year

New Year

Here comes New Year 2025 - looking forward to it and hope it brings many lovely memories and moments to all of us! Happy New Year!

Navigating career choices in analytics: Startups versus Big companies

Navigating career choices in analytics: Startups versus Big companies

In today's rapidly evolving job market, professionals in analytics and data science face a pivotal choice: the dynamic and uncertain world of startups or the established realms of big corporations…

Unbearable weight of Global Talent visa

Unbearable weight of Global Talent visa

Time flies fast, and I absolutely forgot to tell you about one of the quests I managed to complete last year - obtaining a UK Global Talent Visa! Maybe it will be useful for someone planning to apply,…

From Crashing to Lift-Off: How to Thrive as the First Data Scientist in a Startup

From Crashing to Lift-Off: How to Thrive as the First Data Scientist in a Startup

Originally published at Hackernoon Recently, while immersed in a game called "Factorio," I noticed striking parallels to the challenges encountered as the pioneer member of a data analytics team in a…

The Sunflower Seed Saga: A Tale of Young Enterprise

The Sunflower Seed Saga: A Tale of Young Enterprise

In the world of success stories, we often find narratives filled with inspiration, detailing the challenges and obstacles individuals overcome on their path to triumph. I have a tale to tell, but it…

Big Data & AI World London ’23: some takeaways

Big Data & AI World London ’23: some takeaways

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Big Data & AI World event in London (post about speaking at which you may have already seen in my blog) and wanted to share some of the fascinating ideas…

First experience of speaking at a conference in London

First experience of speaking at a conference in London

This week I had a chance to speak at the Big Data & AI World event in London. Surprisingly it was a first experience of public speaking at this scale of events for me as previously for some reason…

Books - Longlist

Books - Longlist

I love reading books. This wasn’t always like that, particularly in the school I loved mostly reading Harry Potter, and maybe some articles of encyclopedia about astronomy. But later things changed…

Hello world / Readme.MD

Hello world / Readme.MD

Today is the day I finally made this blog so looking forward to chatting with you all 🙂 My name is Vlad. I’m Data Scientist living in London. My hobbies are playing piano, reading books (science…

Flipper Zero – Big delivery adventure and first impressions

Flipper Zero – Big delivery adventure and first impressions

Just received my Flipper Zero yesterday, wow, what a journey that’s been! In 2020 during the summer it was short out of Covid lockdowns in Russia but everyone was still working from home so I decided…

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