Please bear with me for my lack of response to your warm welcome and chats. Trying to situate myself with a machine to begin exploring links and also clear up some of my schedules. Hopefully by Sunday my new Alienware will be up and running and I will be able to makeup for lost communication. Thanks

Sometimes it feels like everyone thinks data science = just models + dashboards. But the truth? The real value of a Data Alchemist is in: 🔍 Framing the problem correctly 🧠 Asking smarter business questions ✂️ Cutting the noise to find actionable patterns Anyone can run a model. Few can connect it to decisions that drive revenue. Tools change. But judgment? That’s your career moat. Curious — what non-technical skill has helped you most as a data scientist?

Quick truth: Data science isn't just support, it's becoming the core driver of business decisions. But too many data freelancers and consultants still charge like analysts. Here's how to rethink your value and pricing as a Data Alchemist: 🧠 1. Translate Insights to $$$ → “This model helped save $150K in churn last quarter.” 💼 2. Package for Strategy, Not Just Reports - Insights Pack: $3K - Live Dashboard Setup: $5K - Decision Support Systems: $ 10 K+ 🛠️ 3. Price the Process + the Result, don’t just deliver a CSV or a dashboard.Deliver: - A brief explanation of the story - Use-cases they didn’t think of - Next actions 🪙 4. Add Retainers for Monitoring & EvolutionGood data isn’t a one-time it evolves. And clients pay to stay ahead. Pricing tip: If your insights change decisions, then you're already worth 10x more. Price likes it.

"Atlantes is a powerful new suite of AI models that use GPS data to analyze vessel behavior in real time. It's been the backbone of Skylight, our platform for maritime intelligence and marine conservation, since its release in Fall of 2024, and today we're open-sourcing it so others can learn from and build on it. We have released the model weights, alongside both the training and inference code. We have released the exact same image/container that is currently used in production. Atlantes is highly efficient and cost-effective to host, processing over 5B GPS messages/day on just 5 T4 GPUs." https://allenai.org/blog/atlantes

Generative AI isn’t just a faster “tool” for routine tasks—it becomes your creative “teammate” when you shift from issuing commands to engaging in a two-way dialogue of questions, feedback and iteration. By asking the model to first probe your goals, constraints and workflows, then coaching its drafts and supplying your unique “inspiration” (perspectives, examples and domain insights), you overcome human biases like satisfying and fixedness, unlock latent creative capacity, and discover novel applications you couldn’t predict. Treating AI as a collaborator rather than a mere answer engine is the key to accelerating innovation and achieving breakthrough results.