How to be a better data scientist… by being Jay-Z

“Throw your diamonds in the sky”. The hand gesture symbolizes Jay-Z’s famous Roc-a-Fella Records camp. Photo credit: WoodysMedia on pexels.com [link].

I dreamed of being a hip-hop artist for all my adolescent life. It consumed my entire world, from how I dressed, how I articulated words, what I spoke about, and, obviously, what I stored on my one-gigabyte MP3 player (remember those?). You could have called me a “hip-hop head.”

My creativity fueled my passion. In sixth grade, I unveiled “Big E. Phat Productions” — a production…