Tech-Talks
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Not being able to connect to AWS RDS MySQL database?
AWS has a free tier offering for an year for certain services in limit. One of such services is RDS (Relational Database System) MySQL database. The AWS Free Tier is a wonderful offering who all the students who want to learn, for small self-learning projects and even for business professionals to try their ideas. Setting up a database over AWS RDS is a simple process which takes no more than 10 minutes. There are also options to choose from a variety of database options as per your needs. These are perfect to let us learn and use for small projects. I personally use this to learn SQL and functions of…
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What do we understand by ‘Data Science’?
While looking for a job in Data Science, there is one thing which is very crucial to understand – even though Data Science has been around for sometime but the jobs have been relatively new. So for any firm (barring the top 3 giants – Google, Amazon and Microsoft), you will find people who have worked in Data Science roles for a maximum of 3 years or they will have 3 years of relevant experience.So no need to be scared about not having sufficient experience. What matters more is that how much you are willing to learn and how much you are willing to get your hands dirty with. The…
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What should you not do in an ‘Interview’
Recently I had an experience of taking an interview. Trust me, I could maybe give an interview with less preparation but to take one, I need a lot of preparation! Additionally, my manager has an emphasis for having someone with great attitude more than the knowledge part. Forwarding to the part that I want to tell – I found someone who was excited about the role. Every time I had given an interview, I had felt a sense of enthusiasm or excitement from within. Call it my intuition but this was what helped me feel better and confident at my job. Meeting someone who was also excited, I knew that…