Sr. Data Analyst @ Crunchbase | Founder @ Big Data Energy⚡️ | LinkedIn [in]structor | Empowering career growth in data | Breaking industry stereotypes

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Hi 👋🏼 I’m Jess Ramos, the founder of Big Data Energy ⚡️ and a content creator with a community of over 450,000 followers across LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, and Substack. I'm an ex-corporate data analyst and data scientist turned entrepreneur. 

I'm also a Top Voice on LinkedIn and one of the leading voices in B:B marketing in tech partnering with big brands like IBM, Claude, Lyft, and the NFL!

After spending years in high-growth tech startups, I realized my true passion is working for myself as a developer advocate striving towards making tech, data, and AI more accessible to all. Through my business, I offer brand partnerships in the form of social media content, conference attendance, and live events. I also teach SQL and data courses for current and aspiring analysts.  

Highlights:

- Creator of Big SQL EnergyⓇ ⚡️ (the world’s greatest SQL course!)
- Partnered with brands like IBM, AWS, NFL, Atlassian, Lyft, Claude, Notion, and Snowflake
- Advocate for making data careers more accessible & human in an AI-driven world

Brands: partnerships@bdeanalytics.com
🎥 Youtube: @JessRamosData
📸 Instagram: @jessramosdata
💌 Newsletter: https://jessramosdata.substack.com/
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Jess Ramos, MSBA

Everyone thinks when they get a job in data it'll be the most sexiest job ever full of so many intellectual smart things... 

like coding all day, using AI, and being super techy. 

Basically saving the world one query at a time!

But the reality is that data analytics is still a business job because data analysts are parts of businesses and corporations. 

So much of the day revolves around communication, catering to stakeholders, and driving insights that point to higher-level goals and KPIs.

Things that will make the execs happy and look good in front of the board are ultimately the most important tasks-- not the research and exploring you're excited to do with all of your pent-up curiosity. 

If you don't advocate for those tasks and get buy-in from leadership, they're likely a no-go.

Sometimes, it can be draining, but it makes the quiet days where you can explore data and have fun so much more appreciated. 

Is being a data analyst what you expected or not?

Jess Ramos ⚡️

Tech, Data Science, & AI Content Creator w/ 450K+ followers | Developer Advocate & Solopreneur | LinkedIn Learning Instructor | Big Data Energy⚡️ | helping you leverage tech & AI

A popular (male) data influencer has been stealing content and ideas from me and Dawn Choo  

And I'm not very happy about it. 

They copied my LinkedIn cover photo many months ago stealing my original design of "select * from jess_ramos" pointing to my cover photo. 

I didn't say anything because it's the highest form of flattery and it's not worth my time.

But then a week ago, they copied Dawn's instagram video *word for word* stealing the exact concept, text, and script. 

I commented calling them out and they DMed me saying they "tagged Dawn in the comments giving her credit." 

When I said that still doesn't make it okay to copy people, they changed their whole story and said they "filmed it weeks before and Dawn coincidentally came up with the EXACT same idea” copying them.

And they sent a fool proof screenshot with a timestamp they edited in their phone LOL

How about we stop copying other creators and stealing ideas from women??

And even worse, lying about it?

People talk. Is that really how you want your reputation to be?

Tech, Data Science, & AI Content Creator w/ 450K+ followers | Developer Advocate | Big Data Energy⚡️ | Remote Work & Entrepreneurship

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You'll spend 80% of your time data cleaning.

So don't skip these lessons!

It's not as fun and pretty as AI & ML, but it's the bread and butter you need.

Save these functions for later:

↳ Replace(): replace values
↳ Cast(): change data types
↳ Coalesce(): return first non null value
↳ Ifnull(): replace nulls
↳ Concat(): combine string values

And save these videos to improve your skills:
Data Cleaning w/ SQL & AI: https://lnkd.in/enFBW4_5
Handling Nulls the RIGHT way: https://lnkd.in/ehaQky-Z
Recategorizing data w/ Case Statements: https://lnkd.in/eDPgdcWv

Data cleaning in SQL for data science and data analytics doesn’t have to be hard 🔥

What are your favorite functions for data cleaning??

♻️ repost for your network and save this for later!

Top 5 SQL Data Cleaning Functions

Learning how to set corporate boundaries professionally is truly an art. If you don't learn this... you'll likely be pushed around and taken advantage of. 

These are boundaries that I set for myself (and have accidentally broken in the past!):

1. Do not respond to any notifications or messages outside of your working hours. You never want to set the precedent and expectations that you will— because then if you ever don’t, your manager will feel let down and disappointed in you.

2. Overcommunicate and manage up. If your manager wants to be super hands on, keep them super updated with frequent status updates and decisions. That way they can weigh in if they want to and will build trust in you. And you can keep them from pestering you daily with updates.

3. Take time for yourself and enjoy your personal life (& PTO) GUILT FREE. Just because they have no hobbies doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your life. You shouldn't feel guilty for using your benefits and not working past your contracted hours.

Have you had a manager like this? Are you healing from one like this?

Tech, Data Science, & AI Content Creator w/ 400K+ followers | Big Data Energy⚡️| Technical Educator | Remote Work & Entrepreneurship

Is data science still the sexiest job of the 21st century?

It’s changed a lot over the years: 

↳ 2012: DS was deemed as the sexiest job of the 21st century— and it was. It required a phd and deep statistical modeling knowledge resulting in very high salaries and demand.  

↳ 2021: This was the rise of bootcamps that over promised and underdelivered and the market became more saturated. However, tech companies were hiring so much, no one really noticed the oversaturation and many people broke in. 

↳ 2026: Hiring has slowed down greatly and so has the demand to become a data scientist. Everything has been in a lull feeling slow, and people are having to adapt their skills to include AI & agents to get jobs. 

The field isn’t dying, it’s just adapting and reshaping into new kinds of roles. 

Skills and tools are changing (as always), and you should only go into a data role if you actually enjoy it!

I think it’s worth it, what about you?

♻️ Repost for your network and 🏷️ save this for later!

I create content about deep learning | The DevRel and Deep Learning Dude

Hacking on LLMs, curating multimodal datasets, and writing a book about RAG.

Harpreet Sahota 🥑

i've literally been waiting for years to have an OPEN SOURCE model like qwen3-vl-embedding

i tested its multimodal retrieval capabilities on a corpus of 412 short video clips and the results literally blew my mind

here are the queries i tested:

1. a cartoon guy drinks merlot wine

i like this query because we see how it can retrieve based on semantics (a cartoon), text (the label merlot), and temporal action in the video (the cartoon guy drinks the wine mid-way through the video)

2. garfield runs out of the door

semantics are awesome here, the model knows i'm talking about the cartoon character...

3. a woman in a blue dress sleeping on a red bench

the skeptic in you might think that it's retrieving just based on the red color block in the 2/3 of the video...but notice the specific part of the query "a woman in a blue dress..." and this is only shown in 3s out of the full 10s

this is such a huge release 

and it's gonna open up SO much more for multimodal video retrieval this year

on my wishlist is natural language search of pcd datasets, who gonna ship that?

you can hack around with the model using the resources below

check out the docs: here: https://lnkd.in/gh7yfBNP

and the quickstart nbhere:  https://lnkd.in/gbinsx7p

🤖 Hacker-in-Residence @ Voxel51| 👨🏽‍💻 AI/ML Engineer | 👷🏽‍♀️ Technical Developer Advocate | Learn. Do. Write. Teach. Repeat.

for those who missed it, or were there in-person and know the trouble i was facing 😆, my ODSC webinar is now live on youtube!

in this session i discuss visual ai techniques for automotive damage detection. 

i used the cardd dataset, which is a public dataset built specifically for vehicle damage analysis and demonstrated how fiftyone helps you explore, visualize, and build models to detect dents, scratches, cracks, glass shatter, tire flats, and broken lamps.

i feel like its a super practical workshop with some insightful workflows for visual AI in automotive settings, but as the creator i might be biased.

only one way to find out for yourself, watch the webinar!

https://lnkd.in/ewfz5vZD

Open video: Mastering Visual AI with Vision-Language Models & Advanced Evaluation Techniques by Harpreet Sahota on youtube.com

Mastering Visual AI with Vision-Language Models & Advanced Evaluation Techniques by Harpreet Sahota

sometimes i look back at the shit i get done and i genuinely impress myself

how teams really build Visual AI in the wild? what's the he messy reality?  

i don't know...and maybe its because nobody’s asking practitioners and compiling their answers so we can find out the landscape actually looks like. 

so, we at Voxel51 are kickin off the...

wait for it...

 State of Visual AI survey...vey...vey

for those out ther building visual AI systems i want your hot takes

what’s the hardest part about making visual ai a reality? 

let us know in this survey

it'll take you 30 minutes and is a much better use of time than baby sitting your runs and staring at your loss curves

i can't offer much beyond my heartiest thanks, but you will get early access to the full report with benchmarks, common pain points, and where you stand within the landscape. 

here's a link: https://lnkd.in/gnsADACy

MedGemma 1.5 supports detection, but for best results, you'll need to fine-tune. 

there's a kaggle competition using the model, i created a starter notebook to give you a jump start on how to fine-tune it for detection

checkout the starter notebook and additonal resources 👇🏼

cc Omar Sanseviero Megan Risdal Logan Kilpatrick

looking forward to the next meetup in boston!

Join our in-person meetup at the Microsoft Research Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts on Feb 18 to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gi4kpSMB

Talks will include:

• SNAP: Towards Segmenting Anything in Any Point Cloud - Hanhui Wang at Northeastern University

• Culturally Adaptive AI - Anku R. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Data Foundations for Vision-Language-Action Models - Harpreet Sahota 🥑 at Voxel51

• Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models - Sharut G. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Neural Radiance Fields for Image Verification - Sage Simhon at Pasteur Labs & ISI

#computervision #ai #artificialintelligence #machinevision #machinelearning #datascience

Syed Abdul Sami Rizvi, Matthew Ebisu and 118 other attendees

View event: Feb 18 - Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

Feb 18 - Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup

in the asu area and wanna get started with open source contributions? then don't miss this hack

On March 21, 2026, we’re hosting Agents World: Visual AI Hackathon @Arizona State University, together with Pavan Turaga 🚀 

This is a hands-on day: meet people, build with AI, eat pizza, and leave with something you created after a short workshop and a full day of hacking. 
You’ll work with the FiftyOne ecosystem and real models used in practice, like Qwen, Gemini Vision, Sharp, and more. 

If you’re an ASU student who wants to build, learn by doing, and work with real Visual AI tools, this is for you.

Registration is open:
https://lnkd.in/gBCHW5Fg

Hope to see you at ASU. I’ll be there with the amazing Voxel51 team:  Sid Mehta, Ritchie Martori, Jimmy Guerrero ! 🙌

Inspired by the amazing Hugging Face’s 2025 AI Timeline, we created one for the Fiftyone community. The FiftyOne Community Development Timeline highlights more than 131 contributions from 2025, including datasets, models, plugins, and integrations.

You can filter by type or modality and jump straight to each integration.
https://lnkd.in/ev2kpCGN

Big thanks to the entire Voxel51 community for building all of this together.
Harpreet Sahota 🥑, Daniel Gural, Paula Ramos, PhD, Jimmy Guerrero, Derek Van de Streek, Nicholas Lotz 🚀

Gonna be a great series of talks, lots of technical depth!

Chief Community Officer @ Voxel51 | Startup Advisor

Join us on Feb 18 for the Boston AI, ML and Computer Vision Meetup! Pre-registration is mandatory to clear building security - https://lnkd.in/gHtBuH49

Talks will include:

* SNAP: Towards Segmenting Anything in Any Point Cloud - Hanhui Wang at Northeastern University

* Culturally Adaptive AI - Anku R. at MIT

* Data Foundations for Vision-Language-Action Models - Harpreet Sahota 🥑 at Voxel51

* Better Together: Leveraging Unpaired Multimodal Data for Stronger Unimodal Models - Sharut G. at MIT

* Neural Radiance Fields for Image Verification - Sage Simhon at Pasteur Labs & ISI

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Want to build better computer vision models? FiftyOne is an open source toolkit from Voxel51 (our Meetup sponsor) that helps you curate datasets, evaluate model performance, visualize embeddings, catch annotation errors, and eliminate duplicate images—all in one place.

“pip install fiftyone” is all it takes to get started - https://docs.voxel51.com/

#computervision #ai #artificialintelligence #machinevision
#machinelearning #datascience #physicalai

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