Curious Circ

Maria Jane Poncardas


Our circle of friends created a group named "CuriousCirc", spearheaded by Johniel Babiera, Dave Emmanuel Magno and yours truly.


Since 2019, me and Johniel Babiera have been discussing about the latest trends of Data Science and its applications. Johniel, an alumnus of Asian Institute of Management (AIM) has been sharing his academic encounters, business processes, coding and statistics. His classmates were usually the big minds and some CEO of big companies in the Philippines... his level of competence must be at par with them. (Quick overview: AIM was founded in 1968 by a consortium of prominent business leaders, Philippine academic institutions and the Harvard Business school.). I have been inspired in pursuing analytics because of everything he shared. There wasn't an idle moment when we speak about a thing, conversations would even go beyond working hours. Hilarious.

Dave Emmanuel Magno, on the other hand, because of his curiosity, jumped in while he was still doing his master's degree in Statistics. We have been speaking about cryptos, businesses and python activities even up to early dawn. In CuriousCirc, he has been continually moderating and conducting forums every Tuesday and encourages members to showcase their technical knowledge and skills, anything under the sun. Because of his efforts, the team grew into 40 members and is still growing.

We formed this group CuriousCirc with our vision in mind to continually learn, adapt to trends and inspire the future generation. Diverse topics already discussed were Pokemon, NFTs, AI, personal development, coding and among others. Up to this day, I am extremely thankful to be with these guys. We met new connections, learned new skills and expanded the horizons together with smart people like them.

Looking forward to have some catching up with them. It has been so long since our last dine out. (Padungog post. haha)

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