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Chasing That Killer Application Of Big Data 2 Aug 2013 | 11:38 am
I often get asked, "what is the killer application of Big Data?" Unfortunately, the answer is not that simple. In the early days of enterprise software, it was the automation that fueled the growth o...
Celebrating Failures 1 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
Being a passionate design thinker I am a big believer in failing fast and failing often. I have taken this one step further; I celebrate one failure every week. Here's why: You get more comfortable l...
Hacking Into The Indian Education System Reveals Score Tampering 14 Jun 2013 | 12:26 am
Debarghya Das has a fascinating story on how he managed to bypass a silly web security layer to get access to the results of 150,000 ISCE (10th grade) and 65,000 ISC (12th grade) students in India. Wh...
Unsupervised Machine Learning, Most Promising Ingredient Of Big Data 31 May 2013 | 11:56 pm
Orange (France Telecom), one of the largest mobile operators in the world, issued a challenge "Data for Development" by releasing a dataset of their subscribers in Ivory Coast. The dataset contained 2...
Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way 22 May 2013 | 10:49 pm
If you have been following this blog you would know that I mainly blog about enterprise software, cloud, and big data with a few occasional posts on design and design thinking. That's what I am most p...
Justifying Big Data Investment 1 May 2013 | 10:04 am
Traditionally companies invest into software that has been proven to meet their needs and has a clear ROI. This model falls apart when disruptive technology such as Big Data comes around. Most CIOs ha...
Thrive For Precision Not Accuracy 31 Mar 2013 | 02:09 pm
Jake Porway who was a data scientist at the New York Times R&D labs has a great perspective on why multi-disciplinary teams are important to avoid bias and bring in different perspective in data analy...
We Got Hacked, Now What? 16 Mar 2013 | 10:28 am
Hopefully you really have a good answer for this. Getting hacked is no longer a distant probability; it's a harsh reality. The most recent incident was Evernote losing customer information including e...
A Data Scientist's View On Skills, Tools, And Attitude 1 Mar 2013 | 01:08 am
I recently came across this interview (thanks Dharini for the link!) with Nick Chamandy, a statistician a.k.a a data scientist at Google. I would encourage you to read it; it does have some great poin...
Commoditizing Data Science 15 Feb 2013 | 10:57 pm
My ongoing conversations with several people continue to reaffirm my belief that Data Science is still perceived to be a sacred discipline and data scientists are perceived to be highly skilled statis...
