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Tirukkural: The Ancient Wisdom of Modern Parenting

Found something interesting about Parenting. Thought to share with you all. Tirukkural by Tiruvalluvar ( a Tamil poet/writer) was written more than 5000 yrs ago. It’s one of the ancient science on Human behaviour, which has not changed inspite of modern education & technology ! SOME GOLDEN THOUGHTS OF THIRUKKURAL 1. If your child lies to you often, it is because you over-react too harshly to…

Why and How to encourage Girls in STEM field

Why and How to encourage Girls in STEM field

Image Source: http://xkcd.com/385/

The development of world-class talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is critical to growth of a nation and its leadership in the world. Since 9 or the top 10 fastest growing jobs are being created in STEM fields, encouraging women to explore these fields is important for their financial…

Analytics and its teen years

Analytics and its teen years

The joke doing the rounds on social media compares big data to teenage sex: everyone’s talking about it, only a few know how to do it, they all think everyone else is at it and so pretend they are too. I have had somewhat similar discussions with couple of data scientist a few days back. The discussion was circled around how to understand big data and analytics and…

Looking out for Big Data Capital of the World

There have been numerous reports to identify which place provides the best ecosystem for supporting new technology. For laggards it is important to know the leaders. Study of an ecosystem where technology is thriving sheds light on multiple mini centers of excellence or best practices working in unison to together provide an ecosystem beneficial to a technology. Big data is no different. There…

Using Topological Data Analysis on your BigData

Using Topological Data Analysis on your BigData

Synopsis:

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is a framework for data analysis and machine learning and represents a breakthrough in how to effectively use geometric and topological information to solve ‘Big Data’ problems. TDA provides meaningful summaries (in a technical sense to be described) and insights into complex data problems. In this talk,…

3 S for Building Big Data Analytics Tool of the Future

3 S for Building Big Data Analytics Tool of the Future

There is a huge debate on what constitutes the Big Data Analytics tool of the future and many jump in the race to try their flavor of solutions or problem solving techniques that address many critical use cases at play in Big Data laden businesses. While new businesses are working at it, what constitutes a good fundamental theory on product…

The Data Driven Road Less Traveled

To help better explain the topic, let me take a small detour; explain conventional big business paradox and why it a threat in today’s economy. Remember the days when large businesses were coined 800-pound gorilla and small businesses only dreamt about touching their market share. That in some sense is the conventional big business paradox. It is not true anymore. With ever connected world, easy…

Analytics Then and Now

Before we understand the current state and future of analytics, we should spend sometime understanding first recorded use of analytics system. Yes, analytics as a business process has it’s root since the day business practice was invented during medieval times. The first functioning system to use power of analytics attributes to Lyons bakery.

In 1951, the J. Lyons company, famous for their…