Excel is a good ‘analytic’ tool. So are some data mining tools that help us slice and dice the information into perspectives, or should I say views. A dashboard consisting of related views can tell a hidden story. But all stories have something in common viz. assumptions. The story holds water only if certain pre-defined…
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If you were to ask me the time, I would’ve looked at the watch and told you the answer. If you had asked a crow what time it is, it would surely have said, the time is ‘now’. A crow does not have an external reference point for time. However just as we have a…
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Human beings are also machines, albeit a complex one. However, we do not have the copyright of what constitutes ‘intelligence’. The most common form of intelligence is ‘pattern recognition’. You require a lot of memory for that. As our ability (30 billion neurons) is limited, as compared to modern AI, they will inevitably get ahead…
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Data Programming is a creative endeavor. Every single second, we are engrossed in a virtual world. A world full of constants, variables, conditionals, loops, sometimes objects and functions, and other abstractions. For everything in a machine, we have a name. A name is either data or it points to a memory location. The name itself…
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The location where Data exists Data originates from a source as something pristine or fresh. Then it gets tagged. For example, name, voltage, etc. Now this tagged information is typically stored in a file or a database. Thus, you may have a file with a sensor’s information like current, voltage, and power (watts). For a…
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We are creatures of Habit Can you predict the future by looking at past data? Well, mostly yes! But it will never be 100% true. The reason why we can predict the future from the past is that we all are creatures of habit. If we tend to drink coffee in the morning, we will…
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The Complete Guide to Business and How to Get Started Introduction: Starting a Business or Growing Your Company? How to Develop Strategies for Your Business How to Market Your Brand and Get it Seen by People Promote and Sell Products and Services Online 4 Proven Ways To Use Business Analytics to Get Ahead of Your…
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7 Techno-Spiritual trends of 2021 1. Data becomes the program (The analytic divide) As organizations try to extrude inferences from data, a new pattern is emerging. Data consumers are stretching their needs to demand more and more insights from data. Data scientists are not only under pressure to tell stories using visualization; every department is…
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