We are going to discuss the book at Chennai Open Coffee Club today. So I decided to take all the fragments I marked up from the the book and share it in this post. Hopefully, we will get to most of them in our book club discussion. I apologize that these quotes do not have much […]
“Nothing In Life Is As Important As You Think It Is, While You Are Thinking About It” Education is an important determinant of income — one of the most important — but it is less important than most people think. If everyone had the same education, the inequality of income would be reduced by […]
The struggle and frustration you feel at the edges of your abilities— that uncomfortable burn of “almost, almost”— is the sensation of constructing new neural connections, a phenomenon that the UCLA psychologist Robert Bjork calls “desirable difficulty.” Your brain works just like your muscles: no pain, no gain. The concept is not new. In several […]
Notes from Data Jujitsu – The Art of Turning Data into Product by Dr. DJ Patil. It is free and a PDF version can be found here. This is a great resource, if you are just starting to think about applying Data Science in your organization. I like DJ’s incremental and very pragmatic approach to applying […]
I just finished reading the book What is Data Science?. It is a small book (25 pages) and one of the many good starting points to learn about Data Science. This not a review but a few quotes from the book: According to Mike Driscoll(@dataspora), statistics is the “grammar of data science.” According to Martin […]
I really like this para – The Motivation Behind the Book Doing Data Science: The world is opening up with possibilities for people who are quantitatively minded and interested in putting their brains to work to solve the world’s problems. I consider it my goal to help these students to become critical thinkers, creative solvers […]
From this free book – Bayesian Methods for Hackers Using Python and PyMC If Bayesian inference is the destination, then mathematical analysis is a particular path to towards it After some recent success of Bayesian methods in machine-learning competitions, I decided to investigate the subject again. Even with my mathematical background, it took me three straight-days of […]
From the book Secrets of Analytical Leaders Analytics have evolved a lot over the last 25 years. On the business need for Analytics A chief responsibility for any CEO in today’s business world is to build and to continually evolve the most effective strategy for mining and then leveraging the data that can make a difference within an […]
From the book – Open Data Now: In a series of studies led by Harvey Lewis, a research director in Deloitte’s Insight Team, the firm has identified five Open Data business “archetypes”: Suppliers publish their data as Open Data that can be easily used. While they don’t charge for the data—if they did, it wouldn’t be […]
“Whether you call it Big Data, data science, or simply analytics, modern businesses see data as a gold mine.” This was in evidence in this salary survey results. From O’Reilly Data Science Survey ( a free ebook on registration): By a significant margin, more respondents used SQL than any other tool (71% of respondents, compared to 43% […]