Keep the talking part of sessions between 20-40 minutes. Have 2 or 3 sessions distributed through the day. Have people work on things individually or in small groups. Identify clear (intermediate) deliverables each day. Let people present/showcase their work in the final session. Set up a system to track engagement Create a system of #LearningAnalytics […]
Read more >If you are trying to build Machine Learning/AI applications, you may need a lot data to test your models. Here are a few of my favorite lists and a search engine for finding data sets. Kdnuggets Datasets for Data Mining and Data Science Google Dataset Search is another cool resource. I discovered it while browsing […]
Read more >Some of my old blog posts on blogging. They contain some good links to resources. Why I Blog? Effective Bloggers are Learners, Thinkers, Explorers and Dreamers Research: How Do You Find What Blogs to Read? Blogging Has Changed My Life Looking for Ideas for Blogging?
Read more >Just finished reading this book. I was tweeting a few quotes as I was reading the book. Here is the full list. Before you read the quotes, please remember the context Charlie was mostly answering questions about being an Investor. Let us first look at these quotes. There is no way you can live an […]
Read more >Why I wrote this book This is the fifth edition of a book I started writing in 1999, when I was teaching at Colby College. I had taught an introductory computer science class using the Java programming language, but I had not found a textbook I was happy with. For one thing, they were all […]
Read more >How do you bootstrap a culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in your college? Start an Innovation and Entrepreneurship development activity. Find a few mentors from the industry. Involve your nearest TiE/NASSCOM/NEN/CII chapters. Have each mentor adopt a few projects. They can teach students how to generate ideas, build demonstrable prototypes, find initial users and validate […]
Read more >the concept of “the umwelt” coined by biologist Jakob von Uexküll in 1909 — the idea that different animals in the same ecosystem pick up on different elements of their environment and thus live in different micro-realities based on the subset of the world they’re able to detect. Eagleman stresses the importance of recognizing our […]
Read more >One of my favorite podcasts on Data Science is by Ben Lorica from O’Reilly. You can find more about the Data Show Podcast here. This podcast is about Data Science Past, Present and Future – an interview with DJ Patil (a well-known Data Scientist). Here are a few snippets. Data Science is a big tent […]
Read more >“What are you doing?”, my wife asked. Most of the time I grunt something. I think of this question as more of a greeting than a question. This time, however, I said enthusiastically “I am reading about the Wiki Wiki Web”. This cracked up the entire family (two kids included). Wiki Wiki means quick in […]
Read more >I am restarting my Read Log. A read log is a blog of a list of things I read and find useful. I tweet some of them but Tweets have a short half-life. The inspiration for Read Log comes from different sources – Four short links by Nat, Brain Pickings from Maria, Farnam Street by […]
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