The good, the bad and the ordinary

Mar 29

Data Science

Jan 25

Three Greek tragic playwrights

Jan 21

A few things I did -

I created these videos and posted in youtube channel. Glad that they are of help to a lot of people and, glad that it is officially published by Intuit :)

Jan 07

Hans Rosling’s joke on silly correlation

Hans Rosling in his video ‘The Joy of Stats’ mentioned this joke on silly correlations:

An American who was wary of heart attacks wanted to find out the cause.

The Japanese eat less fat and drink less wine than the Americans. They were having less number of heart attacks than the Americans. 

The French eat more fat and drink more wine than the Americans. They were also having less number of heart attacks than the Americans.

So what kills an American is speaking English!

Nov 22

My post on txtWeb blog: Social Networking via SMS

Aug 26

Grace Hopper Celebrations is in India for the first time!
More at http://gracehopper.org.in/

Grace Hopper Celebrations is in India for the first time!

More at http://gracehopper.org.in/

Apr 11

Shubh and Laabh: The Shubh and Laabh of Balancing the Books

Feb 24

Data Visualization -

Information Design Patterns

Great visualizations

Digg Swarm

The Future of Money: It’s Flexible, Frictionless and (Almost) Free -

“PayPal is just the latest company to try to harness the creative powers of the open Internet. Google created a platform that lets anyone buy or display online advertisements. Facebook allows any developer to write applications for its social network, and Apple does the same with its iTunes App Store. Amazon’s Web Services provides developers the cloud-based processing power and storage space they need to build applications and services. Now PayPal has brought this same spirit of innovation and experimentation to the world of payments. Your wallet may never be the same.”

Feb 06

Web crawlers -

There are two major Java-based projects that offer a web crawler implementation—Nutch and Heritrix. Nutch is an Apache Lucene subproject. Heritrix is the Internet Archive’s open source web…