Chasing Qualitative Signal In Quantitative Big Data Noise

Joey Votto is one of the best hitters in the MLB who plays for Cincinnati Reds. Lately he has received a lot of criticism for not swinging o...

Hacking Into The Indian Education System Reveals Score Tampering

Debarghya Das has a fascinating story on how he managed to bypass a silly web security layer to get access to the results of 150,000 ISCE (1...

Unsupervised Machine Learning, Most Promising Ingredient Of Big Data

Orange (France Telecom), one of the largest mobile operators in the world, issued a challenge " Data for Development " by releasin...

Thrive For Precision Not Accuracy

Jake Porway who was a data scientist at the New York Times R&D labs has a great perspective on why multi-disciplinary teams are importa...

A Data Scientist's View On Skills, Tools, And Attitude

I recently came across this interview (thanks Dharini for the link!) with Nick Chamandy, a statistician a.k.a a data scientist at Google. ...

Commoditizing Data Science

My ongoing conversations with several people continue to reaffirm my belief that Data Science is still perceived to be a sacred discipline a...

Objectively Inconsistent

During his recent visit to the office of 37 Signals, Jeff Bezos said, "to be consistently objective, one has to be objectively inconsi...

Data Scientists Should Be Design Thinkers

World Airline Routes Every company is looking for that cool data scientist who will come equipped with all the knowledge of data, domain exp...