When Harvard Business Review called it “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”, the term “data scientist” became a buzzword. Dr. Usama M. Fayyad, a veteran data scientist and probably the first person to ever hold the title of Chief Data Officer, was in Mumbai this week to attend the largest data science summit in […]
In the recent few years, rapid advancements in BIG data technologies have been associated with complementary advancements in data visualization techniques. Several eminent speakers at the recent data science congress summit 2017 in Mumbai, India, spoke about the power of data visualizations and their applications in the field of data science. Dr. Soudip Roy Chowdhury, […]
Bhupesh Daheria, CEO, Aegis School of Data Science has almost attained a celebrity status within the data science fraternity after conceptualizing and organizing the largest data science event that was ever witnessed in India. Data Science Congress 2017 event – A Confluence of Analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things & Cognitive […]
Kunal Jain, founder and CEO of Analytics Vidhya, was present at the data science congress event 2017 that was held in Mumbai, India. He was moderating the panel discussion on the topic – data science in banking, financial services and Insurance (BFSI) sector. Analytics Vidhya is an extremely popular blogging website dedicated to teaching analytics. […]
Algorithmic trading is the process of using computers for trading. The speed and frequency that is possible through algorithmic trading cannot be matched by humans. But this kind of black box trading can make investors nervous, especially when large amounts are at stake. This is precisely where data science comes into picture. Savi Basavaraj, head […]
The retail industry has steadily warmed up to eCommerce in the last two decades. It all started with the dotcom boom in 1999, when usage and adoption of internet by businesses and consumers was over-speculated. This followed by a massive bust in 2001. The industry realized that survival of eCommerce companies was dependent on, more […]
Introduction On 22 July 2016 , me and a friend named Anchal Gupta participated in an Analytics Vidhya hackathon named ‘The Smart Recruits’ . This blog is about our approach to this particular problem . The problem stated about a particular company Fintro ,a Financial Distribution company and over the last 10 years, they have […]
I start this series with a confession – to me, content is more important than form. I shall always prefer a semantically optimized algorithm to a catchy interface. An old timer, I often wonder how visualization and reporting tools came to be as much in demand amongst budding data scientists as the design and analysis […]
Before going to answer this question let me give you brief introduction of Spark and Hadoop. Spark: Apache Spark is an open source cluster computing system that aims to make data analytics fast (both fast to run and fast to write). It is developed in Scala (functional programming) which is suitable for distributed systems, […]
With the surge of digital streaming technologies, the music industry has been forced to look elsewhere for serious revenue. Music is the one universal media that connects the world, and big data is the key to unlock its potential. Big Data and analytics have played a big part in this reinvigorated romance. From recommendation […]