Over the past few weeks, I have been reviewing the big data startup space – looking for companies with key ideas in exploiting big data. During this exercise, I noticed that a number of start-ups focused on “data cleanup” tools…
Text analytics – a practitioner’s view – I
After nearly a four month hiatus from blogging, I finally got around to writing up the first in a series of blogs on the state of art in text analytics. I have been interacting with various practitioners in both industry…
“Design” – Some thoughts
I recently read “Design of Design – Essays from a Computer Scientist” by Fred Brooks of the “Mythical Man Month” fame. The collection of essays attempts to make a larger point about the role of “design” in engineering activity as…
Big Data – Ponderings of Practitioner – III
My earlier posts on this topic have taken a top down view – from model building to implementation. In this post, I attempt to understand the bottom up view of this world – the vendor landscape and tools in this…
Big Data – Ponderings of a Practitioner – II
Continuing the vein of thought outlined in my earlier post on Big Data, the key issue to have in mind before jumping into big data is: Are you collecting/analyzing data to build/improve a theory? or you have a theory that…
Social Media related R&D problems
Over the past two years and a half, I have been working closely on social media data from Twitter, FB, Google+ and others. After building and using real world systems that need to scale and having read a number of…
Big Data – Ponderings of a Practitioner – I
Having worn multiple hats related to dealing with data on a near-daily basis through my professional career – data modeling, schema/representation development, redesign for indexing and query performance, information extraction, feature extraction for machine learning etc. I have been following…
Chromecast – A quick primer
Was looking for good mirroring solutions at home and work that works across iOS, Windows and Android. The toss up was between AppleTV ($99) versus Chromecast ($35). Chromecast Setup was painless, download chromecast app for your OS, install appropriate Chrome…
Exploiting Social Media – Some lessons
The past 12 months have been a major learning experience as I transition from my recent social media startup. After a hiatus of nearly a year from blogging, I wanted to summarize some key lessons as I rode the downslide…
Nearing Half-time in 2012 – Checking on tech trends
At the beginning of 2012, I’d put a list of potential tech trends. Checking in on them five+ months later, this is what we see: The revenge of the “publishers”: Does not look like publishers have figured anything out yet.…