29 Apr
The Art of Questioning
In a world that is tackling with exponential growth of data, it is extremely important to have the right tools to ask the right questions, to have the right answers for decision making. This need brings in a new imperative in the form of new expectations on the typical BI tools of today. As enterprises...
23 Nov
It’s as much a Science.
Any book on Data Visualization, including the great Edward Tufte’s, Visual Explanations, would invariably cover the story on the English physician John Snow and his work during the days when England had to wage a war against the cholera epidemic. Since it happened during the mid 18th century with many of the data visualization related techniques at...
22 Nov
Irony
We are at the cusp of a technological revolution that will fundamentally shift the way we live, consume services, socially interact with one another and this cycle leads into the way we learn, gain knowledge, create things and produce goods and services.
18 Nov
Post-truth need not be limited to Politics.
If you missed the news, ‘post truth’ has been chosen as the Word of the Year 2016 by Oxford Dictionaries. post truth – is an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’.
11 Nov
Parallel Coordinates – Part 2
The possiblities of multivariate analysis using a single visualizaton tool in Parallel Coordinates is endless. It might appear absurd to begin with, but once you start playing around, the tool is so easy to use and can turn out to be one of your best friend for data analysis.
07 Nov
Revisiting Jurassic Park.
One of my favorite scenes in the film Jurassic Park is the conversation that happens over lunch table on the conflict between Science, Commerce and Ethics. Jeff Goldblum playing the role of a chaos theorist asks a bunch of poignant questions on the ethics behind the whole creation of the park, the technology and how...
