This is the first post after a long hiatus from active blogging. Having spent the past nearly 3+ years running a tech – (all of product, data and engineering) – team out of Bangalore, I have learnt much as how…
Category: Big Data
Big Data – Ponderings of a Practitioner – IV
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…
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…