The report by Anaconda on — The State of Data Science 2020 — confirms the widely known fact, that Data Scientists spend almost half of their time not solving business problems but by cleansing and loading data.

This surely begs the question: why not invest at least half of what…

I am a fan of the show “Silicon Valley”, where Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) and his team are trying to build a decentralised internet or Web 3.0 for the cool kids.

One of the gaming companies that Richard collaborates with (K-hole) crosses him by mining user data, which goes against…

With the World Wide Web adoption in the 90s, one of the first search engines called “Backrub” emerged. The fundamental purpose was to categorise web pages across the internet by their importance. And doing this would save people’s time by ignoring irrelevant web pages.

Great idea, right? Soon Backrub was…

Markets have existed as long as humans have been trading. The earliest Bazaars have existed since 3000 BCE in Persia, according to Wikipedia.

A market is simply a place for the exchange of goods for either other goods or money.

In the modern data world, where quintillion bytes of data…

Charts, infographics, statistics, mean, median and bell curves! There is a lot of data and even more ways of presenting it. Don’t get lost in the trees by ignoring the woods.

Telling a story using data has never been easy. It requires one to process, organise and coherently present information.

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We often hear about Consulting as a prestigious career path, with top firms only recruiting the cream of the crop. And of course, these employees attend the “top target” universities where head-hunters cherry-pick them.

Suppose you have not been to the target university or achieved a specific university classification or…

Often marred with bureaucracy and red tape; Data Governance is a challenging feat to achieve in any organisation.

Unlike a data science or engineering initiative, Data Governance is effectively implementing business change.

Reluctance to change is not a new phenomenon. A journal published in 1948 entitled “Overcoming Resistance to Change”…