Why do Navy seals make their own bed?

In a recent address to students Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command mentioned the importance of making your own bed. The news can be read here and here 

Some…

The data science ecosystem: R vs Python vs Substitutes

In this post, I show a network analysis of the R and Python ecosystems in terms of their competitors.   The objective of the post is to -

1. Identify the key tools/languages being commonly searched in the data science area related to R/Python
2. Identify the sets of associated tools

To identify the typical substitutes/ competitors of a tool, I use the Google search autofill recommendations.…

The future of business, it is argued, is digital. At the core of this digital transformation is the ability to harness data in enabling better business decisions. Typically, organizations have teams of experts who work on existing data sets to apply diverse analytic tools and techniques to make sense of the data. The more statistically advanced among these teams work on typical ‘data science’ problems. Data science problems are where you need to apply sophisticated algorithms on large data…