2014 was a watershed moment in Indian politics for a variety of reasons. The foremost one was the stupendous victory of the Narendra Modi led NDA in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Modi managed to win 282 seats for his party in the elections, the first time in 30 years that a political party had come to power with absolute majority.

Several reasons have been attributed to this victory. Political analysts have spent hours in TV newsroom debates discussing the reasons for this victory.…

In the book Hadoop: The definitive guide, Tom white quotes Grace Hopper, “In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn’t budge a log, they didn’t try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn’t be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.” For long Hadoop has been the data analytics system preferred by businesses all over. The recent entry of the spark engine has however given businesses an option other than Hadoop for data analytics…

In May 2006, Larry page, one of Google’s co-founders had said “The ultimate search engine would understand everything in the world. It would understand everything that you asked it and give you back the exact right thing instantly. You could ask ‘what should I ask Larry?’ and it would tell you.” Come 2016, it seems at least part of his vision has been achieved through the release of Tensorflow, Google’s Artificial engine platform.

Tensorflow is a deep learning software…

Enterprises make critical pricing decisions very often, these decisions have a major impact on their profitability index and also determines the bottom line of the organization. Often, managers and analysts are forced to determine prices and discounts with limited available information and inefficient toolsets. Pricing Analytics enables the leadership of a firm to proactively manage pricing policies and strategies and guides them to arrive at the right pricing that is in-line with company’s…