Data is a unique economic asset; it never depletes, never wears out and can be used across an unlimited number of use cases at near zero marginal cost. Data in the hands of management and operational leadership can be used to drive material, financial, operational and customer impact.  And maybe the best part of this winning data equation? You already own the data! But unfortunately, data is the Rodney Dangerfield of corporate assets – it gets no respect!

To exploit the…

Internet of things (IoT) is advanced technologies among others which have completely transformed the whole world. As per the latest report by Gartner, approximately 20 billion devices by 2020 will be connected to the IoT and this IoT based product or…

Quite often, non-technical executives have difficulties understanding what programming, on a very fundamental level, is all about. Because of that knowledge-gap, they tend to hire and overburden experienced data professionals with tasks which they are hopelessly overqualified for. Such as, for example, doing ad-hoc SQL queries on CRM data: "You're the go-to-guy for all things data, and we need the results for the board meeting tomorrow." That's a quite humbling and frustrating…

Summary:  A little history lesson about all the different names by which the field of data science has been called, and why, whatever you call it, it’s all the same thing.

A little reminiscence, or for those of you who are only recently data scientists, a little history lesson. 

Our profession of…

The Digital Shopfloor: Industrial Automation in the Industry 4.0 Era looks like a great free open access book by John Soldatos,  Oscar Lazaro and Franco Antonio Cavadini

The book deals with the transformation of the shop floor and the wider supply chain by the deployment of Industrial IoT

Some of…

Data Scientist is regarded as the sexiest job of the 21^st century. It is a high paying lucrative jobs which comes with a lot of responsibility and commitment. Any professional needs to master state-of-the-art skills and technologies to become a Data Scientist in the modern world. It is a profession where people from different disciplines could fit in as there are a plethora of specialties embedded in a Data Scientist role.

Data Science is not a present-day…

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