Derick.jose's Blog Posts Tagged 'big' (5)

How we survived a near death experience in a Big Data Project ? A Story from the trenches

One month back Flutura was in a meeting with a customer in Houston where we were involved in an IOT big data project . It was a very tense meeting ... Budgets were being slashed, heads were rolling because of the steep drop in Oil prices. The CEOs office was forensically examining all projects thru a massive magnifying glass. The tension in the room was palpable. The cross functional team had spent a lot of time building a…

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Added by derick.jose on April 28, 2015 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Data Science + Behavioral Science = Force Multiplier ! 3 User Stories

The word “Force Multiplier,” in military usage, refers to an enabler or a combination of enablers, which make a given force more effective than that same force would be without it.

So what force multipliers can be used in the world of Data Products ?

Based on our experience in curating intelligent data products for the industrial world we feel a Data Product needs a healthy dose of 2 things

1. Data Science = Seeing the unseen (…

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Added by derick.jose on November 25, 2014 at 10:12pm — 1 Comment

Why Data Scientists create poor Data Products ? ( And 5 things that can be done to change this )

As the consumer and industrial world gets massively digitized Data products are being baked into critical processes at a very high rate. These data products distill signals from massive torrent of human generated and machine generated data to drive a front line action . At this point we wanted to distinguish between 2 types of data products which we have seen in the market place

Consumer Data…

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Added by derick.jose on November 9, 2014 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

22 Non Statistical Questions for a Statistician

We have always believed that when the world of business collides with the world of math, magic unfolds. As these 2 worlds collide, it also presents a set of unique challenges - bridging the semantic language gap between business and math. Modelling complex business outcomes using math requires an interdisciplinary team consisting of business folks, data folks and math folks. While doing so business folks are always at a loss because a language chasm exists. Math folks love their ”geek…

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Added by derick.jose on June 17, 2014 at 2:00am — No Comments