Take a Note!!! You Need Data to Succeed

ISTEM Lab
ISTEM Lab
Sep 8, 2018 · 2 min read

In one of the ted talks, Data Journalist David McCandless emphasized on data as a new soil. Some prefer to say it as new oil but still raw with potentialities. These potentialities have shown some tangible result as Donald Trump’s US election win, thinktanks power of changing governments and business corporates like Google and Apple designing product that is loved by the public and many more on the mark. Not only on the bigger arena, it is something that helps in finding your way, identifying business opportunities for startups, proper location of resettlement for the municipalities, corruption mitigation through tracking mechanism etc. These shows how data, plans and decisions are related. We just need to see the application and hack solutions.

Let’s dissect what data is. In the backyard of set of numbers and figures, if you are interested in business, it’s a capital that indicates and helps to decide your road map; if you are in humanitarian sector it helps in fund raising through data stories with emotions; and it has relations beyond the boundaries. Eventually, it has insights with actions. The whole emphasis is on data as a fertile ground for multiplying effect and minimizing risk, but we need to act in a different way. We need to redefine and transform how decisions are made. We should all agree upon — backing every decision with research-based evidences. And we should be the one if we want success.

With little jargons and some thoughts, it seems attractive but it’s complicated. There are professionals who can help you in designing your data products, developing decision systems to work for your dream come true. It’s a combination of hardcore engineering (Modeling, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence etc.), Statistics, Graphics, Mapping, Psychology, web scraping in a package. With these skills everything is possible- your daily life problems to the rocket science. ISTEM Lab is always there to support and help you to lead through innovations. Let’s collaborate. (istemlab.com.np)

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