Web scraping + text analytics for competitive intelligence

In these series of case studies, I will showcase in brief the business problems I have worked on along with my team at Juxt Smart Mandate. These problems are mostly in the domain of natural language processing, information…

Join the dark side, now !

If only you knew the power of the Dark Side…….

- Darth Vader, Star Wars — Episode V

Unstructured data is growing significantly faster than structured data. Organizations nowadays have little awareness of the volume, composition…

Dealing with ‘big’ data in Tableau

‘Big Data’ might be one of the most abused words in the analytics industry. While many of the experts write about it, I personally have no clue about what the whole brouhaha is all about. I have tried to keep the definition of big data simple in my mind ; voluminous…

Can Context Extraction replace Sentiment Analysis?

Sentiment analysis is hard. Most of the systems on the market will clock anywhere around 55–65% for unseen data, even though they might be 85%+ accurate in their cross-validations.

Why I prefer Python over R for Analytics

Analytics is a wonderful industry to be in. I joined an analytics firm last year after my MBA. I loved my job and everything was fine till the day I realized that knowing equations or tools weren’t going to cut it.

Context Retrieval — Why Sentiment Analysis is old

India witnessed the grand power of democracy in the recently concluded general elections. While it was an emphatic victory for the voters, delivering a decisive mandate for the incoming government, it was also a key piece of event for the…

8 Rules of Visualizing Data for Business

In this age of data deluge in business, it is obvious to think that revenue maximization has become a whole lot easier. You already have a lot of data to play around with, all you have to do is to demand reports from your analysts. Is it that easy? I would…

Enriched Data is the key, not Big Data

Big Data has been the “in-thing” for quite sometime now. The emergence has led to multiple technological breakthroughs and changed the way we think about storing and analyzing data. The fever has led to an extent where you might as well be living in the stone…

Future of Data Science @ IBM Insight

A couple of days ago, IBM called upon data scientists all over the world to participate in a Twitter chat leading up to IBM Insight, a premier conference for data and analytics in October at Las Vegas.