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My VizChitra Proposal
There is a cool data visualization conference happening in Bangalore next month, and I've proposed a talk on "Self Service BI Serves Nobody". Reposting…
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Pilots and copilots
A product that is a "copilot" assumes that its users have the ability to be "pilots".
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(yet another) two kinds of data scientists
i'm in a bit of a conundrum in terms of tradeoffs as I try to hire more data scientists for Babbage
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"X for Y" and stereotypes
I use information theory and LZW Compression to argue that "X for Y" actually makes for an excellent elevator pitch
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Dunbar Number for data insights
Like how Robin Dunbar said humans can have about 150 social relationships, there is a similar number for the number of top level business metrics…
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Spirit is willing, but flesh is weak
On a random attempt at getting an LLM to undo its work, with uncertain results
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SaaS playbooks
A very large proportion of successful Indian SaaS companies have grown by largely selling to Tech teams. What does this tell us about the so-called…
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Art of Data Science
Art of Data Science
Pertinent observations on data science, analytics, business intelligence and everything around, Currently documenting the process of starting up Babbage Insight

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