Archive - Art of Data Science

Summit Season: Notes

Some random notes from my experiences at the recent Snowflake and Databricks Summits in SF.

Jun 16 •

May 2025

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…

May 21 •

Pilots and copilots

A product that is a "copilot" assumes that its users have the ability to be "pilots".

May 19 •

March 2025

(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

Mar 22 •

"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

Mar 13 •

February 2025

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…

Feb 12 •

December 2024

Spirit is willing, but flesh is weak

On a random attempt at getting an LLM to undo its work, with uncertain results

Dec 4, 2024 •

November 2024

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…

Nov 25, 2024 •

The "industrial revolution" of data insights

The data insights industry is going through its own industrial revolution. And Babbage Insight is part of that!

Nov 12, 2024 •

October 2024

Insider Update: 10/24

Version 0.1 of Babbage Insight is ready, and we have started selling it as a service. If you, or someone you know, wants to check out, please let us…

Oct 30, 2024 •

It is easy to produce if you write - take your content and feed it to NotebookLM (or similar), and you'll have your own podcast!

Oct 2, 2024 •

September 2024

Becoming a legend by removing legends

Pertinent observations from a re-reading of Eugene Wei's classic post on Amazon and data visualisation

Sep 13, 2024 •

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