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Season 2, Chapter 2: Make BI Great Again
There is a widespread misconception that "business intelligence" is not really for intelligent people. I hereby begin my (possibly long and painful…
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Decisions using dashboards - Part One
We have spoken to 25 business leaders so far, in terms of how they use dashboards and make decisions using data. Here are some key insights.
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Season 4: Starting up
I'll be using this newsletter to document my journey of starting a company, at the intersection of AI and BI
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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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Season 2, Chapter 1: Data Science and Business Intelligence
As I begin a new chapter in my professional life, it is time to start a new season of this newsletter
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Identifying ideal customers
We are now at that stage where we need to define, primarily for ourselves, who our target customer is. The question is how deep, and along what axes, we…
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Founding and the Ranatunga Principle
It is not often that you are in a job where you can own your own time. You ought to take advantage of such situations.
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Season 3 Episode 1: Fast Iterations
The key to Data Science is experimentation, and you need to set up your workflow in a way that you can do a lot of it quickly.
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"Dumbest thing in data science"
A data scientist claims that writing a script to copy-paste screenshots from dashboard to email is the "dumbest thing in data science".
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LLMs and PageRank
LLMs aren't very good at data analysis. I don't know if they use a PageRank kind of weighting to boost certain sources over others.
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Dashboard Sprawl
Examining the reasons behind why dashboard sprawl happens
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Season 3, Episode 2: Look at the data
In all the fancy models and dashboards we build, we data scientists sometimes forget the very basics - which is to look at the data!
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