(Last updated: 03/21/2019 |Personal Opinion) “Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.” -Dick Guindon A few things related to software engineering practices at various places I worked bug me and experiences from almost half
The Rise of the Pyramid
(Last updated: 11/11/2019 | PDF | PERSONAL OPINION | COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL) I went to see a movie last night by myself (R rated and wife not interested), and one scene in the “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” trailer made
AX, UX and CX
(Last updated: 09/23/2019 | PERSONAL OPINION) At where I work which is analytics heavy, User Experiences (UX) designers has the final say yet because they don’t have the domain knowledge, they routinely defer design decisions to developers who don’t have
Analytics Platform
(Last updated: 10/18/2019 | PDF | PERSONAL OPINION) Like “Open”, “Platform” is yet another loaded and universally abused term. While every vendor claims their offerings to be the platform, what does an ideal analytics platform entail, from user’s point of
Open
(Last updated: 12/12/2019 | PDF | PERSONAL OPINION) “Open” is a virtue made from the reality that no single analytics vendor has everything customer want and the need to get things done by maneuvering two or more tools simultaneously. If
BlueFootprint
(Last updated: 09/12/2019 | PDF | PERSONAL OPINION) BlueFootprint is a software engineering tool which solves various problems in software development organization that is not solved or solved well by Jira and defect systems alike: Preventive Quality Control. We use
Deep Statistics
(Last updated: 08/30/2019 | PDF | PERSONAL OPINION) Yes, you guessed it right! We’re going to look at solving traditional analytic problems with technologies behind deep learning. In this broader context, the term “deep” is too limiting as the computation
AI ≠ Analytics
(Last updated: 06/26/2019 | PDF | PERSONAL OPINION ) Watching Silicon Valley players eating their cake with AI, many old guard analytics vendors respond with a disdain: “AI = Analytics” , “AI = extension of Analytics”, “Analytics is the godfather
Analytics Ecosystem in Numbers
(Last updated: 05/16/2019 | PDF) This year’s Gartner report on data science and machine learning platforms was a disappointing read. It turned me off right off the bat with the notion of “citizen data scientists”. Later when my eye met