How does the Block in a Blockchain look like?
Blockchain is simply a very long string of 1’s and 0’s. Every 10 minutes, a new block gets added to the chain. Hence, the name Block-Chain. B...
The 6 Key Concepts of the Blockchain
Ms. Blockchain is a database. Not a traditional one. She is a distributed database. She is a decentralized database. She is an immutable database. Her...
Tools to get started with the Analytics, and Machine Learning!
“Tools enable, tools restrain, and tools kills” – choosing them wisely will make the difference between learning and frustration. Given the ...
The (Decision) Trees leads to the (Random) Forest!
Many a times, we are overwhelmed with the size of a problem, and left confounded. A common and an effective problem-solving strategy is to “break it...
Logistic Regression: The Discrete Beauty!
“Why was your recent credit card application rejected? How did your telecom service provider figure out you were unhappy? How did your friend predic...
Regression: The Crystal Ball of Machine Learning!
Despite the regressive tonality to the word, regression is one of the widely used techniques, in the field of Machine Learning. They are amongst the i...
The Hypothesis of Everything!
In my previous blog, I briefly touched upon the concept of hypothesis. Let’s get to see it in detail, in this blog. In the context of Machine Learni...
Machines – How do they learn?
In my previous blog, I covered the relevance of Business Analytics and Machine Learning, followed by the various types of Machine Learning Algorithms,...
“Show, don’t tell” – The Important of Visualisation
My previous blog, on Business Intelligence covered Descriptive Analytics, and the elements of understanding the data. In this blog, the final part of ...
Business Intelligence – The bridge between Head and Heart!
In my previous blog, I wrote about Descriptive Analytics – “what happened in the past” – as the route to Business Intelligence. In a later blo...
Why should the Machines learn?
The machines, as we know of until recently, takes instructions from the human masters, and execute them. Humans have “codified” their learning int...
Problem solving framework for analytics
In my previous blogs, I covered the several types of analytics (descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive), including Big Data Analytics. By now, we k...