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The way we the re-evolve, re-learn & re-optimize – The real evolution of applied economics (and the death of SEO, SEM & SMO’s)
Posted by: ekta1007 on: May 1, 2012
[On applied economics in business models, revenue growth & blue ocean strategies for the passer-by customers] And then, there was a “Google” with its much coveted page ranking algorithm, but the users and the companies betting their money & resources on the web wanted more, and they wanted it fast. So was born the Big data [...]
Crafting the perspective – The door is open, Please come in
Posted by: ekta1007 on: March 12, 2012
Back in the last 2 decades as I was educated I had no clue about the decisions taken by my parents for “me” – the schools I had been to, the activities I did – “Crowd sourcing” back then meant, depending on our local spheres of influence, rather your parents, who were wiser than you [...]
Pure Play : Excuse me, the door is still open . And I am coming in .
Posted by: ekta1007 on: February 9, 2012
[Lessons from the best Persuasion pitch ] Ok , if you have got this far , you should know where I come from. I come from a small city in India – and this I how I like to introduce myself – “From where I come from , there were hardly any public libraries ,and [...]
Future of machine learning & Quantitative Analysis on HUGE data sets
Posted by: ekta1007 on: February 5, 2012
Regressions , Huge data sets & Google Why Google still trusts its “Manual” Page ranking algorithm ,ie. why is it not trying to catch the wave of machine learning ? Into the Unknown , unseen and the unexplored . The Black Swan .. Read more here . And .. The Big data effect ! – ekta
Panic, Fear ,and Greed : On being Financially literate
Posted by: ekta1007 on: September 13, 2011
It should not be a matter of surprise that though we learn Newton’s laws of motion, Bernoulli’s equation (Fluid Dynamics), speed, time and distance and internalize in our brains the information that seamlessly helps us every day–– the ping pong ball jumping back at us, pressing the pipe’s valve while trying to increase the water [...]
Statisticians do it with models :)
Posted by: ekta1007 on: April 17, 2011
This post began in my head quite some time back – when almost every other night , I had this drowning feeling about “Doing something about IT” . After a while I thought , gosh I could used some help ! So the next day , I asked my Prof’ ” If computer Grads “Show off” their [...]
Learning for joy ,On why Economics is beautiful …
Posted by: ekta1007 on: March 12, 2011
I get this question *** all the while – so much so that I decided to do a post about it. Somewhere in my early teens, I remember particularly the time we had vacations culminating after exams in Early march , and then was the time to plan for vacations .My expenditures in this [...]
Choosing To Engage
Posted by: ekta1007 on: September 19, 2010
It is four am, I wake up, a voice within me tells me, “Are you insane? Go to sleep.” Year after year, it keeps telling me that today is not the right day. That today I deserve an extra hour of sleep and that I can afford to miss the jog and the morning sun. [...]
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