
Data Analysis & ML certificate course (2nd batch) successfully completed at Osmania University
Aeon Knowledge (in partnership with CQM, Osmania University) is happy to announce the successful completion of their second batch of “Certificate course in Data Analysis and Machine Learning”. The first batch was completed in August 2018. The participants received their course completion and merit certificates on June 13, 2019, from Prof. C. Jaya Lakshmi (Director, […]

Strategy Formulation for businesses: looking beyond variable importance
For businesses, while it is important to have an accurate model, an interpretable model is equally important. Apart from wanting to know what our model’s prediction is, we also wonder why it is it high/low and which features are most important in determining the forecast. (Most machine learning algorithms produce variable importance as a part […]

Data Science courses completed at Osmania University
It was a great honour to be a part of the teaching faculty of the Department of Statistics, University College of Science, Osmania University. Sandhya(linkedin.com/in/sandhyatanneer) and I were given the opportunity to teach the industrial electives to postgraduate students of Statistics / Applied Statistics for both the semesters in the academic year 2018-2019. We thoroughly […]

The role of Mahalanobis in emergence of Modern Statistics
This article started as simply a transcript of a lecture by Stephen Stigler titled “Mathematical Statistics as a Global Enterprise” at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Delhi, commemorating the 125th birth year of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. As I ruminated on what Stigler had to say about Mahalanobis and his role in the history and development of […]

A silent move towards adaptive and model-dependent data models
Over the last decade there has been a substantial increase of the volume and complexity of the data we are collecting and storing. Now we see an increasing demand for real time data processing – a continuous process of input / output of data. Accordingly, the approach to data analysis and data processing has changed […]