Publications by prasoonsharma
Cricket fever again
England take on Sri Lanka in a test series starting today. After watching Cricket world cup 2011 and witnessing India play in quarter final, semi final and the finale in stadiums all over India, I had little appetite for any of the IPL 2011 matches. But now, I’m excited again. This test series will be a thrilling contest considering the two t...
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Sachin Tendulkar’s longevity
There have been over 3300 cricketers who’ve played Test and One Day cricket. The youngest player was 14 years old Hasan Raza from Pakistan who played 5 ODIs and 2 Test matches at that age. The oldest player was 52 years old W Rhodes from England, who played 8 Test matches at that age. But they are not the ones who’ve played the game f...
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Learning SAS
I want to learn the heavy-weight of Statistical softwares – SAS. It seems like the default choice for high-end statistics and I want to understand why.I’m working in the healthcare practice in our firm and want to analyze claims and credit data (Terabytes, 50M+ records). Traditional ways (SQL) are limiting and desktop statistical softwares li...
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Rahul Dravid – a legend in Test Cricket
Rahul Dravid is a fantastic cricketer, and a role model for younger generation – focused, hardworking and humble.Dravid recently became the 2nd highest scorer in Test Cricket (Sachin Tendulkar is the leading scorer). His contribution to Indian cricket is enormous and his nickname, “The Wall”, is a testimony to his concentration, skill and...
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Looking to hire data scientists
We are a global management consulting firm and are looking for data scientists in our team in New York/Washington DC and Gurgaon/Chennai (India). There are full-time and internship (New York) opportunities. There are multiple positions including developing complex models in healthcare, pricing and optimization. If interested, drop me an email...
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Explaining India’s miserable Test cricket performance in 2011/2012
Today when I reminded a friend not to lose hope in Indian cricket (after recent whitewash in England and Australia), another friend commented, प्रसून जी , यह भारतीय क्रिकेट है ..यहाँ पर हर विक्टरी दुसरे दिन पुरानी हो जाती ह�...
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Data Analysis Training
I’m training some of my colleagues on Big’ish data analysis this week. Here’s how I’m running the class. Would love your ideas to make it better. CLASS OBJECTIVES (LEARNING OUTCOMES)After completion of the course, you will be able to:Understand concepts of data science, related processes, tools, techniques and path to building expertiseUs...
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Big Data ETL and Big Data Analysis
I was at Strata New York 2012 last month. Great conference! Thanks O’Reilly media for assembling the industry leaders and running it well.I understand it was too crowded for some of my out-of-town friends. Stepping out to the streets of mid-town Manhattan for a breath of fresh air and calmness wasn’t an option either. Maybe O’Reilly can get...
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Software engineer’s guide to getting started with data science
Many of my software engineer friends ask me about learning data science. There are many articles on this subject from renowned data scientists (Dataspora, Gigaom, Quora, Hilary Mason). This post captures my journey (a software engineer) on learning Statistics and Data Visualization.I’m mid-way in my 5 year journey to become proficient in...
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Solving Multiple Supplier Selection Problem using R and LP Solve
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