Answering Monty Hall puzzle with Monte Carlo Monte Carlo is a conceptually simple but powerful technique that is widely used. It makes use of randomness to answer questions.In this post, I'll explain how to solve the Monty Hall problem
Zen of Stochastic Gradient Descent Principle A world of InformationWe are living in an age where almost any information is just a swipe away. There are innumerable blogs, videos, articles, papers and even podcasts on any topic that you
How data science is helping to make Brazilian politicians more accountable? Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of National Congress of Brazil. It has 513 congress people, 219 of them max out their monthly spending that can be reimbursed. One congress person gets
ModelChimp Why ModelChimp? Being a data-driven company is becoming increasingly common. Each company requires analytics to help them in their decision making, optimizing their processes and also automating tasks. There are excellent tools to
Making a product on standup comedy in 3 weeks! Introduction Stand-up comedy is a popular comic style, where a comedian entertains a live audience with his jokes, quips, and observations. My interest in stand-up comedy was piqued during my school days – starting
Analysis of India's petrol and diesel price data It’s been more than a month that the prices of petrol and diesel change on a daily basis in India. I’ve been collecting the data for this as part of the
Oil Ka Rate App The prices of petrol and diesel change every day from 16th June onwards. Created a simple app to show the current prices of the day called oil ka rate. The app is at
Patterns in the date of birth of movie personalities During a random talk with a friend of mine, I was told an observation that most of the well-known Hollywood personalities are born between the month of April and July. This made me
The Great Indian Wedding Arranged marriages have been part of long Indian tradition. With the advent of internet in India and increased online users, matrimonial services too went online and is doing exceptionally well. It is estimated
Mining through running stats TCS 10k 2014 Recently, TCS 10k run was held which was organized quite well except for the part where people had to do commando over a puddle of water. Anyways, coming to the point. The data
Rahul Gandhi's interview by Arnab Goswami The day after the famous interview was aired, the complete transcript of the interview was available online to read through. On facebook, I saw one of my college juniors had made a simple
Data Hacking through Hollywood Always been a movie buff since the time I cannot remember. Whenever I’ve had some time to kill, I’ll go on various movie websites and check out various details or trivia
