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Archives: November2009

• Art and Maths together: Fractals

  Thats right. You can use simple mathematics to create beautiful images and art work. There are enough examples in nature for doing so. It is called Fractal. Basically a Fractal is an image in which some smaller image is repeatedly fitted to create patterns. See this Triangle Fractal. Basically you are creating patterns by making [...]

• Interviews with Top Analytics Persons

  Here is a photo of me at the MET. That’s a big big museum in New York Here is a Facebook Application I am creating for aggregating Blog Feeds ( Note you can do this in less than 2 hours for a full app- I took 15 minutes including uploading and downloading stuff. That’s how [...]

• The Daily Beacon: University of Tennessee’s student paper

  And how I became a front page celebrity on the Daily Beacon dtsv.dtse_post_17_permalink = ‘http://www.dudeofdata.com/?p=17′; dtsv.dtse_post_17_title = ‘The Daily Beacon: University of Tennessee’s student paper’;

• The Homework of Dr T

  The Homework of Dr T

  Every Monday and Thursday we meet him
  In a room and time pre-ordained
  And though we are glad to learn statistics from him
  The homework can be such a pain

  Dt T and his homework
  are like the tasks of Hercules
  No sooner have we finished one
  That we find the next has been released

  And yes we are young and
  Sure this is all good for us
  Bit less theory and maybe more application
  Could maybe help us find a job for the same

  The jobs are all in web analytics, and data mining per se
  But the theory is based on 19 th century industry
  Old Faithful erupts a dozen times
  In a dozen textbooks with faithful regularity

  We are a university we give out degrees
  Comes the stern paternal decree
  In order to convene your thesis committee
  Your grades must rise above B

  And when I ask
  Why dont we try something new
  A Hapless shrug  comes
  over you

  You shake your head at my impudence
  Then  forgive me my young stupidity
  Mentally smile and think -just a kid
  he needs time to settle his energy

  Hard work ,
  he should not shiThe Homework of Dr T

  Every Monday and Thursday we meet him
  In a room and time pre-ordained
  And though we are glad to learn statistics from him
  The homework can be such a pain

  Dt T and his homework
  are like the tasks of Hercules
  No sooner have we finished one
  That we find the next has been released

  And yes we are young and
  Sure this is all good for us
  Bit less theory and maybe more application
  Could maybe help us find a job for the same

  The jobs are all in web analytics, and data mining per se
  But the theory is based on 19 th century industry
  Old Faithful erupts a dozen times
  In a dozen textbooks with faithful regularity

  We are a university we give out degrees
  Comes the stern paternal decree
  In order to convene your thesis committee
  Your grades must rise above B

  And when I ask
  Why dont we try something new
  A Hapless shrug  comes
  over you

  You shake your head at my impudence
  Then  forgive me my young stupidity
  Mentally smile and think -just a kid
  he needs time to settle his energy

  Hard work ,
  he should not shirk
  Let’s train him hard,
  Give him more home-workrk
  Let’s train him hard,
  Give him more home-work