Originally posted on Gigaom:
Maybe the business world has jumped the gun with all the talk about a looming skills shortage in big data and advanced analytics. There’s mounting evidence that it doesn’t take much to turn a novice programmer or statistician into a perfectly capable data scientist. Maybe all it takes is just some…
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City Spending Data Party: Kathmandu 2013, from a newbie data wrangler’s journal.
Open Knowledge Foundation organized a global City Spending Data Parties in many cities from Israel, Japan, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria etc. where members of local Open Knowledge Community work with data wranglers, coders, journalists, students and others in July 19- 21 to open up budget and spending data from cities to help citizens get a sense … Continue reading
Building with Papercrete at the Good Life Lab
हिन्दू संस्कृति र नेपाल
Originally posted on aalokvidya:
1. गायत्री मन्त्र हिन्दू जाति को विशिष्ट उपलब्धि हो, परिचय हो र आस्था पनि हो । गायत्री को आविर्भाव गर्ने ऋषि विश्वामित्र हुन्, उनको वंशबोधक नाम कौशिक हो । किन भने उनी राजर्षि कुशिक का नाती हुन् । हिन्दू कर्मकाण्ड मा जब गायत्री को अनुष्ठान हुन्छ, विश्वामित्र को नाम लिनै…
My report from Kathmandu in NASA SpaceApps Challenge (April 20 -21)
The original file can be downloaded here Continue reading
Introductory experiences with the Army of Awesome
Introductory experiences with the Army of Awesome. It all started strangely. I was dead bored by using the internet for too long. I opened the browser I had just closed. (No prizes for guessing my browser, but yes, Firefox!) I clicked the ‘mozilla’ on top right corner and began clicking links after links haphazardly until … Continue reading
15 of my favorite things about the web
My 15 favorite things about the web. Learning. I can learn things in the web. Codeacademy is more fun than my school was. Watching. I can’t imagine using the web and not watching videos. YouTube, Vimeo, … Seriously, where would internet be without silly cat videos? And memes. The new graphic revolution. A newer way … Continue reading
Originally posted on Entrepreneurial Energy:
This is an updated post from my ongoing series on The Great Clean Tech Talent Gap, which I painfully experienced while trying to staff my growing renewable energy startup. It has shocked me over the years how deep the shortage is of mechanical engineering skills in the renewable energy industry. When…
Pay nothing to learn, …but save your internet connection
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” Carl Sagan The world today has gone digital. So, Carl Sagan’s “somewhere” is most probably found in the internet. Self-learning is the only way to learn. Teachers might have done their part, but in the end it’s what we practice and understand that makes us learn. Sure, … Continue reading
God
Your word is faith, mine is belief I have no idea what god is to you but I do want to know God, for me, is ambiguity God has definitions none yet can be defined in ways so many Sometimes the John Lennon song sometimes a faceless image a muse, may be, … Continue reading
