Student, Gardener, Self-employed
Neependra Last weekend I did Cruise to the Coast ride with CAM. We cycled through Bhagamandala – Bekalfort – Kasargod – Jalsoor and covered ~130 kms. We started from Bangalore on Friday (4th Oct) night and reached Bhagamandala at 5 AM on Saturday. Then after couple of hours of rest we started cycling to Bekal Fort. We followed http://goo.gl/maps/dDFtN route. … Read more
As mentioned in the previous blog post I have been doing Understanding Media by Understanding Google course on Coursera and as part of second peer graded assignment I have to log the next 20 ads I encounter from Google, whether as the result of a search on google.com or through one of its partner sites and summarize what those ads get … Read more
I have been doing Understanding Media by Understanding Google course on Coursera and as part of first peer graded assignment we have to write about “Is Google’s intention to digitize all the world’s books a good thing or a bad thing, and for whom? “. Here is my take on it :- Imagine if every book in the world is … Read more
I participated in Bangalore::Hack 2013 last week and was planning to do a blog post about my participation. So I started to collect the relevant link to put on the blog post and came across this :- http://yourstory.in/2013/09/sequoia-capital-bangalore-hack/ and saw the mention about my work. 4) Government information aggregator – This one is close to my heart; a … Read more
Last Saturday on 14th September’13 I gave on GlusterFS presentation at LSPE-IN. The title for the presentation was Performance Characterization in Large distributed file system with GlusterFS . Few days before the talk I looked at the attendee list to get the feel of the audience. I felt that not many of them have used GlusterFS by … Read more
On datameet group I saw a mail regarding the Policy Hackathon, which was pre-event for 8th Annual International Conference on Public Policy and Management at IIM Bangalore on 10 – 11 August’13. I have been to hackathons earlier but not sure what would be the policy hackathon. Anyways I thought to give it a try. I … Read more
I got the oppotunity to attend and present at Open Data Camp 2013 at ISB Hyderabad on 22nd June 2013. Ealier this year I presented at Open Data Camp, Bangalore as well. My topic of the talk was “How to visualize the data over Web using Shiny + R”. I showed how we can put the analysis done on … Read more
I attended my first ever Red Hat Summit last week and got the opportunity to present as well. I also got the chance to meet my team in here after interacting with them for almost an year now. The summit got kick started with on 11th June with Jim’s keynote. Jim came on the stage wearing jeans. How cool … Read more
I attended and gave a part of talk at Open Data Camp, Bangalore 2013, which was scheduled on 2nd and 3rd March’13. ~200 people participated in the camp from different fields. I met lot of smart people and had a great time. Sessions I attended :- Visualizing Politics: S Anand Anand took the data from 2004 Lok … Read more
Three most interesting things I did/happened during 2012 : Taught a full semester course Joined back Red Hat and moved to Banagalore Did not watch television for the entire year Jan to March Started of the year started on a very high note with a bike trip to Mahabaleshwar with my wife. Just after that trip … Read more