Via TP: What is Big Data? A meme and a marketing term, for sure, but also shorthand for advancing trends in technology that open the door to a new approach to understanding the world and making decisions. There is a lot more data, all the time, growing at 50 percent a year, or more than doubling every two years, estimates IDC, a technology research firm. It’s not just more streams of data, but entirely new ones.

A popular ghazal based on Raag Yaman Kalyan rendered by Rohini Ravada , Shankar Tucker [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ZyU98N3Fk?rel=0]

The connection between The Lady Tasting Tea and Statistics : [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgs7d5saFFc]

In the Feb 2012 issue of “Traders” magazine , I found these points worth noting down : A 300 page document, Volcker rule, signed into law in July 2010, prohibits U.S. banks from engaging in proprietary trading as of July 2014. This rule is similar to “asking you to switch off mobile phones” in the flight. The chance of electronic signal messing up with aircraft is 1 in million.

Alan Jacobs, the author of this book is an English Professor at Wheaton College, Illinois. Given his position as a professor, his students and other people often ask him, “What are the 10 best books on literature that every educated person must read", “Dear Prof, Can you suggest some books to read this summer?”, This book is written to answer all such questions. So one might think this book is basically a recommendation type / instructional / didactic guide to reading.