tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65189388635926048382024-03-28T03:23:32.453-07:00Do What MattersDo what Matters - nurturing your own growth and well-being by engaging in activities that bring you joy, fulfillment, and a sense of personal accomplishment.Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-66448315605302496302022-03-05T22:14:00.004-08:002022-03-05T22:24:11.024-08:00New MS project ideas<p> </p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The car tells you what it needs </span><a href="http://news.mit.edu/2017/software-let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needs-1026" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">http://news.mit.edu/2017/software-let-your-car-tell-you-what-it-needs-1026</a></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Similarly in an Industrial setting, an expensive machine tells you when it needs service</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Wristbands detect stress signals </span><a href="http://news.mit.edu/2016/empatica-wristband-detects-alerts-seizures-monitors-stress-0309" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">http://news.mit.edu/2016/empatica-wristband-detects-alerts-seizures-monitors-stress-0309</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.tanium.com" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="s2" style="color: #dca10d;">www.tanium.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> endpoint management</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Build a tool like AHA Ideas: https://www.aha.io/pricing?product=Ideas</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Develop a data pipeline for Climate Intelligence (get inspiration from https://cervest.earth/</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Morale and culture-building app for remote teams get inspired from https://culture.justdisco.com/</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">cross-selling services for a specific business. Get inspired from https://swogo.com/ Fir example, millions of sellers on eBay or Amazon sell just 1 or 2 items, the service will enable them for cross-sell other products to the same customers and save customer acquisition costs</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Subscription business creation platforms are emerging, see this for zym/athelitc trainers https://playbookapp.io/</span></span></li></ol><p></p>Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-73131804044419870232021-02-10T18:12:00.002-08:002021-02-10T22:41:06.804-08:00Spring 2021 - MS CMPE272 Team Project Ideas <p><span style="font-size: medium;">While COVID taught us a great deal of resilience, patience, empathy and generosity, it also gave us opportunity to think hard and introspect. What's important in our lives. How do we use our technical skills and everything else to solve problems with greater good. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Data sources: <a href="https://usafacts.org/data/">https://usafacts.org/data/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My Grad students always do projects using cool modern technology such as AI and Machine Learning. Past projects are available here:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Spring 2017: <a href="https://github.com/SJSU272LabS17">https://github.com/SJSU272LabS17</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fall 2017: <a href="https://github.com/SJSU272LabF17">https://github.com/SJSU272LabF17</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Spring 2018: <a href="https://github.com/SJSU272LabSP18">https://github.com/SJSU272LabSP18</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fall 2018: <a href="https://github.com/SJSU272LabF18">https://github.com/SJSU272LabF18</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Spring 2019: <a href="https://github.com/SJSU272Spring2019">https://github.com/SJSU272Spring2019</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fall 2019: <a href="https://github.com/SJSUFall2019-CMPE272">https://github.com/SJSUFall2019-CMPE272</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Spring 2020: <a href="https://github.com/SJSUSpring2020-cmpe272">https://github.com/SJSUSpring2020-cmpe272</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This semester, they will do even better. Here are some ideas I am sharing with them:</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Category: AI in Software Development</span></b></h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#1: Apply ML into Fuzzing to improve software reliability</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Use ML to avoid testing every possible input by training on "interesting inputs" making testcases to find more suspect outputs. Read more about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzing" target="_blank">Fuzzing here</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This area of research is also called as "Big Code" see <a href="here: https://www.darpa.mil/program/mining-and-understanding-software-enclaves" target="_blank">DARPA announcement</a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://jsnice.org/" target="_blank">JSNice </a>is another good implementation of Statistical renaming, type inference and deobfuscation technique on Javascript code. </span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#2: New implementation of the Probabilistic programming </span></h4><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Probabilistic programming or (PPL) is </span><span data-line="38" style="text-align: justify;"></span><em class="em-star1" style="text-align: justify;">a tool for statistical modeling</em><span data-line="38" style="text-align: justify;"></span><span style="text-align: justify;">. The idea is to borrow lessons from the world of programming languages and apply them to the problems of designing and using statistical models. <a href="https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs4110/2016fa/lectures/lecture33.html" target="_blank">Learn more here.</a> Also see a WebPPL interactive <a href="http://webppl.org/" target="_blank">implementation here</a>. </span></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Idea#3: Use AI to measure and improve Microservice performance</span></h4><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Microservices architecture is common ways to deploy containerized software in the cloud. However, increasing number of microservices increases management complexity due to distributed architecture. Network latency and load balancing are other challenges. See this <a href="http://glennengstrand.info/blog/?p=467" target="_blank">use case</a> for inspiration. </span></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Category: Data Privacy & Governance</span></h3><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#4: Data Privacy in the Decentralized AI architecture</span></h4><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Whether its a race to get COVID vaccine developed or race to open businesses safely, its all about data sharing between government and private entities without compromising privacy of our citizen. There are technologies such as Secured Multi-party computation (sMPC), differential privacy and other techniques that enable privacy preserved data sharing. Take an example of various shopping Malls in a city sharing data while not disclosing any competitive information. A centralized analysis of federated data will allow decision makers to take safety measures, yet facilitating shopping experience. </span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#5: Create domain specific business glossary using NLP</span></h4><div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Vertical taxonomies such as an e-commerce taxonomy for retailer, telecom taxonomy for Telecom. Businesses will be able to bring their domain specific private documents and the NLP based AI system will create a well formed taxonomies ingestible into a common catalog such as Google data catalog or <a href="https://www.alation.com/solutions/data-governance/business-glossary/" target="_blank">Alation Business Glossary</a></span></p></div><div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Category: Social Good</span></h3></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#6: Lucy keeps our seniors happy and engaged</span></h4><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">#1 problems our seniors (over 80) face today is loneliness and isolation. According to the <a href="http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/demo/p23-212.pdf"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">U.S. Census Bureau</span></a> 11 million, or 28% of people aged 65 and older, lived alone at the time of the census. As people get older, their likelihood of living alone only increases. Additionally, more and more older adults do not have children, reports the AARP, and that means <a href="http://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/research/public_policy_institute/ltc/2013/baby-boom-and-the-growing-care-gap-insight-AARP-ppi-ltc.pdf"><span class="s1" style="color: #dca10d;">fewer family members to provide company and care</span></a> as those adults become seniors.<br />1. Senior isolation increases the risk of mortality.<br />2. Feelings of loneliness can negatively affect both physical and mental health.<br />3. Perceived loneliness contributes to cognitive decline and risk of dementia.<br />4. Social isolation makes seniors more vulnerable to elder abuse.<br />5. Loneliness in seniors is a major risk factor for depression.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">6. Socially isolated seniors are more pessimistic about the future.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lucy is a skill developed for Amazon Alexa device echo dot which sits in senior’s room.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A group of student volunteers write personal emails to our seniors . Lucy reads those emails to seniors as they come or at certain time.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Idea#7: Get inspiration from DataKind Projects</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.datakind.org/projects">https://www.datakind.org/projects</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#8: Using Divrsitykids datasets, create a dashboard and use NLG to generate a citizen friendly report</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Datasets: https://data.diversitydatakids.org/dataset</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#8: Using Divrsitykids datasets, create a dashboard and use NLG to generate a citizen friendly report</span></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #dca10d; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Datasets: <a href="https://data.diversitydatakids.org/dataset"><span class="s2">https://data.diversitydatakids.org/dataset</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p3" style="color: #dca10d; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="s2" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6518938863592604838/7313180404441987023">N</a></span><span class="s1" style="color: black;">LG: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6518938863592604838/7313180404441987023"><span class="s2">https://rosaenlg.org/rosaenlg/1.10.1/index.html</span></a></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#9: Street vendors support network</span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bringing street vendors in an organized group has several advantages:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Vendors will get much needed financial help and support to bootstrap their business. <br />•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Govt will have much desired success in getting them on epayments and cashless economy.<br />•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>this network will be able to uplift them and help them move into high value quadrant. For example, a street food hawker graduates to become a food truck owner. A vegetable seller eventually becomes a “Fresh cut vegies” supplier to apartments. <br />•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This network can be connected to micro lenders and other entrepreneurs such as organic farmers.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p></div></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><b>Category: Cyber Security</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#10: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Zero Trust security<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></div><ul class="ul1"><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Zero trust vs “trust and verify”</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Hyperlocalization in business will drive next gen endpoint security for data and application access</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Borderless security practices for multi-national companies and workforce</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Remote Work-employee experience</li></ul><div><b style="color: red; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Category: Immigration</b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Idea#11: Look at the questions to ask and available data sets here ( </b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://usafacts.org/issues/immigration/">https://usafacts.org/issues/immigration/</a> ) </b></span></span><b style="font-size: large;">and create a dashboard for legal immigrants that can help answer questions such as: </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">what are the chances of a H1B visa being denied?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What will be the impact on a certain industry if H1B Visa is eliminated?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What will be the benefit to US economy if US implements time bond citizenship for immigrant workers? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-size: large;">Category: Crime & Justice</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Idea#12 Look at available data sets and create a dashboard for US taxpayers which can answer important questions such as:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">whats the burden on tax payers for prisoners in private prison vs state prison?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">impact of pending court cases on economy and taxpayers?, correlation with specific types of crime?</span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">correlation between certain types of firearms and crime?</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Datasets: <a href="https://usafacts.org/data/topics/security-safety/crime-and-justice/">https://usafacts.org/data/topics/security-safety/crime-and-justice/</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Idea#13: Justice on wheels</span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Access to Legal services in India is very limited, especially in rural areas. In many cases, long running justice process and expensive legal help deter people even to seek justice. A Justice on wheels app(with lawyers network) that provides mobile (at your doorstep ) service for:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Affidavit and stamp papers related work<br />•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Will and trust<br />•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Legal rights education <br />•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Consumer protection related services and others<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This “On wheels” idea can be applied to Tutoring, Books and stationary selling.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Accounting on wheels” can be another opportunity as there are tons of BCOM boys and girls in India looking for work. The company will train them on business and financial accounting</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">More coming..</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></b></div>Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-29531409236352337272020-12-14T11:04:00.002-08:002020-12-14T11:04:43.307-08:00Story of a food<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlf1pITTDJ2uSzbaIwKau9GFYwKbGpyLAEvvSyiCVaAq5OO5w4PvbjllecAj_1vTF-YDdN7NmhiABcPrbWGEJtJ4ScFjshYOUE6BYE5P-ezC-6eDVypxbbsDUmc2e11nNby46KbReaNxgr/s1314/foodstory.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="1314" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlf1pITTDJ2uSzbaIwKau9GFYwKbGpyLAEvvSyiCVaAq5OO5w4PvbjllecAj_1vTF-YDdN7NmhiABcPrbWGEJtJ4ScFjshYOUE6BYE5P-ezC-6eDVypxbbsDUmc2e11nNby46KbReaNxgr/w444-h145/foodstory.png" width="444" /></a></div> Food is what brings us together, if one thing this pandemic has taught us is that how important it is to cook at home with our family, eat healthy and nutritious food and exercise to boost immunity and stay sane during this time. I love cooking at home, I am a big fan of cooking with healthy grains and vegetables even if they come from unknown territories. Recently I started a blog to share the untold stories of some of the superfoods which I think, folks don't know much about. In this series, I have published stories of Ginger, Beetroots and Quinoa. Please subscribe the <a href="https://foodstory.substack.com/" target="_blank">Substack blog post</a> so you get weekly stories directly into your Inbox. Let me know your thoughts and any recipes that you want to share. <p></p><p><a href="https://foodstory.substack.com/">https://foodstory.substack.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><br /><p><br /></p>Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-35502686991225233812020-10-28T14:37:00.000-07:002020-10-28T14:37:11.937-07:00ML 101 - Setup Jupyter notebook on your laptop<p> This instruction is for Mac, please look for similar instruction to install on Windows/Linux.</p><p>First thing first: Install brew if you don't have it:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>Setup PATH:</b></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">export PATH="/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin:$PATH"</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Install latest Python3 and necessary packages:</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">brew install python</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">pip3 install -U pip setuptools wheel</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Install Jupyter:</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">pip3 install -U jupyter jupyter-client</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I<b>nstall datascience packages:</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">pip3 install -U numpy pandas scikit-learn matplotlib</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Setup a working directoryand start Jupyter server:</b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">mkdir ~/work</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">jupyter-notebook --notebook-dir=~/work</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This should start Jupyter on your localhost: http://localhost:8888/</p><p><br /></p>Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-56806909931378550922020-03-24T23:09:00.001-07:002020-03-24T23:09:26.775-07:00CMPE272 Spring 2020 Project Ideas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">During this unprecedented time, while we all are sheltered in-place due to COVID-19 its in our best interests to learn new technology and keep ourselves busy with learning. Students can use IBM Watson Studio in the IBM Cloud for free. <a href="https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/watson-studio" style="color: #954f72;">https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/watson-studio</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">They can also use Analytics Engine (Spark as a Service) <a href="https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/analytics-engine" style="color: #954f72;">https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/analytics-engine</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Using these services, they can solve real world problems (examples below):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Predict COVID-19 spread using kaggle data: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); color: #333333;">https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Use NHTSA data to allow user to query fatalities based on some keyword </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd; font-family: "helvetica neue";">http://www.nhtsa.gov/FAR</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">S</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Use airquality data <a href="http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd;">http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data.html</span></a> and send alert based on my zipcode <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Earthquake detection using USGS data </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd; font-family: "helvetica neue";">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Predict employee retention (you can use glassdoor data for this prototype) </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fraud detection in user reviews (use this data: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-Amazon.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd; font-family: "helvetica neue";">https://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-Amazon.html</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Analyze medicare payment data to detect fraud (use the data: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Physician-and-Other-Supplier2017" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Physician-and-Other-Supplier2017</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Use FAA bird strike data to predict most dangerous airports </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://wildlife.faa.gov/database.aspx" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd; font-family: "helvetica neue";">http://wildlife.faa.gov/database.asp</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Use home energy usage datasets </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://redd.csail.mit.edu/" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd; font-family: "helvetica neue";">http://redd.csail.mit.edu/</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> as training set to find out how your own home energy usage levels up. Hint: user will enter his own energy usage and app will provide comparative analysis. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Use baby names datasets to come up on some cool analytics : </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd; font-family: "helvetica neue";">https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Use NIST vulnerability datasets to predict possible DDoS attack </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd;">https://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";">U</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">se water and sanitation data </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><a href="http://www.data.unicef.org/water-sanitation/sanitation.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="color: #0081bd;">http://www.data.unicef.org/water-sanitation/sanitation.html</span></a><a href="http://www.data.unicef.org/water-sanitation/sanitation.html" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #0081bd; padding: 0in;"> (Links to an external site.)</span></a> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">to bring analytics such as which countries is worst / which one is improving.. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Use children mortality data </span><span style="color: #0081bd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_countrystats.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_countrystats.html</a> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";"> to figure out what are the most important causes for under 5 yr old kids die.. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";">Use 2012 presidential donation datasets to find out who donated to presidential candidates most and if there is any correlation </span><u><span style="color: #0081bd; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><a href="http://www.fec.gov/finance/2012matching/2012matching.shtml" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.fec.gov/finance/2012matching/2012matching.shtml</a></span></u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-90634857164124580812018-05-20T21:04:00.002-07:002018-05-20T21:05:47.895-07:00Spring 2018 Technology Showcase at San Jose State University<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Every semester hundreds of students graduate in Computer engineering from SJSU Charles Davidson College of Engineering. Visit my Linkedin post for this semester's 295B projects:<br />
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-73095048294855326672018-04-28T14:54:00.003-07:002018-05-20T21:00:41.504-07:00MS Project Ideas for Fall - 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>#1 - Why Vote?</b> - ML powered analysis of voters and polls and their impact on citizen metrics<br />
Idea is to visualize the data about historical polls (how people vote in their democratic elections worldwide) and show correlations between the voting patterns and the important metrics such as health and sanitary conditions in that area, educational excellence in the neighborhood schools and other important metrics such as roads and infrastructure.<br />
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Goal is to make people understand that in democratic society, people have power and rights to choose their representative who will work for the benefits of the society and when they fail to exercise that rights, they and their community suffer.<br />
Tons of opportunity to use Machine Learning to predict outcome in this project. Contact me for more detail.<br />
<b>#2 - Sustainability App</b> - You notice everyday in Facebook, someone posts a nice clever idea to recycle a plastic bottle or cardboard box to make something new and usable. Why not develop a platform where these ideas are posted and rated by the users. Ideas can be searched by various facets and can provide steps and may link a youtube video. The novelty and innovation is to provide easy way to share ideas and encourage users to make them. App should also highlight the cost benefits of doing it.<br />
Goal is to promote 3R ( Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) and over sustainability<br />
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-8933686120615735552018-03-10T10:22:00.000-08:002018-05-20T21:01:25.395-07:00Get Inspired series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here are the important research happening in healthcare technology that can get us inspired to find solutions to other related problems:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is this innovation leading us to new way of delivering medications to the body? Are we going to have a patch on our body controlled diabetic medicine that we do not have to remember to take 3 times a day? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is what Eric Schmidt of Alphabet is saying. Google is making big bets on healthcare innovation with <a href="https://www.calicolabs.com/" target="_blank">Calico Labs </a>(research on aging) and <a href="https://verily.com/projects/" target="_blank">Verily </a></span></span></div>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-47827933598730549032018-02-18T12:10:00.004-08:002018-02-18T12:10:48.088-08:00Brand New Project ideas for SJSU CMPE Class<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Idea#1: WeServe - Connecting pro-bono and student volunteers to the NGOs around the world. </h3>
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When NGOs start a social project they usually do not have resources to apply technology platform and best practices. So they often start with manual work and paper based system to collect data and make decisions. They need help with things other than technology such as consulting, efficiency and applying proven techniques. This platform connects pro-bono consultants and students (high school and college) volunteers to the NGOs. </div>
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NGO posts the project. Students and pro bono consultants creates their profile, interests and expertise and timeline they might be available to work/help. System applies intelligent algorithm to match them. </div>
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Idea#2: DictDay - Dictionary Word of the day analysis using ML</h3>
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Everyday, Dictionary.com or Mariam publishes their word of the day. Can you get the word for last few years, get the most important world event for that day and find if there is any correlation between them. This needs your creativity and thinking. Explore Oxford API: </div>
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Employer portal: employer posts not just job but some of the data about company and its culture which helps Watson AI generate a cultural profile of a company.</div>
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Jobseeker portal: job seeker is asked some questions that Watson uses to create a personality profile. It also takes experience and expertise and find the gaps and identifies them for the candidates. </div>
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Most job sites tries to match as it is. But Path Finder finds the suitability and fills the gap by recommending candidates either on-line courses or a classroom course. The portal has a special section for housewives / women who are either first time job seekers or getting into workforce after a break. </div>
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Idea#4: HomeSpeak: Let your Home tell you what it needs</h3>
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This is an IOT analytics project for home automation and avoiding expensive repair costs. Think of this app gathering data from your:</div>
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Idea#5: Lucy helps keep our seniors happy and engaged</h3>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-10571684613082636882017-10-31T11:59:00.003-07:002018-05-20T21:01:39.334-07:00Philanthropy at its best - IBM CSC in Mumbai India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being part of a company which identifies employees as a Global citizen and values community service as part of the job is a privilege for me and 12 of my IBM colleagues, who have come from 9 different countries to Mumbai India to help improve the education at different levels for unprivileged population. </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQL35uYda9KWHiPEHC_fEQAUmAbqklC6f9CtyfBSd7yS1EYvu59Yp-8JY6kwZ2EdHT2pdXRXD3Cnd1IPI2uuIXgcGiilRPjN3vLud-1Ug14Ew8Bx7-RbRz4zqjBqP-uFaRurOwMDY27s2/s1600/IMG_0169.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="512" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQL35uYda9KWHiPEHC_fEQAUmAbqklC6f9CtyfBSd7yS1EYvu59Yp-8JY6kwZ2EdHT2pdXRXD3Cnd1IPI2uuIXgcGiilRPjN3vLud-1Ug14Ew8Bx7-RbRz4zqjBqP-uFaRurOwMDY27s2/s320/IMG_0169.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">We are <a href="https://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/corporateservicecorps/index.html" target="_blank">IBM Corporate Service Corps</a> and we have dedicated 1 month of our time In-country to help various NGOs in and around Mumbai India succeed in their mission. I feel extremely humble and fortunate to be part of a sub team who is working with <a href="https://www.unitedwaymumbai.org/" target="_blank">United Way Mumbai</a> (beneficiary of our pro-bono consulting work) and <a href="https://www.pyxeraglobal.org/india/" target="_blank">Pyxera Global</a> (our in country NGO partner) to help roll out an educational program for small (pre-school age) children whose parents can't afford to send their kids to private nursery or alternative day care school. </span><br />
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operations. My team has been working with United Way executive team and the team on the ground to assess the situation and design a framework for BornLearning program. While working with them, it was fascinating to know that multiple NGOs in India are working together to solve one problem and they complement each other by layering their services. In addition, these NGOs bring the innovation that matters to their clients. Here is an example that teaches us to understand our users better so we can develop a practical solution for them. United Way as part of it's "Poshan" (eliminating Mal-nutrition) program wanted to roll out an innovative way for kids to learn the importance of washing their hands. They partnered with a company to design a Soapen that kids love to use to write on their hands and then wash their hands using 7 motions that they are taught. One soapen can be used for 60+ washes. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">The goal of the CSC engagement is to give back to the community. People served by the NGO partners benefit directly by our work. In our case, 36 Anganwadi and Balwadi centers across Maharashtra state are going to benefit from the Born Learning Campaign. This program will directly impact close to 3600 children and prepare them for 1st grade. We visited to meet Sevikas (ground workers who teach children in these centers and take care of their well being) and experienced their challenges first hand. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Part of this process is to gel to the community, experience their problems, talk to stakeholders and absorb the information. We are working as a team to design the technical framework for this campaign. While doing so, we are getting to know local culture, try local food and have fun. I will share our journey in the next of this blog series. Until then, Namste Mumbai !</span></div>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-63079455650689424222017-02-18T14:35:00.000-08:002018-05-20T21:02:13.785-07:00Brand new project ideas for Class of Spring 17<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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#1 Help insurance companies identify risky and cautious drivers</h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">#3 U</span>sing gps and accelerometer data from mobile phone, predict tourist’s behavior (whether tourist will see a particular exhibit or visit a particular shop)</h4>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">80% of small businesses (specially mom & pop) can not afford to have sophisticated program to collect customer data and make them return to their businesses repeatedly. This app allows coffee shops, local grocery vendors, barbers and hair salons to create a digital loyalty program for their visitors and customers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">reference: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">http://www.bellycard.com/ </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Talk to me for more insights..</span></div>
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<b>#8 Blockchain enabled Real Estate transaction workflow</b><br />
Real estate transaction is mostly paper based with tons of manual and laborious workflow. Blockchain can not only simplify it but bring trust and transparency in the process. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>#9 How engaged my employees are?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">It's a well known fact that employee engagement paired with strong leadership is key to the success of any business. This is an analytics project to track the engagement of your employees. This includes mining your employee's social media interactions such as tweets, posts and generating score from the vocabulary used in those posts. Talk to me to know more about this...but here are the drivers of employee's engagement:</span><br />
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Its time for team based project for my Fall class at SJSU again. It requires a great deal of passion and team effort to do something that has not done before. I always encourage my students to think big and solve a problem which has not been solved before. And trust me, there are plenty of problems which might have solutions but either they are not uniquely addressing the problem or they can't be afforded by the masses. Anyway, here again I am posting some ideas that you can research and brainstorm to come up on a problem statement.<br />
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1. <a href="http://www.barcodeoflife.org/content/about/what-dna-barcoding" target="_blank">Barcode of Life (DNA Barcoding)</a></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "lucida grande" , "lucida sans unicode" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">DNA barcoding is a molecular-based identification system that aims to identify biological specimens, and to assign them to a given species. </span>DNA based identification for multi cellular life is an emerging concept and scientists from 25 countries have got together to create a database of DNA barcodes <a href="http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/MAS_Management_UserConsole" target="_blank">(BOLD)</a> to solve multi-faceted problems. </div>
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Here are some potential use cases:<br />
a) <a href="https://wildtech.mongabay.com/2016/09/experts-hack-away-portable-dna-barcode-scanner-fight-timber-wildlife-trafficking/" target="_blank">Timber and wild life trafficking</a><br />
b) Traceability of food pipeline for food safety<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "garamond";">Blockchain is a technology for a new
generation of transactional applications that establishes trust, accountability
and transparency while streamlining business processes. It is a design pattern
made famous by bitcoin, but its uses go far beyond. It has the potential to
vastly reduce the cost and complexity of cross-enterprise business processes.
The application of this emerging technology is showing great promise across a
broad range of business applications.</span><br />
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IoT is inside our home and offices already, from Nest to 24x7 monitoring of indoor conditions. Here is one company sells device for making you aware on the <a href="https://www.getawair.com/" target="_blank">indoor air quality</a>. How about developing an IoT solution which can monitor overall "mood" indoor and suggest people to do something better for their health and happiness. This can be monitored by camera and activities in the house such as movement tracking, smile on faces, crying kids vs happy kids, yelling, of course indoor air and noise quality, temperature etc...<br />
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Augmented Tools for construction. Read this paper: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-90.pdf<br />
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<li>You can hire an expert to wonderful things for you for $5 at <a href="https://www.fiverr.com/categories/writing-translation/creative-writing/#layout=auto&page=1" target="_blank">fiverr </a></li>
<li>You can buy a new computer capable of running Linux called <a href="https://www.adafruit.com/products/2883" target="_blank">piZero</a> for $5</li>
<li>An arduino micro controller board on <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/DIY-USB-DCCduino-ATMEGA328-Development-Board-for-Arduino-UNO-R3-Deep-Blue-ZI5W-/281884844849?hash=item41a1a56331:g:Q~sAAOSw8-tWbn8l" target="_blank">eBay</a> for $5</li>
<li>Subscribe entire year 12 issues of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XII1UD2/ref=s9_al_bw_g153_i4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-2&pf_rd_r=0SHQK4GX5P9WVHW30JVG&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=2247508282&pf_rd_i=9989417011" target="_blank">Wired magazine </a>for $5</li>
<li>can get 4 gallons of gas in your car for $5 <a href="http://www.gasbuddy.com/USA" target="_blank">cheapest gas in the country</a></li>
<li>watch a <a href="http://www.fandango.com/the5movie_30394/movieoverview" target="_blank">movie</a> on Tuesday for $5 </li>
<li>Your $5 donation to a <a href="http://www.shfb.org/?gclid=CjwKEAiA8qG1BRDz0tmK0pufw3QSJACfn6olDXqIlyBzEWt7jiz0zeFXEmAsmFpGM420M04dZIyL5hoCrtvw_wcB" target="_blank">local food bank</a> can buy up to 50 lbs of food</li>
<li>can get you a hair cut if you live in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kims-5-Haircut/111520378936135" target="_blank">Philadelphia</a></li>
<li>hey save your $5 bills whenever you get it...very soon you will have $100</li>
<li>Share your $5 idea please!</li>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-68388349712931691212016-01-03T13:59:00.000-08:002016-01-03T13:59:49.338-08:00Creating win-win situation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Let me start by sharing my new year resolution because its a tradition :)<br />
All passionate people like me fight at work, at home and when we fight, someone looses. Looser may not be the two persons fighting but the cause itself. Project suffers, your colleague looses morale and business does not achieve results. So I am going to find ways to create situations where everybody wins. I am working on how part and will share when I have concrete ideas.<br />
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For now, the reflections on the past year. Professionally, 2015 was exciting, fast, and fruitful. At work, I led and drove many major initiatives for transforming our data and analytics business into cloud. <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/dashdb/" target="_blank">dashDB</a> has been a huge success. Seeing it grow in terms of values it provide to data analysts and data scientists and the customer base, it always reminds me the day 0 when few of us created this cloud offering focusing completely on users. R analytics always has been the value for both quick productive use and long term machine learning models and being part of the team who brought this is very satisfying.<br />
<a href="https://console.ng.bluemix.net/" target="_blank">Bluemix</a> itself has surpassed the user base beyond 1 million and I am extremely proud of being part of the eco system. We fueled the growth of Bluemix by providing what I call "engine of PaaS". These engines include Relational and NOSQL databases as service, modern analytic compute engine like Spark; our leaders call it an Analytic Operating system and BigData analytic services such as EHaaS.<br />
In order to bring these services in Bluemix, there were tons of internal projects which I designed and created from scratch. These projects include developing a continuous integration and deployment tool for our cloud delivery, reliability and resiliency framework for change management and tools for managing outages and root cause analysis. I started to foster a culture within the team to think about resiliency as a big picture and focused on all 4 aspects of it shown below.<br />
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2015 was a great year for my own learning and technical vitality. I learnt the very important characteristics of the cloud services, expectations of our customers and pain points in operating the services at scale. It was a year to lay the foundation for bringing services into cloud quickly and improve rapidly while reducing the cost of operation. Few skills that I acquired/enhanced stand out such as ELK stack for log analysis, of course my favorite R and R-studio for statistical analysis and machine learning, Docker for containerization, Ansible for change management, Jupyter notebook for data analysis and Spark for analytic computing.</div>
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2015 was a great year for my teaching profession at <a href="http://www.sjsu.edu/people/rakesh.ranjan/" target="_blank">San Jose State</a>. I was able to update the syllabus for my students so that they get exposed to the skills and technology required by innovative companies in the bay area. Spark, Docker and Reactive programming using <a href="http://www.typesafe.com/" target="_blank">Typesafe</a> technology were great additions. Students greatly benefited from this class being part of IBM university relations for Bluemix. They used Bluemix to understand the cloud technology and used to implement good ideas they had. I am very confident that the experience they acquired in the class will give them tools and confidence to succeed. The projects they did to analyze data using Spark (<a href="https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2015/12/17/sjsu-grad-students-enhance-job-prospects-with-spark-and-bluemix/" target="_blank">take a look at some profiled here</a>) will help them at their next job. In addition to teaching this class, I supervised more than 20 students in 2015 for their Masters projects. </div>
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2015 was also a great year for my speaking and presenting experiences. Starting the year with presenting at IBM Interconnect (our premier cloud conference) and continued with presenting at more than 10 conferences. <a href="https://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/" target="_blank">Silicon Valley Code camp</a> was one of my favorites as it attracts students and developers all across bay area and also the two day events are free to attend. Presenting at <a href="http://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/devops-web-performance-2015" target="_blank">Oreilly Velocity conference</a> was a privilege and I learnt a lot from listening to some of the best speakers in the industry. Sharing my own ideas and work on <a href="https://github.com/CDSLab/Velocity2015" target="_blank">Predictive monitoring and analytics</a> was a very enriching experience. In addition to many Hackathons and coding camps, the year ended well with presenting at Insight conference. This is where we learn in great detail, what our enterprise customer wants from us. The very nature of hybrid cloud topology of their evolving businesses teaches us a lot. </div>
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On career front, I am very thankful for the opportunities that were provided to me. 2015 was also rewarding as new title and responsibilities allowed me to understand myself more. Leading a big team, aligning the business goals of the organization to people's day job and fostering the culture where everyone is intrinsically motivated and passionate is fun but challenging. I believe in high performance culture and self driven team and being surrounded by highly smart people is something I was fortunate to have. I am also fortunate to have leaders and mentors at work who are as passionate as me and make our day job fun and challenging. </div>
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On personal front, 2015 was an interesting year as well. My mom retired after teaching at high school in my home town in India for last 34 years. We all were relieved that she got break but I figured out she was sad leaving the community that she served for so long. I was able to spend time with my kids as much as I wanted in spite of the chaotic nature of work. I will never forget the poster on the door of my great mentor Bala Iyer's IBM office - "Good fathers and good men". I consider myself successful in seeding the engineering(making) concept in my daughter's brain. She was able to take a burning problem and come up on a t<a href="https://icaskids.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">echnological solution</a> in the form of her school science project and achieved good heights. She surprised me when she kept winning school, county, state and went up to national semi final. We were able to take a couple of major vacations in Europe and North east USA which were very memorable and relaxing.</div>
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Last but not least, ended the year with reading a book - Without their permission by Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian. I love this guy not just because he was able to make millions of dollars at very young age, but because he explained in clear terms how internet allows all of us to contribute to the society and bring the changes that we all want to see. While relaxing at home at the end of the year, I was fortunate to meet one of my home town friend and mentor after 17 years (even though he lives in Indiana, we somehow missed seeing each other all these years) He had a huge impact on my early stage career and I always admired him for his attitude and passion towards life. </div>
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Everything happens at right time and we must be optimistic. I would like to end this post with wishing all my readers, friends and mentors a very resilient new year!</div>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-66334515233971279612015-12-16T10:00:00.001-08:002015-12-16T10:00:35.273-08:00Spark use cases <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Signup for free IBM Bluemix cloud and use Spark Service to try these out. These are excellent use cases for beginners. After that you can move on to developing complex algorithm and run on larger data sets and leverage the true distributed computing power of Spark. </div>
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<span class="s1">1. Use train wreck datasets <a class="external" href="http://www.trainwreckdb.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.trainwreckdb.com/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> to allow user to query the accidents based on keywords such as Bicycle, pedestrian </span></div>
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<span class="s1">2. Use NHTSA data to allow user to query fatalities based on some keyword <a class="external" href="http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> </span></div>
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<span class="s1">3. Use virtual sensor app <a class="external" href="http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> to generate gps location and wind speed to predict fire spread </span></div>
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4. Use Spark Streaming to learn network conditions in real time, use <a class="external" href="http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> app to generate network data </div>
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5. Use spark streaming to get temperature and humidity data (generate using <a class="external" href="http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> ) and do real time optimization/alrt </div>
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6. Use airquality data <a class="external" href="http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and send alert based on my zipcode </div>
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7. personalization of news briefs - use twitter trend to personalize what news I might like and read -</div>
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8. earthquake detection using USGS data <a class="external" href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a></div>
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9. flu detection by analyzing social signals like tweets </div>
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10. auto adjustment of game level complexity for player retention - Hint: you can simulate game player data using virtual sensor app and use spark to lower or upper the game level </div>
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11. employee data analysis for employee retention (you can use glassdoor data for this prototype) </div>
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12. fraud detection in user reviews (use this data: <a class="external" href="https://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-Amazon.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://snap.stanford.edu/data/web-Amazon.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> ) </div>
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13. detect security breaches or attacks in real time (simulate network breach using blacklisted IPs) </div>
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14. analyze medicare payment data to detect fraud (use the data: <a class="external" href="https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Physician-and-Other-Supplier2013.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/Physician-and-Other-Supplier2013.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> ) </div>
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<strong>15. </strong>Use FAA bird strike data and spark to allow users to query most dangerous airports <a class="external" href="http://wildlife.faa.gov/database.aspx" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://wildlife.faa.gov/database.aspx<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> </div>
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16. Use home energy usage datasets <a class="external" href="http://redd.csail.mit.edu/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://redd.csail.mit.edu/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> as training set to find out how your own home energy usage levels up. Hint: user will enter his own energy usage and app will provide comparative analysis. </div>
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<strong>17. </strong>Use baby names datasets to come up on some cool analytic spark queries: <a class="external" href="https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> (Hint: user finds out how boy or girl names are trending since 2005) </div>
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18. Use NIST vulnerability datasets to predict possible DDoS attack <a class="external" href="https://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a></div>
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<strong>19. </strong>use water and sanitation data <a class="external" href="http://www.data.unicef.org/water-sanitation/sanitation.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.data.unicef.org/water-sanitation/sanitation.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and spark to bring analytics such as which countries is worst / which one is improving.. </div>
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20. use children mortality data <a class="external" href="http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_countrystats.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_countrystats.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> to figure out what are the most important causes for under 5 yr old kids die.. </div>
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<strong>21. </strong>Use 2012 presidential donation datasets to find out who donated to presidential candidates most and if there is any corelation..<a class="external" href="http://www.fec.gov/finance/2012matching/2012matching.shtml" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.fec.gov/finance/2012matching/2012matching.shtml<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> </div>
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22. Use Music reviews data http://jmcauley.ucsd.edu/data/amazon/ (contact the owner for data link..) and use spark to find the top ten songs or something.. </div>
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23. Use air quality daily data for a given geography (such as San Jose Sunnyvale) and use spark to generate anomaly in the data to important some health and safety questions <a class="external" href="http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data_daily.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data_daily.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a></div>
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24. Use medicare outpatient payment datasets <a class="external" href="https://data.cms.gov/Medicare/Outpatient-Prospective-Payment-System-OPPS-Provide/ks44-5ax3" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://data.cms.gov/Medicare/Outpatient-Prospective-Payment-System-OPPS-Provide/ks44-5ax3<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and use spark to find out interesting answers such as: which city had max payments claimed. Which provider had repeated claims etc.. </div>
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25. Use popular baby names datasets <a class="external" href="https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/rankchange.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/rankchange.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and spark to predict what will be the most popular male and female names for 2016 </div>
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<strong>26. </strong>Use interesting Genome and proteins data sets from <a class="external" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/download.shtml" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/download.shtml<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and use spark to calculate interesting facts (Hint: use clinVar datasets to find out all gene types related to conditions: "Breast-Ovarian cancer" </div>
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<strong>27. </strong>Use housing affordability datasets with Spark to come up on good analytics - which city and zip code has good overall job opportunity and housing affordability for 30-40 year old <a class="external" href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/housing-affordability-data-system-hads" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/housing-affordability-data-system-hads<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> </div>
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28. Use farmers market location datasets and spark to generate some interesting analytics <a class="external" href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/farmers-markets-geographic-data" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/farmers-markets-geographic-data<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a></div>
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<br />29. Use Govt real estate asset datasets: <a class="external" href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/real-estate-across-the-united-states-rexus-inventory-building" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/real-estate-across-the-united-states-rexus-inventory-building<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and spark to come up on some cool analytics such as how much money govt is spending on maintaining useless assets etc.. </div>
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30. Use death cause datasets <a class="external" href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/leading-causes-of-death-by-zip-code-1999-2013" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/leading-causes-of-death-by-zip-code-1999-2013<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and spark to answer health related questions </div>
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<strong>31. </strong>Finding fraud in section 8 housing aid from govt: <a class="external" href="http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fair-market-rents-for-the-section-8-housing-assistance-payments-program" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/fair-market-rents-for-the-section-8-housing-assistance-payments-program<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> </div>
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32. Use air quality data <a class="external" href="http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data.html<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and bring the factors that are contributing in a particular geo location. feel free to use map app </div>
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33. Use NASA datasets (for ex. <a class="external" href="https://data.nasa.gov/view/scmi-np9r" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://data.nasa.gov/view/scmi-np9r<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> ) and use spark to come up on some interesting answers </div>
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<strong>34. </strong>Use NY open data of your choice <a class="external" href="https://nycopendata.socrata.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://nycopendata.socrata.com<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and bring some good analytics </div>
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35. Use Austin Restaurant inspection report data and spark to get answer to critical consumer questions such as which cuisine or which area rest has more violations in past year etc... <a class="external" href="https://data.austintexas.gov/dataset/Restaurant-Inspection-Scores/ecmv-9xxi" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://data.austintexas.gov/dataset/Restaurant-Inspection-Scores/ecmv-9xxi<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."><br /></span></a></div>
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<strong>36. use </strong>openspending API and spark streaming <a class="external" href="http://community.openspending.org/help/conventions/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://community.openspending.org/help/conventions/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> to find out which govt is spending taxpayers money efficiently </div>
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<strong>37. </strong>Use wikipedia page traffic data <a class="external" href="https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/wikipedia-page-traffic-statistic-v3/?_encoding=UTF8&jiveRedirect=1" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/wikipedia-page-traffic-statistic-v3/?_encoding=UTF8&jiveRedirect=1<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> and spark to do some cool analytics </div>
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<strong>38. </strong>Use transportation datasets and spark to answer some cool analytic questions (be creative) <a class="external" href="https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/transportation-databases/?tag=datasets%23keywords%23economics" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/transportation-databases/?tag=datasets%23keywords%23economics<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> </div>
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<strong>39. </strong>Use Human Microbiome datasets and spark to analyze <a class="external" href="https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/human-microbiome-project/?tag=datasets%23keywords%23biology" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/human-microbiome-project/?tag=datasets%23keywords%23biology<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."><br /></span></a></div>
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40. Use lobbying database from <a class="external" href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> (hint: get quarterly data , convert from xml to JSON or whatever spark context can read) and then design some analytic program to find out which state or which industry is lobbying heavily</div>
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<strong>41. </strong>Use SAT score datasets and spark to come up on some cool analytics <a class="external" href="http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/ai/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/ai/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> (Links to an external site.)</span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a> </div>
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42.Use train wreck datasets <a class="external" href="http://www.trainwreckdb.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.trainwreckdb.com/<span class="screenreader-only" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform: translateZ(0px); width: 1px;"> </span><span class="ui-icon ui-icon-extlink ui-icon-inline" style="background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" title="Links to an external site."></span></a>with spark to figure out what are the 10 most dangerous places for accidents and why </div>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-66967291290739390492015-10-12T23:34:00.002-07:002015-10-12T23:34:11.184-07:00Where do I get public data sets and APIs for my project?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><a href="http://www.data.gov/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.data.gov/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.socrata.com/resources/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.socrata.com/resources/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://data.sfgov.org/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://data.sfgov.org/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.unicef.org/statistics/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.unicef.org/statistics/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.who.int/gho/en/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.who.int/gho/en/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.census.gov/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.census.gov/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.programmableweb.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.programmableweb.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.infochimps.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.infochimps.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.weatherbase.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.weatherbase.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://espn.go.com/apis/devcenter/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://espn.go.com/apis/devcenter/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://statistics.ucla.edu/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://statistics.ucla.edu/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://developer.nytimes.com/docs" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://developer.nytimes.com/docs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://have-you-been-here.appointment.at/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://have-you-been-here.appointment.at/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.trainwreckdb.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.trainwreckdb.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://data.gov.uk/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://data.gov.uk/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freebase.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.freebase.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://okfn.org/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://okfn.org/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dev.markitondemand.com/MODApis/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://dev.markitondemand.com/MODApis/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation/intro" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation/intro</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://openweathermap.org/api" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://openweathermap.org/api</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.publicapis.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://www.publicapis.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://data.nasa.gov/developer" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://data.nasa.gov/developer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/daily-snow/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/snow-and-ice/daily-snow/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.grid.ac/downloads" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://www.grid.ac/downloads</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nyctaxi.herokuapp.com/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://nyctaxi.herokuapp.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Main_Page" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Main_Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://2015.padjo.org/briefs/tracking-police-involved-homicides/#datasets" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://2015.padjo.org/briefs/tracking-police-involved-homicides/#datasets</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/assessment/estimates.faces" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/assessment/estimates.faces</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://classwork.compjour.org/2015/jeffbarrera/bikecrashmapper/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://classwork.compjour.org/2015/jeffbarrera/bikecrashmapper/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://that1archive.neocities.org/archives-datasets.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://that1archive.neocities.org/archives-datasets.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www3.epa.gov/airdata/ad_data.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/obis_request.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/obis_request.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236&DB_Short_Name=On-Time" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=236&DB_Short_Name=On-Time</a></li>
<li>Road fatality: <a href="http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/</a></li>
<li>Every campaign donation to a US federal candidate: <a href="http://www.fec.gov/disclosure.shtml" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.fec.gov/disclosure.shtml</a></li>
<li>Dallas Police Incident Report: <a href="https://www.dallasopendata.com/Police/Dallas-Police-Public-Data-RMS-Incidents/tbnj-w5hb" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://www.dallasopendata.com/Police/Dallas-Police-Public-Data-RMS-Incidents/tbnj-w5hb</a></li>
<li>LAPD Crime report: <a href="https://data.lacity.org/A-Safe-City/LAPD-Crime-and-Collision-Raw-Data-2014/eta5-h8qx?" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://data.lacity.org/A-Safe-City/LAPD-Crime-and-Collision-Raw-Data-2014/eta5-h8qx?</a></li>
<li>Chicago crime report: <a href="https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-present/ijzp-q8t2" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://data.cityofchicago.org/Public-Safety/Crimes-2001-to-present/ijzp-q8t2</a></li>
<li>Medicare payments to every doctor: <a href="https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-trends-and-reports/medicare-provider-charge-data/physician-and-other-supplier.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-trends-and-reports/medicare-provider-charge-data/physician-and-other-supplier.html</a></li>
<li>Congressional lobbyists: <a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm</a></li>
<li>Everyone visited white house since 2009: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records</a></li>
<li>NYPD - stop, question and frisk data: <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/analysis_and_planning/stop_question_and_frisk_report.shtml" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/analysis_and_planning/stop_question_and_frisk_report.shtml</a></li>
<li>workplace fatality: <a href="http://ogesdw.dol.gov/views/data_catalogs.php" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://ogesdw.dol.gov/views/data_catalogs.php</a></li>
<li>CA SAT, ACT AP scores: <a href="http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/ai/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sp/ai/</a></li>
<li>CA school test scores: <a href="http://star.cde.ca.gov/starresearchfiles.asp" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://star.cde.ca.gov/starresearchfiles.asp</a></li>
<li>CA school demographies: <a href="http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/</a></li>
<li>Earthquake events: <a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/</a></li>
<li>Payments made by companies to doctors: <a href="https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/</a></li>
<li>college scorecard data: <a href="https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/</a></li>
<li>Baby names: <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html</a></li>
<li>NIST vulnerability databases: <a href="https://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">https://nvd.nist.gov/download.cfm</a></li>
<li>Bird strike database: <a href="http://wildlife.faa.gov/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://wildlife.faa.gov/</a></li>
<li>Energy disaggregation dataset: <a href="http://redd.csail.mit.edu/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://redd.csail.mit.edu/</a></li>
<li>webclick data: <a href="http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/webtraffic/click-dataset/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://cnets.indiana.edu/groups/nan/webtraffic/click-dataset/</a></li>
<li>Economic data: <a href="http://bea.gov/" style="color: #0081bd; text-decoration: none;">http://bea.gov</a></li>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-13972171865439643632015-09-14T11:24:00.002-07:002015-09-14T11:50:30.504-07:00MS CMPE272 Project ideas for Fall 272 Students<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Please read my post here and create something really innovative:<br />
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<a href="https://medium.com/@ranjans/co-creating-the-value-for-social-goods-cff3c22a3caa">https://medium.com/@ranjans/co-creating-the-value-for-social-goods-cff3c22a3caa</a></div>
Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-42721499967462359862014-09-07T11:48:00.000-07:002014-09-07T11:48:01.214-07:00More 295A MS project ideas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here are some more as I promised to prospective 295A students:<br />
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1) <b>Intellectual Property management framework (tool)</b></h3>
IP management is a huge challenge for almost every innovative business or organization. This cloud based software framework will allow to:<br />
a) Invention disclosure management<br />
b) patent management<br />
c) trademark management<br />
d) open source management<br />
e) licensing management<br />
f) contact management<br />
g) ebilling etc..<br />
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2) StudentsCanDo portal</h3>
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There are many freelancer websites where an individual can browse for assignments and bid to do the job. portals like fivr, freelance, elance etc provide such opportunity. This portal will allow registered college and university students to make money and enhance their future potential by bidding at work that is most suited for their career. </div>
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Also, from employer perspective, customer will have trust that they are getting things done from a professional who either have a degree or pursuing degree in the same respective fields.</div>
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Talk to me more ablout this projet.</div>
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3) Tracking major illness treatment costs worldwide</h3>
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This is a very interesting data analytics project. You will be building a cloud application to collect data for all major illness and treatment worldwide and provide information on cost of treatments and drugs or any other associated costs.</div>
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For example, hip surgery... how much it costs in america, canada, india or any other place in the world, what would be the overall costs including travel, what are the risks, ratings, social reviews..</div>
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This is a challenging big data project.</div>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-26471294625531064762014-09-07T11:27:00.002-07:002014-09-07T11:27:41.366-07:00Internet of Things and Bluemix<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Internet of Things enable millions of intelligent interconnected things to produce and share data and optimize our life. Look at the workshop we conducted at Techlab startup Incubator in Santa Clara on Friday Sept 5. You can find the <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/38759859" target="_blank">presentation on slideshare</a><br />
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/38759859<br />
Follow the demo links, sign up for <a href="https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/" target="_blank">IBM Bluemix</a> and try to work on the demo application. Let me know what you think.</div>
Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-75236907191128571162014-09-04T23:04:00.000-07:002014-09-04T23:04:03.680-07:00cmpe295A project ideas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
1. Application performance monitoring service for cloud based applications. - This APM will monitor all kind of applications including java, Python and node.js look at http://newrelic.com/application-monitoring for features and functions. also look at https://www.pingdom.com/features/ for ideas.<br />
2. Predict food safety based on FDA recall data on food - create various models. Also create a crowd sourcing mobile app for consumer/user to upload incident report (suspicious food item in a dish or restaurant)<br />
3. create a framework/tool for cloud delivery pipeline. This tool will allow to save runbooks, artifacts and checklists that helps with production deployment and maintenance of cloud services.<br />
4. Real time analytics dashboard for cloud server and application performance data. Predictive analytics on storage, out of memory or network/system failures. This also has a mobile app piece<br />
5. Text analytics on job and desc data collected using glassdoor api and suggestions for management team on retaining high performing employee. This also has a mobile piece. features include predicting employee churn based on some behavioral input.<br />
6. sell your own house - this web app helps homeowners sell their own house using all the professional services required without hiring a real estate agent. This include a workflow having services such as preparing, staging, listing, open house, legal and closer etc...<br />
7. more coming...</div>
Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-9334825824651415192014-04-06T20:43:00.000-07:002014-04-06T20:43:45.563-07:00Getting the most out of DevOps through cloud computing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My latest blog on devOps published on Thoughts on Cloud..<br />
<a href="http://thoughtsoncloud.com/2014/03/cloud-computing-enables-devops/">http://thoughtsoncloud.com/2014/03/cloud-computing-enables-devops/</a></div>
Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-81440326228066653212014-04-04T10:33:00.000-07:002014-04-04T10:33:13.528-07:00Flipped classroom<a href="http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/"><img src="http://knewton.marketing.s3.amazonaws.com/images/infographics/flipped-classroom.jpg" alt="Flipped Classroom" title="Flipped Classroom" width="1000" /></a>
<p>Created by <a href="http://www.knewton.com/">Knewton</a> and <a href="http://www.columnfivemedia.com">Column Five Media</a></p>Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-14526005829907898362014-03-23T12:16:00.001-07:002014-03-23T12:16:21.985-07:00Enterprise software class project ideas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its the time during the semester again - my SJSU students looking for project ideas. Here are some..<br />
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<li>Lucky lotto number - building an app which analyze all past lotto winning numbers and come up on pattern such as: occurrences of particular numbers more than others, correlation of numbers, repetition of numbers. This involves statistical analysis and creating mathematical model. You can grab 14 year winning numbers from <b>http://www.calottery.com/sitecore/content/Miscellaneous/download-numbers/?GameName=superlotto-plus </b>Think, and imagine what you could do with this..</li>
<li>Customer support and ticketing app - simple cloud based hosted service which can be embedded via any java script pages. This app allows SaaS user a) asking questions, b) searching knowledge based, finding answers and c) reporting problems. There will be an admin console view where assigned customer support staff would manage their ticket, provide answers and gather feedback. Take a look at http://www.parature.com/ or https://www.uservoice.com/ Talk to me about design before you proceed on this. </li>
<li>OnPremise Data movement to Object storage Swift - httpUpload is very slow for moving data to web based storage. Develop a simple app that prompts for user's onpremise data file and moves to object storage like openstack swift fast. I mean really fast .. explore using libcurl with keystone.. some resources here: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/keystone/api_curl_examples.html Talk to me for design before you proceed. </li>
<li>more coming... </li>
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Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-90515811386993153342014-02-27T11:57:00.000-08:002014-02-27T11:57:14.681-08:00Innovation in the cloud that matters for clients<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have spent last 5 days at <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/" target="_blank">Pulse</a>, IBM's premier cloud computing conference. I am amazed with the interest among the developer community and transformation they are bringing into their business. Read my <a href="http://thoughtsoncloud.com/2014/02/the-data-scientists-guide-to-ibm-bluemix/#idc-container" target="_blank">ThoughtsonCloud </a>blog to see how IBM is facilitating you a free cloud web and mobile app development platform <a href="https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/" target="_blank">Codename: Bluemix</a> for bringing your next million dollar idea into action. Let me know what you think and how we can help you prepare for the future of cloud computing. </div>
Rakeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07766850772318662733noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518938863592604838.post-90676000404401528612013-11-13T10:40:00.000-08:002013-11-13T10:40:22.272-08:0013 Years - 13 Reasons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is the day 13 years ago, I joined IBM. My dear friend Senthil Chandramohan had an important role to play in bringing me from Minnesota to sunny California.<br />
13 years in the same company in silicon valley might seem odd to most of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials" target="_blank">millennial workers</a> but its pretty common for IBMers in the <a href="http://www.nfbcal.org/~anordley/IBM/Air/SVL/" target="_blank">development lab</a> where I work.<br />
So what are the reasons kept me at IBM last 13 years?<br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAlfy4MBKWUhvb7fNtnBpCvlUdkYofYTtJNlZvNsvRGBockNueSPP-FKzj0zEQJI4o8EqQAaaDF3XLcY4m-_kHskrAvW6s9QYjEiFH4atL_x5gCfplS6YOG6USq30JGX1_IxvrhodLwziV/s1600/dial.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAlfy4MBKWUhvb7fNtnBpCvlUdkYofYTtJNlZvNsvRGBockNueSPP-FKzj0zEQJI4o8EqQAaaDF3XLcY4m-_kHskrAvW6s9QYjEiFH4atL_x5gCfplS6YOG6USq30JGX1_IxvrhodLwziV/s1600/dial.JPG" /></a>
<li>The legacy - The company who <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1880.html" target="_blank">invented the first dial recorder in 1888</a> which later became the foundation for Tabulating and recording devices. The <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/history_intro.html" target="_blank">history keeps repeating. </a></li>
<li>The Vision - 100+ years of visionary ideas and breakthrough in technology. Look at the vision, <a href="http://domino.research.ibm.com/tchjr/journalindex.nsf/%209fe6a820aae67ad785256547004d8af0/fc097c29158e395f85256bfa00683d4c!OpenDocument" target="_blank">IBM researcher H. P. Luhn </a>had in 1958 and what he envisions about a Business Intelligence System is so true and relevant even today. </li>
<li>Innovation - What IBM has given to the world starting from 1880 till today is unmatched. Invention of Tabulating machine for Census Beauro in 1890, the electronic recording machine in 1920s to the first computing system (S/360) with interchangeable software to the invention of DRAM in 1966</li>
<li>The People - For most people in our profession, working with highly talented professionals is the most valuable reward. I feel fortunate to be able to talk to some legends in my lab and Almaden research lab. </li>
<li>Friends - Its proven, you stick to a company if your best friends work for the same company. </li>
<li>The Management - Again, most of the employee surveys show that one of the reasons people quit their job because of their manager/supervisor. IBM has created a very matured management culture which has been very supportive since my 1st day. </li>
<li>Re-invention - This is the company successfully reinvented itself many times in the past and constantly work towards reinventing for the changing flat world.</li>
<li>Co-creation of Value - This is something very unique as we keep client at the core when we create a product or services. Its about co-creation of value together. </li>
<li>Mutual trust - We know that employee's trust in managers lead to high performance. I have been fortunate to be part of high performing team through out my 13 years at IBM.</li>
<li>The workplace - I can't ignore the fact that I do not waste 1 hr in traffic every day. This is the place - one of a kind in the <a href="https://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?size=300x300&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false&markers=color:red%7C37.196682,-121.748691&client=google-maps-sharing&signature=rYWeERoqJTQrRBw0G43xf8aJFYQ=" target="_blank">quiet coyote valley.</a></li>
<li>Sense of purpose - Everything I do is aligned with a purpose. When our client uses our product or services to solve their business problem, it is fulfilling. This is what keeps me intrinsically motivated. </li>
<li>The global team - Think about this global pool of ~460,000 knowledge worker. No kidding, we do leverage our team member's talent and skills all the time. This is unmatched and unparalleled. </li>
<li>Feeling lucky 13 years on 13 :-)</li>
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