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You can hire an expert to wonderful things for you for $5 at fiverr  You can buy a new computer capable of running Linux called piZero for $5 An arduino micro controller board on eBay for $5 Subscribe entire year 12 issues of Wired magazine for $5 can get 4 gallons of gas in your car for $5 cheapest gas in the country watch a movie on Tuesday for $5  Your $5 donation to a local food bank can buy up to 50 lbs of food can get you a hair cut if you live in Philadelphia hey save your $5 bills whenever you get it...very soon you will have $100 Share your $5 idea please!

Let me start by sharing my new year resolution because its a tradition :) 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. 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. dashDB 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 learnin...

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.  1. Use train wreck datasets  http://www.trainwreckdb.com/  (Links to an external site.)  to allow user to query the accidents based on keywords such as Bicycle, pedestrian  2. Use NHTSA data to allow user to query fatalities based on some keyword  http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS  (Links to an external site.)   3. Use virtual sensor app  http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/  (Links to an external site.)  to generate gps location and wind speed to predict fire spread  4. Use Spark Streaming to learn network conditions in real time, use  http://virtualsensors.mybluemix.net/  (Links to an external site.)  app to generate network data...

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Please read my post here and create something really innovative: https://medium.com/@ranjans/co-creating-the-value-for-social-goods-cff3c22a3caa

Here are some more as I promised to prospective 295A students: 1) Intellectual Property management framework (tool) IP management is a huge challenge for almost every innovative business or organization. This cloud based software framework will allow to: a) Invention disclosure management b) patent management c) trademark management d) open source management e) licensing management f) contact management g) ebilling etc.. 2) StudentsCanDo portal 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.  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 field...

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 presentation on slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/38759859 Follow the demo links, sign up for IBM Bluemix and try to work on the demo application. Let me know what you think.