Kartik Rao

My biggest takeaways from this course are:
1. Use of SQL Workbench: This is a core skill, which I had a rough idea about, but never had the opportunity to get hands on experience on it.
2. What is big data really all about? It is about having huge volumes of data, but the key to analyzing this data lies in sifting through all the data to find…[Read more]

At the company I interned with this past summer, I helped create several use cases for their previous projects. These documents are similar to case studies which we read at school. This might not be sold as an information good but is a good which is circulated across platforms to add value to the work done by the company, which is what an…[Read more]

What is the ratio of 30 year old men to that of women ? Answer: 79:54 (158 men and 108 women who are 30 years old)

Q2. With regard to evaluating the outcome of overhauling clinical-care management at IHC, the process might be seen as successful because it was efficient and also provided good clinical outcomes. However, when you analyze the data from financial statements, you can see that there has been a steady operating income and reveals a different and not…[Read more]

I was tasked with bringing in a particular number of clients as part of business development and a specific number of employees as an HR recruiting practice. The number was set and my targets were clear, which makes it very specific and measurable. However, the number given to me was not a very realistic one, which means it was not exactly achievable!

Marketing/Sales process
Number of companies contacted – lagging
Number of trials/calls – leading

http://www.harighotra.co.uk/my-blog/garlic

This infographic about garlic is very informative but at the same time easy to understand. The use of large font size for key important data minimizes graphic complexity and you just need to take one quick glance at the infographic to learn all about garlic! The strategic use of bolding and quotes…[Read more]

http://exitcreative.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/feed-report-bad-infographics.png

You would think that the size of the circle represents the proportion of %

A very basic but key difference between the ERD and Relationship schema is that an ERD must necessarily identify unique entities by underlining the entity name. In the relationship schema, this need not be the case – the unique entity might or might not be differentiated(in some cases, we see that they might be written in bold or italics)

One of the key attributes of an ERD is the relationship between entities, especially the role of the key attribute and the foreign key. The creation of tables and their relationships was seen by me as the most important part of creating such models. The mapping of several entities together is what converts this data into knowledge and a wrong…[Read more]