Here comes a year full of knowledge & learning!

Kunal Jain 01 Jan, 2016 • < 1 min read

Dear AVian,

2015 was year of growth for us – we transformed from a blog to a community of data scientists. We launched our discussion portals, hackathon platform and job portal – and each of this initiative is shaping up well. Our mission of building a nation of data scientists is coming live every day. And all of this happened only because of your enthusiasm and support. We couldn’t have thought of this journey without direction from you. Your comments, emails, letters and queries helps us decide our next steps.

So, on this day of new year, I want to hear more from you. I want to hear from you what bothers you the most about data science? What aspects of data science you find hard to learn? What is blocking your successful journey? What is one thing you would want us to do right in 2016?

Simply reply to this email on write in comments below.

analytics vidhya happy new year

I don’t know how things will turn out. But, I promise, I’ll try my best to give you many reasons of happiness & joy in 2016.

Wishing you all a year full of joy, health, curiosity, knowledge and perseverance.

I’m waiting for your reply.

Regards
Kunal Jain
Founder & CEO
Analytics Vidhya

Kunal Jain 01 Jan 2016

Kunal is a post graduate from IIT Bombay in Aerospace Engineering. He has spent more than 10 years in field of Data Science. His work experience ranges from mature markets like UK to a developing market like India. During this period he has lead teams of various sizes and has worked on various tools like SAS, SPSS, Qlikview, R, Python and Matlab.

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Bellur Srikar
Bellur Srikar 01 Jan, 2016

Dear Kunal, Happy New Year and an even more successful 2016. Keep up the good work. I am currently in Bombay and will be heading back to USA on the 5th. Pl. let me k now if you are travelling around this are in the next 2 days. Best Regards, Srikar 202-445-0183

Alvin Stroyny
Alvin Stroyny 01 Jan, 2016

The biggest problem I have had is access to realistic data. I would like to see a repository of "scan data", mfg rep sales data, etc., and other types of data sets for analysis and feedback from other Data Analysts on how they approached the problem. It is extremely difficult to get good realistic data as companies jealously guard their data and trade secrets.

kishore
kishore 01 Jan, 2016

Dear kunal HAPPY NEW YEAR Regards. kishore

Sagar jaju
Sagar jaju 01 Jan, 2016

I am totally new in analytics but i got almost 10 years of experince in stock market,i want to build some stock price prediction model can we do that

Golam Kabir
Golam Kabir 01 Jan, 2016

Happy new year Kunal

Jigar
Jigar 01 Jan, 2016

Hi Kunal, Wish you and your team a very happy new year. All around the web we only find analysis on small sample of available datasets. It would be a great idea for a section on analyzing extremely large datasets (million records strong). I have learned that a completely different approach is required with such large datasets, as you not only focus on the algorithm, but also on the data, speed and efficiency of the algorithm used. I am looking around for more guidance on the subject, and would appreciate if AV could do a series on this. Regards, Jigar

Amine Teffal
Amine Teffal 01 Jan, 2016

Happy new year Kuna ! Keep going on what you're doing. You do a very good job. It help me a lot in my work and in my personal development. I just hope that you can create something like learning paths but devoted to more theory in order to "unblackbox" statistical tools like random forests for example.

Gianfranco
Gianfranco 01 Jan, 2016

Hello Kunar, First of all thanks to you and your friends for this usefull site. I wish you a great 2016. In my experience is one of a kind, and you and Andrew Ng (I'm quite sure you heard of him) are my personal heroes. So a deep thanks to you and Andrew for sharing your deep knowledge. My personal barrier to learn is to find someone giving me credits enough to work for him on real task. I tried also to offer my services for free, but I was unlucky. So my target for next year is to read all your articles, and try to participate in a competition, hardening myself until I will find a job in this industry. Gianfranco from Italy wishes to all friends here a very good 2016 !

Mohammed Niyas
Mohammed Niyas 02 Jan, 2016

Hi Kunal, Happy New year. You are doing a great job and I would like to thank you for starting AV and actively working on improving the platform. I would like to suggest you something. I've an intermediate level of knowledge in data science and big data technologies. I used to participate in some Kaggle competitions also. But Hackathon and competitions are platforms that focus on model building and optimizing. I believe that in real projects, data collection and feature engineering steps have importance. I wish if there were some opensource projects or platforms were people can collaboratively work on solving real world issues. For example exploring data provided by government, NGOs, Survey platforms, etc. and developing a good insights from it. I wish you even more successful 2016. Thanks & Regards, Niyas

Hector Vega
Hector Vega 02 Jan, 2016

Happy new year 2016! The best wishes for everybody. I would like to read more about multivariate data analysis, specific for QlikView. Thank you Hv

viresh
viresh 02 Jan, 2016

Hi Kunal, Wish you happy new year!!! Currently I m working as qlikview developer. I want to move to analytics. Kindly help me further learning. Regards Viresh

Hossam
Hossam 02 Jan, 2016

You are really doing a good job, now I recommend to start guiding members toward main certificates in big data and build skills matrix for big data to help employers. I think certificate section may be a good addition to your web site and build a window for those who got these certificates to tell us about their experience before and after getting it.

HighSpirits
HighSpirits 02 Jan, 2016

Hi Kunal, Two areas where I would like help are - 1) Finding real-time work - working in Kaggle and other competitions are fine but it would be of great help if we can get to work (under any Data Scientist) on real time projects. This will increase our learning scope tremendously. 2) Exploring and Explaining (top) successful solutions in different competitions (Kaggle/AV/CrowdAnalytix etc). Discussing various aspects like - what feature engineering was done which differentiated top rankers from others, what algorithms did top rankers used etc. Along with the learning paths your team is publishing, if you can write few posts on above topics, it would be of immense help to newbies trying to swim through the ocean of Analytis :-)

Trinadh
Trinadh 03 Jan, 2016

Hi Kunal, Your articles on Analytics are always informative and helpful. Above all your committment to help fellow Data Analysts and Data Scientists is amazing. We always look forward to what comes from you. Keep the good work going and we wish you a wonderful New Year 2016. Really appreciate if you could clarify the following questions. Q1) What tools do you suggest for text mining preferbly any tools that require no or little scripting? Q2) I am working on a project where we have 600,000 plus records in MySql database table. I need to search for a string of two words in the column2 (long text). Then pick 8 character numeric that follows the two word search string and insert both 8 character numeric from column2 and ID from column1 into a separate table..Please suggest what is the best fit tool for this requirement? If you have any code snippet please share. Thank you as always, Trinadh

Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar 04 Jan, 2016

Hi Kunal, Wish u a happy new year.. hope this year will be the fantastic year for you and Analytics vidhya Community. Regards, Vidya

Uday Singh
Uday Singh 06 Jan, 2016

Happy New Year Kunal, First things I want to say thanks to Analytics Vidhya, I learn a lot in 2015 from blogs, articles, and participating in hackathon. I hope our learning will be continue in 2016 also. Thanks and Regard Uday Singh