Build a balanced team — Hindu mythology talks about Trinity: Brahma — The Creator, Vishnu — The Preserver and Shiva — The Destroyer. Brahma, the creator of the universe is associated with knowledge — Saraswati. On creating the world he gets mesmerized by his creation that he follows it passionately, pursuing only the possession of…

Near the city of Hassan, three hours drive from Bengaluru in India is a small town called Halebidu. It was the thriving capital of the Hoysala empire in the 12th century. Hoysala Empire ruled most of the modern-day Karnataka for close to 400 years from year 950 CE to 1343…

Machine learning algorithms are very dependent on accurate, clean, and well-labeled training data for training to produce accurate results. It’s for this reason that the vast majority of the time spent during AI projects is during the data collection, cleaning, preparation, and labeling phases. When an early-stage ML-based product, trained…

Estimating the price of a home is both science and art. Home characteristics, such as square footage, location or the number of bathrooms, are given different weights according to their influence on home sale prices in each specific geography over a specific period of time, resulting in a set of…

The most common question that I hear from my clients is what are wireframes and why are they important during initial phase of product development. Wireframes help fine tune the product flow and design before the hard part of development starts. To design good wireframes, the user interface designer need…

This four-part series is about my experiences and lessons learnt from bringing advantages of technology to Indian farmers. To read part 1, click here. An old farmer was fumbling with his newly bought Android phone stretching his ears to understand instructions from our extension officer. The extension officer had installed…

Our car was traveling on dry, dusty roads deep in villages of Indian state of Haryana. It’s peak of summer and it was hot inside despite the air-conditioner running on the full. We were going to meet a few farmers in village 11H, named after the branch of Gangnahar flowing…