I am Deepak, a graduate student at Northeastern University, majoring in Operations Research and Statistics. I suppose that doesn't still give you an idea of who I am. Let's back up a bit. I am from Bangalore, did my schooling and undergrad from there. Sat through four years of Mechanical Engineering before I decided I am done with this forever. Had enough of all that stress and strain. Going in, I was sure mechanical engineering is what I wanted to pursue only to realize a few years later that what actually interests me is problem solving backed with data. For instance, some of the best moments from those days where when I was trying to figure out the math behind a problem or writing a bit of code to device the optimal route for a vehicle routing problem and so on. Courses like Operations Research and numerical methods became some of my favorite classes.
After this soul crushing revelation that life isn't going in the direction I wanted it to and that I needed to re-steer my life, I decided to take action. Three things that gave me most happiness were coding, getting into the nitty-gritties of an algorithm and finally airing the results, in other words telling people about it. An euphemism for bragging.
To my delight I realized there is an entire industry out there that does this for a living. Nothing was going to stop me from taking the next train to get my foot through the door. In my case, it was more like the next flight, an expensive master's degree, an internship and then an opportunity to get my foot through the door. This was how I was drawn to the world of data science. That is the story so far.
The observant reader must have noticed how airing the results constitutes about one-third of my professional happiness. That is exactly what this blog is going to be about. I will try to cover some of my interesting/not-interesting projects all related to data science, machine learning, data mining and everything in-between.
Suddenly out of nowhere, having been bitten by the philosophical bug, I might decide to ramble a bit about the works of Thoreau or Kant and thrust my shitty interpretation of their wonderful work onto you readers. But not to worry, for the most part I will try and stick to data backed analysis.
I am excited about this. Let's get this rolling.