Best Data Analytics Documentary you should watch now!!

"Data is the new Oil ? NO: Data is the new soil"

-David Mccandless

Do you know how much data we create every single day?

- It's over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data and it's continuosly growing at an unimaginable speed.

Last week I watched this eye-opener documentary on Netflix - 'THE GREAT HACK'. It's a must watch data analytics documentary on how a company used data to create bias among the people and change their perception using data analytics.Being into the field of data i feel it's very important that everyone should be aware of the consequences of how your data can be misused if you knowingly/unknowingly share your personal information publically.

This documentary shows how a company used more than 5000 data-points(In analytical context any single piece of information is a data point) to hack peoples mind in the US election, so the person will vote for the candidate he didn't wanted to vote and the company achieved this by the buzz word we all have heard of - Data Analytics .Sounds creepy right!!

In a broader sense it's like a psychological warfare where you persuade people by using communication as a means and that too using their own data with their own consent! The documentary shows how the company used the data points of people from the social media datasets and created content by doing Analytics on that data than they used it to persuade them ie. used it for biased politics in the US election.

Let me explain in layman terms how it works!!  

You take the data from a person via social media feed, survey etc.  and  using data analytics you connect all the data points for this person like (likes, dislikes, interests, etc.),than you generate the content which are displayed in the form of ads and you continuosly trigger these ads in that particular person's feed and lastly this changes the perception of the person and he/she is not even aware that they are the victim here. And this is how you persuade the people to achieve the goals via technology such as machine learning, data analytics, data science. 

Things you should remember when it comes to data:

• It's high time we need to think twice before we click on any suspicious link. 

• Never post any of your confidential data on any social media platform. 

• Don't fill any survey form before checking it's authenticity (you'll be giving your data yourself). 

• Stop downloading any app that asks for irrelevant permissions. 

You'll get to know more of these facts when you'll watch the documentary. About the authenticity of how true the events are! All the whistle-blowers are former employees of the accused firm like Data Scientist, Business Analyst etc. 

Will keep you updated with such Data related posts, share this if you find it interesting. Till than bye.

Documentary link - https://www.netflix.com/in/title/80117542 

Met shakthimaan !

Firstly I heard him in Pycon Pune reciting  "Nursery rhymes " ;) . It was one of the best thing in Pycon. Got to know from a meetup friend that he wrote a book on " I want to do a project tell me what to do ?". Had the same question since the time I started with python. So I Ordered the book  and started reading it. But I never thought that I'll be attending a hand's on workshop by the author himself on the same topic, sound's different but it happened. 

The workshop started at 10 am and shakthimaan was ready to help us ;), the teaching approach which shakti uses is just awesome every single slide which he displays has meaning .He took hand's-on workshop on git , I tried  git on windows (git bash) and this time I used Fedora. Previously I referred some YouTube videos , tutorials and what not But still the logical approach was missing,  but this workshop helped me in a logical sense .It not only helped me build my logic but it helped me get all basics about "FOSS", "getting started with contribution", "mailing list guidelines", "opensource" etc. 

Previously I was doubtful about the mind-map, how to select area of interest and how to focus on it and being " jack of all trades and master of  One ", Thank you shakthimaan for helping a beginner like me.

Python May Meetup

The meetup was scheduled at 10:30 am in RedHat , pune . I reached sharp at 10 am .Met new people and had a great interaction with them as this time the crowd was new and enthusiastic.
The 1st was a lightning talk by Poruri Sai Rahul on  "Creating your Personal Github pages" , it was a hand'son and very useful . Github can be used to make static pages and the great thing is we don't even need to code from scratch ,we can just fork the repo's on github and using Bootstrap we can make static pages , there are lots of cool themes one can use - http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#examples , no need to write all those HTML pages from scratch containing "tags/head/body/..bla bla" just fork any basic HTML repo and make changes whatever you want.

After the Break there was a talk by Krishnakant Mane on Emacs for development , such an informative talk it was followed by jokes :) . He explained most of the things of Emacs , and being a newbie i got to know new things  . As previously i was aware of the Programming environments (Pycharm) but Emacs is like killer of all , He explained the stuff in a very interactive way and it was great listening to him .He is very experienced and knowledgeable person.

The Emacs was followed by Creating RESTfull API using python Pyramids , this was hand's on workshop about the Pyramid Framework . I was totally unaware of this thing but it is very powerful and efficient Web Framework .This workshop was conducted by Krishnakant Mane again and Prajakta. They covered most of the parts of Pyramids and it was 2 hours long but very informative .

Overall in May python Meetup got to learn lots of new Python Libraries and Frameworks , will be implementing those in future :) .