open source open society was organizing a hackathon on Saturday 20th August and luckily I was free at that day. I never participated in any hackathon before. This is because I thought hackathon is just a waste of time. But this time, I thought why not give it a try and see what h … | Continue reading

During my PhD I mostly worked with Java and Matlab. However my last job as a Data scientist required me to code in python. I had previously used python, but was not expert in python. After working six month in python for developing machine learning algorithms, I am pretty sure th … | Continue reading

I have been often asked about how Data science is different than Business Analytics. Recently I found a infographic which distinguishes these two fields and can be very useful in understanding the career path as a Data scientist or Business Analyst. The infographic is attached as … | Continue reading

For couple of years I create a TODO list for my next year. Its a good way to plan motivate myself to achieve your goal. This year my todo list starts with finishing my PhD, will be deep diving into python. Apart from the boring stuff, I am planning to start writing about text ana … | Continue reading

Yes, PHP7 is finally released. The list of new features are described at the php official site. Out of so many tutorials about php7 I really like Davey Shafik blog posts. I met Shafik at New Zealand PHP conference and we had couple of discussions related to php7. Lots of interest … | Continue reading

I recently came across awesome list of php resources that can be very handy. Have a look at the following and save it Dependency Management Libraries for dependency and package management. Composer/Packagist – A package and dependency manager. Composer Installers – A multi frame … | Continue reading

Cheat sheets for Python:  Python is a popular choice for beginners, yet still powerful enough to back some of the world’s most popular products and applications. It’s design makes the programming experience feel almost as natural as writing in English. Python basics or Python Deb … | Continue reading

I have been working in PHP for almost 10 years and I have 7 years of experience in different MVC based frameworks. When I first started working in MVC, I wrote a simple MVC based framework for my own knowledge and learning. Recently I improved the code and published it on the Git … | Continue reading