environment

Aarey Milk Colony - Mumbai's Green Lung

Aarey Milk Colony is a forest area within the city limits of Mumbai. It is under threat from development and needs support of citizens to support it! »

Coppersmith Barbet on a Mango Tree in Mumbai

Found a Coppersmith Barbet outside our window in Mumbai. A beautiful bird with a crimson forehead and throat and a green body »

World of Mathematics - interactive ebook - a piece of art!

The World of Mathematics is an interactive eBook by Philipp Legner - a must for anyone interested in Mathematics - and more so for those who hate Mathematics! »

Why do so many people hate Mathematics?

Professor Edward Frenkel, from the University of California, Berkeley attempts to answer this perennial question. He is also author of the book "Love & Math". »

A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms - OpenStack, AWS, Heroku, CloudFoundry!

A framework that describes the various layers of cloud platform services starting from virtualized hardware up to end-user software applications »

Cycling to Barvi Dam and Lake - Bird Watching Paradise

Barvi Lake located 90 km from Mumbai between Badlapur and Murbad is an excellent destination for a cycling expedition combined with some amazing bird watching! »

Big Data Innovation - Driving Business Success - Conference in Mumbai

I am presenting a case study at a big data innovation conference in Mumbai on 22nd August 2013. Get a special speaker's invitee discount and a free lunch :) »

Polyglot Persistence Case Study - Big Data Architecture

At the big data innovation conference in Mumbai I spoke about how Polyglot Persistence - or using more than one database in a single application provides great benefits »

McKinsey: Big data one of top five catalysts for US economy growth

McKinsey predicts big data as one of five catalysts that can deliver a big boost to GDP led by retail, manufacturing, health care, and government services sectors »

Cyclomon - you are what you ride!

If you are a cyclist, check this website out and figure out which kind of a person you are based on what kind of cycle you ride! »

Evolution of big data at CERN - a short overview by Dr. Tim Smith

Big data has been around for very long, but why do we suddenly keep hearing about it now? Tim Smith explains by plotting CERN's big data evolution over 50 years »

Big data bringing Asimov's Psychohistory from fiction to reality

Psychohistory is the science of predicting the behavior of large groups of people using a statistical model using historical data. This is not fiction anymore... it is actually happening! »

There IS a Bicycle Economy

emergentfutures: There IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find Portland, Oregon and New York City, two very different cities, are finding something similar about cyclists and »

Web Content Strategy - How to Plan for, Create and Publish Online Content for Maximum ROI

Joe Pulizzi, a thought leader, speaker, writer and evangelist for content marketing, is founder and chief content officer for Junta42, a content marketing/custom publishing community »

Employee Engagement - a Towers Perrin study

Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management. Don Lowman, who is Managing Director »

Leveraging the Web - How to get your web site to work for you!

A presentation made to a group of enterpreneurs to highlight the steps [slideshare id=91511&doc=leveraging-the-web3670] Transcript: Leveraging the Web A presentation by Reach1to1 »

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