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Building a Reading Habit: Mindset, Purpose, and the Journey

**Excerpt:** Reading can feel like an uphill climb, especially for those of us who find it hard to stay consistent. But what if building a reading habit didn’t have to be daunting? In this blog, I share practical steps to make reading a fulfilling part of daily life, from creating cozy reading spaces to embracing audiobooks, and tracking small wins along the way. With mindset shifts, simple lifestyle tweaks, and a clear purpose, even those who struggle with reading can find joy and growth in every page. Whether it’s deep reading, light skimming, or listening to audiobooks, this journey is about discovering the unique value reading can bring into your life.
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Enforcing and Validating Tags While Creating Resources Using Azure Policy

In today’s cloud-driven world, maintaining governance and control over your resources is paramount. One of the simplest yet most effective ways to ensure proper management, organization, and billing of cloud resources is through consistent tagging. Azure Policy provides a powerful mechanism to enforce and validate tags across your Azure environment. In this blog, we’ll guide
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Differential Privacy

1. INTRODUCTION The differential privacy is a data privacy protection mechanism which comes by adding randomness or noise to the data before it is published or made available for analysis. Which means, the more the noise the better the privacy. It is important to note the trade off between privacy of the data and the
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Blockchain Analytics

The aim of this blog is to demonstrate the concept of blockchain and private distributed ledger with respect to privacy-preserving data science. The blog also states the currently used blockchain analytics techniques for blockchain-oriented data science, visualization techniques, and benchmarking of popular blockchain frameworks which highlight some significant limitations in Ethereum, Parity, and Hyperledger blockchain
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Data Scientist Nanodegree from Udacity

What a journey I must say! Totally excited to share that I graduated with the advanced “Data Scientist Nanodegree” program on Udacity co-created by Airbnb, Starbucks, IBM, and Figure Eight. It was a wonderfully curated Nanodegree program that exposed me to the best in class industry practices and standards in Data Science, which was a
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Executing Long Running Tasks in Google App Engine – How to do it?

Most of the times a question flashes into the mind of the developers especially those who work on the Google Cloud Platform: What if I am using Google App Engine Platform as a Service and will be having long running tasks that should run in the background for hours or maybe even days, is it
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Data Lake – Why should we use one?

From the last few years, we have observed a massive growth in the data than we have ever seen. Many organizations find an opportunity from this big data and develop different strategies to monetize it. But the major challenge is “Where to store all the data?” We have data warehouses that store the data as
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Data Science – Understanding the concept and why it is important?

Over the last decade, there has been a massive growth in both data generated and data retained. These data are retained by companies as well as you and me, isn’t it? Sometimes, we call this as the “Big Data”. Nowadays, the term “Data Science” is gaining a wide recognition. But what does a data scientist
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Cognitive Computing – Understanding the Concept

In the today’s digital transformation age, we use the computers for high-end data processing and making calculations. Most of the computers can capture, move, and store the data. But as of now, they cannot understand what does the data mean. For example, the computers are well ahead and best for processing applications, but are not
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