3 Years of Data, Deadlines and Growth
A review of work over the last 3 years
April 14, 2025
| 4 minutes | 719 words | Dheepak
I’ve been reading the blogs for some years now. I came across the annual reviews on the FreeFinCal site; it’s a shame I couldn’t recall the exact year. My guess would be somewhere between 2018 and 2020.
During the pandemic, I started subscribing to the Substacks. I noticed almost everyone who is regularly writing is reviewing the annual performance. And I always wanted to write one for myself. The birthdays, New Year’s Eves, and financial year-end—all of them provided a chance to write.
IPL: Ways to see beyond Scoreboard
To visual IPL results
March 22, 2025
| 2 minutes | 221 words | Dheepak
Data visualization is one field that has kept me captivated for some time now. The graphics published in sites like FT, Reuters, or NYT made me wonder why I don’t spend time on the skill.
The good volume and variety of data that is available is available all the time. Share market—daily; IPL—yearly. I find each of the cricket matches, no matter if they are Test, ODI, or T20, generates so much data.
Over-confidence is the safety risk
Checklist could help us
December 16, 2024
| 3 minutes | 433 words | Dheepak
Few years ago, I was working in a Chennai, 500 KM away from Coimbatore, where my family resides. The usual trip between the cities is on long weekends, so does the large crowd settled in Singara Chennai. With a huge crowd looking to travel back on long weekends, reserving a seat was not easiest thing to do. I booked my ticket a week back and in relaxed manner went to boarding point.
How I'm planning to get started on Deep Learning?
Learnings from Meta Learning: How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World
November 27, 2024
| 4 minutes | 800 words | Dheepak
This post is to describe how I find the book Meta Learning: How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World is giving me a hope and road map to learn Deep Learning. Not only learning DL and also where to go from there viz Kaggle.
Who am I? I’m part of Data landscape for more than a decade now. I started as ETL developer, then evolved into Data Engineer.
Event Update: M2W Conclave 2.0
A gathering around முதலீட்டுக்களம்
September 29, 2024
| 4 minutes | 703 words | Dheepak
Intro This is about an event or a gathering around the theme of personal finance. The crowd gathered is through the Youtube channel - Muthaleetukalam (முதலீட்டுக்களம்) translates to ‘Investment sector’, thanks Google. This is coordinated by iThought Wealth’s Shyam Shekhar through his milestones2wealth, a portal to make Making Small Investors THINK BIG!.
div.rightBox { position: absolute; right: 0; width: 230px; height: 250px; border: 3px solid grey; } My PoV I started following the channel during the lockdown, just like million other self-proclaimed investors.
Event Update: Consecration
aka குடமுழுக்கு, கும்பாபிஷேகம்
August 21, 2024
| 3 minutes | 593 words | Dheepak
I’m in the midway between an atheist, agnostic and a religious person. My particiaption in events based out of religious tradition, is almost always doubtful. Yet, I was part of this community gathering, and I’m going to cover the event.
When a temple gets built, it deserves sequence of rituals that adds spiritual and religious power to the deity living in the temple. As it is a belief based system, logical questioing doesn’t end well.
My Prayer
What do I pray for?
August 16, 2024
| 2 minutes | 222 words | Dheepak
To start with I’m not a religious person. Meaning I don’t strictly follow the religious activities, I do constantly question the practises. I don’t know whether I’m an atheist or an agnostic. But I do believe there could be some powerful entity. Could be a god, family of gods or nature.
When I was living abroad for the work purpose, I need a social interaction. That made me to visit temple every week, almost.
Analog Clock
Built with ♥ using D3
July 16, 2024
| 3 minutes | 542 words | Dheepak
First we started with a circle. The dial is composed of a bigger circle and a smaller one - a center point.
With the dial is in place, next step is to add arms of the clock. The end result should have 3 arms - depicting hours, minutes and seconds. To have quicker feedback we started with seconds arm.
Drawing the radius solves the initial position of seconds arm.
Investing in real estates
Why I don't prefer it?
May 20, 2024
| 6 minutes | 1117 words | Dheepak
This is a write up on my thoughts abour real estate as investment. The real estate implies plot as well as the home.
To describe my disinterest towards RE, first we should see how the system works with respect to RE. To make it clear I’m not talking about REITs.
This is entirely unregulated space. Meaning, there is no check and balance to help the consumers. With no regulations, the black money is very very common.
Learnings from working with external teams
April 19, 2024
| 2 minutes | 332 words | Dheepak
With the recent change in the role from data engineer to lead data engineer, I’m regularly interacting with different teams, both upstream and downstream. It had become routine to have meetings with the counterparties to understand their difficulties. After all, we are a tree but a part of a forest. Diversity factor It might annoy us to hear about diversity from the MNCs again and again. However, for the proper functioning of the organization, it is essential to have associates from various backgrounds.