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Archive for May, 2010

Beyond ‘total capture’ to ‘some utilization’

Posted by Ramesh on May 31st, 2010

Sellen and Whittaker wrote an interesting article ‘Beyond Total Capture: A constructive critique of Lifelogging’. As technology advanced, it became possible to collect data and store it easily. In fact the last decade saw a rapid progress in sensors, storage, and processing technology making it possible to collect really large volumes of multimodal data and [...]

CK Prahalad: One more tribute

Posted by Ramesh on May 3rd, 2010

CK Prahalad was a remarkable person and his loss is felt by many. He was a true friend — when he was your friend. Lately he was a true friend of India. His work about India is remarkable. One of the best lectures by him was earlier this year as Palkhivala Lecture in which he [...]

Self Analytics: Data-driven-life

Posted by Ramesh on May 2nd, 2010

Michael Parekh sent me an excellent article from NYT by Gary Wolf. A very well researched article on a very important topic. Clearly, time has come to start using data from our own life to perform self-analytics and use this for actionable self-knowledge. Most of us, conveniently engage in self deception on many fronts. It [...]