Data Synthesis Essay

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In 2014, Bradley Voytek – a data scientist with Uber, stated that his team has been able to reduce the ETA in certain areas of San Francisco from 15 minutes to staggering 2 minutes. And this was achieved not by implementing any new technology, but rather by utilization of the data they already had! Listening to this, it dawned on me how precious resource data had become, and how we have just started extracting sense out of it. The way we are bombarded with the influx of data from every sphere of life, and how it governs the decisions of our lives, varying from taking a cab to carrying out space missions to Mars, reinforced my belief that data is essentially the ‘new-oil’. All through my life, I have always been an inquisitive person, who has made a conscious attempt to diversify her skill set in varied spheres of life. Always with an objective to develop rationale mindset and foster an independent thinking. One result of this pursuit is the string of academic achievements – 95% in tenth grade, 90.4% in junior college and 8.04 CGPA in UG. Also, I have been associated with sports from a very young age and have represented school and college in various Lawn tennis …show more content…

During preparation, I realized that technology and data had the power to cross the line which separates us from our virtual reality. This motivated me to explore more about the field of data and I took a six-month internship at Bharti Airtel, an Indian multinational telecommunication services company, where I had my first formal exposure with the field of data analytics. The broad objective of the project at Airtel was to analyze the vast data of call records using Oracle and come up with the factors influencing call drops in a particular

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