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This time, last year, when FactorDaily had interviewed Flipkart’s chief data scientist Mayur Datar, the Indian e-commerce firm had less …

Kumaramputhur is a tiny village some 45 km northwest of Palakkad in Kerala, home to some 3,500 families and probably …

But Indian researchers and companies working in this field have a big handicap: data. More precisely, the availability of well-labelled, feature-rich local datasets.

A larger version of this article originally appeared in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MITs) Emerging World Blog. Out of seven …

While there’s a primal, grassroots-level hunger around acquiring in data science knowledge in India, the country’s relative gap at the top …

It’s 9 am on a February morning and the mercury is just inching past 20 degrees Celsius in Bengaluru. The …

Over the past few weeks, if you’ve seen your friends post their pictures alongside famous Renaissance paintings, here’s what’s going …

Data scientists and machine learning engineers in India make about one-tenth of what their counterparts in the United States do, …

Rakuten even makes investment decisions based on the data it gleans from various sources.

We recently got an opportunity to talk to D J Patil, the rockstar of data science, about the growing field. Here is Part II of our interview with him.

DJ Patil, former US Chief Data Scientist shares his thoughts on data science’s relevance, opportunities in India, and the importance of data ethics.

AccuraCap, a fund management firm that runs on a mathematical model based on big data analytics and artificial intelligence, is changing the game.

FactorDaily’s Date with Data Science event kickstarted a conversation between experts and data science aspirants about how to get started in this field.