Financial literacy is critical because it equips us with the knowledge and skills that are essential for successful money management. Personal finance can be a fickle thing and if you do not have the educational background regarding proper financial handlings you...
As a QA engineer in Crayon (where quality matters), I validate and investigate product development from end-to-end, with stringent processes in place. The customer delight which it brings keeps me going. One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced here was when we...
Computer-scientist and business leader Gillian Docherty joined us in this week's episode of Slaves to the Algo to talk about how data and AI can transform outcomes across multiple sectors for an entire country: Scotland. Appointed an Officer of the British Empire in...
As Big Data, IoT, and machine learning become more commonplace, all types of industries are starting to get in on the trend. However, some businesses are slower to adapt than others – even though the benefits of big data are incredibly obvious. In 2014, just 17% of...
This week on the From the Drawing Board, we asked Crayon’s Maadhusri to write about her experience as a customer scientist: As a the new addition to the Crayon Box, I’m excited to do three things: Strategize the analytics side of business, Work with new...
Date: 24th March, 2021 Source: PR Newswire Crayon Data will showcase their flagship AI-personalization platform maya.ai at the Tech Showcase in Manila, organized by Plug and Play APAC, under the Enterprise Singapore's Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) Manila program...
Futurist, author, entrepreneur, and educator David Shrier talks us through the evolution of AI, the development of the EdTech industry, and the importance of data-driven innovation across all sectors in this week’s episode of Slaves to the Algo. Drawing on his first...
Data science is currently among the most rapidly growing and promising careers of the future. The technology surrounding data mining and analysis has transformed initially useless raw data into an important commodity for most organizations. Data scientists combine...
Date: July 28th, 2021 Source: Empirics Asia Suresh creates Netflix- and Spotify-like Experiences for Customers in only 7 Days What’s your story? I help enterprises understand customer preferences to serve them better. What’s interesting is that my career has been a...
Date: March 12th, 2021 Source: News Today Chennai: Aarti Ramakrishnan, co-founder and Chief of Operations of Crayon Data, was recently awarded the Woman Entrepreneur Award from the Rotary Club of Madras East (RCME). Every year on the occasion of International Women's...
What is the most exciting or challenging thing you’ve learned? Crayon has successfully built an environment that is conducive to learning. One, by giving us the freedom to explore multiple ways to solve a problem. And two, by adopting a flat organizational structure...
Entrepreneur, leading technology professional, and Chief Growth Officer of GoPay Valerie Wagoner joins us in this week’s episode to talk about how AI is transforming various subsectors of financial services. With over two decades of experience in not just products,...
Approximately 40 exabytes of data is generated every month by a single smartphone user that could be in the form of texts, phone calls, emails, photos, video searches, and music. Imagine this number gets multiplied by 3.5 billion smartphone users, that’s a lot of...
For the busy trader, the size of the major stock exchanges is both a blessing and a real headache. When you consider that the NASDAQ lists over 3000 companies, the NYSE 2,800, Frankfurt has 3,300 and the LSE boasts 2,800, it is no wonder that traders have a hard time...
What is the most exciting or challenging thing you've learned? Over the years, I've learned a lot on big data, machine learning, designing APIs and working with Cloud. Recently, I've started to work with a roadmap to deliver various features and capabilities. What is...
he stock market universe consists of thousands of individual companies, many of which are extremely undervalued. At any given point, there will be many hidden gems that offer early investors explosive growth potential. The only problem is finding them before their...
Digital data and open source technology has changed our daily lives. One of the biggest areas that it has become so vital is the blockchain. Blockchain technology has been applied to everything from cybersecurity to cryptocurrency. In this article, we will explore how...
These days people turn to VPN services for various reasons, such as unblocking entertainment content on streaming platforms such as Netflix, accessing networks and websites that are restricted by governments, and more importantly, ensuring safety and privacy when...
For this week’s fireside chat, we were joined by Dr. Gita Johar, the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business and the Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Columbia Business School. To celebrate the occasion of International Women’s Day (IWD), Dr. Johar shared...
Artificial Intelligence and other smart technologies are used to empower businesses from every industry, regardless of location. Moreover, smart technologies help companies gain an advantage in front of their competitors, so they are changing the business landscape at...
One of the most common issues that business analysts face is the lack of access to reliable and timely information about business processes. This information is vital for decision-making yet it is blocked or hindered due to many challenges of a traditional data...
Along with R and Python, SQL is one of the pillars of data analysis programming. To derive the most meaningful data, analysts need to learn the most efficient ways to use SQL. Everything from query performance to data grouping can be enhanced by following a few simple...
Tell us about what you do at Crayon Data As a Senior Data Scientist, I’m involved in research and engineering, which includes formulating, suggesting, and managing data-driven projects geared towards the business's interests. I also stay informed about developments...
Understanding the financial health of a company can make or break investment decisions, inform funding efforts, and even give deeper insights into brand health. Thus, a productive way to look at how our own or other companies are doing is by looking into the financial...
Gamer turned marketing leader, podcaster and influencer Eric Siu discusses the importance of establishing strong values, maintaining relationships, and producing high-quality content in the data-driven world of digital marketing. Kicking off this week's episode, Eric...
A 2020 New Vantage Partners survey of C-suite executives reported that 98.8% of organizations have invested in some kind of data initiatives. And yet only 37.8% of companies have created a data-driven organization. Not that companies are lagging from a technology...
Data science has become one of the best paid and popular categories for professionals. As many companies use applied scientific data in their businesses, professional, scientific knowledge is rising. If you are thinking of going this science route or remaining an...
If your app isn’t getting enough traffic, you may need to take action to get the kind of attention you want. Growth isn’t just getting new users, it’s also retaining the ones that you already have. Keeping that in mind, there are ways to boost your numbers that also...
The modern digital marketing industry simply couldn't exist without the aggregation of huge amounts of data. That being said, the role that data plays in marketing has changed dramatically in the last few years. Some computer scientists are suggesting that many...
Date: 22nd February to 19th March Big data and AI company Crayon Data is one of several Singapore tech companies to participate in the ongoing virtual mission, E-Business Mission to Latin America. The virtual mission is organized by the Latin American Chamber of...
From banking leaders to revolutionaries in the AI space, Suresh covered a lot of ground with his guests in these 10 episodes. Here’s a countdown of our top 10 moments from season 1 of Slaves to the Algo. We recap the age of relevance and how digital irrelevance is now...
Facebook claims to have 2.7 billion monthly active users. But how many of them are ‘synthetic’ (aka fake) profiles? In this episode, we are joined by Jeff Jonas, wizard of big data and founder and CEO of Senzing. Jeff has spent his life dedicated to one thing – entity...
Data culture is as important as organization culture. But the question remains… how does an organization create it? Who leads it? And why is it important? Janardhan Cadambi (Jana) from Mastercard explains why data standards and principles are just as important, if not...
We’ve all heard of the age-old adage of the right vs the left brain. In this episode, Tim Kobe, legendary architect and founder of Eight Inc and often referred to as "Apple's Best Kept Secret," talks about a revolutionary new hybrid model. There is no real dichotomy...
TS Anil, the CEO of Monzo, talks to us about how Monzo designs their customer experience. A digital bank by design, they always start with their desired end state in mind. With a single-minded focus on making money work for everyone (their customers), they optimize...
Ian Myles of area 51 talks about human cognitive biases, how they affect the way we program algorithms and their unintended consequences. He uses his experience in industrial design, technology, fintech and education to discuss the future of explainable AI (ex-AI) -...
Ian Myles of area 51 talks about human cognitive biases, how they affect the way we program algorithms and their unintended consequences. He uses his experience in industrial design, technology, fintech and education to discuss the future of explainable AI (ex-AI) -...
As more marketers advocate how to write copy for a search engine, John offers a refreshing perspective. Brands will become even more important in the world of algorithms. Differentiation now comes from the right-brained side of marketing. He also deep dives into how...
How do you create great AI that can make use of data that hasn't been even created? How will you prepare for a world where 90% of the data you will have in 2022 doesn't exist today? John Kim of Expedia discusses these matters and why tech giants with the ability to...
Harvard Business Review calls the 20s the start of the "age of relevance" driven by a new 5Ps. Advances in analytics, big data and AI make it possible for digital disrupters to deliver relevance. In this episode, Suresh uses his decades-long experience to explain...
This new year has brought new hope in the lives of many people. Sales and marketing teams of small and large businesses have already started sketching their plans for the upcoming months. The significant goal of sketching this plan is to define profit and revenue....
February 2021: Crayon Data was one of 10 FinTech start-ups to pitch their flagship product to potential investors, the media, and the wider business community at FinTech Saudi's Virtual Demo Day. The Demo Day came at the end of a 3-month long FinTech Accelerator...
As we move into an age centralized on digital software and technology usage, many emergency medical services have opted for efficient and easy-to-use software programs. This is to eliminate excessive time spent recording data and open up opportunities for patients and...
The gaming industry is booming! Companies such as The Old School Game Vault are doing better than ever. Last year it was valued at 162 billion, and it is predicted that the gaming industry will reach a valuation of 300 billion by 2026. That’s a 2X growth in just six...
Many may think that SEO should be the priority of an online store trying to get off the ground. This isn’t true, as above all else, customer experience should remain of the utmost importance. It’s safe to say that regardless of how good the SEO tactics or how many SEO...
What is the most exciting or challenging thing you've learned? Coming from a conventional service-based background, I found it the most difficult to adopt a product-first mindset when crafting solutions for our clients. Crayon has taught me to challenge the status quo...
It’s a no-brainer that 2020 has not been the best year of our lives and has successfully altered all of our lives in various ways. The pandemic has changed a lot of things for us and one of the big impacts that it had was the shift of things to online platforms....
With the advent of technology, people are looking for numerous ways to innovate and build products through innovation and analytics. One important example is Web Scraping with Python, which helps in the extraction of relevant data from the web. A basis for the...
Running a metal fabrication company is fraught with challenges. One of the biggest challenges is making your operations as efficient as possible. However, there are several ways you can improve efficiency, as you will discover in the following five helpful tips. 1....