The Numerical and Insightful Blog

Welcome to our blog focusing on interesting concepts and products built using mathematical ideas. We invite you to join the discussion and create material to entertain, inform and educate. We will be qualitative and descriptive rather than technical and precise.
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Monday, August 24, 2015

The FFT is Fifty

Their 1965 paper starts with the unassuming words " An efficient method for the calculation of the interactions of a 2^m factoria...

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

What is different about Big Data?

What is different about Big Data? Other than that it is, er, big? This is a question that I am frequently asked, most often by people w...

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

A Gentle Introduction to Backpropagation

Why is this blog being written? [ Update: A more detailed version of this article with coding outline is available. Please...

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Land that Big Data job. Cash in on the movement.

Riding on the wave of a new movement requires that you learn new skills. I am often asked “What do I need to learn to profit from the Big ...

Friday, May 24, 2013

Prudential Harnesses the Wisdom of Crowds

“Statistics is boring! I can prove it to you!” I sometimes declare in statistics classes that I teach . I do that in order to make the ...

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About Me

Shashi Sathyanarayana: Shashi Sathyanarayana Ph.D, the founder of Numeric Insight, Inc has spent more than a decade accumulating expertise in scientific programming, algorithm development and teaching.

At Boston Scientific Corp, he was responsible for the creation of algorithms that power the company’s imaging devices employed to assist detection of atherosclerosis. He is a named inventor on about a dozen patents in pattern recognition and ultrasound imaging. His interest in medical imaging began when he was a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Richard Gordon, one of the pioneers of Computed Tomography algorithms. It was further shaped by a research fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation where he contributed to advancements in echocardiography at the world-renowned Heart Center.

Shashi’s commitment to judiciously apply common sense and advanced analysis to improve products and processes earned him the Six Sigma Black Belt certification by the American Society for Quality.

Although frequently called upon to work on complex algorithms, he believes in the value of keeping it basic; he recognizes the universal customer need for intuitiveness and simplicity in a product.

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