Author: Ajay Ohri

http://about.me/ajayohri

Interesting Times

Caught the news on my way home again

The stocks are down  , the markets are pained.

Bailed out, or merged out- The big guys remain the same,

While you and me are small ,thus fair game.

So while we work harder for our peanuts,

Our leaders mortgage our foreclosed huts.

Because rich is rich and will always be so,

When times become tough, smaller fish have to go.

Efficiency, performance linked productivity gains

Are the excuses they use to dole out pains.

While the big guys have their meatball,

The little guys kneel and crawl.

We live in interesting times,

Globalized pleasures and globalized pain.

The more things change,The more

they remain the same.

Globalized finances  of global lenders.

Globalized lies of global leaders,

By the time you realize this, your retirement savings are gone.

Your house is half its value, and the game is over

O BPO


Yahoo! Finance
Quote for G

O BPO
Once Flying High,
Now Stock Prices Low,

Millions of families,
and millions of kids
Sweated countless hours
To make you go

The Average day for them
Was night
11 Hours a day
They were worked all right

So that their leaders
Could earn stock options some more
While they were duped
In offsites galore

Because Twenty four year old kids
Dont think too much
A decade later
They are considered too old to touch

There is still someone
Higher above
The CEO of the World
Who sets thing just

Enjoy the market crash
You made your dough
Now time to grow up
O BPO

O BPO
Stop bidding for work dollar ten per hour
stop making other people ‘s kids work untidy hours

Have a conscience, If not
Assume you have
Stop making money
On the sweat and blood of a young lad

Give them a career
Rather than jobs like in musical chairs
Pay them atleast some more
Than white latrine cleaners

Most of the Companies in BPO
Owned by The Private Equity of the West
Yet You allow abuse of
Our Nation’s name without rest

Think about them-they are just brown boys
Treated like toys as they try to earn
Robbing White Middle Class Peters to Pay peanuts to Brown Pauls
O BPO, Stop this merry merry go

O BPO


Yahoo! Finance
Quote for G

O BPO
Once Flying High,
Now Stock Prices Low,

Millions of families,
and millions of kids
Sweated countless hours
To make you go

The Average day for them
Was night
11 Hours a day
They were worked all right

So that their leaders
Could earn stock options so more
While they were duped
In offsites galore

Because Twenty four year old kids
Dont think too much
A decade later
They are considered too old to touch

There is still someone
Higher above
The CEO of a BPO
Who sets thing just

Enjoy the market crash
You made your dough
Now time to grow up
O BPO

O BPO
Stop bidding for dollar ten per hour
stop making kids work untidy hours

Have a conscience, If not
Assume you have
Stop making money
On blood of young lads

Give them a career
Rather than jobs lie musical chairs
Pay them atleast some more
Than a white latrine cleaner

Most of Companies of BPO
Owned by The West
Yet You allow abuse of
Our Country ‘s name without rest

Think about they are just brown boys
Treated like toys as they try to earn
Robbing White Peters to Pay peanuts to Brown Pauls
O BPO, Stop this merry merry go

SQL Server for the Clouds

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http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/cloud/

Is Microsoft Really going the cloud way ?

Thanks to a post on www.analyticbridge.com which brought this to my notice.

You load data from a local .csv file.I used the Microsoft demo dataset. Then go in series of the top tab. All screenshots belong to Microsoft Corp.

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Want more ? Visit http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/cloud/

 

Good Ole Microsoft . And God Bless Bill and Jerry (from the ads!)

Yahoo Finance Analysis

Sector Chosen -Indian Outsourcing Sector since past two years compared to Benchmark Indices in both India and US

Interestingly the sector destroyed more value even after compensating for Financial Sector Recent Crisis -Partly because it suffered from currency uncertainity ,and macro economic uncertainities of two countries India and US. GE which did a deal to sell a big stake in Industry leader earlier at 12 USD per share seems to have a made a wise bet, and so did British Airways which exited at time of WNS’s IPO. The rest of investors who have either invested long or short seemed to have lost value. With new added economic uncertainities , and political backlash to unfettered tax break enabled offshoring – Are India’s outsourcing glory days over ? Or is it just a maturing of the Industry with the hype factor taken out of the P/E Multiples of Indian Outsourcing Companies.

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Screen shot courtesy of Yahoo Finance – which remains the leader in beautiful financial graphical tools for finance at http://finance.yahoo.com

R and Google Docs

I was working on R and generating a huge number of graphs. These then needed to be uploaded to Google Docs for Collobrative working. A bit taxed, I asked a query on the

R Help list r-help@r-project.org

My fears were right – there was no such package. But then a great programming wizard Duncan from Omegahat wrote back that he has just developed a package to do that.

Hallejuah !

Cloud computing /Google Docs say hello to the R Statistics package.

R say hello to the cloud.

R can be used for data mining as well (but it is dependent on RAM as it works in RAM memory).It is an ideal fit for Statistics Packages as a SaaS on something like Amazon EC2 given high annual costs of  other stats packages, and local hardware needed.

I first wrote about this fit in the Ohri Framework which talks of the fit of cloud computing and open source statistics.R is free and has thousands of developers.

Anyways ,Download the RGoogleDocs package from below site

http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/

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The RGoogleDocs package

Last Release: 0.1-0 (24 Sep 2008)

This package is an example of using the RCurl and XML packages to quickly develop an interface to the Google Documents API. It was written to test RCurl and also to illustrate how to use these tools with modern Web applications. Google Documents is a REST "application" and so this is an example of using R to interface to that.

The package allows you to get a list of the documents and details about each of them, download the contents of a document, remove a document, and upload a document, even binary files.

There is some documentation for the package at this point in the form of a "user’s guide" (or in PDF form). These are included with the package.

If you want to upload binary files, you will want to install a beta version of the RCurl package. Duncan Temple Lang <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu> Last modified: Wed Sep 24 11:51:45 PDT 2008

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