Author Archives: Siva

Deducing global presence from social network

Is it possible to figure out if a company has global presence? In this post, I will try to provide some metrics that can help finding that out. One of the details that twitter users can provide about themselves is … Continue reading

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How chirpy are your twitter followers – Part 2?

This post is the continuation of the previous post on twitter followers tweet frequency. The follower of Salesforce with highest number of tweets is CodeOConduct. The follower of Workday with highest number of tweets is TechZder. And the follower of … Continue reading

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How chirpy are your twitter followers?

This is the fourth post in the series of Social Network Intelligence. In  this post, the focus is on how many tweets your followers tweet? That is, do they just have a few tweets or are they mega-tweeters? Before we … Continue reading

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Followers’ Followers Are My Followers

As the proverb goes enemy’s enemy is my friend, it doesn’t have to be that way with Social Networks. For companies spending lots of marketing money on Social Networks, one of their main goal is to amass as many followers … Continue reading

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Rate of building the Social Network

This is the second post in the series of Social Network Intelligence. Companies are spending a lot of marketing money and most companies now have a link to Facebook and Twitter just like they have links to About and Products/Solutions … Continue reading

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Social Network Intelligence

As per wikipedia, “A social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors (such as individuals or organizations) and the dyadic ties between these actors. ” These actors have several attributes and analyzing the relationships using these … Continue reading

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Hybrid Car Savings

Today I had a conversation with someone at work about buying a regular car vs a hybrid. He was of the opinion that the difference in prices don’t justify going for a Hybrid unless you drive 150K miles. Wanting to … Continue reading

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2% can solve 25% of the problems

Weekend was a milestone for Project Euler which published the 400th problem. Recently a new feature has been added in the Problems Solved section that displays the graph of how many people solved a certain number of problems. As per … Continue reading

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Learning Mathematics

Growing up, Mathematics was one of my favorite subjects. And I was reasonably good at it. Nothing to be proud of though, just that it’s a subject I wasn’t afraid of and I could easily understand the difficult concepts and … Continue reading

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Numerical Integration Of A Recursive Function

I never thought I would pen down something about as dry as this one (may be making my childhood Math teachers proud :)). Few days back I was solving a puzzle that required precisely this. It required that I do … Continue reading

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