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Logos

Rathan Haran — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:42:51 +0000

They are everywhere. And they are a great way to make your business memorable. How many logos can you spot in this Oscar Award winner? Logorama from Hormoz Zamanpour Siahkal on Vimeo.

We Are The World Part 2

Rathan Haran — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:42:13 +0000

I’m not really sure how I feel about this. For a pretty powerful and inspiring song, I’m not sure it really needed a remake, especially since it seemed a little B+ in the star power department. I guess someone was compelled to do this and the earthquake in Haiti coupled with the 25th anniversary of [...]

How Mint.com Can Fix The Banking Industry

Rathan Haran — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:18:14 +0000

So you are unemployed, with no job prospects in sight and a healthy mortgage and family to worry about. You are not alone as a staggering 17% of Americans are currently out of work (sorry, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, this is a more realistic vision of the jobless rate, not the 10% that you [...]

Stats in Sociology – Not Boring Version

Rathan Haran — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:23:54 +0000

Hans Rosling shows you how to to make stats cool again. Visualization of data is a great learning tool, and creating ways to do this will be of great value to those with less mathematical sophistication than others. The insights that Hans Rosling was able to illustrate in this presentation were pretty amazing as well, and [...]

The Perfect Fantasy Football Play

Rathan Haran — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:09:49 +0000

I’ve been playing in a fantasy football league with the same group of guys for about ten years now, and like many others of you out there, I just can’t win. It seems like everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, from a missed extra point to the NFL reviewing game tape to change [...]

Bill Belichick + Statistics = Usually Good Outcomes

Rathan Haran — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:48:33 +0000

I’ve been a die hard Giants fan for as long as I can remember, and although I was technically alive and barely remember parts of the 86 season (and nothing from that Super Bowl), the 90 Super Bowl team made me love the G-Men . They had me at Mark Ingram’s 3rd and 13 conversion. Bill [...]

Music and Math

Rathan Haran — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:30:18 +0000

This is just unbelievable. The sync between music and math is undeniable. It’s shocking to see an audience, a random group of individuals untrained in music, be able to use the power of the pentatonic scale. Don’t Worry, Be Happy!

Predicting the World Series using Python

Rathan Haran — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:45:51 +0000

Last week, I’ve started to learn Python through a peer-to-peer learning session set up through nextNY. The material that we’ve gone through has made learning programming very easy to wrap our heads around, and the environment of cooperative learning has been awesome. I’m looking forward to being a Python ninja* pretty soon. With four and half [...]

Google Wave Applications

Rathan Haran — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:54:39 +0000

As Jeff and I were thinking about ways to integrate Google Wave on Wixity, we really couldn’t think of a totally awesome way to use it within our platform. Everything that we came up seemed like a feeble attempt to integrate the next best thing, without really knowing whether it was the next best thing. Luckily, [...]

It’s Me. Wario!

Rathan Haran — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:46:34 +0000

Wario Land: Shake it has done a brilliant job in creating this masterpiece of online advertising. Absolutely love the creativity these guys had to build this. Check it out here