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Can Tariffs Solve America’s Trade Deficit Puzzle?

Macroeconomics
Analysis
In early 2025, the United States sent ripples across the global economy by unveiling a sweeping set of new tariffs. These trade penalties targeted key sectors and countries…
Apr 11, 2025
Asitav Sen

Musical Journey Through Numbers

visualization
R
analysis
My listening data from Apple Music reveals extensive engagement: over 450 songs from approximately 240 albums were played more than 6,700 times, totaling over 240 hours of…
Apr 7, 2025
Asitav Sen

Electoral bonds data in charts

visualization
R
Data was downloaded from dataful. Rows without reference number or with status Expired are not considered in this analysis. Hence, there may be a variation between the…
Apr 6, 2025
Asitav Sen

Optimization in R - Job Assignment for highest productivity

article
R
Business units often must decide on job assignments under various constrains, to minimize time taken to complete a set of job. Mathematics can help with such decisions, as…
Jul 21, 2023
Asitav Sen

Optimization in R - purchase optimization to minimize cost

article
R
This article showcases solving an assumed business problem using optimization, with R as the tool to do so. Optimization problems come is various shapes and sizes and…
Jan 21, 2023
Asitav Sen

Optimization in R - Production quantities to maximize profit

article
R
This article showcases solving an assumed business problem using optimization, with R as the tool to do so. Optimization problems come is various shapes and sizes and…
Dec 25, 2022
Asitav Sen

Still young, ChatGPT surprises with its abilities

article
R
While the internet is flooding with mentions of what ChatGPT failed to do, what it can do is surprisingly advanced. Below are two such examples. It is not an argument that…
Dec 17, 2022
Asitav Sen

Why businesses may need to work like startups to succeed in digital transformation

article
R
This article discusses why digital transformations fail and what can businesses do about it (explained using a synthetic example from construction equipment industry)…
Mar 29, 2022
Asitav Sen

Another BHL

Electric Backhoe Loader is a reality, yet far fetched dream in India. Here’s why.

article
analysis
machinery
CASE construction equipment recently unveiled project zeus under which it launched a cool new all electric backhoe loader. The model 580 EV is industry’s first fully…
Oct 4, 2020
Asitav Sen

How to predict failure of machinery using data science

article
analysis
R
Everyone knows how annoying mechanical breakdown can be. Production is directly successful because the equipment malfunctions. Large sums of money are lost as production…
Sep 5, 2020
Asitav Sen

Network analysis in Bollywood

article
analysis
R
Network theory is the study of graphs as a representation of relationship between discrete elements. When applied to social relations, it is known as social network analysis.1
Jun 9, 2020
Asitav Sen

Survival Analysis in Cricket

article
analysis
R
Survival analysis deals with estimating probability of continuation of a particular status-quo at given point in time. Naturally, it also estimates the probability of…
May 27, 2020
Asitav Sen

Sustaining the period of negative cash flow is the challenge in short run

What may change for oems of construction equipment in india post covid

article
analysis
machinery
This article discusses micro perspective and focusses on OEMs as individual entity and not on industry as a whole. Challenges for the industry has been discussed in a differe…
Apr 22, 2020
Asitav Sen

Post covid challenges in Construction Equipment industry

article
analysis
machinery
This article discusses a macro perspective, focusing on the industry as a whole (and not on OEMs as individual entities). There is a separate article for that which discusses …
Apr 20, 2020
Asitav Sen

Trends that influence construction equipment business in India

article
analysis
machinery
There is a very interesting difference between passenger car sales and construction equipment sales, at least in India. One may assume that GDP growth boosts both. However…
Feb 2, 2020
Asitav Sen

Munnar – Thekkady – Alappuzha – Athirapilly waterfall

article
travelogue
The following is a part of a travel experience. You may find other episode in the following links. Episode 1 Episode 2
Jul 30, 2017
Soma Das

Thrill at Munnar continues

article
travelogue
The following is a part of a travel experience. You may find other episode in the following links. Episode 1 Episode 3
Jul 30, 2017
Soma Das

Falling water in Waterfall

Journey from Kochi to Munnar

article
travelogue
The following is a part of a travel experience to Munnar. You may find other episode in the following links. Episode 2 Episode 3
Jul 29, 2017
Soma Das

The Entrepreneurship Spirit in RSM MBA

article
RSM MBA
If you need just one single reason to be a part of Rotterdam School of Management, it is the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship. I never in my wildest dream had imagined…
Apr 2, 2017
Asitav Sen

Blind spot in sustainability (RSM MBA experience)

article
RSM MBA
21st century has been witnessing an immense increase in awareness of sustainability.PwC started the first ever initiative of Integrated Reporting. It took us more than a…
Mar 27, 2017
Asitav Sen

Sales and Introverts

Sales and Introverts

article
analysis
Last month, during our organizational behavior class, this topic came up for a short duration. We were asked to relate personality types to job types. Incidentally, one…
Mar 21, 2017
Asitav Sen

Trip to UrbanFarmers (RSM MBA Experience)

article
RSM MBA
There are several things that makes the RSM MBA experience worthwhile. The course in sustainability is probably one of the key factors that will determine whether RSM can…
Mar 19, 2017
Asitav Sen

Valmikinagar - lesser known tiger reserve in India

article
travelogue
It’s exactly 2 years since I last visited this hidden treasure of Bihar - Valmikinagar.
Dec 8, 2012
Asitav Sen

Crawling on Chadar

Chadar Trek - Wildest Trek on Earth

article
travelogue
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf
Feb 12, 2011
Asitav Sen
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