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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

Valmikinagar - lesser known tiger reserve in India

article

travelogue

It’s exactly 2 years since I last visited this hidden treasure of Bihar - Valmikinagar.

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

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