As our lives become increasingly digital, the physical infrastructure powering it, data centers, demands enormous resources. One often-overlooked cost? Water! From hyperscale campuses to neighborhood colocation facilities, data centers consume millions of gallons daily to stay cool. This post explores the scale of water usage across U.S. data centers and compares it to household consumption, […]
Category: Analytics
The AI Flywheel
The modern AI ecosystem isn’t just a race for model supremacy; it’s a dense web of investments, chip dependencies, and cloud entanglements. Some of the biggest players are simultaneously competitors, collaborators, and customers. The relationships are intricate, often opaque, and increasingly circular. Take Nvidia, for example: it invests in OpenAI, which in turn buys Nvidia […]
Understanding Step Charts (and creating them in Excel, Python)
Step charts are suitable for showing fluctuating or irregular values over time. There’s no built-in Step chart type in Excel, so most people use a Line chart instead, which is not really ideal or sometimes accurate (I’ll explain that below). With proper data shaping, it’s possible to create Step charts in Excel. In this post, […]
Excel…aww…I love you too!
Is it possible to use Excel for romantic or sentimental purposes? Absolutely! While Excel is commonly associated with routine tasks in accounting, finance, and data analysis, its capabilities extend far beyond these uses. In this post, I will showcase another unusual application of Excel that taps into its potential for more heartfelt endeavors. I experimented […]
Creating A Game Timeline Chart in Excel
BONUS VERSION Added on July 2, 2024 on a Euro 2024 game at end of the post. Recently, while following the thrilling Premier League soccer (European football) matches, I came across an eye-catching visual representation of the day’s game scores and timelines on BBC Sports. The post appeared as follows (on my mobile app): It’s […]
Did Seahawks Need an Overhaul for 2024 season?
Seattle Seahawks find themselves at a crossroads after the 2023 NFL season. The team faces critical decisions regarding their coaching staff and personnel. Changes came hard and fast to some fans’ surprise, and to some, expectedly if not a little later than expected. Whatever your position is there are arguments for both supporting an overhaul […]
All About NFL’s Top Heach Coaches
I dug some information on some of the 32 head coaches in NFL today, and did some analayses. I was intrigued by their performance, compensation, their roots, their network and influence, correlations among various parameters like age, experience, wins, and salary. I also looked at how many teams they’ve coached in the past, and how […]
Interactive Reports – State Facts
Here’s an interactive data visualization of some key stats about each state (and DC) such as: state capital, size in square miles, largest city (by population), state population, year of statehood, population density (taking into account land size), population change in percentage over the years, highest peak in state and median household income. Population change […]
A very effective, new AI-driven Video Creator
I am constantly scanning the AI space for new developments and newcomers in the arena. One of the most practical and stable tool I recently discovered is Pictory. It does video creation with a simple text script input, it generates videos even from a URL from any source (like a blog or article online) and […]
Early gambler’s prediction of Super Bowl winner for 2023 season
Here are the probabilities of each team winning the Super Bowl according to the betting odds from Caesars Sportsbook as of September 6, 2022: As you can see, the Buffalo Bills had the highest probability of winning the Super Bowl according to the betting odds, followed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers, who […]