An interesting blog on analytics

Ajay Ohri, an alumnus of IIM Lucknow, has one of the most popular blogs in the field of analytics, www.decisionstats.com. One of the salient features of his blog is an Interviews section where Ajay has done interviews with some of the leading figures in the field of analytics. Ajay recently did a whole series of interviews to get the industry’s thoughts on trends for 2011. They make an interesting reading. He has been publishing articles almost at the rate of 1 a day for the last three and half years and has close to 1200 articles published on his blog itself. In addition, Ajay is a prolific writer on www.coolavenues.com, a portal for students in India.

Here is a brief profile of Ajay, taken from one of his recent interviews.

“Ajay Ohri has been working in the field of analytics since 2004 , when it was a still nascent emerging Industries in India. He has worked with the top two Indian outsourcers listed on NYSE,and with Citigroup on cross sell analytics where he helped sell an extra 50000 credit cards by cross sell analytics .He was one of the very first independent data mining consultants in India working on analytics products and domestic Indian market analytics .He regularly writes on analytics topics on his web site www.decisionstats.com and is currently working on open source analytical tools like R and newer softwares like WPS.”

Ajay Ohri’s interview with Vincent Granville