Making Pie-charts look Sexy – The CNN’s tax burden analysis chart
There is always a debate about how good or evil pie charts are. While visualization purists believe pie charts should be avoided at all costs, newbies find creating and using pies very easy and often over do it. I have blogged few techniques involving pie chart visualizations like in-cell pie charts, speedometer charts, donut clocks […]
How NOT to do Online Advertising – Lessons from Rediff
Rediff seems to have taken a full leap from the standards of online advertising and web layouts when they realized that lots of people are going to click on day 1 scorecard link for IND-AUS first test match. The result is nothing short of user disgust and anger. See it for yourself. There seem to […]
How we think!
I am not sure if this post will help you, but it will surely help me. Today something interesting happened here. One of my classmates lost his rather valuable electronic gadget. He forgot the piece of circuitry somewhere and later mailed the batch that it was lost. Later in the night when I went to […]
PG on TV
Great news. PG (Allwin Agnel, the owner of India’s Biggest B-School Discussion Forum) is interviewd by CNBC TV18 for thier Young turks programme. Check it out tomorrow at 10:30. Rock on PG!
Leader or Manager? What is my calling?
Today we had a session on “Leaders and Managers” in OA. We had 4 wonderful Readings on leadership and management. (read some of them: Narcissistic Leaders, Managers and Leaders – Are they Different?). The readings are thought provoking. After living 24 years and going through so many textbooks and people I still cant define what […]
Thinking
For the last one hour or so i am thinking. I am thinking about my future and my current state. After coming here life has become really hectic. This place never gave me a chance to stop and think where all this will take me. Under the disguise of handling stress and managing hazaar things […]
Are we far from reality?
Yesterday during our habitual night walks govar, srickant (only non-ghissu academic committee member) and myself started arguing about this article. Srickant was for the issues raised in the article. Me and Govar are against the issues. For those who have not read the article here is the crux of it. IIMs or other Indian B […]