Jega Vigneshwaran

Posts by Jega Vigneshwaran

Zillow & Zestimate: The Future of Real Estate?

by on August 1, 2017 8:31 pm
The speakers during Friday’s lecture focused primarily on machine learning and it’s applications to different fields. In this blog post, I’ll be exploring the impact machine learning has had in the real estate industry, specifically Zillow’s Zestimate tool. Companies like Redfin, Zillow, and Trulia are changing the landscape of an industry that’s been entrenched in… Read more Zillow & Zestimate: The Future of Real Estate?

Big Data Mining in Medicine

by on July 27, 2017 11:03 pm
One of the main themes of last Friday’s lecture was big data and its impact across numerous different industries. In today’s blog post, I’d like to focus on how big data and the associated process’ impact on the healthcare industry. A phrase commonly interchanged with big data is data mining. In an article by Jennifer… Read more Big Data Mining in Medicine

IoTA: Internet of Things [for] Aerospace

by on July 18, 2017 8:37 pm
Nick Colsey (VP of Business Development @ Sony Electronics), JB Straubel (co-founder of Tesla), and John Donovan (Group President @ AT&T) discussed how the Internet of Things (IoT) applies to each of their fields. When most people think of the acronym “IoT”, they tend to think of concepts related to the topics discussed by the… Read more IoTA: Internet of Things [for] Aerospace

Cloud Computing in the Developing World

by on July 13, 2017 10:49 pm
Carl Eschenbach, a Partner at Sequoia Capital and former President of VMware, discussed the evolution of cloud computing during last Friday’s lecture. One particular aspect of cloud computing that Eschenbach touched on, that I’d like to expand upon in this blog post, was the effect of cloud computing in the developing world. For countries that… Read more Cloud Computing in the Developing World

Leveraging Centralized Data to Benefit Residents

by on July 9, 2017 8:42 pm
California’s Deputy CIO, Chris Cruz, provided an illuminating account of the State of California’s efforts to modernize its IT systems and attract innovators to the public sector. One area that he discussed was the state’s efforts to reduce unnecessary waste (ex. eliminating separate servers for each state board, commission, or department by centralizing data storage… Read more Leveraging Centralized Data to Benefit Residents