Dec 3, 2022Life Science Analytics MarketHow big is the market? The first source shows a roughly 100% increase by 2030. Life Science Analytics Market Size to Hit US$ 18.12 Bn by 2030 The global life science analytics market was valued at USD 8.6 Billion in 2021 and is expected to reach around USD…www.precedenceresearch.com The outlook is a little bit more modest. But it shows that Services growth is much higher than software growth.Life Sciences3 min readLife Sciences3 min read
Oct 25, 2022Can’t find the picture that you’re looking for to jazz up your presentation? Generate images with DALL·E 2 !I was looking for some filler pictures to paste into my corporate powerpoints. Normally, you would just search for some royalty free image and then paste it in. For some specific pictures, sometimes it is really hard to find something that matches. In particular, I wanted a picture of a…2 min read2 min read
Sep 25, 2022Top 20 Largest Biomedical companies by revenue in Billions USD from 2012 to 2021Here is a fun visualization of the largest biomedical companies by revenue between 2012 and 2021. Visualizations like this help people understand just how much has changed over the last decade. Many of the same familiar names remain on the list year after year. …2 min read2 min read
Aug 28, 2022The first few months after implementing a new reporting platform is spent on change management — and silencing the criticsThe platform that I’m running is the second large scale reporting platform that I’ve ran during my career. I ran the global commercial reporting system for a large pharmaceutical company for 3 years. Now I run a global platform for a SaaS company. In the first few months (or years)…2 min read2 min read
Feb 23, 2022The era of social activism: Are you donating enough money?In reading the book Giving — Purpose is the New Currency from Alexandre Mars, I’m reminded of a lot of parallels happening in my professional life. Companies should give back Did you know that in India, companies with revenue over $10 billion in rupees must give 2% to charity? Indian law requires companies to give 2% of profits to charity. Is it working? India is the first country in the world to enshrine corporate giving into law. Following a change in company law in…www.theguardian.comSocial Activism2 min readSocial Activism2 min read
Dec 8, 2021Technical insights from building a massive Data LakeOne aspect of work that I particularly enjoy is solving difficult problems. I am lucky that I am responsible for a platform that works with a large volume of data. Having worked in Enterprise tech most of my career, it no longer fazes me to work on a couple of…4 min read4 min read
Jan 5, 2021Lessons learned building a high performance data lake for CRM using AWS and Apache DruidLast year, I had the pleasure of building a massive data platform from scratch. I was given the opportunity to build the stack from the ground up, and not be constrained by legacy platforming decision with a couple of exceptions. First, it had to be on AWS. Second, it had…6 min read6 min read
Mar 3, 2018Recommending which HCP’s to invite to an Event using Prediction.ioMy idea is to use a recommendation engine to suggest which HCP’s to invite to a particular event. https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov publishes data on HCP spend. I used this to create a data set for training my engin.e We can use the Universal Recommender. …Machine Learning2 min readMachine Learning2 min read
Jan 16, 2018Pharma CRM on the Blockchain and Distributed LedgersBlockchain is one of the hottest technologies in the last few years. Here are a couple of areas where Pharma CRM can take advantage of this technology. Even if companies may not be using blockchain in the short-term, the question of adoption is just a matter of when. Blockchain tech…Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Dec 27, 2017Mining Ethereum with AWSMining Ethereum with AWS Given the recent run-up of crypto prices, I wanted to see first hand for myself if it was economical to mine in the cloud. I didn’t want to purchase a cloud mining contract, but rather see how well AWS’s spot instance pricing works out. …AWS3 min readAWS3 min read
