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Developing software that tries to make sense of unstructured text.
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Isn't that "reading books" and understanding their meaning? If we ever get a machine that can do that, we are all redundant.
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Hahaha, no. We are nowhere near that. It is more about things like helping doctors find treatments for similar diagnosis ("similar" being the key word), sentiment analysis of Twitter feeds, etc.
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Is your company/project funded by InQTel?
/ravi
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Nah. My employer[^] is a pretty big and profitable software company.
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Ah. 
I used to work at Endeca[^] in the early 2000s before we were acquired by Oracle. We did some similar stuff, among other things.
/ravi
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I know you worked at Endeca (my friend Dejan Mircevski worked with you). Didn't Endeca use our SDK - it was called Inxight at the time?
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Wow, small world! 
/ravi
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Instead of a data monkey I now find I am a data munger. A crappy sounding word for a really crappy job.
I find it astonishing that a tier 2 bank can have so many disparate systems.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: I find it astonishing that a tier 2 bank can have so many disparate systems.
It has been my experience that not just banks have disparate systems. I know for a fact that high end stock and brokerage houses have the same problem as well, and there really is no end in site for this ailment.
So much of there software is internally facing, that quality control, modernization, and scalability are foreign terms to them.
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This stems from legacy systems that have been doing a good job. The powers that be see no point in replacing something that works with an unknown quantity. History is full of instances of new software either failing to meet requirements or introducing new issues that have to be fixed/worked around.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Herbie Mountjoy wrote: This stems from legacy systems that have been doing a good job.
Well, I used to work for Goldman Sachs and I can tell you that your comment is not entirely true. Just saying...
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Pfft, only tier two?
I'm just glad I'm not scraping mainframe screens anymore.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Instead of a data monkey I now find I am a data munger
Apparently the previous title was found to be offensive to monkeys.
If the citizens of the largest city in Eastern Bihar get offended, you're really going to struggle to find a title.. 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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just started Upgrading my technical skills by learning R Programming
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I've been doing this too, via DataCamp. It's been nice to learn the other data science tools, as much of my data science has been on the C++/Matlab arena.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Erik,I am using Udemy and Pluralsight to learn R .
Have a look at this CodeSchool
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