The Answer is YES - that is what I did and learned a lot from my first hackathon. Picture Courtesy wix.com In this blog I will share my experience and lessons learned , which could be helpful for beginners like me. Recently I heard about a Python Hackathon starting in a few days. At that time I had just started learning Python, and I don’t have any work experience. So I was initially hesitant to join - but  I thought why not? Let's give it a try. It can be an opportunity fo

Picture Courtesy Wix.com Introduction There are 4 primary types of analytics viz.,  Descriptive analytics : To understand what happened Diagnostic analytics: To explain why it happened Predictive analytics: To predict what might happen in the future, and Prescriptive analytics: To recommend what should be done to achieve the best possible  outcome. In this blog I would like to explain the correlation between Predictive and Prescriptive analysis with a real world example, base