!ndian'ovation

Here are the links to most fascinating videos from Ted on India and Innovation.

We understand that adversity and necessity can lead to Innovations and Inventions.

These simple frugal innovations can bring long lasting impact and make a difference in lives of people.

They are a must-watch.Truly !ndian'ovation.
Click on the topics. They are linked to Ted Talks.

9 talks about innovation in India

1. Arunachalam Muruganantham : sanitary napkins
2. Vinay Venkatraman: “Technology crafts” for the digitally underserved
3. Anil Gupta: India’s hidden hotbeds of invention
4. Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives
5. Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
6. Nirmalya Kumar: India’s invisible innovation
7. Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe
8. Nandan Nilekani’s ideas for India’s future
9. Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

Learnings from Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda  150th  Birth anniversary (1863-2013 )

 

Five Point Summary : Box and Whisker Plots

One evening, when you were reading a newspaper and your ten-year-old son came to you and announced that he scored 90 marks in Mathematics and scored 80 in English and rushed to play cricket. 
You were Happy and Sad at the same time. If 90 makes you Happy and 80 makes you sad, Think again!

Well, the next day when visited his class, you received new information.
In Mathematics, everyone in the class got more than 90 marks and the class average is 95. In English, everyone is below your son. He is the topper! You are Happy and Sad again!

Well, that means more information, more clarity.

More the information does not mean all marks of all the children in all the subjects. 
So, you need a summary.  The best summary that can describe data is the 5 Point Summary.

What are those five points? ( The simple definitions are  from wiki.paranormalcop.org)

   1.Minimum - the value above which there is 100% data
   2.First Quartile - the value above which there is 75% data
   3.Median (second quartile) - the value which divides the data set into two equal halves, 50% above and       50% below
  4.Third Quartile - the value above which there is 25% data
  5.Maximum - the value above which there is no data.

These five points can be represented in a graph that is called Box and Whiskers plot.

Creating Box plots in Excel are quite tricky as excel does not offer a straightforward chart type for the same.

Here is a Box and Whiskers Plot template created for you.

You can create up to 10 plots. 

Download the excel from @Downloads .

This is a Do ..Co..Mo stuff: Download, Copy and Modify at your will.

Few Ideas to get started.

1. Plot employee performance scores before and after training. You may be able to find out the training impact!

2. Plot employees Incentive earnings of last 2 years… You may understand the truth of employee earning!

Here is a wonderful article named  Visual Presentation of Data by Means of Box Plots 
by D.L. Massart,a J. Smeyers-Verbeke,a X. Caprona and Karin Schlesierb

Here is another great resource for special excel charts.

Easy Scatter Plot with 5 Dimensions..

This is a Scatter plot 

Scatter plots are very useful graphs to display two variables. They help to identify and measure correlations between variables.
It is customary to plot Dependent variable on Y-Axis or vertical axis and  Independent variable on X-Axis or horizontal axis.
Adding Labels to data points on a scatter plot in excel is a difficult task and is similar to creating and labelling bubble charts.
You need to add each variable and name (label) as a series... It's purely manual work...Here is a tool to make your job easy.
This is a tool created by  Mathis from Clear Lines Consulting.
With a click of a button, you can create scatter plot with Two variables Plotted, with Labels, different Colors and different Markers.
( 2 Variables(X and Y) + Data Point shape for the category as another dimension + Color of the data point as one dimension and the Name of the data point as another. Totalling five dimensions)
You can also download the Excel workbook from Mathis’ post "Excel-ScatterPlot-with-labels-colors-and-markers".
This is a very useful tool! Thanks to Mathis...
Credits: Power Scatter Plot Excel sheet: Copyright © 2009, Clear Lines Consulting, LLC
http://www.clear-lines.com
Licensed under a Ms-PL license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ms-pl.html) : feel free to use and modify, but leave the © in if you distribute.

Alternatively, you can use a add-in to show labels on the graph.
An excel add-in called Labeler, created by Rob Bovey can be downloaded from here.
It is free. Try It!
Excel Add-In Credits:

My New Year Resolutions

Million Dollar Dialogue

A life time of learning is trodden in to simple dialogues from films.
Here are few…

Million Dollar Dialogue from Satya Mahesh Kallakuru

Year end...Self Apprisal

2012. is about to end. 
No Armegadon on 12.12.12 or on 21.12.12. 7 Billion thanks for the most uneventful year!
We just have to wait for new stories on 11.12.13 or 13.12.13 which happens to be a Friday ;-)
Well, on that happy note and wild anticipation, do you wish to recalibrate yourself with resolutions? 
Like to test yourself?  Test your IQ, Personality, Career Values.... 

Here is a brilliant site called 123 Test.
It's Free. and good. This site hosts the most popular tests for Free. Registration is optional.
Test yourself. Share it with your family. 
Let your spouse also attempt these tests on a weekend...Enjoy the process and outcomes.

For those who wish to take it a little more seriously, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Jung Typology Test is a well-known test in corporate circles. An elaborate version of the same is here from the site Human Metrics. There is a considerable brouhaha on this test recently, However, MBTI is the most widely used psychometric test across.

Here below is MBTI Typology Summary quoting Various famous Personalities....

Credits: The Washington Post; Ryan Smith and Eva Gregersen, creators of celebritytypes.com