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What Is Left for a Data Scientist When AI Writes the Code?

A short introduction to an article on my AI Basics blog
analytics
data science
AI
career

AI now writes the code and AutoML builds the model. What stays human for a data scientist: defining the problem and turning data into decisions.

Oct 24, 2026
2 min

THE IMAGE AND THE PERSON

What Jiddu Krishnamurti and systems thinking teach a leader about seeing people as they are
leadership
systems thinking
philosophy
management

What Jiddu Krishnamurti and systems thinking teach a leader about seeing people as they are

Oct 15, 2026
12 min

THINKING IN SYSTEMS WITH AI

Why Data Science and AI have not delivered the value businesses expected, and why it is not an IT problem
AI
data science
systems thinking
business

Why Data Science and AI have not delivered the value businesses expected, and why it is not an IT problem

Oct 7, 2026
28 min

The Strategic Lever Nobody Pulls

What the evidence says about why analytics functions keep missing business
analytics
data science
strategy
non-tech
India
US

What the evidence says about why analytics functions keep missing business

May 2, 2026
12 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -1 | Episode - 5

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 1 Episode 5: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Apr 26, 2026
7 min

Career we chose, is it our identity or the community’s?

How Every Indian Community Played the Same Game with Different Cards
culture
community
social mobility
India
parenting

How Every Indian Community Played the Same Game with Different Cards

Apr 22, 2026
18 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -1 | Episode - 4

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 1 Episode 4: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Apr 19, 2026
7 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -1 | Episode - 3

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 1 Episode 3: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Apr 17, 2026
10 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -1 | Episode - 2

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 1 Episode 2: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Mar 10, 2026
10 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -1 | Episode - 1

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 1 Episode 1: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Mar 7, 2026
8 min

DEATHS BY SELF INFLICTION - Part 01

suicides
crime
mental health
self-harm

Self Injury can be suicidal or non-suicidal, ideally in literature self-harm is by definition non-suicidal, but it may be life-threating.

Nov 9, 2025
6 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -2 | Episode - 2

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 2 Episode 2: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Oct 27, 2025
6 min

TRUST & BETRAYAL - Season -1 | Episode - 2

love
story
trust
betrayal

Trust & Betrayal, Season 1 Episode 2: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Oct 24, 2025
6 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -2 | Episode - 1

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 2 Episode 1: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Aug 9, 2025
6 min

TRUST & BETRAYAL - Season -1 | Episode - 1

love
story
trust
betrayal

Trust & Betrayal, Season 1 Episode 1: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Jul 21, 2025
5 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -1 | Episode - 8

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 1 Episode 8: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Jun 8, 2025
9 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -1 | Episode - 7

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 1 Episode 7: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

Jun 7, 2025
14 min

LOVE & TRUST - Season -1 | Episode - 6

love
story
trust

Love & Trust, Season 1 Episode 6: a chapter from Threads of One Life, a novel in progress by Arun Koundinya Parasa.

May 25, 2025
5 min

CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN

Indian Context
crimes against women

These days, every brat on YouTube speaks about their fundamental right to freedom of expression.

Jul 25, 2024
7 min

Cognitive Delusion under Information Deluge?

psychology
reflection

Everyone would doubt the difference between delusion and Hallucination. I hope this section will bring the initial conceptual clarity.

Feb 25, 2024
4 min

Extended Learnings -124 | Indian Culture | Perennial Cycle of Ānanda ( Bliss )

spirituality

Perennial Cycle of Ānanda ( Bliss ) Part 124 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Jan 8, 2024
4 min

Glossary - 103 | Indian Culture | Sanātana Dharma

spirituality

Sanātana Dharma: from my glossary of key ideas in Indian culture and Sanātana Dharma, written as a companion to the Extended Learnings series.

Aug 29, 2022
2 min

Glossary - 102 | Indian Culture | Aham Brahmasmi

spirituality

Aham Brahmasmi: from my glossary of key ideas in Indian culture and Sanātana Dharma, written as a companion to the Extended Learnings series.

Aug 5, 2022
2 min

Glossary - 101 | Indian Culture | Atman & Maya

spirituality

Atman & Maya: from my glossary of key ideas in Indian culture and Sanātana Dharma, written as a companion to the Extended Learnings series.

Jul 9, 2022
3 min

Extended Learnings - Summary | What Next?

spirituality

We learned that ‘Brahmacharya’ are the people who embark on their travel to meet the Showman.

Jun 19, 2022
3 min

Extended Learnings -123 | Indian Culture | Living in Truth !

spirituality

Living in Truth ! Part 123 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Jun 14, 2022
5 min

Extended Learnings -121 | Indian Culture | Understanding Truth !

spirituality

Understanding Truth ! Part 122 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

May 5, 2022
5 min

Extended Learnings -121 | Indian Culture | Understanding Truth !

spirituality

Understanding Truth ! Part 121 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Dec 4, 2021
5 min

Extended Learnings -120 | Indian Culture | Conflict Hypocrisy ?

spirituality

Conflict Hypocrisy ? Part 120 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Nov 13, 2021
5 min

Extended Learnings -119 | Indian Culture | Conflict with Past!

spirituality

Conflict with Past! Part 119 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Nov 6, 2021
4 min

Extended Learnings -118 | Indian Culture | Vicissitudes of Pain!

spirituality

Vicissitudes of Pain! Part 118 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Sep 9, 2021
4 min

Extended Learnings -117 | Indian Culture | Does it Hurt You?

spirituality

Does it Hurt You? Part 117 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Aug 13, 2021
4 min

Extended Learnings -116 | Indian Culture | Which Guna Out of the Three Gunas is Best?

spirituality

Which Guna Out of the Three Gunas is Best? Part 116 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Jul 30, 2021
4 min

COVID 19 : STEROIDS , DRUGS & DEATHS

COVID-19

Steroids, drugs and deaths during India’s second COVID-19 wave.

May 26, 2021
8 min

Extended Learnings -115 | Indian Culture | What work to be done to Realize God?

spirituality

What work to be done to Realize God? Part 115 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

May 22, 2021
4 min

Extended Learnings -114 | Indian Culture | Can we Work to Realize God?

spirituality

Can we Work to Realize God? Part 114 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

May 9, 2021
4 min

COVID 19: REVISITED WITH A NEW STRAIN

COVID-19

COVID-19 revisited with a new strain: the second wave in India and what everyone should know.

May 7, 2021
6 min

Extended Learnings -113 | Indian Culture | Can we Work to Realize God?

spirituality

Can we Work to Realize God? Part 113 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

May 2, 2021
5 min

Extended Learnings -112 | Indian Culture | Can we Work to Realize God?

spirituality

Can we Work to Realize God? Part 112 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Apr 17, 2021
5 min

Extended Learnings -111 | Indian Culture | Why So Many Festivals ??

spirituality

Why So Many Festivals ?? Part 111 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Apr 10, 2021
5 min

Extended Learnings -110 | Indian Culture | Why to Pray ?

spirituality

Why to Pray ? Part 110 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Apr 4, 2021
4 min

Extended Learnings -109 | Indian Culture | Why give Naivedyam to God ?

spirituality

Why give Naivedyam to God ? Part 109 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Mar 26, 2021
4 min

Extended Learnings -108 | Indian Culture | Sacrifice ?

spirituality

Sacrifice ? Part 108 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Mar 21, 2021
3 min

Extended Learnings - 107 | Indian Culture | If Showman is our guide; Why each has different Guided Paths?

spirituality

If Showman is our guide; Why each has different Guided Paths? Part 107 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Mar 14, 2021
3 min

Extended Learnings -106 | Indian Culture | Any Relatable Personal Gods?

spirituality

Any Relatable Personal Gods? Part 106 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Mar 7, 2021
3 min

Extended Learnings -105 | Indian Culture | Is Celibacy Needed?

spirituality

Is Celibacy Needed? Part 105 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Feb 7, 2021
3 min

Extended Learnings -104 | Indian Culture | Hero Worship was it Integral Part of ours?

spirituality

Hero Worship was it Integral Part of ours? Part 104 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Jan 25, 2021
3 min

Extended Learnings -103 | Indian Culture | How Rishis became Gurus!!!

spirituality

How Rishis became Gurus!!! Part 103 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Jan 16, 2021
2 min

Extended Learnings -102 | Indian Culture | Did Rishis created reproducible research?

spirituality

Did Rishis created reproducible research? Part 102 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Jan 9, 2021
3 min

Extended Learnings -101 | Indian Culture | Why Rishis had to move to mountains???

spirituality

Why Rishis had to move to mountains??? Part 101 of Extended Learnings, my series on Indian culture, the Bhagavad Gita and Sanātana Dharma.

Jan 4, 2021
2 min

My Learnings On Indian Culture

spirituality

The Comprehension of Indian Culture has lost in the personalities of the gods we created and the corresponding norms which were picked from our vedas.

Dec 31, 2020
2 min

Knight G1 to F3 - Opening Move !!!

goals

Knight G1 to F3 is usually considered as an aggressive opening move in chess. Beginners usually get alerted when the opponent begins his game with this step.

Dec 30, 2020
2 min

Tenet, Axiom & Reality

reflection

Few popular beliefs that we have in India are - ’ South Indians can’t articulate much ‘,’ By the age of 28 we have to get settled in life ‘,’ The way they…

Dec 19, 2020
2 min

The CONFLICT

reflection
conflict

We usually solve many conflicts that arise outside us; but we usually submit ourselves to the conflict within us.

Nov 30, 2020
10 min

A Happy Diwali - 2020

reflection
festive

Diwali or Deepavali is a popular Indian Festival where-in every kid within us awaits for the moment to burst the evening crackers.

Nov 15, 2020
2 min

Communication is the Key

reflection
communication

Communication has been the key for any relationship. However, most people say it is trust; but it is a derivative of communication and intimacy space shared…

Nov 13, 2020
2 min

COVID 19: THE CONCLUSION

COVID-19

The conclusion: my summary of 100 days of reading and learning about COVID-19.

Jul 11, 2020
7 min

COVID 19 : TREND, FORECAST & WHEN IT ENDS!!!!

COVID-19

COVID-19 trend and forecast for India: a personal epidemic-forecasting project on when the pandemic might end.

Jun 6, 2020
7 min

COVID 19: FEAR, STRESS & SUICIDE

COVID-19

Fear, stress and suicide during the COVID-19 lockdown: my view on the news from India.

May 10, 2020
8 min

COVID 19: DEATHS , LOCK DOWN & RECESSION

COVID-19

Deaths, lockdowns and recession: an opinion on the trade-offs India faced during COVID-19.

Apr 27, 2020
6 min

COVID 19 : MEDICAL SCIENCE TO OVERCOME PANDEMIC

COVID-19

How medical science can help overcome the COVID-19 pandemic: the best learnings, summarised in a consumable way.

Apr 15, 2020
16 min

COVID 19: LESSONS FROM ‘IN’ LAND

COVID-19

Lessons for India from the South Korean model and its use of analytics to contain COVID-19 during the lockdown.

Apr 5, 2020
14 min

COVID-19 & NETIZENS REACTIONS

COVID-19

How netizens reacted to COVID-19, checked against the WHO myth busters. Co-authored with Dr. Mahesh Kolli.

Mar 29, 2020
6 min

COVID 19 : FACTS & REALITY CHECK

COVID-19

Facts and a reality check on COVID-19 in March 2020: what we knew and what we didn’t.

Mar 25, 2020
16 min
 

Maturity & its Instant Immaturity

reflection

There are certain situations for many of us in our lives, where we say this banal dialogue to ourselves or to our closed ones.

Feb 24, 2020
3 min

Love is in Air

love

Who doesn’t want to celebrate it every day. It is such a lovely thought to be keep it sustained for-ever.

Feb 15, 2020
2 min

PsychoGraphic Profiling?

consumer behaviour
psychology

If we just google ‘Pyschographic’ we will decent material for our consumption. However, this article is not intended on those lines.

Feb 12, 2020
3 min
 

Consumer behaviour perspective from 30K feet above Sea Level

consumer behaviour
psychology

“Thy King, Thy People” was an age-old adage that we have been listening since childhoods for generations after generations.

Feb 7, 2020
4 min

Depth & Breadth of MultiTasking

multitasking
time management

One and half year ago I came across these two books which helped me to improve and change my thinking on multi-tasking.

Oct 27, 2019
3 min

Can there be a Process for Creativity

creativity
psychology

Assume that I stole few trademark recipes from best master chefs. Later, luckily I happen to create a decent restaurant using that recipes which turns to be…

Oct 20, 2019
4 min

Does end in Poverty leads to end in Hunger? { Part - 2 }

poverty
economics

World Food Day is celebrated every year across the world on 16 October which is the founding data of Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Oct 16, 2019
3 min

Love, Power & Sex

psychology
economics

This post was supposed to be written as on Apr 2013 in the blog www.arunviews.com based on certain events that took in my life till that time.

Sep 17, 2019
6 min

What Makes it Complete?

motivation
reflection

If you have heard about 99Club. This article is about possibility of shifting from 99Club to 100Club.

Aug 3, 2019
5 min
 

Responsibility

reflection

This fourteen letter word indeed plays a major role in our life. Because each and every situation that we face in our life we need to play our role with cent…

Jul 20, 2019
6 min
 

Emotional Hangover

story
psychology

We all know about Hangover to put in simple and my way ‘it is just hanging around unconsciously’.

Jul 15, 2019
3 min
 

What is Happiness?? - Part 2

story
reflection

Long back I have read an [Antharyami] article in ‘Eenadu’ NewsPaper Largest circulated newspaper in AndhraPradesh & Telangana

Jul 13, 2019
4 min
 

Our Thinking - Our Life

motivation
reflection

By nature humans look to reduce the burden of their regular work. This is because we usually get bored by banal work.

Oct 27, 2018
7 min

Does end in Poverty leads to end in Hunger? { Part -1 }

poverty
economics

[Poverty]: the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. [Hunger]: a situation in which the body does not have enough food.

Oct 16, 2018
3 min
 

Humble & Assertiveness

story
reflection

I found myself on my reading desk with my left cheek on it. Slowly I made my spine straight and started massaging my forehead with my index finger such that…

Oct 7, 2018
7 min

Not Enough Time Trap!!!

reflection

Time & Tide waits for none. We value our time to such an extent that we are so particular how 24 hours of a day has to be managed.

Oct 3, 2018
4 min

Dilemma ? { Present & Future }

game theory
reflection

In this blog post i would like to discuss a special case of game theory within ourselves. Let me run thru basic introduction on game theory.

Sep 30, 2018
6 min

W . I . F . M . { What is in for Me ?}

analytical
reflection

Let us time travel in our thought process to one the first known ancient civilizations i.e.; Çatalhöyük.

Sep 27, 2018
4 min

Can we claim success?

analytical
reflection

Can we ever claim success? A reflection on what success really means, beyond the dictionary definition.

Sep 24, 2018
4 min
 

What is Hapiness

happiness
reflection

It’s been long time I have penned my opine. This time, I chose a topic that’s been greatly researched; and been perceived as a ‘state’.

Mar 26, 2018
3 min

Hardwork vs Achievement vs Success

story
motivation
reflection

Let me run through a conversation between a father and son. Where the son discovers the interlink between these three phrases and which finally makes him to…

Oct 8, 2017
7 min

Fear & Stress

reflection
motivation

Fear, as the Cambridge Dictionary puts it: an unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful, or bad…

May 11, 2017
8 min

The New Beginning

reflection

Long ago, my close friend used to say ’There is a reason for everything we do; All it needs is to put our guts to know the reason to go ahead in right…

Jan 22, 2017
3 min
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