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Design Patterns in Agentic AI

In my last blog, I introduced the different components of Agentic AI. These components help answer the “what”. * What enables an agent to take independent action, and * What allows it to remember and learn from past interactions? But there’s a crucial follow-up question we haven’t tackled yet. How

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Book Review: The Eyes of Gaza

What is it about? It is a diary entry account of Plestia Alaqad, a 21‑year‑old Palestinian journalist who lived in Gaza for the first 45 days following the outbreak of war in Gaza in October 2023. It is a story of violence, tragedy, and the unimaginable destruction that

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Breaking Down Agentic AI and Its Core Components

Recently, I participated in a company-wide Hackathon at JLL focused on solving real business challenges using Agentic AI. With just over a week to develop our ideas into working proof of concepts, it was an intense yet incredibly energising experience. Out of more than 1,600 colleagues and 200+ projects

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The Secret to Getting Better Answers from Language Models

My mom is my best friend. She lives in India and works as a school teacher, but she always takes a keen interest in my blogs. Today, she asked me how my Agentic AI blog was coming along. I couldn’t help but laugh a little - it was so

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How Living Away from Home in your Twenties Changes You

Through the lens of a 28-year-old Indian immigrant Your twenties are perhaps the most special, yet chaotic years of your life. They mark the first real step into adulthood - that blurry transition where you begin to get out of your comfort zone and face the world on your own

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Book Review: The Wife and the Widow

What is it about? The Wife and the Widow by Christian White is a fast-paced thriller set on a remote, eerie island in Australia. It follows the lives of two women - one, a wife searching for answers after her husband goes missing, and the other, a woman coming to

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Book Review: The Next Conversation

What is it about? The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher is a simple and practical guide to having better conversations with the people around you - at work, at home, or in everyday life. It offers useful tips and easy to follow frameworks that can help

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Book Review: Bad Blood

What is it about? At its core, Bad Blood by John Carreyrou’s is the story of a young, ambitious entrepreneur - Elizabeth Holmes, who set out to change the world. She dropped out of college to build a startup in Silicon Valley. Her vision was to revolutionize blood testing

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Mini Project: Data Cleaning App using ChatGPT API and Streamlit

Discover how I built an AI-powered data cleaning app using the ChatGPT API to automate CSV file cleaning. Learn about its features, challenges, benefits, and future improvements to make it production-ready.

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ChatGPT API - How to Get Started?

We all love using ChatGPT. But have you ever wondered how cool it would be to build something of your own using the same technology? Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to do! ChatGPT uses models like GPT-4, GPT-4o Mini, and GPT-3.5, and ChatGPT API enables us

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Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate - How to Pass?

Introduction Hello, and a very warm welcome to my website! If you're new here, I’m a Business Intelligence Specialist working in real estate in London. My day-to-day involves a lot of data wrangling, creating and delivering insights, and managing a variety of stakeholders. My data toolkit includes

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Book Review: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

What is it about? The Almanack of Naval Ravikant isn’t a typical self-help or business book. It’s more like a collection of life lessons from someone who has figured out a lot about both wealth and happiness—and wants to share it in the simplest way possible. Naval

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The Role of BI in Real Estate

Real Estate Data: Where It Begins Let's say you are the CEO of a global corporate giant. There are 100 properties your company owns across the globe. Of these, 80% are office spaces, while the rest include industrial warehouses, lands and other property types. Some of these properties

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LinkedIn Profile Makeover with Notebook LM

Another day, another AI productivity tool. Today we are going to deep dive into Notebook LM, an AI-powered tool that can help you revamp your LinkedIn profile and make it more appealing to recruiters But before we jump into the details, let’s explore what Notebook LM is all about.

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Book Review: 438 Days

What is it about? 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at the Sea by Jonathan Franklin is a book about a fisherman who gets lost at sea after a storm hits. For 438 days, this man fights to stay alive using his courage, mindset, and problem-solving skills. He

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Level up your storytelling with Napkin AI

Are you someone who creates presentations on a day-to-day basis, or a student working on a project, or a content creator writing blogs, or a teacher preparing study materials - This tool can help you present your stories in a much more visual manner. What is Napkin AI? It is

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Book Review: How to Know a Person

What is it about? "How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen" by David Brooks is a book that talks about something we all struggle with - really getting to know people. You know that feeling when someone just gets you?

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Tinywow - AI Productivity Tool

With so many productivity tools available today, finding one that’s both versatile and easy to use can feel like a challenge. So, I decided to explore some of the most popular options and share my thoughts. In this blog, we'll explore the productivity tool called - Tinywow.

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Book Review: Hidden Potential

What is it about? Hidden Potential, The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant is an insightful guide to unlocking the potential we all have within us. It challenges the conventional belief that one can only be successful if they have some special talent. He provides science-backed evidence of

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Beyond Technical Skills

Having spent a few years navigating the professional world of data and analytics, one thing has become crystal clear: you’ll often find yourself surrounded by people who have similar, if not superior, technical abilities. Some might have more experience, others might hold more prestigious degrees. But the truth is,

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Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

What is it about? 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine' by Gail Honeyman follows the life of a young woman, Eleanor, who is socially awkward and lives alone in Glasgow. She follows the same routine every day and her life appears to be predictable and orderly on the surface.

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2 Years of Working in London

It feels like just yesterday I set foot in London to start my first job. Time has flown by, and somehow, I’ve already spent two years working in this vibrant city. In those two years, I’ve grown from an Associate Consultant at a financial consulting firm to a

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CoxComb Chart - How do you read and make it?

Understanding what is a CoxComb Chart A Coxcomb chart, also known as a polar area chart or rose diagram, is a type of data visualization that combines aspects of a pie chart and a bar chart. In a Coxcomb chart, each category is represented by a segment (like a slice

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Book Review: Brief Answers to the Big Questions

What is it about? "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" by Stephen Hawking is a thought-provoking book that explores some of the most complex questions about the universe, our existence, and the future of humanity. In this book, Stephen Hawking provides insights into ten of the most fundamental

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How to clean and organize your BI environment?

Imagine this: You’re looking at a report that shows your company has 80 products under its purview. Then you glance at another dashboard, and it says 72. Which one would you trust? Probably neither. You’d end up doing what most stakeholders do—send off an ad-hoc request for