Imarticus Learning - Big Data Analytics Training Institute | Certification in Big Data

The past couple of years has seen, the entire world get fired up all due to this concept known as ‘data analytics’. Data Analytics can be called as the small fish in the big pond that is known as Big Data. As you would understand by the term, big data is definitely very, very big. It refers to all of those virtual records of almost everyone that are present online. Now, these virtual records could be generated from any varied device, including a video game, a flight, any social networking site or a particular person’s online shopping cart. The best part though, is that every aspect of Big Data is very easy to acquire, due to the fact that it is either cheap or free. Did you know, that your entire data on a particular social networking site say Facebook can cost up to just a mere 12 dollars. This is exactly why extracting this data and collecting it has become the easiest things of this field, while at the same time, storing this huge data has become really difficult. Let’s move o...

All Time Top 5 Self Help Books for Personal Development Zenobia Sethna Hands up: How many of you dread being seen in the self-help aisle of a bookstore or secretly order them on Amazon? Self-help books – when you break the words apart, it just mean we help ourselves. Self-help books are still very much in demand, with around 2,000 new titles coming out every year. Most of these promise to improve some aspect of your life – to help you to become more confident, successful, rich, stop smoking, find a mate, get rid of your mate, what have you. Whatever your problem, you can guarantee there is a book that swears to have the solution. Here are some recommended reads – These are tried and tested books, as witnessed by their phenomenal sales the world over. #1: How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie No explanation needed. Read it.   #2 Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill This 70 million bestselling book is truly one of the all-time m...

Imarticus Learning Hosted a webinar on Capital Rising, Check out summary of webinar below: ‘Capital Raising’ has become a very popular word these days. Most newspapers and online articles speak about funding and with the recent onset of start-ups cropping up at every juncture; this is only going to grow from here on. Mr. Jaideep Shirali is a veteran in the space of  capital markets and financial services  and has recently started his own investment advisory. He conducted this session for us on April 15. This session was attended by a vast number of students from all parts of India and overseas. He started this session with a quick introduction to the key types of fund raising techniques – Equity and Debt. In the equity route, private placements and IPOs are the main capital raising techniques, whereas in the Debt route, commercial papers and Bonds form the key techniques. Thereafter, we also looked at the hindrances faced in capital raising, specially with respect to r...

Let’s just get what real Wealth Management is about out of the way first. There was a time when most very wealthy people kept their money in massive safes complete with security guard or put their cash away in Fixed Deposits, Real Estate and gold. However Fixed Deposit returns are too low, real estate too illiquid and gold, well let’s be realistic, how much gold do you want to hoard in your tijori. Wealthy people also had lots of advisors, they had accountants, lawyers and even bankers but they really had to depend on themselves to manage their estate. That was fine when you were Wooster and had nothing but time, but these days wealthy people are not just large business families but also corporate honchos and neither have either a Jeeves or the time to spend hours managing their money. What they want is a one-stop shop. One person who takes everything they own and allocates it efficiently across multiple Asset Classes (we will discuss asset classes in another post about wealth mana...