Nitin Merh

Nitin Merh

I am PhD in computer science. Since 1998 teaching courses to the students of management and computer science. Since 2006 working in the domain Business Analytics, Data Modeling and Forecasting.

Location India

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    Relationships and the home

    Thank you for providing methods of being mindful at home.

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    Meditation - Empathy and compassion (7 minutes)

    Thank you for the workderful excercise.

    regards

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    Using digital technology mindfully

    Nice article for all of us as even trying hard we are not mindful as far as electronic gazettes and social media is concerned.

    I will adopt all the practices mentioned above for being mindful even using electronic gazettes.

    Thank you

    Regards

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    The benefits of mindfulness

    Thank you for excellently linking Mindfulness with Biological Neural Networks and explaining the positive impact of mindfulnes on huamn brain.

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    Advice about mindfulness

    @BarbaraF Thank you so much for detailed explanation.

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    Advice about mindfulness

    I am practicing MBSR but not regularly. In case of a long breaks it is difficult to be mindful. How to resolve the issue? How can mindful be practised 24X7?

    Regards

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    Mindfulness meditation - Comma (2 minutes)

    Thank you for the wonderful mindful excecise. Feeling relaxed.

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    What's next?

    Thank you Professor it was a great experience for me. Being an Information Technology person having interest in MIND, UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE and MEDIATTION I found this course very interesting and Informative. It was a capsule with all ingredients containing details of MIND.

    I ENJOYD THROUOGHLY !!!

    Hope to see you soon with new set of...

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    Depression, addiction and feelings

    In one of the Institutes where I worked as Dean Student Affairs I found that students having bad association/ relationship with their family members/ friends are in some sort of disconnect and their association with self and others is very bad. They are in some sort of depression and are addicted of some short term remedies like hard drinks, ......

    Thanks...

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    What addicts want

    Loving self and others :)

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    Disorders of the mind

    As per my understanding few cases/problems with subjectivity, consciousness, intentionality or agency:
    Afraid of using Lift; Afraid of Public Speaking; Afraid of speaking in front of elderly people.
    Anxiety of the results (Expecting a positive result) of the work done, speaking non-sense and later realizing what I was Speaking?.

    So much thinking and...

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    What the mind is for

    Thank you for summarising in a very short video.

    :)

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    Ask Mark - Week 5

    I would like to ask about treatment of confabulation. Whether it can be treated by Neurosurgeon, Psychiatrist or Clinical Psychologist or all.

    I think in case of False Memory some memory elements/ neurotransmitters/ ions are lost

    Thank you so much

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    When is it confabulation?

    Thank you for explaining the concept of confabulation so easily. Earlier I had something else in mind with respect to the concept and definition of confabulation.

    Now I understand :- Few times we call other mind that you are lying but the fact is they are not lying but what they are saying is because of false memory.

    Nice concept - "What has actually...

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    Anatomy and physiology of intentionality

    Thank you Mr Zaw for providing insights.

    How to proceed for the same?

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    The development of the human mind

    In a very simple way understood the concept of free will. Also understood the development of human mind [Brain]
    525 Million years ago---->200 Million years ago ----> 200,000 years ago----->12,000 years ago and development of colony.

    Regards,

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    Instincts and learning

    Great introduction of AGENCY. Like a HERO in a movie.

    regards

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    The end of a journey, and the start of a new one

    Thank you for the support provided for completing my first MOOC.
    :)

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    Conclusion

    I Wish to thank Professor Galit for explaining the whole concept in a very simple and precise manner. Examples, data sets and case studies helped me to understand the concept in a simpler way. This was my first MOOC and I am happy to complete it.

    It was a great learning experience for me.

    I will work hard to secure more marks in the next MOOC :).

    Look...

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    Including external information: Correlated series

    Very informative. Few concepts learnt for the first time.

    Thank you so much

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    Railroad forecasting applications for internet-of-things

    Thank you for sharing wonderful real time, real life example.

    After going through the article multiple ideas are generated with respect to the application discussed in the article.

    Regards

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    Interview with Professor Rob Hyndman

    Informative video.

    Thank you for the support

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    Anatomy and physiology of intentionality

    Thank you for your valuable inputs

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    Anatomy and physiology of intentionality

    Thank you @ Robin, Vincent and Martin

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    Ask Mark - Week 4

    An individual is capable to reproduce which in turns indicates that S/he is capable to survive. (SURVIVING TO REPRODUCE TO SURVIVE). Then why S/he during span of whole life do intercourse is it because of the insecurities related to survival or due to some hormones? or BOTH.

    Thanks and regards,

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    The ethics of our instincts: The good, the bad and the brain

    An individual is capable to reproduce which in turns indicates that S/he is capable to survive. (SURVIVING TO REPRODUCE TO SURVIVE). Then why S/he during span of whole life do intercourse is it because of the insecurities related to survival or due to some hormones? or BOTH

    Need your suggestion.

    Nice article :) Liked the phrase "Doing your Biological...

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    The SEEKING system in action

    Thank you for such a wonderful discussion and sharing link on the article "Why we’re all addicted to texts, Twitter and Google". Now I came to know that why on social media after posting/ sharing we want to continuously check who commented, liked or shared.
    From last six months I started a practice of not using any social media for one week in a month. I...

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    Foraging and learning

    In today's world most of us explore materialistic things, some explore natural beauty and few explore inner/mental peace.

    One thing is common in all category of people is all are exploring/SEEKING something for pleasure/ happiness.

    Regards

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    Anatomy and physiology of intentionality

    Root cause of all worries is mind how to control mind and neurotransmitters? and how to reduce needs?.

    Do we have methods through which toxics in mind will be reduced and less needs will be generated.

    Less needs----> less desires---> less expectation----> Happiness Always :)

    Regards

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    About “aboutness” - intentionality

    Very interesting video.

    Bhagwat Gita (Hindu Scripture in Sanskrit Language ) also talks about Need -->Desire---> .

    What I understood
    Subjectivity ------> Consciousness/ Unconsciousness -------> Intentionality
    Being/empathy---> motions/ feeling------------------------------> About something

    Thanks

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    Autoregressive (AR) model as a second-layer model

    Nice description of AR and use of AR for improving forecast.
    :)

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    Regression trend model for manufacturing work hours in Canada

    XLMiner Output

    "Input
    Variables" Coefficient Std. Error t-Statistic P-Value CI Lower CI Upper "RSS
    Reduction"
    Intercept 5.233094466 0.005985148 874.3467066 1.16365E-67 5.220871163 5.245317769 859.515418
    t -0.003057265 0.000316546 -9.658200367 1.02195E-10 -0.003703738 -0.002410792 0.025498259

    Forecasts (MLR Validation Score) using XLMiner:
    Natural...

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    What's next

    Thank you so much for the informative and learning sessions.

    :)

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    Ask Mark - Week 3

    Sometimes we feel sad even though there are no external events that are affecting us (Mind/ Emotions). Please explain why this happens?

    Thanks

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    What is emotion?

    External event I understand but BP shoots without any external event . Even if the individual is very happy then also his/her Mind/ Brain/ Body reacts (Internal event) in such a way that BP shoots.

    Kindly suggest.

    Thanks

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    What consciousness is for

    Thank you so much for explain the concept of consciousness with brain/body activities.

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    What is consciousness?

    Understanding things, attentive about happenings around us, understanding self and others.

    I know myself: I know others.
    my relation with self is great: my relation with others is also excellent.

    Thanks,

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    Regression models for forecasting

    Understood the concept of LR for prediction and for forecasting.

    Thanks

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    Forecasting wine sales using a moving average

    I am using Excel for calculating differences and XLMiner for MA. I have done lag 1 and lag 12 differencing and then finding foretasted value but not able to do un-differencing. Kindly help

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    Differencing wine sales

    Only completed with Fortified time series containing both trend (decreasing) and seasonality.

    Thanks

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    Differencing

    The concept of preprocessing data is very important before applying any forecasting technique. Concept of De-Trending and De- Seasonality helps in preparing the data sets. This can be done by applying differencing on the time series.

    Thank you

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    MA for forecasting

    Thanks you for the video.

    The concept of over-smoothing and under-smoothing [window width] is explained very effectively.

    This is a very important concept with respect to data visualization as well as forecasting.

    Thanks

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    MA for visualization

    Nicely explained the concept of choosing window and moving averages.

    Thanks

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    Ask Mark - Week 2

    please suggest whether following concept is true:
    Body: Mind : : Body : Soul

    Thanks

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    Sharing your assignments

    Nice example shared !

    Similar thing happened with my daughter (Isha) today morning during jogging. She was jogging and one black street dog was running with her. My daughter was really afraid that the dog will bite but the interesting thing was when she stopped the dog also stopped when she ran fast then dog ran along with her . Finally my daughter stopped...

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    Engaging with ELIZA

    ELIZA is a programmed system with no subjectivity.
    We can say No Feeling --> No Thinking--> No Empathy.
    Test was interesting

    Thanks

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    Empathising with other minds

    Really good way of explaining the concept of checking whether somebody has mind or not.
    I Bhagwat Gita (India ) few things are discussed and on that basis I wish to ask is
    Body: Mind :: Body : Soul.

    Another point I wish to ask is Turing of Turing experiment you were discussing is same of Turing of Turing Machine (Computer Designing).

    Thanks

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    Testing for subjectivity

    Very interesting example to explain the concept of subjectivity.

    Thanks

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    Seeing colours differently

    I did color IQ test and scored 61. It was very interesting exercise. Today I came to know why people fight on colour. This is Blue.... NO NO this is Black and like wise.
    :)
    Thank you so much

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    Seeing colours differently

    This is something very interesting the concept of subjectivity and objectivity. I see few dresses and the prominent one has two colours blue and grey with some black shades.
    As far as subjectivity is concerned my mind is recognising two colors prominently brownish grey and blue.

    Thanks

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    Studying the mind

    As I am going deeper I find it more complex but still very intersting

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    Load forecasting - Interview

    Very important area of research.

    Thanks for giving the perspective.

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    Load forecasting - Interview

    unable to open Video :(

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    Performance metrics & charts

    Thank you so much for explaining important concepts like data fit and predictive accuracy, zero count, over/ under forecasts. Good example of Italy Earthquake.

    Thanks

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    Naive forecasts for wine sales

    These are the forecasts (Using fixed forecasting method )for the month Jan 95 and Feb 95:
    Wine Jan 95 Feb 95
    Fortified: 2406.994815 and 2406.994815
    Red: 2555.343828 and 2555.343828
    Rose: Not done due to missing values
    Sparkling: 3355.395707 and 3355.395707
    Sweet white: 276.490036 and 276.490036
    Dry White: ...

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    Naïve forecasts

    In what all cases naive forecasts are used?

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    Software for partitioning

    I am using XLMiner and this video helped me understanding the concept of data partitioning.

    Thanks.

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    Ask Mark - Week 1

    What is important to control MIND or BRAIN? and what are the ways?

    Thanks

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    Representations of the mind

    Mind---> A circle that starts from a point and makes concentric circles that never ends but always increases its size [feeling --> thinking] For me MIND is the most complex structure in the universe. In fraction of second mind travels thousands or even millions of kilometres and returns back.

    Thanks

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    Sigmund Freud and understanding the mind

    Useful article. Thanks

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    What or who else has a mind?

    Greetings !

    If Hardware like human Brain and Software like human Mind can be developed then only we can think of constructing something like ELETROMECHANICAL HUMAN BRAIN.
    Human Brain is such a massive parallel structure with emotions, problem solving, decision making in different situations (daily new set of problems are created which are unique in nature...

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    Four defining properties of the mind

    Lots of questions are in my mind (not in brain). I am sure all will be answered in due course of time.

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    What are you if not your mind?

    Nice article to start thinking about MIND !
    Is this the place where Chemicals are created using organs and results are generated in terms of emotions, analysis, feeling and so on.

    Thanks

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    How this course works

    Assignments, Exercise, Quizzes and Tests will be of great help.

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    Your interest in the mind

    Hey Enlightened Colleagues !

    I am Professor of IT from India also learning mindfulness and impact of physical exercises on MIND. As an IT teacher I am working in the areas of business analytics, forecasting and MIS. As an individual I am exploring MIND, MINDFULLNESS and MEDITATION. looking forward to learn and grow during the course and interact with you...

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    Introduction to What is a Mind?

    Wonderful introduction of the course.

    Hope to learn new things about mind.

    Thank you.

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    Data partitioning

    Nice Video.
    Learned concepts related to fixed and roll- forward partitioning. It will very useful for my current work.
    Thanks you.

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    Kaggle bike sharing competition problem

    1. Missing values issue is discussed. This missing values may be because of fluctuation in electricity or fat finger problem.The handling of missing values (missing value imputation ) may create misleading results.
    2. If missing data is not handled properly then basic statistics will not be calculated properly and misleading results will be created. In turn...

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    Create and share a visualization

    Really enjoyed analysing Bike Sharing data set.

    I have taken first 500 data set from the training data and my finding after choosing wind speed, registered and count variables are when wind speed is less then more bikes are registered and count is even higher than registered. During high wind speed there is drastic decrease in registration and...

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    Data preprocessing

    Good insights provided with respect to Missing Values Handling , Outliers Handling and Time Span selection.

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    Visualization screencast

    Good video for finding trends, seasonality, missing values and outliers in time series through Data Visualization techniques (Tableau).
    Also understood creation of dashboards through Tableau for data visualization.

    Thanks

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    Time series components

    Thanks for details provided with respect to noise (random variable), level, trend and seasonality.

    I wish to ask whether analysis [ additive or multiplicative method ]of time series will be done only by analyzing the graph/ chart or there is some statistical method to do so.

    Thanks

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    Data collection

    Thank you for providing valuable information.

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    R, Analytics Solver (XLMiner), and Tableau software

    I along with my students are using XLMiner. It is very user friendly software for Analytics.
    For online course I will be using cloud based XLMiner.
    Thanks for the support.

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    Impact of September 11 on air travel in the United States

    1. The Goal is Predictive.
    2. Forecast horizon is a month. It is sufficient as longer horizon may increase more volatility/ fluctuation which may reduce the overall performance of the forecasting model and increase uncertainty.
    3. I think automation is not needed.

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    Forecasting language and notation

    Thanks Professor Galit for wonderful introduction of basic concepts of Forecasting.
    As per my understanding and details provided in the video difference between forecasting and prediction is - Forecasting provides future values based on historical data and prediction provides what is going to happen on Y( dependent variable) when Xis (independent variable)...

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    Working with a stakeholder to discover forecasting opportunities

    Good Video. Nice area of research.

    1. What is the peak hour? and what types (Gender, Age, profession, single/pair/group/ family)of customer visit café during that time?
    2. What is the association between food items customer purchase and their age group?
    3.What is the association between food items purchased?
    4. Do you find any peculiar purchase behaviour...

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    Find and share a forecasting application

    We are forecasting fault in continuous process industry in a small manufacturing unit. The manufacturing unit provides raw material to automobile manufacturer. The purpose is very simple MD of that organization was interested to have a system by which scheduled shutdowns can be planned and he was also interested to know out of multiple attributes what all...

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    Load forecasting - Interview

    Worth watching the video. Thank you for providing wonderful information.

    1. Energy data, load history, weather data, working hours, holidays, special events data, economic information, demographic data.
    2. real time forecasting of electricity demand (data).
    3. Power Industry and researchers can use the result of forecasting for managing real time demand...

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    Library usage - Interview

    1. Readers data( Borrowing, return, renewal, reissue), space utilization, user space service, energy usage data.
    2. Data is currently used for predicting or forecasting energy saving and carbon reduction, opening hours of rooms, optimal usage during examination, for ensuring readers' service rights, resolving conflicts of user related to services, predicting...

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    University operations - Interview

    1. Electricity usage data, bus scheduling data, data with respect to material with poisonous contents, data with respect to waste material, data for utility services, students related data, data for movement of university fraternity.
    2. Data is currently used for forecasting/ planning - Electricity usage, controlling expenses, bus scheduling, for reducing...

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    Bike sharing - Interview

    1. They collected data about number of trips, rentals and usage.
    2. Data is used for scheduling/ rescheduling, distribution of Youbike. It is also being used for transportation department for finding association in transportation. It also helps in finding number of docks/stations and number of bikes per dock.
    3.It can be valuable for users (riders),...