Hello Data Keepers,

At a recent client visit, the Front Desk handed over a form to be filled by me and she requested to me to have the same signed by the person I had come to meet in the organization. When I looked at the form, I realized the asks were curated to capture most of my details such as organizational background, purpose of the meeting, my credentials, my line of work, and a lot more. I walk in to meet the Managing Director of the company and the first thing I sought from him was his "autograph". Leaving the humor aside, our conversation went on to become one of the most meaningful ones for both of us when we looked at the visitor's form and the humungous amount of data that it was producing. The form was capable of telling the HR on productivity of employees based on who visited them, the form was capable of keeping a track of the type of people that visited the company, the form was capable of even marginalizing the company's expenditure on stuff like coffee, tea, etc.

The shocked MD took a deep pause to only later ask the million dollar question on data mining to himself. I asked the same to myself too. Today, the world is driven by data, which is soon set to be the "electricity"! HR managers across ...