by Sooter Saalu As big data and its sources become more commonplace, there is a growing need to interpret and analyze this data. Data visualization is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the visual representation of data in easily interpreted forms such as charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams. Data visualization plays…

Build Product Prototypes in a Low-Code Environment without a Team — by Arth Dharaskar The Pain. Setting up a scalable, hosted Data-driven web app is a tedious, time consuming process requiring contributions from a team of backend/infrastructure engineers, software/systems engineers and front-end engineers and product designers alongside data engineers and machine learning engineers/data scientists.

What you are missing out on from not utilizing Ikigai — by Ryan Kang The Common Struggle. We live in an era where data is at the core of operations for any organization. As the organization scales, so does the data itself, along with the corresponding data pipelines as well as the data stores (now also called lakes), and managing them…

Manage Your Inventory Within Clicks with Ikigai — by Conner Cattaneo The Common Struggle. With the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global supply chain, it is now more important than ever to have reliable ways to track and order necessary goods. Far too often, businesses have rough estimates of their current component inventory levels, and…

by Aldreen Venzon The Opportunity. Vaccine hesitancy is a continuum ranging from full vaccine acceptance to full vaccine rejection, with some acceptance, delay, and refusal in between. Vaccine-preventable diseases have been shown to kill more than 3 million people on average per year and have been named one of the…

Episode 2 with Guest Munther Dahleh and Host Devavrat Shah — Data, Decisions, Society and Education — Episode 2 Synopsis. In Episode 2 of Data, Operations, AI, and People [DOAP], Devavrat Shah, Ikigai Labs’ CTO and co-founder, chats with Munther Dahleh — the founding director of IDSS at MIT. Together, they discuss IDSS and the role of data, data in organizations, and the role of education…

Ikigai provides a smooth and secure way to connect to 130+ sources of live data — by Koby Frank Data Data Everywhere. Ideally, analysts should spend their time doing two things: (1) manipulating raw data, and (2) gaining insight from it. These two steps, broadly speaking, are both interesting and nontrivial. If done well, they are the drivers behind good policy-making or engineering or a healthy…

Ikigai Labs can identify lost sales and help optimize purchasing decisions while minimizing inventory cost — by Nate Lanier and John Tsitsiklis Many of the biggest challenges that consumer goods companies face revolve around making intelligent decisions about managing inventory levels. On one hand, if inventory levels go too low, demand can surge unexpectedly and large quantities of sales can be lost. On the other, if…

by Jaehyun Sim and Amar Shah What We Do at Ikigai Labs In short, Ikigai Labs provides AI-charged spreadsheets: an AI-augmented data processing and analytics collaborative, cloud platform that can be used with ease of spreadsheet. Within the platform, powerful AI-enabled end-to-end automated workflows can be built while staying in the comfort of a spreadsheet…