About Faisal Akbar

My Passion as a Coder

"Today i am gonna write a piece of code that will solve a problem and will affect millions of life, is what gets me started for the day."

Some things about me

I love learning new things, therefore I had worked on large set of fields. I love creating new things and find solutions to real life problems. I am passionate to solve problems using novel ideas and iterate quickly on my ideas to optimize it for scalability.

I also improve myself everyday, optimizing my work flow in every step of my life. I like things clean and organized.

And I am fun to be with :D

Favorite Books

• Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals ---Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
  
• Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice! ---Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
  
• The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios --- Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer, Andy Cotgreave
  
• Visual Analytics with Tableau ---Alexander Loth
  
• Practical Tableau: 100 Tips, Tutorials, and Strategies from a Tableau Zen Master ---Ryan Sleeper
  
• Innovative Tableau: 100 More Tips, Tutorials, and Strategies ---Ryan Sleeper
  
• Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization ---Alberto Cairo
  
• Learning Shiny ---Hernan G. Resnizky
  
• Business Statistics 2nd Edition ---Sharpe, Norean D., De Veaux, Richard D., Velleman, Paul
  
• Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython ---Wes McKinney
  
• Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts ---Peter Bruce , Andrew Bruce
  
• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide: Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale ---Tom White
  

Apps that keep me organized and my brain sharp

• Manage me
  • Mint
  • Wunderlist
  • Notes
  • Documents
• Improve me
  • Curiosity
  • Coursera
  • Udacity
  • Datacamp
  • Udemy
  • edX
  • Cybrary
  • Lynda
  • Brilliant
  • Brain Teaser
  • Enki: Learn better code, daily
  • Youtube
  • Elevate
  • Magoosh GRE Vocabulary
  • Dictionary, Merriam-webster, WordWeb
  • Lumosity
  • Math Workout

Follow me on the internets

I promise not to junk up your feeds as I rarely post on social media.

• Linkedin

  Portfolio updates.
• Tableau Public

  Tableau public profile.
• Twitter

  Status updates.
• GitHub

  Open source goodies.
• Medium

  Dynamic thinking and share.
• Stackoverflow

  Learn, share, build.
• Slideshare

  Professional content.