Prakash Srivastava Data & AI Platform Architect

Articles I've written here and on other sites, newest first.

"Neurons and electricity: where the EEG signal comes from"

Why scalp EEG sees millions of neurons working in step, not single cells. Learn about postsynaptic currents, pyramidal neurons, dipoles and synchrony.

  • EEG
  • EEG Beginner
  • Neuroscience
  • Data Engineering
  • Signal Processing

What EEG is, and what it isn't: EEG from zero, lesson 1

EEG records the brain's electrical activity from the scalp, in milliseconds. What it measures, what it misses, and how it compares with MRI, MEG and PET.

  • EEG
  • EEG Beginner
  • Neuroscience
  • Data Engineering
  • Time Series

Case study: Rebuilding my portfolio in 14 days with AI

How a hand-coded 2020 Flask site on a deprecated runtime became a secure, tested site with sign-in, games and a Family Tree: the steps, tech stack, architecture, and where AI helped versus manual work.

  • Case study
  • Flask
  • Google Cloud
  • AI-assisted
  • Claude Code

Introduction to Apache Spark Concepts, Use Cases and Real-Life Application ↗

This presentation provides an introduction Data, Data Science & Processing use cases followed by Introduction to Apache Spark, its architecture, and real-world application showing IOT implementation. It is designed as a teaching and reference resource for students, engineers, and researchers in distributed computing and data engineering.