There is one thing that, as an Italian, is very dear to my ♥️: good food.
But good food is not always sustainable.
So, it was a pleasure for Xebia to support Rainforest Alliance. (Whose name you might recognize or not, but you have probably seen their logo, a little green frog.)
Rainforest Alliance is on a mission to conserve biodiversity, promote sustainable land use and business practices, and encourage responsible consumer behavior, and we helped to put data and AI at its core.
Thanks to our efforts, the company is now better able to serve farmers and forest communities across the world with the latest best practice in the hashtag#data & hashtag#ai space.
Curious? Read more 👇🏼 or reach out to Steven Nooijen to know more!
Your data is only valuable if it can steer your business.
Knowing how is tricky but, luckily, Iris Snuverink wrote a blog to get you started.
I loved this bit about developing “data“ enablers:
“Examples of ‘enablers’ are the development of a data platform, the set-up of a data academy, or the development of a data management strategy. These initiatives don’t deliver value on their own, they deliver value through use cases. A data strategy roadmap should be focussed on both the delivery of use cases, as well as developing the strategy enablers.”
Everything we’ve ever been told about blue zones and longevity is actually about pension fraud:
“The epitome of this is blue zones, which are regions where people supposedly reach age 100 at a remarkable rate. For almost 20 years, they have been marketed to the public. They’re the subject of tons of scientific work, a popular Netflix documentary, tons of cookbooks about things like the Mediterranean diet, and so on.
Okinawa in Japan is one of these zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.
The Japanese government has run one of the largest nutritional surveys in the world, dating back to 1975. From then until now, Okinawa has had the worst health in Japan. They’ve eaten the least vegetables; they’ve been extremely heavy drinkers.”
Interesting article that highlights one of the dangers of AI: automation bias.
The article is concise and worth a read, but the killer quote is
“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”
We are always humbled when one customer decides to stand beside us on stage and tell everyone how we achieved success together.
But this year, we can count ourselves lucky: not just one but 9 customers—each with their own session—will be on stage with us during the Data Expo in Utrecht.
Thanks, ING, AVROTROS, Rainforest Alliance, NIBC Bank, Sligro Food Group, Klaverblad Verzekeringen, ASML, Eurail, and Just Eat Takeaway.com for trusting us!
I really hope uv emerges as the one-stop shop for working with Python packages, projects, command-line tools, single-file scripts, and even Python itself.
The Python ecosystem has been fragmented for too long between a plethora of tools, often competing with each other and needing complementary companions also competing with each other.
uv has the ambition to supplant them all. However, while in Middle Earth, having a single ruler is definitely bad when your goal is to unite the community, it is actually a good thing.
In a week that crashed stockholders’ hype about AI, we published a blog post exploring all things hashtag#data and hashtag#ai that are resisting the crash.
In fact, the Xebia Data’s Q2 Knowledge Sharing article is out!
Many thanks to everyone who helped, in particular Rens👋 Dimmendaal Jetze Schuurmans Jasper Ginn Eva Bosma Klaudia Wachnio (Zdunczyk) Pádraic Slattery, Ph.D. Juan Venegas Juan Manuel Perafan Max van Kasteren Koen Graat Sander van Donkelaar Dumky de Wilde Mariam Halfhide, CDMP Julian de Ruiter Roy van Santen Ramon Vermeulen Bo Lemmers Thom van Engelenburg Thomas van Latum
