This is how the year started, how is it going now

Today in bad practice in the data visualization space: the Dutch government website showing a heat map of the # of people who tested positive to Covid-19.

The idea behind the map is nice: which areas in the country are most affected.

But the heat map is useless: there’s a only a single color shown: dark blue!

👎🏼 #datavisualization #covid

Are there any Sustainability experts in my network that would like to give a training — or speak with — one of our customers?

The customer is a global multinational in the chemical industry with HQ in the US.

#sustainability #training #chemicalindustry

Awesome gift by Gilbert Eijkelenboom — MindSpeaking: a copy of his People Skills for Analytical Thinkers book!

Thank you Gilbert!

Back on the road with Rob: we’re going to meet with our partner Königsweg in Heidelberg today.

On the agenda: Dutch coffee at 10AM (we need to charge that Model X), German lunch at 1:30PM, talking about our partnership and customers in the afternoon.

And in the evening PyData Global meetup at HeidelbergCement

https://meetu.ps/e/KsgGB/hKtXn/i

Looking forward to meet Sieer Angar Alexander C. S. Hendorf 👋 Mathias Reidel and all the fine folks of the PyData community!

On the surface, Ted Lasso is a brilliant comedy that lifted our spirits when — back in 2020 — we just heard one bad news after the other.

Below the surface though it’s a show about managing a team and how achieving long-term greatness often means sacrificing short-term results.

It’s has so many lessons if you’re a leader or if you just want to be a better team player.

Highly recommended — I gave it a 9 on IMDB!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10986410/

Joe Manchin — democratic senator of West Virginia — is questioning a wealth tax to individuals making in a SINGLE WEEK more than the LIFETIME salary of a median American.

He says the tax is divisive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/politics/manchin-billionaires-tax.html

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Attending one of our training is a great way to expand your network, increase your employability, and to command bigger salaries.

If you’re not there though and cannot afford it, we are now there to offer all financial support you might need.

How?

It’s simple: every time you land on a qualifying training (see list below) you’ll see this call to action.

I hope more companies will follow!

Happy learning!

https://godatadriven.com/training/python-for-data-analysts-training/ https://godatadriven.com/training/data-science-python-foundation-training/ https://godatadriven.com/training/advanced-data-science-with-python-training/ https://godatadriven.com/training/analytics-translation-training/ https://godatadriven.com/training/public-dbt-learn-training/ (for this one you’ll need to apply via dbt directly!).

[Kudos for the implementation details and refinement to Nico de Jonge Ellis van der Slikke Walter van der Scheer and Jelle Portegies, and kudos to Lucy Sheppard for pushing me to do more in this space! I’m just the person writing these posts, they do all the hard work!]

How much better did iPhone panorama mode improve from 2014?

This is back then 👇🏼

[This photo was take in Dublin when I gave a talk at NoSQLMatters about alternative databases in Python]