Typing this on an Atreus. Need some time getting used to it.

https://shop.keyboard.io/products/keyboardio-atreus

Washing your hands for 20” is like writing tests: it’s good for you, you’ll avoid getting bugs in the future, but you almost never do it.

Don’t be that person! Write tests!

😂😂😂

“This is like the CEO of an electric motor company whose best model powers a golf cart saying he feels validated by the performance of cars from Tesla.”

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/03/qualcomm-pants

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/03/qualcomm-pants

Stunning illustrated guide: how to prevent Covid-19 spreading at home, in restaurants, in schools.

https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-10-28/a-room-a-bar-and-a-class-how-the-coronavirus-is-spread-through-the-air.html

Interested in how to translating data science into successful business applications?

Come to my GoDataFest session next week Friday https://godatafest.com/broadcasts/open-source/

Register for free at https://godatafest.com/registration/

I’ve been invited to an online advisory panel to discuss the future of pulp and now I don’t know what to do with my life 🍥

Writing performant Spark code can be challenging.

That’s why we’re introducing our new Optimizing Apache Spark & Tuning Best Practices course!

We have optimized Spark jobs consuming hundreds of TB at a time.

You can now learn all the lessons and tricks we learned getting there — with trainers coming from the trenches.

https://godatadriven.com/training/optimizing-apache-spark-tuning-best-practices/

No budget to train and attend conferences this year because of Covid-19?

GoDataFest got you covered with 5 days of sessions and workshops. Whether you are interested in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Databricks, Microsoft, or open source in general, we got you cover.

Fast paced, just 2 hours a day, and best of all it’s free.

Go to https://godatafest.com to register!

🙈 Just saw somebody with a Winzip icon in their Dock 🙈

Friends asked me frequently how’s it going with the GoDataDriven Academy in Covid-19 times.

They hear about how the training business have been affected by the lack of physical classes and are worried.

I reply we have only reasons to celebrate: since the summer we have grown our pool of full-time trainers with Marysia Winkels, James Hayward, Steven van Duin, and before Christmas we’ll get a new trainer — can’t name her yet sorry!

In November two new marketing colleagues will join — can’t wait to tell you who they are.

We are growing double digits (!!) since 2019 and almost 300% compared to 2018.

We have started partnerships abroad with https://aibridge.ch, are scaling up our certifications process for #DataScience with #Python (https://gdd.li/certifiedDS) and Data Science for #ProductOwners (https://gdd.li/certifiedPO), and training across 16 time zones (!!).

And of course, the rest of the team is still there: Vadim Nelidov on the front line, Gert-Jan Steltenpool rocking the boat with sales, Rob Dielemans knocking down all walls around us, and Walter Van der Scheer marketing like there’s no tomorrow.

Thank you team!

“Bad companies are destroyed by crises; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them.”

Andy Grove, former Intel CEO