Tag: Big Data

  • Plants To Clean The Air Indoors

    Plants To Clean The Air Indoors

    If you have read my articles The air I breathe how polluted is it and how I became an environmental data collector on collecting data to know how air pollution affects my life indoors and outdoors. In this article, I will offer some ideas on how you can improve your indoor air quality with plants.

  • Cloud Data Warehouse Automation

    Cloud Data Warehouse Automation

    A few months back I wrote an article on Maritime Noon report with Google Cloud Dataprep, the article was well received and led me to work with Trifacta and Data Science Central to structure the article into a webinar.

  • Data project: I became an environmental data collector

    Data project: I became an environmental data collector

    At the beginning of the Corona epidemic, I wrote an article about a personal data project I had worked on: The air I breathe how polluted is it?. After that project, I became an environmental data collector by purchasing a wearable, portable indoor-outdoor air quality monitor. My interest in air quality is about the fact that…

  • Data Project: Splitting addresses with Google Cloud Dataprep

    Data Project: Splitting addresses with Google Cloud Dataprep

    This article is part of the article I wrote about how I became an environmental data collector, and the issue I run into during the project and how I finally resolved them. After I collected the data with the wearable, portable indoor-outdoor air quality monitor Atmotube PRO.

  • It’s Time To Talk About Margin!

    It’s Time To Talk About Margin!

    It’s safe to say that the future for many small businesses looks tenuous at best. Consumer confidence is low, tensions are high, and your employees are all grappling the logistical, psychological and emotional implications of the new status quo. Whether that’s working from home in the company of shrieking kids and a stressed spouse, or…

  • What is in your family tree with a DNA match

    What is in your family tree with a DNA match

    Data comes in various forms and shapes, in my personal life I have been very interested in Genome data and creating my family tree. When I was born the family tree was handed down word of mouth, you only had 3 to 4 generations in your family tree.

  • Maritime noon report with Google Cloud Dataprep

    Maritime noon report with Google Cloud Dataprep

    I recently worked on an exciting project, the use case for the project was to make the maritime noon report data available in Google BigQuery, which sounds simple enough. However, there were a lot of requirements, from collecting application data from the Greenpeace fleet in different formats leveraging Cloud Functions and API calls, landing the…

  • Does alcohol consumption have an impact on climate change?

    Does alcohol consumption have an impact on climate change?

    It is a great question, does alcohol consumption impact climate change? I would argue that what you drink has an impact on climate change. That does not mean you have to stop drinking, you can drink more or less climate-smart.

  • The world can’t afford to drop the ball again

    The world can’t afford to drop the ball again

    We are all sharing a similar experience with the coronavirus pandemic, which we all remember in the future as the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. Each country has adopted different restrictions, we still all affected by what has taken place.

  • Data Project: The air I breathe how polluted is it?

    Data Project: The air I breathe how polluted is it?

    I wanted to find out how polluted the air is around me, and if it had improved now when we work from home and there are fewer airplanes going past or landing or departing from Schiphol airport, I live close to the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.