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Data Gen
#177 - BlaBlaCar : L'ex-Chief Product Officer partage sa Stratégie Data

Data Gen

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025 36:05


Rémi Guyot est l'ancien Chief Product Officer de BlaBlaCar, la plateforme de transports partagés leader en Europe qui compte 20 millions d'utilisateurs en France. Aujourd'hui, il a co-fondé l'agence Produit Discovery Discipline et est co-auteur du livre et de la méthode du même nom.On aborde :

Parlons Design
#326 Les 3 livres pour comprendre & représenter la data

Parlons Design

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 12:36


Lire les données chiffrés et en designer leurs représentations est un pouvoir à acquérir pour progresser en product design ! Je vous partage les 3 livres qui m'ont aidé dans cette aventure sans fin...

REI Rookies Podcast (Real Estate Investing Rookies)
Unleashing the Power of Credit Unions: The Hidden Financing Solution for Real Estate Investors

REI Rookies Podcast (Real Estate Investing Rookies)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2023 26:38


Mark Ritter is a passionate advocate for building better relationships and connecting people through credit unions. He understands the value of personal connections in the financial industry, and how they can be lost when banks merge or people move around. With over 125,000,000 Americans belonging to credit unions, Mark believes that these not-for-profit financial cooperatives are like unicorns in the industry, offering competitive rates and friendly terms to their members. While many people may associate credit unions with basic services like auto loans and ATMs, Mark knows that they can be a significant source of funding and liquidity for real estate investors. However, he realizes that there is a need to bridge the gap between real estate investors and credit unions. By facilitating this connection, Mark aims to bring financing opportunities and the unique benefits of credit unions to the forefront. What sets credit unions apart for Mark is the process. Unlike traditional lenders, credit unions engage in conversations with their members, ensuring that they fully understand their financial needs and goals. It's not just about submitting and approving loans; it's about building relationships and providing personalized support to members. Mark's mission is to promote and enhance the relationship between real estate investors and credit unions, allowing both parties to benefit from the competitive rates, friendly terms, and conversational approach that credit unions offer. Through his work, he hopes to help people fulfill their financial goals while fostering stronger connections in the industry.

Very Expensive Maps
Aurélien Boyer-Moraes: “The most important part is that the map goes to the public, it's useful, and it's used.”

Very Expensive Maps

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2023 67:09


Lisbon transit cartographer and designer Aurélien Boyer-Moraes talks learning to use a computer at 19, creating his first 3x4 ft. transit map of an imagined Brazilian city after reading Jacques Bertin's Semiology of Graphics cover-to-cover, preempting Google Street View in Lyon with his 6x6 Seagull camera, ten years of designing transit maps for French cities with Attoma, and his heavily-annotated collection of 2,100 transit and city maps (which he might let you see someday.) See his maps at https://transit-map.com/Indented below are Aurélien's notes on my notes (he is, as you can imagine, a precise man). Transit maps originally designed by Aurélien Metz, and Aurélien's original design  “The colors were imposed, there was no discussion, the use of these specific colors was mandatory because they were the new colors of the authority overseeing the transport in the agglomeration. They do not convey any specific information, which is against my general ‘credo', but we had to use them in the map.” Toulouse “My map had a strong palette which was consistent with the offer (the headways and the span of service) as you can see in the original from sept 2013, but it was scrapped in-house.” Dijon “A picture of a bus stop with the maps displayed (plan schématique général and the city center) and a pdf of an early version of the paper maps as they were issued in three different configurations: North, SE and SW (SO for sud-ouest), only the geographic map changed accordingly, the plan schématique remained the same, it was the reference. This initial configuration was irrelevant for a city of this size (250,000 inhabitants), then they reversed back to a single issue with, on one side the schéma + the center + information, and overleaf the geographic map.” Lyon, and Aurélien's original design Milan street map, completed in under two weeks Lisbon bus, tram and subway map Marseilles transit as of 1957 Vignelli's 1972 NYC subway map (cropped seven years later without his input, quelle horreur!) “I have a lot of respect for the early version of the map that the MTA committee led by Tauranac (with Michael Hertz as designer) released in 1979 (and was left almost untouched until the 1990s).One of the most relevant features of this map was the introduction of a very well thought out color code system by trunk in Mahanttan, which finally served also Vignelli since it makes his redesign of 2008 even more efficient! I am not a ‘blind pro-Vignelli, all against-1979 map.' It is way more subtle than that.Although the 1979 map evolved in such a wrong way since the mid-1990s, that today it is a spaghetti plate, and the redesign—first with the weekender and then with the opening of the first section of the 2nd subway line (after the demise of Vignelli)—by Cifuentes-Waterhouse in 2017 is more than ever powerfull thanks to the work of the 1979 committee.” Jarret Walker: a transit planning consultancy Sanborn insurance maps of Manhattan Two cartographers Aurélien would like to honor: “A Frenchman (for once) civil engineer from the prestigious École des ponts et chaussées, from the 19th century Charles-Joseph Minard (1781-1870) whose work is stilll pretty obscure to the general public, I learnt about him while reading The Visual Quantitative Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte, and you can easily find information about his impressive charts on the www.” “A Swiss designer (alive) who worked mostly in France, Rudi Meyer, he designed the 1976 splendid RER diagram and the French Railway system map that was on display from the late 1970s until 2011 in the trains. Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? ⁠The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast.⁠ See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: ⁠Radiant Maps⁠. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest of the world? There has been a long history of organizing and displaying information without putting too much thought into it, but Edward Tufte has done an enormous amount to change that. Beginning with The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and continuing to his new book Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth, Tufte's works have shaped how we think about charts, graphs, and other forms of presenting data. We talk about information, design, and how thinking about data reflects how we think about the world.Support Mindscape on Patreon.Edward Tufte received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has been a professor of public affairs at Princeton and of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale, where he is currently emeritus professor. He is the founder and owner of Graphics Press, and his books have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide. He is an active artist and sculptor, as well as a touring lecturer.Web siteYale web pageAmazon.com author pageWikipediaTwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Coffee with Butterscotch: A Game Dev Comedy Podcast

This week, we talk about the meaning of exploration, the need for a third place, and making the work visible. You can't solve a problem that you can't see. If you don't have a clear mental model of ALL THE THINGS and how they interact with each other, you can't make decisions about the next steps. That's where great tooling comes in!00:20 Intro02:13 Thanks to our supporters! (https://moneygrab.bscotch.net)02:34 Nail/Whiff36:41 Crashlands 2Things Mentioned: Book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (https://bit.ly/3BgTqh3)To stay up to date with all of our buttery goodness subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts (apple.co/1LxNEnk) or wherever you get your audio goodness. If you want to get more involved in the Butterscotch community, hop into our DISCORD server at discord.gg/bscotch and say hello! Submit questions at https://www.bscotch.net/podcast, disclose all of your secrets to podcast@bscotch.net, and send letters, gifts, and tasty treats to https://bit.ly/bscotchmailbox. Finally, if you'd like to support the show and buy some coffee FOR Butterscotch, head over to https://moneygrab.bscotch.net. ★ Support this podcast ★

The Swyx Mixtape
Self Publishing & Stealing [Austin Kleon]

The Swyx Mixtape

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 15:07


Listen to Creative Elements: https://www.creativeelements.fm/austin-kleon/ (19 mins in)TranscriptI was like 27, or 26. At the time, these kids were probably 22. You know, so it's like, what can I be stoked on these, you know, these students? It's just absurd. And they wanted a title for the talk. And I said, Oh, it's called. I saw I looked at my blog, I was like, what's the most interesting thing I've written recently, it's called How to Steal Like an Artist. That's what it's called. And I didn't have it written or anything. Like, that sounds good. But I had this blog post that was like, all these quotes about artists talking about stealing. And then I went on this walk with my wife, and I said, you know, what do I say to these people that aren't that much younger than me? And she said, Well, the best talk I ever heard at school, was this lady got up in front of our class, and she just had a list of 10 things that she wish she had known when she was a student. I said, that's great. I'll steal that. And that's where the talk came from. The talk went over well, but you know, me being a sort of old millennial, right on the edge of, you know, I was born in 83. So it's like, I have a little bit at digital native to me, but not terribly. So it's kind of like, well, what happens to all this material after I give this talk that no one recorded? And so I thought, well, it would make a really cool blog post. And that's really the thing I posted the How to Steal Like an Artist blog post. And that went viral. And this is 2011. And it became clear, like, immediately, because I started hearing from editors is like, this is your next book. Even though you put this book out, there was a poetry book that sold okay, but like, didn't really blow any doors down. But this is like the new one. So you get a second chance.Jay Clouse 18:08This idea of being a second chance, was this the language that was told to you by the publisher?Austin Kleon 18:13No, no, no, no, no, that was just in the back of my head. You know, for the publisher, it's all. Publishers just think, is it going to be a good book or not? You know, I mean, it's a funny thing, my agent would hate it if I told this story, but which makes it even more fun to tell. But you know, Ted, my agent, there was a point after newspaper blackout came out that I wrote him an email and I said, I just realized that I really need an agent. You know, like, it would be good to have an agent, I realized that now. And he sent me this email back that was pleasant, but he was like, Look, kid, I make money by selling books. So when you got you better hope this book that you do on your own sells well. And if you got another idea for a book, then come see me. Right. So that was like, right after Newspaper Blackout came out? Well, I came to him when it was time to sell steal like an artist to publishers. So it was never the second but it almost feels like I don't know, like a bands like Nirvana puts out Bleach and then never minds the like, the major label, even though that doesn't really work because my publisher workman's independent, but it did feel like okay, this is the pop shot. This is like, this is the chance to do a book that might have a bigger audience than then the poetry book.Jay Clouse 19:32Well, I kind of blew past this. You know, a lot of people come on the show. They've self published books, some of them have gone through a publisher and they talk about it being like a miserably difficult experience to get to the point where someone says, Okay, we'll publish your book. Yeah, you publish Newspaper Blackout through a publisher. How did that happen?Austin Kleon 19:48That was just an editor that was a year younger than me. Harper Perennial, Amy Kaplan, who she's got a different name now. She said, Have you ever thought about a book I said, hell yeah, I thought about a book, let's do it, they sent me a contract, which, you know, really, in hindsight, I should have never signed. But you know, I, my, my mother in law's a lawyer, and she looked over it and it seemed fine. You know, it's like, cuz, you know, it's a poetry book. And the stakes seem very low. But I, my feeling was always with books, when people want to book from you, they'll they'll tell you, you know that that's always how I felt about it was like, it's much easier to be wanted than to try to sell something fresh or new. Now, you know, every writer now has the ability to grow an audience before they ever publish a book. But the thing is, is that you want an audience, if you want to self publish, you got to have an audience. And if you want to publish with a publisher, you need to have an audience. You know, it's kind of like, your, I think the thing that I tell people now is, it's like, it's both terrifying, and freeing the fact that you always run your own show. And it's always in your core, you are always the one doing the work. You know, I've been a published professional author for a decade now. And nobody ever comes to you and says, We're gonna do it for your kid, don't worry, we're gonna make your stuff that just doesn't happen. I mean, maybe it happens to like, a pop singer, something, you know, but it's never going to happen. Every person you see, that's like a big deal. There's just all this work that you don't see that happened before that, where they were making things happen for themselves. You know, I thought when I was younger, I'm such a genius. I'm so talented, someone will just come out of the woodwork and say bold. Here you go, kid. You know, I just I just had that stupid, wishful thinking. But you know, my agent has three things that he tells writers that I think are really, really, it's really, really good advice, I try to pass on, one, get famous first. And that sounds horrible, and terrible. But really what he's talking fame is just more people knowing you than, you know, people. So fame can be a tiny fame too. So that's just getting known in your field, like get known for something that's, I would actually change it from getting famous, I'd say get known for something, you know, first, Ted second. My second piece of advice is all publishing is self publishing. So whether you're self publishing, or whether you're going with the big five or Big Four, now, publisher, you are the one that cares the most about your work. And you're always going to be the one that pushes it and sells it and gets out in the world the best. And then three, the thing that Ted says that I think is even more true today than it was when he was saying 10 years ago is you're really CEO of your own multimedia empire to only think in terms of books is very limiting now, because you have these tools available to you now where you can just do whatever I mean, you've got the access to media now is stunning, you know, so it really becomes about what you want to do. But I always thought those three pieces of advice were really good. But I think the major thing is like don't wait on anybody. No one's going to come and night you, you know, no one's going to get out the sword and put it on both shoulders and say I knight thee you're in the club, you know, and by the time it feels like you're in the club, you don't need to be in the club. You know what I mean? So it's just so I'm always with people. I always think that young people need to get sort of the best of punk rock. earliest they can not they're like, oh Sal out there spit on us punk rock, but the real sort of the kind of punk rock that Michael Azur ad writes about in our band could be your life. These bands that got in the van, and they toured and they built audiences city by city, and they got addresses and built their mailing list. You know, that kind of great American. You know, it's the best of America punk to me, like, the band on the road. That's like, sort of the best of the American dream, you know, like building your audience slowly.Jay Clouse 24:26Yeah. I feel like there's like a, there's a lot of analogs, from music to all the online greeter stuff we talked about today, because they were just out there doing it going on the road, building this mailing list, every time they went to the city, it just got a little bit bigger. And that's not that different than what we're doing now. It's just instead of cities you have maybe internet communities, maybe you have these small pockets of culture. It's really about the same.Austin Kleon 24:52One newsletter subscriber at a time. Somebody tells their friend or his tweets that or whatever, you know, that musics interesting for me, I'm sort of a, I'm sort of a want to be, you know, music is what got me through my teenage years, I realized very early on, it wasn't going to be the lifestyle for me I wasn't going to be okay with just like being on the road and trying to entertain people, which is hilarious now because half of my job is getting up on the stage and performing for people. But music has always been an influence. And music is interesting, because musicians are always the kind of canaries in the coal mine. As far as media goes, anything bad that's going to happen will happen to musicians first. And it was true of streaming. It was well it was true of digital. It was true of Napster and all that. It was true of streaming. And it was trueThe pandemic. Musicians are really the artists, they're sort of, I can't think of another art form that's really more on the edge of whatever the world is doing. And they'll do it to them first.Jay Clouse 26:00Yeah, yeah. I thought when we started to see holograms of Tupac at Coachella, I was like, this is this is next.Austin Kleon 26:08Well isTupac. It's Gemini season right now. No one this layer, but you know, yeah, it's true. It's like, the indignities that are put upon the passed away musician.Jay Clouse 26:19Your three rules from Ted, if you believe them to be true, which it sounds like you do that number two rule of everybody is self publishing. What is the litmus test now for someone to decide if they should go with a traditional publisher? If they have the opportunity?Austin Kleon 26:34Oh, great question. I think it has a lot to do with business goals. It just depends. It depends completely on the person depends on what kind of stuff you're writing. You know, for me, my books do really well by the cash register, at the paper source or the, you know, Urban Outfitters, or wherever. Now, these books have taken a hit during the pandemic, because nobody's in person anymore. Yeah, so those books take a little bit of a hit. But, you know, like, I'm reading a book right now on how to take better notes. And I forget the guy's name. But it's like, that's a very niche.Jay Clouse 27:18Yeah.Austin Kleon 27:18Thing that most publishers probably like, take better notes. What is the you know, whatever, I'm sure this guy's probably sold a million copies, he's probably made of fortune. The thing about self publishing that I try to remind people is that it exists on a very wide economic spectrum. So like, for example, my two self publishing heroes are on one side, a guy named John Porcellino. And on the other side is a guy named Edward Tufte. Now John Porcellino has been doing this scene called King-Cat for 30 years, I think King-Cat since like, 19, you can tell I'm not good. It's late afternoon. My math skills are bad. But John's been doing this scene for 30 years at least it's it's it's one of the greatest American comics. And in my opinion, John's never gotten rich off of it. He, you know, started when he's a kid, it's so got that punk buddha, energy to it. But john, now I think he, he just started a Patreon. And I think he's just starting to be able to save enough to have a reasonable, like, lower middle class. I mean, this is just from what I've seen of him and seen of his work. He's just starting to be able to like kind of have a decent living through Patreon and his subscribers to King-Cat. So that's like one side of the economic spectrum. On the other side is someone like Edward Tufte. Edward Tufte. He was statistician at Yale. Nobody wants to publish his book called The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Can you imagine no one wanted to publish that book. So he self published it out of his garage, took out a second mortgage on his house. Ed sold like 1.5 million copies of these books, they retail for $40. So you do the math, even if there's half I mean, this guy's made Yeah, he's made $40 $50 million. If you do the math off of of self publishing these books and he towards like the Grateful Dead, you know, he's one of those guys. He goes around with a sound system. He sets up in a Hilton ballroom, 500 people come and they sell, you know, 300 bucks ahead, and everybody gets books and he just goes around does that and makes a killing too you know, meanwhile, John's at like a comic con, hand selling King-Cat, you know, so like, both these dudes to me are our punk. You know, like they're both. They have that DIY punk spirit that the Grateful Dead had to You know, they're doing it, they're just doing it themselves, you know. But yeah, I don't have a huge opinion. I mean, the publisher thing, to me, it's still about having the muscle of distribution and getting it everywhere. And of course, the publisher takes a little bit of the risk with the printing and stuff, but that with on demand and stuff, it's changing a lot. I mean, it'll be interesting to see where you know, what happens with my next book, you know, whether I do some self publishing experiments or not, it's still worth it for me to go with a major publisher. But I have friends that say, I'm stupid, you know, I have friends who say, why would why at this point, wouldn't you self publish something, and sell it for 20 bucks and keep 10 and make a killing. But for me, it's about just being patient. I'm planning on doing this for a very long time. And so I'm just sort of patient and to be perfectly honest, I'm not very business savvy. I mean, I'm number savvy. But I'm not really interested in being a business person, which has always been a problem for me. You know, I didn't get into this. Like, if I wanted to make money, I would have gone to business school.

The Informed Life
Peter Bogaards on a UX Canon

The Informed Life

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2022 29:32 Transcription Available


Peter Bogaards is an evangelist, educator, and coach at Informaat experience design. Peter has shared design knowledge via his InfoDesign blog since 1997. In this conversation, we discuss his recently proposed canon on UX.Show notesPeter Bogaards (about.me)InformaatInfoDesign – Sharing knowledge is better than having itA canon of user experience: Seminal works of a discipline (A work in progress)  by Peter BogaardsMan-computer symbiosis (pdf) by J.R. LickliderDARPA (formerly ARPA)As We May Think (pdf) by Vannevar BushVannevar BushDouglas EngelbartTed NelsonCybernetic serendipity: The computer and the arts (pdf), Reichardt, J. ed.The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual search engine (pdf) by Sergey Brin and Lawrence PageThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward TufteInformation Anxiety by Richard Saul WurmanShow notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links.

The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Eugene Wei on "Status as a Service", Why Networks Grow and Stop Growing, The Worst Design Choices Social Media Incumbents Have Made & The Next 10 Years of Media and the Metaverse

The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2021 46:16


Eugene Wei is one of my favorite thinkers, writers, and strategists in tech today. Having spent the majority of his professional career at consumer internet companies, Eugene started his career with a 7-year stint at Amazon with a focus on product. He then joined Hulu leading the product, design, editorial, and marketing teams. Post Hulu, Eugene co-founded Erly, later acquired by Airtime, and then joined Flipboard as Head of Product. Finally, Eugene's last position was with Oculus as Head of Video. You have to check out Eugene's blog and can find his writing here. In Today's Episode with Eugene Wei You Will Learn: 1.) How Eugene made his way into the world of tech and startups with his first position at Amazon? What did Eugene do differently that made him stand out to the recruiters at Amazon? 2.) Decision-Making: Why does the process and medium by which decisions are made matter so much? How has Euegene's decision-making process changed over time? Where do many people go wrong in constructing and optimising their decision-making process? What are Eugene's biggest takeaways and lessons from Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs on messaging? 3.) The World of Social: What does Eugene believe is the graph design problem for so many social apps today? What does Eugene believe are the best and the worst design choices social media incumbents have made? How does Eugene encourage the next generation of consumer social founders to think through design decisions? 4.) Status as a Service: What does the concept of "Status as a Service" mean to Eugene? What is the biggest misunderstanding people have with the concept? What has fundamentally changed this concept in the last 2-3 years? How does the rise of crypto and NFT's impact the notion of "status as a service"? How does Eugene believe this will look in 10 years? 5.) The World of Media: How does Eugene think through the attention economy today? Why is media and content harder than ever today? Why does Eugene believe media has now become zero-sum? What does Eugene believe will be the future business model for media? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with Euegene Wei Eugene's Favourite Book: The Sound and the Fury, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Civil Engineering Academy Podcast
CEA - Making Civil Engineering Practical for the World

The Civil Engineering Academy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2021 20:32


This week, YouTube superstar Grady Hillhouse from Practical Engineering jumps on the show! Grady is a geography college graduate, turned professional civil engineer, turned successful content creator with way more than 1+ million views per video. Yeah…what a journey! Tune in to learn about his engineering background, how he started the channel as a hobby, and much more! What You'll Learn: From Geography to Civil Engineering: Grady's Unusual Path into the Field The Importance of Geotech Classes―Regardless of Your Area of Expertise The Biggest Value of an Engineering Degree Most Engineers Don't Recognize Grady's Studying Habit on Sunday Mornings That Helped Him Pass the PE Exam How His Desire to Learn Woodworking Skills Got His Channel Started How He Scaled His Famous YouTube Channel as a Side Project After Work The Power of Feedback to Improve Yourself in Whatever You Do How to Balance Technical and Comprehensive Content for a Large Audience Grady's Top Tips for Those Who Also Want to Start Something of Their Own Creative and Illustration Resources That Helped Him With His Channel How the 100-Year-Old American Civil Engineer's Handbook Can Help You Today A Surprising Announcement by Grady for 2022 Our Partner: School of PE - http://www.civilengineeringacademy.com/sope Resources Mentioned: CEA Facebook Community - https://ceacommunity.com Engineer to Entrepreneur - https://engineer2entrepreneur.net Practical Engineering Website - https://practical.engineering Practical Engineering YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel What Really Happened During the Texas Power Grid Outage? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM How Do Sinkholes Form? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-DVIQPqS8E Edward Tufte - https://www.edwardtufte.com The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte - amzn.to/3wACGh4 David Macaulay - https://davidmacaulay.com Underground, by David Macaulay - amzn.to/3qqJ0Xz CEA Website - https://civilengineeringacademy.com The Ultimate Civil PE Review Course - https://civilpereviewcourse.com CEA Newsletter - https://civilengineeringacademy.com/join-our-newsletter Reach out to Isaac - isaac@civilengineeringacademy.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/civilengineeringacademy/message

Simply Smarter
Reading the ACT - The Newest Section

Simply Smarter

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2021 24:06


On today's episode, Caleb and Jill break down the newest changes within the reading section of the ACT called "Visual and Quantitative Information" questions.  These new questions were recently released on the July ACT. We talk about how these VQI questions will negatively or positively affect students' scores. Plus, stay tuned for a new program we will be releasing next summer! As always, sign up for a Free Practice ACT, which we offer every Saturday morning. For more information regarding the college prep process, visit our website. 

The Product Tape
#22 - Au coeur des Produits data centric

The Product Tape

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2021 64:43


"La question de l'intelligence artificielle éclipse celle de la donnée. On parle beaucoup de produit à base d'IA mais c'est souvent un abus de langage. Pour la plupart, les projets d'IA sont des projets data." Comment fonctionnent les Produits centrés sur la donnée ? Comment construire un bon Produit data centric ? Cette mission impacte-t-elle la structure et l'organisation des équipes ?  Eglantine Schmitt est Head of Product de Citio, un éditeur de logiciel SaaS B2B orienté data permettant aux opérateurs et aux municipalités (AOM) d'améliorer les transports publics par la donnée. Diplômée de Sciences Po Paris et titulaire d'un doctorat en philosophie des sciences sur les big data, elle vulgarise pour nous les dessous des Produits data driven. Ensemble, nous avons notamment évoqué :

Free the Data Podcast
Becoming Data Literate with Ben Jones (DataLiteracy.com)

Free the Data Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 62:57


A key ingredient missing in many organizations today is how to read and understand data. Ben Jones, founder of DataLiteracy.com, shares his insights into what Data Literacy is and how your company can benefit from increasing your level of it. How to Connect with Ben Jones: - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DataRemix - LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrjones/ - COMPANY WEBSITE: https://dataliteracy.com/ References Mentioned in this Week's Episode: - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information https://amzn.to/3eg9nsw - Hans Rosling: The Best Stats You've Ever Seen https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w - William Playfair: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=2929 - Christoph Scheiner: http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/scheiner.html Learn data skills at our academy and elevate your career. Start for free at https://ftdacademy.com/pod --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ftdacademy/message

The Virtual Coffee Podcast
Ray Deck - Rubber Ducking your Life

The Virtual Coffee Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 56:37 Transcription Available


In this episode, Dan and Bekah talk to Ray Deck, a trained data scientist, occasional angel investor, and software entrepreneur, about finding the right career path through growth, learning, and motivation. We talk about the importance of trust and listening, and Ray drops a bunch of great resources to help everyone find their own path.About RayRay is a trained data scientist, occasional angel investor, and software entrepreneur. His 25-year career spans industries from law to finance. Most recently, Ray is the founder of Sustained Ventures, a software product studio where he also publishes essays on technology and markets.Ray's thoughts can be followed at sustainedventures.com/essays, and his less-thoughtful self is on Twitter @ray_deck.Favorite nonfiction books:Bekah's pick: Beauty in the Broken Places by Allison PatakiBekah's second pick: Scattered Minds by Dr. Gabor MatéDan's pick: Shit, Actually by Lindy WestRay's pick: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edwarde TufteLinks to things mentioned in the episode:Start With Why by Simon SinekThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. CoveyThe 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. CoveyVirtual Coffee: Virtual Coffee: virtualcoffee.io Podcast Contact: podcast@virtualcoffee.io Bekah: dev.to/bekahhw, Twitter: https://twitter.com/bekahhw, Instagram: bekahhw Dan: dtott.com, Twitter: @danieltott

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Carl Kawaja - Wisdom from Decades of Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 236]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2021 88:11


Today's conversation is one of my all-time favorites, with someone I've come to respect deeply in the field of investing. My guest is Carl Kawaja, who has served as a portfolio manager at Capital Group for decades. Capital Group is among the most respected shareholders in the world, with over $2T of assets, and listening to Carl, you'll hear why.   In our conversation, we cover Carl's criteria for building conviction around long-term holdings, why he views uncertainty and ambiguity as healthy, and why tolerating failure is key to great investing career. Throughout our discussion, Carl connects his lessons through a variety of direct experiences, personal analogies, and broader frameworks. I love his ability to talk in the weeds about his investments in Vale and TSMC and then quickly shift to his broader thematic views like “The Empire Strikes Back.” I hope you enjoy this great conversation with Carl Kawaja.   For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here. ------   This episode is brought to you by Canalyst. Canalyst is the leading destination for public company data and analysis. If you've been scrambling to keep up with the deluge of IPOs and SPACs these days, Canalyst has models on Robinhood, Marqeta, Grab, and everything in between. Learn more and try Canalyst for yourself at canalyst.com/patrick.   ------   This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. Eight Sleep's new Pod Pro Cover is the easiest and fastest way to sleep at your perfect temperature. Simply add the Pod Pro Cover to your current mattress and start sleeping as cool as 55°F or as hot as 110°F. To embrace the future of sleep and get $150 off your new mattress go to eightsleep.com/patrick or use code "Patrick".   ------   Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, Inc. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.    Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week. Sign up here.   Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus   Show Notes [00:03:38] - [First question] - The two companies he has owned the longest and what they've taught him as an investor  [00:16:37] - Discussing his investment style through the lens of simplicity   [00:24:35] - A time where he worked to try and create a simplified equation but couldn't  [00:30:59] - Discussing his investment style through the lens of echolocation and ambiguity  [00:36:03] - Thoughts on whether buying well or holding well is more difficult [00:40:40] - Capital Group's history and his river-rafting analogy in regards to the company [00:47:48] - What he means by “The Empire Strikes Back” and relevant market themes [00:54:50] - A brief summary of “The Empire Strikes Back” [00:58:42] - Common reasons that he may have gotten something really wrong  [01:03:34] - Impressions made on him by the poet Rilke [01:09:00] - The work of Brunello Cucinelli and the nature of quality  [01:13:08] - Advice for new investors who want to step into the field and set themselves up for success [01:13:54] - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information  [01:17:39] - What he's learned about kindness [01:19:54] - The kindest thing that anyone has ever done for him

Origins: Explorations of thought-leaders' pivotal moments
Peter Turchi - Maps of the creative process and designs for life

Origins: Explorations of thought-leaders' pivotal moments

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 62:26


Peter Turchi takes the art and act of writing as an irresistible analog for the art and the act of living. His work is part of a long tradition of fascination with processes of writers and he is among the masters at relating that process in a way that reaches all domains of society. For anyone who has ever thought about writing - the craft of it, its centrality in the human experience, its analog for life itself - this conversation is for you.Show Notes:How he began writing (04:30)Dealing with rejection (12:00)Richard Russo writer (18:00)Maps of the Imaginations: The Writer as Cartographer (18:30)The Power of Maps by Dennis Woods (21:30)Other brilliant books on mapsJorge Luis Borges (19:00)Origins - Melanie Mitchell (28:30)Lisa Feldman Barrett (28:45)The Atlas of Cyberspace by Rob Kitchin (29:30)The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (30:15)Origins - Giorgia Lupi (31:20)Origins - Matt Russo (31:30)MFA Program at Warren Wilson (34:40)Productivity-driven culture (38:15)Alison Gopnik - Explore/Exploit paradigm (41:30)Charles Ritchie artist (45:30)E.O. Wilson - “A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree” (46:40)A Muze and a Maze (46:00)The Book of Sand by Borges (51:30)Joan Dideon “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear” Peter's daily routine (53:45)Lightning round (58:00):Book: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Passion: MusicMaking heart sing: Sonoran DesertFind guest online:http://www.peterturchi.com/'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  Peter’s playlist

The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution
Leadership, Radical Delegation, And Integrated Problem Solving with Admiral John Richardson

The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2021 84:54


In the second part of this two-part episode of The Idealcast Gene Kim and Admiral John Richardson, former Chief of Naval Operations, continue their discussion on the importance of leadership in large, complex organizations, especially enabling leadership training early in one’s career, and exploring why he views it as so important. Admiral Richardson also shares why radical delegation is needed more than ever, and provides tools and techniques for enabling it. Kim and Admiral Richardson discuss the important characteristics needed to integrate problems solving into an organization. And finally, they talk about the nature of the US Naval Reactors that are responsible for the safe and reliable operations of the US Naval Propulsion Program, why that warrants the command of a 4-star admiral, and what should ideally happen when accidents occur in complex systems. Also joining the conversation is Dr. Steve Spear, who has written extensively about the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program program in his book The High-Velocity Edge. ABOUT THE GUESTS Admiral John Richardson served as the Chief of Naval Operations for four years, which is the professional head of the US Navy. While in the Navy, Richardson served in the submarine force and commanded the attack submarine USS Honolulu in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for which he was awarded the Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale Inspirational Leadership Award. He also served as the Director of Naval Reactors, responsible for the design, safety, certification, operating standards, material control, maintenance, disposal, and regulatory oversight of over 100 nuclear power plants operating on nuclear-powered warships deployed around the world. Since his retirement in August 2019, he has joined the boards of several major corporations and other organizations, including Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company, and Exelon, a Fortune 100 company that operates the largest fleet of nuclear plants in America and delivers power to over 10 million customers.  Dr. Steve Spear (DBA MS MS) is principal for HVE LLC, the award-winning author of The High-Velocity Edge, and patent holder for the See to Solve Real Time Alert System. A Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute, Dr. Spear’s work focuses on accelerating learning dynamics within organizations so that they know better and faster what to do and how to do it. This has been informed and tested in practice in multiple industries including heavy industry, high tech design, biopharm R&D, healthcare delivery and other social services, US Army rapid equipping, and US Navy readiness.   Visit Steve Spear's Website   YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT Admiral Richardson’s views on the importance of training leadership in the earliest stages of a sailor’s career Why leadership is so important Various tools and techniques for enabling radical delegation Important characteristics of the different ways that integrated problem solving incurs in organizations The nature of the function organization that is the U.S. Naval reactors, comprehensively responsible for safe and reliably operations of the US Naval Propulsion Program and why it warrants being commanded by a four-star admiral What should leaders in complex organizations do when accidents occur   RESOURCES Leadership Development and Balancing Creativity and Control with Admiral John Richardson (Part I) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte Navy Leader Development Framework A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority v. 1 A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority v. 2 Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint” Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: The Ultimate Disrupter by Adam Lashinsky How are the six-page narratives structured in Jeff Bezos' S-Team meetings? Flipped meetings: Learning from Amazon’s meeting policy by Stowe Boyd The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition by Steven J. Spear Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley A. McChrystal, Chris Fussell, David Silverman and Tantum Collins The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data by Gene Kim Michael Nygard’s episodes on The Idealcast Part 1, summit presentations, and Part 2 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow’s Wikipedia page The Idealcast episodes featuring David Silverman and Jessica Reif Part 1 and Part 2   TIMESTAMPS [00:00] Intro [01:24] Toughing up the training [09:37] Feedback from the fleet [11:00] Discussions with the instructors [14:03] A Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority [18:07] Designing for the next place [28:18] Reducing the cost of change [35:22] Configurations for failure or success [39:55] Tools for integration [47:39] How structure affects the dynamics of how organizations work [51:59] Gene reflects on integrated problem solving [57:28] Two domains of activities to use the slow communication paths [1:00:42] If these mental models resonate with Admiral Richardson [1:02:31] What point does the center get involved [1:07:47] Why the delegation for the nuclear reactor core is important [1:14:00] What happens when complex systems go wrong [1:20:37] Contacting Admiral Richardson

React Round Up
RRU 136: MIcro Front-Ends and Module Federation with Jack Herrington

React Round Up

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2021 54:25


Jack Herrington joins TJ for a discussion about React, Micro Front-Ends, and Module Federation in Webpack. All of these are things that Jack has show off on his Youtube Channel. They discuss the how and why you'd want to implement this approach to building applications. Panel TJ VanToll Guest Jack Herrington Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator React Error Monitoring | Sentry Links TypeScript: Documentation - Utility Types GitHub | pmndrs/zustand GitHub | pmndrs/jotai Blue Collar Coder | Jack Herrington YouTube Channel | Jack Herrington GitHub: Jack Herrington ( @jherr ) Picks Jack- Edward Tufte: Books - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information TJ- The Mandalorian 

Devchat.tv Master Feed
RRU 136: MIcro Front-Ends and Module Federation with Jack Herrington

Devchat.tv Master Feed

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2021 54:25


Jack Herrington joins TJ for a discussion about React, Micro Front-Ends, and Module Federation in Webpack. All of these are things that Jack has show off on his Youtube Channel. They discuss the how and why you'd want to implement this approach to building applications. Panel TJ VanToll Guest Jack Herrington Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator React Error Monitoring | Sentry Links TypeScript: Documentation - Utility Types GitHub | pmndrs/zustand GitHub | pmndrs/jotai Blue Collar Coder | Jack Herrington YouTube Channel | Jack Herrington GitHub: Jack Herrington ( @jherr ) Picks Jack- Edward Tufte: Books - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information TJ- The Mandalorian 

storytelling with data podcast
storytelling with data: #42 there is still an art to feedback

storytelling with data podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2021 39:04


Giving good feedback to others—when done well—can help you sharpen your own thinking and approaches for visualizing and communicating with data. We'll start with this critical topic in our new 10-week course, so it seemed like the perfect timing to repost the original episode of the storytelling with data podcast. I discuss the value of giving and receiving data visualization feedback and potential problem areas to avoid. Hear The Economist's eloquent response to critique of one of their graphs, plus answers to reader questions on when to use graphs, considerations with dashboards, and data viz book recommendations (updated with some recent publications!). MENTIONED LINKS: 10-week course & upcoming workshops: storytellingwithdata.com/workshops Feedback? email feedback@storytellingwithdata.com Blog post: SWD makeover challenge on The Economist's hurricane graph Article: “Design & Redesign in Data Visualization” by Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg Blog post: my guiding principles Article: The subtle art that differentiates good designers from great designers by UX Planet Blog post: a tale about opportunity Book: The Big Book of Dashboards by Steve Wexler, Jeff Shaffer & Andy Cotgreave Book: storytelling with data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Book: WSJ Guide to Information Graphics by Dona Wong Book: Show Me the Numbers by Stephen Few Book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte Book: Avoiding Data Pitfalls by Ben Jones Book: Better Data Visualizations by Jonathan Schwabish Book: Let's Practice! by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Resource: SWD community Questions? email askcole@storytellingwithdata.com or start a conversation in SWD community

Radio Value
BookPod - Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte

Radio Value

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 2:03


Teaser: Anybody who wants to display graphical information should read this book. Anybody who wants to understand how beautiful data can look should read this book. Read this book and do not put up with unintelligible and ugly graphics ever again.

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New Layer
30 Books Every Designer Should Read

New Layer

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2020 29:28


Tanner and Jasmine share their must-read books for designers. Spanning everything from how to conduct design critique or present your work, to what makes a good manager and how learning about org design can help your understanding of the work you do. The full list of books mentioned are: 1. The Design Method, by Eric Karjaluoto 2. The Shape of Design, by Frank Chimero 3. The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman 4. How Design Makes the World, by Scott Berkun 5. The Creativity Challenge, by Tanner Christensen 6. The Making of a Manager, by Julie Zhuo 7. Org Design for Design Orgs, by Kristen Skinner and Peter Merholz 8. Sprint, by Jake Knapp 9. Radical Candor, by Kim Scott 10. The Advantage, by Patrick Lencioni 11. The Messy Middle, by Scott Belsky 12. Redesigning Leadership, John Maeda 13. Discussing Design, by Aaron Irizarry and Adam Connor 14. Don't Make Me Think, by Steve Krug 15. About Face, by Alan Cooper 16. The User Experience Team of One, by Leah Buley 17. TED Talks, by Chris Anderson 18. Loonshots, by Safi Bahcall 19. Just Enough Research, by Erika Hall 20. Principles, by Ray Dalio 21. The Dance of the Possible, by Scott Berkun 22. The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst 23. Thinking With Type, by Ellen Lupton 24. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte 25. Why are we Yelling, by Buster Benson 26. Resilient Management, by Lara Callender Hogan 27. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni 28. Articulating Design Decisions, by Tom Greever 29. Start With Why, by Simon Sinek 30. Mastering Collaboration, by Gretchen Anderson If you pick just four books to read from the list, Tanner and Jasmine recommend: The Design of Everyday Things, Org Design for Design Orgs, Discussing Design, and The Making of a Manager (even if you're not a manager!).

Herrasmieshakkerit
Kuinka päästä tietoturva-alalle töihin? | 0x06

Herrasmieshakkerit

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020 41:18


Tässä erikoisjaksossa Suomen tietoturvakentän wiralliset wanhukset kertovat kuinka päästä tietoturva-alalle töihin. Keskustelemme takkatulen ääressä siitä minkälaisia tehtäviä tietoturva-alalta löytyy, mitä kannattaa opiskella, miten voi tukea omaa osaamistaan alan harrastamisella ja mitä työhaastattelussa voidaan kysyä.  Äänijulkaisun lähdeluettelo: T:n muotoinen ihminen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills Lego Mindstorms https://www.lego.com/fi-fi/themes/mindstorms/about Spoofy - lapsille suunnattu mobiilipeli, jossa ratkotaan erilaisia kyberpulmia: https://spoofy.fi/ Røøtz Asylum / DEF CON https://r00tz.org/ Catharina Candolinin tiivistys https://twitter.com/candolin2/status/1245807155590115330 Kirjoja: Silence on the Wire, Michal Zalewski https://nostarch.com/silence.htm Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds https://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-Delivery/dp/0321811984 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Dufte https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/1930824130 Guide to Persuasive Presentations, Nancy Duarte https://www.amazon.com/HBR-Guide-Persuasive-Presentations-ebook/dp/B009G1W9JO Resonate, Nancy Duarte https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470632011

The Controversial Exchange
Understanding Behavior Analysis Research | TCE #017

The Controversial Exchange

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2020 89:03


0:00:45 Topic Introductions: Translational research, the role of research, and is there an article for everything? 0:03:31 Check out Dixon et al. (2016) Stimulus Preference and Reinforcement Effects of the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach (Gromphordahina Portentosa): A Case of Reverse Translational Research 0:03:34 Check out Jarmolowicz, D. P., Lemley, S. M., Mateos, A., & Sofis, M. J. (2016). A multiple‐stimulus‐without‐replacement assessment for sexual partners: Purchase task validation. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 49, 723-729. 0:04:40 Check out Carl Binder and his contributions 0:06:08 Check out the video of Skinner's APA Convention keynote address in 1990 0:07:09 Topic Change: What is research? What kind of research is out there? 0:09:55 Check out Linda Hayes and her contributions 0:09:57 Check out the Parrott Hayes Lab at the University Nevada Reno 0:15:50 Topic Change: Ryan and Dimitri discuss when and how they search the literature 0:19:08 Check out the podcast Why We Do What We Do 0:21:20 APA Handbook of Behavior Analysis edited by Gregory Madden 0:24:58 Check out T. V. Joe Layng and his contributions 0:28:49 Shout out to Mark Malady! 0:29:35 World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence by Stephen Pepper 0:30:40 Learning and Complex Behavior by John Donahoe and David Palmer 0:34:45 Topic Change: Dimitri and Ryan share their tips on critically evaluating and consuming the research 0:39:53 Retzlaff et al. (2020) A translational evaluation of potential iatrogenic effects of single and combined contingencies during functional Analysis 0:41:17 Check out Greg Hanley and his contributions 0:43:38 Hayes, Hayes, & Reese (1988) Finding the philosophical core: A review of Stephen C. Pepper's World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence 0:46:40 Check out Steven Hayes and his contributions 0:46:42 Check out Mark Dixon and his contributions 0:46:43 Check out Mark Sundberg and his contributions 0:46:45 Check out Pat McGreevy's bio 0:53:45 Check out Rick Kubina and his contributions 0:54:34 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte 1:01:28 Check out Sham and Smith (2014) Publication bias in studies of an applied behavior‐analytic intervention: An initial analysis 1:08:24 Topic Change: So is there an article for that? Is there in other fields? 1:08:45 Food Dudes (Repeated Tasting Research Reference) 1:13:10 Check out these Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Bootcamps 1:13:51 Check out the WWDWWD podcast episode on Berserkers 1:13:54 Check out the WWDWWD podcast episode on Zombie Ants 1:14:19 Tom Buqo 1:15:50 From AI to Zeitgeist: A Philosophical Guide for the Skeptical Psychologist by N. H. Pronko 1:20:35 Check out the What Works Clearinghouse 1:22:50 What Is Evidence-Based Behavior Analysis? by Tristram Smith 1:23:26 medical article with tiers/criteria? 1:25:58 Check out Edward Morris and his contributions --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecontroversialexchange/message

egghead.io developer chats
Writing The Book On Data Visualization With Amelia Wattenberger

egghead.io developer chats

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2019 35:02


D3.js is the defacto library that people use to create custom data visualizations on the web today. It's powerful and flexible. You can do whatever you want with it. However, that kind of power and flexibility comes at the cost of complexity. You have to know what you're doing, and it takes a long time to learn. There's existing content written on D3, but there's always room for another voice. With the help of Newline, Amelia wrote the book of over 600 pages, Fullstack D3 and Data Visualization. In this book, she teaches all the theory and application you need to know to make badass visualizations using D3. Amelia also takes the unique approach of having you use your own dataset! Data that means something to you is going to be much more interesting than anything that could be provided.As a React developer, Amelia wrote the excellent blog post Thinking in React Hooks. She says that you have to make a paradigm shift with hooks. You can't keep thinking about your components in terms of lifecycle, but instead, think about them in terms of data synchronization. Transcript"Writing The Book On Data Visualization With Amelia Wattenberger" TranscriptResourcesFullstack D3 and Data VisualizationThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward TufteThinking in React HooksAmelia WattenbergerTwitterWebsiteJoel HooksTwitterWebsite

The Virtual CISO Moment
The Virtual CISO Moment S2E9 - Quantitative Information Security Risk Assessments - Presentation

The Virtual CISO Moment

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2019 51:12


Learn how quantitative information security risk assessments can help community institutions (and all small and midsized businesses). A presentation to the Bankers' Bank of the West Information Security for Community Institutions conference October 25, 2019. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/virtual-ciso-moment/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/virtual-ciso-moment/support

Data Viz Today
27: [Mini] 3 Things I’ll Try To Do Better After Reading Tufte’s Book

Data Viz Today

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2018 6:41


I loved reading Edward Tufte's “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” for the first time as part of the Data Vis Book Club! He's known as a pioneer in the data viz field but has also received criticism for his "my way or the highway" approach. I highly recommend reading his book, not necessarily as a data viz rulebook, but as a valuable perspective to consider. In this episode, I talk about the 3 things that I'll try to do better in my data visualizations now that I've read Tufte's book. What about you? Show Notes Edward Tufte's Book Follow Data Viz Today on Twitter

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Culture of Compliance
Visual Data Analytics: An Integral Part of Any Compliance Toolkit

Culture of Compliance

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 17:58


Sabrina Serafin, National Practice Leader of Frazier & Deeter's Process Risk & Governance Practice, interviews Joe Oringel, Managing Director of Visual Risk IQ.They discuss the importance of visual data analytics and reporting in relation to today's compliance tools.  Links to items mentioned in the podcast: 11:09 - Self-service - we're offering a 15- or 30-minute demo of Tableau to any podcast listener where we can provide both a trial software license and a guided evaluation of the software. http://www.vriq.us/TryTableau to download software and email me to schedule the guided demo: Joe.Oringel@VisualRiskIQ.com 12:55 - Tweet re: Machine Learning and AI https://twitter.com/VisualRiskIQ/status/1010689657883918336 16:05 - Book information Stephen Few book - Show Me the Numbers http://www.vriq.us/ShowMeTheNumbers Edward Tufte book - Visual Display of Quantitative Information http://www.vriq.us/TufteBook Dona Wong / Wall Street Journal's Guide to Infographics http://www.vriq.us/DonaWongWSJ 17:15 - 3 Part Webinar: Improve Internal Audit and Compliance with Data Analytics https://www.tableau.com/learn/series/improve-internal-audit-and-compliance-data-analytics

Pizza de Dados
Episódio 006: Da Oceanografia ao Conda Forge

Pizza de Dados

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2018 46:11


Vai uma pizza à beira-mar? Nesse episódio recebemos Filipe Fernandes, um oceanógrafo que vai nos mostrar que oceanografia não tem nada a ver com empurrar tartaruguinhas de volta ao mar, mas sim com dados! E põe dados nisso!Agradecimento especial aos nossos ParceirosEsse episódio não seria possível sem o apoio especial dos nossos parças do Data Bootcamp, o maior bootcamp de Data Science do Brasil! Aprenda a organizar, extrair e interpretar os dados da sua empresa com as tecnologias mais avançadas usadas no mercado. Confira as datas dos próximos cursos no calendário.Os padrinhos desse episódioEsse episódio não teve padrinhos. Se você quiser apadrinhar episódios do Pizza manda um e-mail pra gente. Tópicos abordados neste episódioQuem é e o que faz nosso convidadoDe um blog pessoal à maior agência de oceanografia dos Estados UnidosLidando com arquivos gigantescosArquivos tipo NetCDFConda-Forge: como começou e como chegou aonde chegouSoftware Carpentry: tudo o que queríamos quando começamos na ciênciaEscute agora Pessoas nesse episódioLeticia Portella Twitter Jessica Temporal Twitter Gustavo Coelho Twitter Filipe Fernandes Twitter   Apoie o pizza:Nós também temos uma campanha de financiamento recorrente para ajudar a pagar a edição dos episódios. Se você gosta do nosso trabalho considere doar. Apoiar o Pizza LinksCoisas que mencionamos durante esse episódio:“The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” de Edward Tufte“The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures” de Dan Roam“Como mentir com estatística” de Darrell Huff.NOAABlog inicial do FilipeIOOS Integrated OceanicGOOSJupyter NotebooksContinous Integration ou Integração ContínuaCompliance checkerGeoJSONJSONXMLCSVDaskAPIpandasLazy evaluation ou avaliações preguiçosasSparkCyToolzJVMNetCDFHDFClimate ForecastingFortranlzmalz4blosczlibAnaconda Incconda-forgepipCondaUK Met officeGitHubapt-getNLTKSoftware CarpentryControle de versãoGitShellSVNMercurialMatLabProjeto dos supercomputadores: Pangeo e se quiser conectar no JupyterHub deles o link é esse aquiPérolas?! Temos algumasUma pizza que a gente achou pelo cheiro… fizemos engenharia reversaEu tenho que agradecer ao povo que me demitiu naquela semanaEu não sou um bom desenvolvedor, eu sou um bom “copia e cola”Essa é a definição do oceanógrafo: sabe um pouco de tudo e nada de nadaAchar lógica no mercado financeiro? Você tem que ser um gandalf cientista de dados!Você é muito modesto. Aceita esse parabéns aí!Eu não fico empurrando tartaruga na praiaEdiçãoEsse episódio foi editado pelo Johnny. Valeu Johnny!Escute:

Climb In Consulting
Episode 2 - Dom Moorhouse

Climb In Consulting

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2018 137:28


Dom Moorhouse is a business advisor, angel investor and serial entrepreneur. In 2004 Dom founded Moorhouse Consulting which he grew from nothing to a business that he sold for c.£20,000,000 less than 5 years later. After leaving Moorhouse Dom set up his advisory business ‘the 5 year entrepreneur' to provide mentorship and guidance for owners of Professional Services firms on how they can achieve the same success that he did. Dom is also an advisor and board member to multiple Professional Services firms and is currently focusing on his latest venture, Method Grid (www.methodgrid.com), which we discuss further in the Podcast. We cover so many topics in this episode including: The importance of life and career planning and how it has helped Dom achieve what he has How Dom founded, grew and sold Moorhouse Consulting The importance of cultural values that your team actually buy in to Building high performance teams and some of the pitfalls to watch out for as your Consultancy grows What you can do to ensure that the next Consultancy you move to is the right place for you The importance of health and relationships in building a successful Consulting career And so much more! You can find out more about Dom on his Linked In page – www.linkedin.com/in/dom-moorhouse-2abb6a/ and his personal website www.DomMoorhouse.com Specific things we discuss in the show: The Definitive Business Plan by Sir Richard Stutely - http://amzn.eu/fpJZhpI Managing The Professional Services firm by David Maister - http://amzn.eu/b695YsR Strength In Depth - Pairs CrossFit race - https://strengthindepth.com Tim Wigham - https://timwigham.com Perpetual Insights (PI) Recruitment - http://www.perpetualinsights.com Bath CrossFit - http://crossfitbath.com Why We Sleep by Mathew Walker - http://amzn.eu/eHQbDhc A C Grayling - http://www.acgrayling.com Growth Mindset - Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential by Dr Carol Dweck - http://amzn.eu/8UBerxb Show Me The Numbers by Steven Few - http://amzn.eu/aFgbpQ2 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte's - http://amzn.eu/6TSIR91 Paul Collins - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pecollins/ Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity By David Allen - http://amzn.eu/aC2KDRg The Primal Blueprint: Reprogramme your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health and boundless energy by Mark Sisson - http://amzn.eu/8Tx47Sd Method Grid – www.methodgrid.com

How to Be Awesome at Your Job
128: Little Things that Make a Big Difference for Your Career with Jeff Kavanaugh

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2017 42:10


Infosys Senior Partner Jeff Kavanaugh talks about key skills and differentiators of winning professionals.You'll Learn:The powerful career distinguisher of “leaning forward” with critical thinking, professionalism, and delivering “done-done” workThe Pyramid Principle for communicating with impactThree concrete steps to take to level up in your fieldAbout JeffJeff Kavanaugh is a Senior Partner at Infosys, one of the world's largest consulting firms with over $10bn a year in revenue and a market cap in the 11-figures. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and writes at JeffKavanaugh.net.Items Mentioned in this Show:Jeff's New Book: Consulting EssentialsWebsite: JeffKavanaugh.netBook: Contact by Carl SaganBook: Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell MaltzBook: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward TufteFoundation: Infosys FoundationMethodology: Lean Six SigmaProgram: Girls Who CodeSurvey: Qualtrics SurveyView transcript, show notes, and links at https://awesomeatyourjob.com/ep128See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

ZADevChat Podcast
Episode 37 - Data Visualization with Jeff Fletcher

ZADevChat Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2016 64:36


We tackle data visualization in its full technicolor glory! Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Jeff Fletcher from IS Research & Innovation to talk about data visualization. Jeff has been working in the internet business for quite some time, from JINX to Telkom, Antfarm to IS, UUNet to 365 and finally back to R&I at Internet Solutions. We met Jeff a few years ago at Jozi.rb where he gave a D3 talk that blew everyone away. Since then Jeff has studied the art of successful data visualization and shares with us all the intricacies of generating effective graphics to communicate complex ideas. We got a history lesson on the origins of data visualization, starting with cartography and Florence Nightingale! We learn how visualization helped stop a cholera outbreak too! Jeff freely shared his knowledge and resources with us and we hope you can use all this to improve your own visualizations. Follow Jeff online: - https://twitter.com/fletch_jeff - http://limn.co.za Here are some resources mentioned during the show: * D3 at Jozi.rb - http://www.meetup.com/joziruby/events/180219732/ * Hype Cycle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle * D3.js - https://d3js.org/ * Tableau - http://www.tableau.com/ * QlikView - http://www.qlik.com/products/qlikview * Highcharts - http://www.highcharts.com/ * Cartography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography * Nightingales's Graph - http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1712.htm * John Snow's Cholera Map - http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/15/john-snow-cholera-map * Edward Tufte - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ * Ben Fry - http://benfry.com/ * Mike Bostock - https://bost.ocks.org/mike/ * Protoviz (predecessor to D3) - http://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ * Three.js - http://threejs.org/ * C3.js - http://c3js.org/ * Stephen Few - https://www.perceptualedge.com/ * Stephen Few's Show Me The Numbers - http://bit.ly/1N7e3zq * WTF Visualizations - http://viz.wtf/ * Data-Ink Ratio - http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Data-Ink_Ratio * iPhone Pie Chart trick - http://www.wired.com/2008/02/macworlds-iphon/ * ColorBrewer 2.0 by Cynthia Brewer - http://colorbrewer2.org/ * ColorBrewer with D3 - https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023 * Gestalt Principle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology * RStudio - https://www.rstudio.com/ * Wazimap - http://wazimap.co.za/ * Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau - https://www.coursera.org/learn/analytics-tableau * CS171 Visualization (Harvard) - http://www.cs171.org/2016/index.html * Dana Wong - http://donawong.com/ * Dana Wong's Wall Street Guide to Information Graphics - http://bit.ly/1oVndUa * Information is Beautiful - http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ * Dear Data - http://www.dear-data.com/all * Visualize This - http://book.flowingdata.com/ And finally our picks Kevin: - Episode 26 - Open Data and Civic Hacking with Jason Norwood-Young - http://bit.ly/1T2km6w Kenneth: * Information is Beautiful - http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ * Minard's visualization of Napoleon's March - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard * Among the Oscar Contenders, a Host of Connections - http://nyti.ms/1N7dVzP Len: - Johannesburg Clojure Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/Johannesburg-Clojure-Meetup/events/230015106/ Jeff: - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi - OECD Better Life Index - http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ - Real time global wind map - http://earth.nullschool.net/ Thanks for listening! Stay in touch: * Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/ * Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping * Subscribe and rate in iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/za/podcast/zadevchat-podcast/id1057372777

The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life
Startup COO Leaves after 500 Accelerator, Left with 1% Equity with Jules Hill Episode 183

The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2016 18:25


Ep 183 Jules Hill, the analytics manager of the startup Windsor Circle . Listen as Nathan and Jules talk about the latter’s previous experiences as the COO of Cellbreaker. YOUR $100: Remember to subscribe to the show on itunes then text the word "nathan" to 33444 to confirm that you've done it to enter to win $100 every Monday on the show. Do this now. Stop reading this and do it! Click here to join the top tribe and instantly learn how Nathan made his first $10k at 19 years old: bit.ly/1SynoAg Top Entrepreneurs join Nathan Latka daily inspired by, Art of Charm, Pat Flynn, John Dumas, Entrepreneur on Fire, Chalene Johnson, Lewis Howes, School of Greatness, HBR Podcast, the StartUp podcast, Mixergy, Andrew Warner, AskGaryVee, and the great hosts of BiggerPockets! BioJules Hill was born in England, grew up in Mexico, and went to the U.S. for college. After graduating early from Kenan-Flagler business school he dedicated two years to the venture backed startup CellBreaker as COO. Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:00 – Nathan’s introduction to today’s show 01:34 – Jules joins the show. 01:51 – CellBreaker had raised about 50K when Jules joined it full time. 02:38 – When he started, he got equity and pay, but it wasn’t much. 03:47 – He was paid 20K a year at the startup when he first started and he’d just bought a house. 05:02 – One of the milestones CellBreaker reached was getting accepted to the 500 startups programs in California which granted the business 100K. 06:19 – Jules gets paid as a reserve in the marine corp., rents out a room in his house, and does freelance jobs occasionally to make ends meet where he can. 07:00 – Nathan and Jules breaks down the money he’s made through each means. 08:31 – Jules left CellBreaker when the startup didn’t meet the milestones he thought they would. However, it was a valuable learning experience. 09:48 – Jules talks about the legal ramifications that slowed down CellBreaker’s progress. 10:55 – Jules possesses 1% equity in CellBreaker. 11:45 – Currently Jules works at a new startup called Windsor Circle. It helps retailers increase their customer lifetime value and customer retention. 12:23 – Jules is the analytics manager at the new startup. 13:25 – Jules is making significantly more than 20K 15:26 – Famous Five Famous 5 Favorite Book?- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte What CEO do you follow?— Elon Musk What is your favorite online tool?— Google’s Ngram viewer Do you get 8 hours of sleep?— No If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?— You’re always going to be able to make it work. Don’t be afraid to take risks. Ask yourself ‘what’s the worst that could happen?’ 3 Key Points: Being involved in extraneous legal matters will really bog down a business. It can be a dilemma deciding between going to work for a well-established business or a startup straight out of school. Making ends meet can be an eclectic task because there are a variety of ways to make money here and there. Resources Mentioned: Edgar – Nathan uses Edgar instead of other scheduling tools for Twitter because Edgar cycles through content over and over (buffer/others you have to re-input content over and over – time consuming). In the last several months, Edgar has driven Nathan over 3728 clicks that he didn’t have to work or pay for. LinkedIn – Jules’s LinkedIn Windsor Circle – Jules’s current business CellBreaker – Jules’s previous business The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Jules’s favorite business book Elon Musk – CEO Jules follows Google’s Ngram viewer – Jules’s favorite online tool   Credits Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives     Listen to The Top if you want to hear from the worlds TOP entrepreneurs on how much they sold last month, how they are selling it, and what they are selling - 7 days a week in 20 minute interviews! Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop The Top is FOR YOU if you are: A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4) STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7) An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1) The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14). Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.   Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop

IT 公论
Episode 185: 「很多 longform 是没有什么深度的。」

IT 公论

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2016 98:34


2016 年第一期,我们请来 Huffington Post 的 China Editor 周宗珉和大家谈论美国的新新闻媒体图景。 本期《IT 公论》无章节功能。 本期会员通讯将于稍后发至各位会员邮箱。每月三十元,支持不鸟万如一和 Rio 把《IT 公论》做成最好的科技播客。请访问 itgonglun.com/member。若您无意入会,但喜欢某一期节目,也欢迎用支付宝或 PayPal 支付小费至 hi@itgonglun.com,支付宝用户亦可扫描下方二维码: 我们推荐您使用泛用型播客客户端订阅收听《IT 公论》,但您也可以在喜马拉雅、荔枝 FM 或网易云音乐收听。 相关链接 《IT 公论》博客 IPN 播客网络 Telegram 听众群列表 《IT 公论》第一六零期 Huffington Post Jay Rosen 纽约大学新闻学院 Studio 20 Google News Lab fellowship Google 的 AMP Project NICAR Edward Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics What is programmatic advertising? The mobile adblocking apocalypse hasn’t arrived (at least not yet) 最早用图表形式呈现统计结果的苏格兰工程师 William Playfair (1759–1823) If it bleeds, it leads 周宗珉的 Twitter @ZongminChow 周宗珉的新浪微博 @周宗珉 IPN 播客网络常见问题解答 人物简介 不鸟万如一:字节社创始人 周宗珉:Huffington Post 的 China Editor

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IT 公论
Episode 185: 「很多 longform 是没有什么深度的。」

IT 公论

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2016 98:34


2016 年第一期,我们请来 Huffington Post 的 China Editor 周宗珉和大家谈论美国的新新闻媒体图景。 本期《IT 公论》无章节功能。 本期会员通讯将于稍后发至各位会员邮箱。每月三十元,支持不鸟万如一和 Rio 把《IT 公论》做成最好的科技播客。请访问 itgonglun.com/member。若您无意入会,但喜欢某一期节目,也欢迎用支付宝或 PayPal 支付小费至 hi@itgonglun.com,支付宝用户亦可扫描下方二维码: 我们推荐您使用泛用型播客客户端订阅收听《IT 公论》,但您也可以在喜马拉雅、荔枝 FM 或网易云音乐收听。 相关链接 《IT 公论》博客 IPN 播客网络 Telegram 听众群列表 《IT 公论》第一六零期 Huffington Post Jay Rosen 纽约大学新闻学院 Studio 20 Google News Lab fellowship Google 的 AMP Project NICAR Edward Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics What is programmatic advertising? The mobile adblocking apocalypse hasn’t arrived (at least not yet) 最早用图表形式呈现统计结果的苏格兰工程师 William Playfair (1759–1823) If it bleeds, it leads 周宗珉的 Twitter @ZongminChow 周宗珉的新浪微博 @周宗珉 IPN 播客网络常见问题解答 人物简介 不鸟万如一:字节社创始人 周宗珉:Huffington Post 的 China Editor

The Freelancers' Show
The Ruby Freelancers Show 056 – Learning on the Job

The Freelancers' Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2013 47:48


Panel Ashe Dryden (twitter github blog) Jim Gay (twitter github blog) Eric Davis (twitter github blog) Evan Light (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:20 - Finding Projects 04:50 - Being up front with clients about what you do and don't know 06:14 - People who don't know as much as they think they do Dunning-Kruger effect 08:21 - “Fake it til you make it” Honesty 11:23 - Offering a technology before you know it can be done Referring someone else instead Contract Specifics 15:59 - Lowering your rate to take a project to break into a new market Value Discounts/Comping Time 22:37 - Getting stuck and taking time to figure things out Time Tracking Reaching out for help in exchange for ____ (temporary mentorship) Velocity Subcontracting 28:35 - Taking a project because you want to learn a specific skill 30:02 - Refactoring Convincing a client that it's good to refactor Showing good code vs bad good Is it code that you're proud of? Client budget 34:45 - Educating clients on technology Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale (NSFW) Technical Risk 37:05 - Panelist New Technology Interest Picks xkcd: Password Strength (Eric) GRC's | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle? (Eric) Diceware Passphrase (Eric) SaneBox (Eric) Mailbox (Evan) Flexibits | Fantastical for Mac (Evan) How much sleep do we really need to work productively? - The Buffer Blog (Jim) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (Jim) Most Productive Vim Shortcuts (Ashe) UX Apprentice (Ashe) Wool by Hugh Howey (Ashe) Robocalypse (Chuck) The iPhreaks Show (Chuck) Next Week Fixed Bids Transcript [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 56 of the Ruby Freelancers Show! This week on our panel, we have Ashe Dryden. ASHE: Hi there! CHUCK: Jim Gay. JIM: Hello from Sauna in Virginia Beach! CHUCK: Eric Davis. ERIC: Hello! CHUCK: Evan Light. EVAN: I'm truly confused [inaudible] CHUCK: Is there an order? JIM: Yeah, we had an order? EVAN: I'd do Eric, and then you do me, and then you do whoever else up in a Shell Bluff. CHUCK: Oh! I'm Charles Max Wood from devchat.tv, and I'm doing it wrong...So this week we're going to be talking about "Taking a Project to Learn Something". I think Ashe said it better, so I'm going to let her explain what we're talking about. ASHE: Sure! So basically, the concept of taking on a project specifically say "you can learn something new and expand upon what you already know", so learning on the job kind of thing. CHUCK: You mean like speaking coherently when you didn't sleep last night? ASHE: Exactly like that! [laughs] CHUCK: [laughs] Awesome! JIM: I'm curious then right off of that, because I haven't done a whole lot of that. How do you find these projects? It's one thing to think or I'm going to work on this new technology, but then actually finding somebody who needs it and convincing them that you're the person for the job. ASHE: Well for me, most of the time it's people coming to me asking if I know how to do a certain thing or if I've done a certain thing before. That gives me an idea that that's something that people are looking for, or it's maybe something that I should look into more and maybe think about learning. I don't generally go out of my way to find projects that are for something that I haven't been learning or haven't wanting to learn. EVAN: Yeah, same here. My current projects -- I'm doing a lot more JavaScripts than I normally do and I've been doing JavaScript off and on for a long time, but I haven't play with Backbone, my friends expect this project has a little bit. So what I told the client, because he'd ask if I knew that the other contractor,

Devchat.tv Master Feed
The Ruby Freelancers Show 056 – Learning on the Job

Devchat.tv Master Feed

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2013 47:48


Panel Ashe Dryden (twitter github blog) Jim Gay (twitter github blog) Eric Davis (twitter github blog) Evan Light (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:20 - Finding Projects 04:50 - Being up front with clients about what you do and don’t know 06:14 - People who don’t know as much as they think they do Dunning-Kruger effect 08:21 - “Fake it til you make it” Honesty 11:23 - Offering a technology before you know it can be done Referring someone else instead Contract Specifics 15:59 - Lowering your rate to take a project to break into a new market Value Discounts/Comping Time 22:37 - Getting stuck and taking time to figure things out Time Tracking Reaching out for help in exchange for ____ (temporary mentorship) Velocity Subcontracting 28:35 - Taking a project because you want to learn a specific skill 30:02 - Refactoring Convincing a client that it’s good to refactor Showing good code vs bad good Is it code that you’re proud of? Client budget 34:45 - Educating clients on technology Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale (NSFW) Technical Risk 37:05 - Panelist New Technology Interest Picks xkcd: Password Strength (Eric) GRC's | Password Haystacks: How Well Hidden is Your Needle? (Eric) Diceware Passphrase (Eric) SaneBox (Eric) Mailbox (Evan) Flexibits | Fantastical for Mac (Evan) How much sleep do we really need to work productively? - The Buffer Blog (Jim) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (Jim) Most Productive Vim Shortcuts (Ashe) UX Apprentice (Ashe) Wool by Hugh Howey (Ashe) Robocalypse (Chuck) The iPhreaks Show (Chuck) Next Week Fixed Bids Transcript [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 56 of the Ruby Freelancers Show! This week on our panel, we have Ashe Dryden. ASHE: Hi there! CHUCK: Jim Gay. JIM: Hello from Sauna in Virginia Beach! CHUCK: Eric Davis. ERIC: Hello! CHUCK: Evan Light. EVAN: I'm truly confused [inaudible] CHUCK: Is there an order? JIM: Yeah, we had an order? EVAN: I'd do Eric, and then you do me, and then you do whoever else up in a Shell Bluff. CHUCK: Oh! I'm Charles Max Wood from devchat.tv, and I'm doing it wrong...So this week we're going to be talking about "Taking a Project to Learn Something". I think Ashe said it better, so I'm going to let her explain what we're talking about. ASHE: Sure! So basically, the concept of taking on a project specifically say "you can learn something new and expand upon what you already know", so learning on the job kind of thing. CHUCK: You mean like speaking coherently when you didn't sleep last night? ASHE: Exactly like that! [laughs] CHUCK: [laughs] Awesome! JIM: I'm curious then right off of that, because I haven't done a whole lot of that. How do you find these projects? It's one thing to think or I'm going to work on this new technology, but then actually finding somebody who needs it and convincing them that you're the person for the job. ASHE: Well for me, most of the time it's people coming to me asking if I know how to do a certain thing or if I've done a certain thing before. That gives me an idea that that's something that people are looking for, or it's maybe something that I should look into more and maybe think about learning. I don't generally go out of my way to find projects that are for something that I haven't been learning or haven't wanting to learn. EVAN: Yeah, same here. My current projects -- I'm doing a lot more JavaScripts than I normally do and I've been doing JavaScript off and on for a long time, but I haven't play with Backbone, my friends expect this project has a little bit. So what I told the client, because he'd ask if I knew that the other contractor,

UXpod - User Experience Podcast
Visual Communication - an Interview with Dave Gray

UXpod - User Experience Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2007 30:57


Dave talks about giving ourselves permission to draw, about how the printing press led us to communicate in a particular way, and about how that can limit our communication in a digital environment, about how PowerPoint can be both inhibiting and comforting, and about how where we are with video today is where we were with PageMaker 20 years ago.Dave says 'You don't have to be an expert to start - you just have to start'.There are several references in this episode:Dave's blog is Communication Nation (http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/).His company is Xplane (http://www.xplane.com/).Edward Tufte's inspirational book is 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' (http://tinyurl.com/27dw8s). Betty Edwards' book 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' can teach you to draw - even if you don't think you can (http://tinyurl.com/36jbxj).The culture map is Dave's representation of the culture at his company Xplane (http://tinyurl.com/3a27bp).Dave's 'ListMania' booklist is on Amazon.com (http://tinyurl.com/25jqas).I mentioned Lee Brimelow of Frog Design. One of his sites is the WPF blog - it contains his presentation to the Microsoft Remix conference. (http://www.thewpfblog.com/)(References to individual books on this webiste are links to Amazon.com - we earn a small commission on any purchases you make on following such links).Duration: 30:57File size: 14.2MB