In this blog, I’ll show you some very effective and efficient ways to get vital information about all states of the USA, and eventually create visuals, then interactive visuals, then an interactive application online. All from starting with the basic names of states. I wish every kid and adults would have this type of application […]
Category: Work
GOTO conference in Amsterdam: Agile
Although the message was delivered about the misinterpretations of Agile back in 2015, few heeded. Or perhaps few could hold back the ocean of this profitable industry with a broom while the proponents pushed a new framework as a methodology to the panicky companies entering the hashtag#programmanagement hashtag#agile 21st century. This clip is of Pragmatic […]
Ranked, custom charts and animation (Excel)
In this blog, I share how to use simple data, and create some meaningful charts, even with animation and custom graphics. Along the way, I’ll demonstrate techniques to rank and spark some ideas on PowerPoint<->Excel interaction. Let’s start with the dataset. Following are the responses from a survey of 1,002 consumers from a couple of […]
Analysis of Wine Data (analytics)
You’re given a massive list of data about wines around the world, their prices (a huge range from $4 to $3300 per bottle!), expert tasters’ scores, who scored them, how many scored them, name of the wine, description of the win, their origins including country, province, region, subregion, their variety or category, just to name […]
Non-Tech/Behavioral Questions @ Interview
I’ve recently been interviewing for my next role following completion of my contracts in my high-tech industry. This prompted me to reflect, and research on some of the behavioral questions that I faced, I posed (on the other side of the table as an interviewer/hiring manager for many years), and what other sources have exposed. […]
The world’s first “smart”-phone
It was in the late 90s when, fresh out of university, I got my first real career job at now defunct Geoworks based in Alameda, CA (their Seattle resources taken over by Amazon.com since). They built the embedded platform on Unix for various mobile devices including PDAs, beepers and such (remember those?). I was on […]