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How do you deal with Business Agility?
Tags: Business Development, Slashing Life, Business Intelligence, Business, Business Agility

Everything is about optimization.

In a capitalist environment led by a thirst for growth, monitoring figures has become the new reality in every business.

Having clear, succinct, and transparent data is crucial for judging whether or not an offer and the whole company are in good financial health.

Hence the rise of Data Scientists, Analysts, and all those data-oriented jobs. For a young decade, this requirement has been found in marketing, which has gradually evolved towards digital marketing, with the calculation of ROI and ROAS.

Having an eye on those sacred figures is great, but the challenge lies in its constant optimization.

Lines of code for analysts, spreadsheets for marketers, so many tools to optimize spending, profitability, time, coffee, morning shower…

Optimization has become a mantra, a philosophy of life and perhaps the reason for some burnouts. And for optimized optimization, agility is required.

The apogee of autonomy.

Well-being in the workplace takes pride of place on the podium of articles regarding corporate management. Although autonomy is valued, management plays an important role in the recruitment process. Management can both make employees grow, lead them to real professional fulfillment, but it can also trap them in a dictatorial vicious circle.

If the customer is king, the human should be the king first.

Putting the aspirations of your team at the center of your preoccupations while carrying out large-scale projects is what management requires today.

This agility is sometimes completely out of the reality of what a person can accomplish in the allocated working time. Although numbers are the trunk of a business’s survival, the human remains definitely the roots of it. Let’s be careful not to become bad people with a (too big) thirst for thriving…

Slashing job: the new f(r)ame.

The Slasher profession. A new term among the burgeoning neologisms of the 21st century.

The way of accumulating as many jobs as personalities we have.

This schizophrenic tendency proves to be the perfect compromise between a job for a living and a job of passion.

The essence of agility lies in exploiting this multipotential character wisely.

Either for oneself, selfishly, for one’s own personal fulfillment which remains in the accumulation of knowledge and skills in fields considered too scattered. We spread out in order to find ourselves in a better way. The key is to understand the guiding thread of this “slashing” personality around which strong and unshakeable values revolve.

But this agility in accumulating jobs is also for others.

Altruistically, we appreciate sharing around us (showing off then) this knowledge that we learnt. And we transformed it into an added value of our own, with our soul.

Spreading knowledge.

Authentically.

Embodying several potentials that make sense in one person, it is in this madness that business agility lies.

Basically, the agility of personality is the new mindset.
Get Your Small Business Noticed This Christmas
Tags: Business Development, Christmas, Business Intelligence, Business, Business Strategy

Christmas is fast approaching and the shopping rush that comes with it provides a rare opportunity for you to get you small business noticed. As a small business owner, you want to do all that you can increase sales and connect with your customers.

As reports have shown the COVID-19 have upturned the e-commerce culture of Africans. We can expect a lot of remote buying and while you’re in the process of getting your business on track to make the best of the e-commerce opportunities that come with this season of Christmas, here are some tips get you the sales and increase brand loyalty.

Decorate

An easy way is to refresh the branding of your business with some festive flair. To introduce a Christmas theme, change your online and offline presence, and use it throughout the season. This approach can be used On your website, email, social media — including profile photos and cover pictures and any printed ads or Christmas cards,.

Send an e-Christmas card to your customers

Give your loyal customers a Christmas-themed thank-you note to show your gratitude for their support. By adding Christmas colours and an eye-catching subject line, get creative with your email design. To conveniently build and manage your e-Christmas cards, you can use programs like Paperless Post or Mailchimp.

Film a holiday video!

Create a festive video that shows the human side of your brand and connect more with customers. Using this medium, you can Introduce your employees, give your business space a tour, or highlight your amazing customers. Shooting a video is not an easy task, but you can easily edit and upload short videos from your phone with apps like Kinemaster or Splice.

All in all, Christmas presents a huge opportunity for you to get your business noticed and regain some profits that you may have lost in the wake of the COVID-29 pandemic. All need to do is the position you brand with customers in such a way that they’ll keep coming back even when the Christmas season is over.
She bent me over a barrel…
By: Rick Martinez
Tags: Email Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Business Intelligence, Writers Life

You’ve heard that phrase before…right?

And no, I’m not referring to Kama Sutra stuff…

I’m referring to the times when you, or your business, are in a predicament, and upon enlisting the help of others, you may find yourself “bent over a barrel,” and hence you gotta take what’s coming to ya.

Sometimes it’s a matter of survival.

True story::: So I’m listening to a friend of mine on a business call recently. To win a specific book of business, he needed a hyper-specific type of partner. (and before you ask, YES, they required this particular partner).

So they chatted it up with said partner, and said partner knows that they’re needed. They smell blood. (hell, they prolly even made that “mhua-ha-ha” sound and wrung their hands together as Dracula does)…

The partner makes no bones about it and lists out some specific, barrel bending terms, and in doing so, they did indeed help my homie win the book of biz BUT…

They also lost a future business ally and the opportunity to partner with my friend (or his friends, or his friends-friends) EVER again.

And by the way…this was a multi-million dollar deal. Legit big fuggin money…

This leads me to this.

Why?

I mean, if your company is presented with an opportunity like this, and your response is to bend folks over barrels and essentially commit career suicide, then why?

You may make some gains in the short term, but in the long term, which is where a savvy owner should be looking, you’re done.

Smoked…

Toast… ​​​​​​​

Persona non grata…

​​​​​​​Look, I’m rested today (slept pretty good last night) and wanted to share some first-hand knowledge and a simple lesson on what it means to be a savvy, growth-minded entrepreneur with a vision.

Reminds me of that proverb…”alone you go fast, together WE go far.”

​​​​​​​We’ve built several operations to some wicked cool successes by partnering with others.

​​​​​​​Think about it.

​​​​​​​I bet there’s someone out there who may be looking for a person with your skill-set to win and win big.

That’s all I got.

That nurse who writes a lot,

Rick “I’d rather it be Kama Sutra related” Martinez

(PS: my skill and gift is email copywriting. For the operators who know what they wanna say, they just don’t know HOW to say it…I’m your huckleberry)
Natural Language Processing
By: Data Wrangling Llc
Tags: Business, Data Science, Business Strategy, Business Intelligence

Natural language processing is a subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data. Are you looking forward to increasing your revenue and profit?

Do you want a data-led decision? Data Wrangling offers numerous services ranging from Data Analysis, Machine learning, and Natural language processing.

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Definition — Wikipedia

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Does your income statement (P&L) have to bore people to death?
By: Lukas Hurych
Tags: Analytics, Visualization, Leadership, Business Intelligence, Finance

Looking at the P&L in this way every month also leads us to new discoveries and opportunities. As an example, one of the items for us is the Cost of Notifications (the price we pay for sending different SMS messages). It’s easy to forget about it but we found out that we were sending a lot of kinds of SMS messages (around 30) and some of them were there since 2013 when we founded Twisto. Our business changed and right now, the majority of our customers use our mobile apps and there’s no need for SMS messages or sometimes the SMS doesn’t even make sense.

One thing I’ve learned through a lot of failures is that I should always focus on the Outcome and not Output. “We’ve delivered 4 features” vs. “We’ve allowed our customers to do X and it got us +5 points in the NPS and engagement rate grew by 6%”. It’s easier to go through the list of outputs, but outcomes are the ones telling stories.

Also, the data itself does not make an insight. Insights are stories. If you say “there’s been a 10% month-over-month growth in our interest revenue”, that’s an observation, but if you say “we’ve been able to gain +10% in our month-over-month interest revenue because we did a personalized campaign our customers loved and rated 4.5 / 5”, that’s an insight.

When shaping the narrative, I always keep in mind that I should be going from the big picture to detail and not dive directly into the tiniest detail as everyone will get lost. Detail and insights are important but it’s always better to add the high-level context. I believe that when you get all the information into the context of the P&L, everyone will bear the top-line in mind and it can help you lead your whole business and align everyone. It will be easier for everyone to understand their impact on the business because they will be able to see it in the “whole business” context. And it will also be easier to understand the impact of others and how our joined objectives play together.

This is not the end

This view and different connections with P&L helped me immensely to understand our business performance and help everyone drive the objectives in front of them. I hope it triggered your creativity too and you can already see new ways how you can use P&L statements and other reports to lead your business forward. Big thanks to Kamil Franek (kamilfranek.com) for inspiration in how to tell a better story visually!

Have you found this story helpful? Is there someone who might benefit from this article? Please share this article and leave your feedback in the comments or write to me directly also about what you would want to hear next. I would also love to see how you look at your P&L and other high-level objectives / OKRs! I'll be more than glad to share our view as well.
The Return on Investment Rut
By: Kunal Singh Chhabra
Tags: Design, Creative, Young, Business Intelligence

As a semi-privileged 22-year-old from the creative field with a family background in the garment business and an elder brother from a corporate consultancy background, the Return on Investment has been a significant scheme of things from my brother’s end. Currently, I have literally zero return on my investments in the past two years since I got done with graduate school. Okay, that may be an overstatement, but at least for the past 8 months I have no income and I’ve never had a steady income since I got done with a social media role that I did for a creative agency for a month. Though the money was enticing, there was little to no creative fulfillment.

I most often spend money on my small digital community I run for music and don’t make enough money to sustain it. Thus, I go to my father for my funds. I currently pay for my co-working space and for the team of salaries 5 young creatives who work remotely. Monetarily, I have no returns.

Here’s what’s interesting and where my return lies:

The ‘ROI’ that I get is unmatched in terms of any monetary value. The reason is the creative outflow I’m able to generate with my days, the network I’m able to build is unmatched to a stagnant salary at a 9–5 job. I am confident my learning and exploration right now it will pay more than just my bills in the years to come. This is what will lead to wealth creation, whether it’s money, knowledge, or richness in life.

Nobody asks you what your ROI is when you’re in school, it’s always measured when you’re of it. In the digital day and age, your school doesn’t stop. The flow of knowledge doesn’t stop. It’s the school of life. Invest your time right, don’t look out for external validation, or don't get pressurized by your peers or the society in terms of making money. Run for your passion, the money will follow.
Alberto Mengibar, thank you for the kind comment, I appreciate it!
By: Matt Przybyla
Tags: Data Science, Tableau, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Towards Data Science

Alberto Mengibar, thank you for the kind comment, I appreciate it! That’s a great addition. I might have to write another article on the education requirements. I do have several articles on certifications and courses for Data Science, but for BI, I don’t yet. My general advice is, if you have an undergrad degree in something technical or somewhat related, you can simply complete a few BI specific courses and certifications. One of those BI skills, Tableau, does have a certification I have listed in one of my articles. I would focus on a general BI course, and at least two or three specific courses/certifications in Tableau, SQL, and Python. These are more technical and will land you at a more competitive position. Hope that helps! Thank you! Here is one of my many articles that has some applicable courses: https://link.medium.com/zgmYHRQTgcb

I would also look at free ones, and watch YouTube videos for great information.
The instant alerts that will improve your business
By: Siân Hunter
Tags: Automation, Business Intelligence, Data, AI, Customer Service

What if you knew one of your VIP customers had called your business and was unhappy? What if all of your calls — whether from a mobile, IP connection, or landline — could generate data to trigger automated alerts? What if you could have full visibility over the information that matters most to your business?

How Dubber automated alerts work

The Dubber Voice Intelligence Cloud converts every recorded call to data that can be used to trigger automated alerts. Each element of the conversation, as well as the whole call, is rated by sentiment. You can set alerts for sentiment scores, call participants, keywords, or even specific emotions. These can be sent by email, but are also available as a RESThook option to automate processes.

Here’s a quick look at Dubber automated alerts and four ways they can bring value to your business.

Churn risks

Set alerts for negative calls, those that contain a competitor’s name, or conversations containing words like ‘cancel’ in order to follow up with these customers and reduce churn with a personal touch.

2. Campaign penetration

Track the success of a campaign with alerts for the product or campaign names. With the Dubber API, you can even automate reporting to monitor trends in real time.

3. VIP customers

Set up alerts for your most valuable customers to ensure you have visibility over these important accounts. Data from customer calls can even automate processes such as task creation within a CRM.

4. Non-compliance risks

Receive alerts when keywords associated with non-compliant behaviour are spoken during a conversation in order to detect policy breaches and other risks.

Automating alerts can help organisations to improve customer experience, accelerate dispute resolution, comply with local and global mandates, and enhance their business performance.

A version of this post was published over on the Dubber blog.
Best Business Consulting Services
By: Eie Consulting Services
Tags: Business, Consulting, Services, Business Intelligence

We focus on assisting small business owners in understanding the impact of the various taxes and how to reduce the impact by maximizing exemptions, exclusions, and deductions that are not widely known.

Our contingency fee is 30% rather than the industry 50%

We offer a cap on our fees recovered annually

We offer a follow up implementation review to make certain the strategies are performing as they should

We guarantee a minimum amount of recovery or a full refund of the retainer fee plus $ 500

We conduct ALL of the work

We offer to discuss any and all strategies with the financial advisors of the organization prior to the implementation, we want all financial advisors included in the process, we support the current financial advisors of the organization
Top Youtube Channels for Power BI
By: Lashmi Bai Ravindrapandian
Tags: Data Visualization, Top 10, Business Intelligence, Power Bi Training, Power Bi Tutorials

Times have changed where we have been struck with reading pages of training materials. This pandemic has paved way for online teaching by means of videos.

Here are the list of Top Youtube Channels you can refer for your Power BI learning.

Disclaimer: These are strictly based on my personal insights. You can check out these and I’ll be more happy if you find it useful as well.

Image created using Powerpoint

1.Curbal

●https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ7UhloHSA4wAqPzyi6TOkw

2.Intellipaat

●https://www.youtube.com/user/intellipaaat

3.BI Elite

●https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-h-wArcxJC8zBOD-UxfCOg

4.Guy in a Cube

●https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFp1vaKzpfvoGai0vE5VJ0w

5.Pavan Lalwani — POWER BI

●https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fs7PookxGfDPTo-RU0ReQ

6.Avi Singh

If you found this post interesting, please consider also taking a look at my Youtube channel LR Virtual Classroom where I started post my demo videos from my learnings.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGJoLsHlwD8bQCDxiJp3Z1A

Thank you for reading!
Business Intelligence Software Market Worth $48.5 Billion By 2025
By: Gaurav Shah
Tags: Cloud, Google, Internet of Things, Business Intelligence, Finance

The global business intelligence software market size is expected to reach USD 48.5 billion by 2025 at a CAGR of 10.1%, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. Proliferation of internet technology and growing demand for data-driven models across various organizations is expected to boost the market growth. Business intelligence (BI) forms a crucial component for success of any organization and leads them towards accessing information to enhance their work processes. BI is instrumental in identifying the opportunities and threats by enabling the organizations to adapt to the dynamics of operations, thus helping to survive in the corporate world.

BI tools are essential for smooth functioning of BI software, as such tools have a huge impact on possibilities and functionalities of BI applications. BI software is increasingly being used in various end-use industries to streamline operations, reduce costs, minimize risks, and strengthen the relationships between suppliers and customers. These factors are expected to drive the market over the forecast period.

Inception of novel technologies and rise in number of BI vendors in domains such as machine learning and analytics is expected to stimulate the market growth. In addition, data sets need organizations to invest in advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data to strengthen the analysis of enormous data sets. The software can help employees in claiming the responsibility of their respective work areas by using the operating numbers and facts, and making data-driven decisions. Additionally, adoption of BI tools helps in improving visibility across the organization by helping employees in understanding the organization-wide decisions and gauging the impact of their respective decisions against the enterprise as a whole.

Click the link below:

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/business-intelligence-software-market

Further key findings from the report suggest:
Margin Business Digital Entrepreneurs Talk — Omar is interviewing Malaysias Fitness Celebrity…
By: Omar Margin
Tags: Digital Marketing, Online Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business Intelligence, Business Strategy

Kevin Zahri Malaysia's FItness Celebrity and Founder and CEO of JOM KURUS

Margin Business Digital Entrepreneurs Talk — Omar is interviewing Malaysias Fitness Celebrity Kevin Zahri The Founder & CEO of Jom Kurus Kevin was born and raised in Hamburg, Germany where he learned early in life about business through his father who is an entrepreneur from the start. After moving to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia the experience he gained through the different cultures made him find ways to obtain what he wanted. Kevin then studied abroad in the US and got more insight into the American culture which sharpened his mind even more. This experience paved his way for success when he went back to Malaysia where he started his first e-commerce business and began to build his brand KEVIN ZAHRI and JOM KURUS which is today the most successful and leading health and motivation movement in Malaysia. But before we tell the complete story here, listen to what Kevin has to say.

https://youtu.be/JD5gH2XqPq4

Find out more about Kevin Zahri and Jom Kurus: https://kevinzahri.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kevinzahri/

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#influencermarketing #podcast #podcaster #businesspodcast #marketingpodcast #communityovercompetition #successfulmindset #kevinzahri #sukahatiaku #bukansoalkurus #creativepreneur #dowhatyoulove #entrepreneurmalaysia #malaysiaecommerce
Sıradan Olma, Öncelikli ol
By: Queeme Q- Management Tool
Tags: New Business, Productivity, Queue Management, Business Intelligence, Social Distance

Queeme is a Digital Business Intellegence and Productivity tool for B2B growth. For customers we gain more time, who waste their time in queues.
What’s New in Tableau 2020.4 Desktop
By: Ayush Pareek
Tags: Data Visualization, Tableau, Business Intelligence

Recently tableau has released the Tableau 2020.4 beta with some cool features.

Please find them below tableau desktop cool features:-

1:- Multi Marks layer

Now it’s quite easy to add layers on maps so that we can compare different marks on a single tableau worksheet.

2:- Redshift spatial data support

Store your spatial data in redshift tables and tableau will automatically identify the spatial columns from redshift tables.

3:- Offline maps

You can now create maps using the offline map style in web authoring, ensuring that maps remain accessible to all users — especially in organizations with strict internet access requirements.

4:- Date axis extension

Date axis extension allows you to do customized time-based predictions in Tableau. Select from a pre-populated set of extension options or use a custom menu to select your own range. Date extension works with predictive modeling functions, table calculations like Running Average, and external services like R or Python.
Failing Your Way To Success
By: The Idea Cove
Tags: Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Business Intelligence

How to make the best of bad business situations

Photo by Icons8 Team on Unsplash

It is February 18, 2013, an independent musician, Jack Conte, began a project that would cause him to max out two credit cards with $10,000 dollars worth of debt, but also sink in about 800 hours of work over the course of 50 days.

His aim — to build a replica of the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, one of the most iconic starships in the star wars franchise, for a music video of a song he had just written titled “Pedals”. In addition to this, he borrowed two robots to feature in this video.

As an artist, Jack Conte was no stranger to failure. He describes having piles upon piles of videotapes that he had never done thing to, stop motion films that never aired, two failed debuts into the music space and a bunch of other duds until he found success by creating a band with his then-girlfriend now-wife Natalie Dawn.

The band “Pomplamoose” was able to build a sizable following of fans, who were able and willing to buy their merch. They were able to collaborate with big names in the music industry and even at one point were hired to do a Hyundai Christmas ad. This was the first time he was experiencing such levels of success, both in the level of fame and also financially.

However, at the time of this project, Pomplamoose was on a hiatus, cash flow had reduced significantly and a major source of income was through Youtube ad revenue, which didn’t even pay much.

At this point, Jack realized something, that the work a lot of creators put into their craft is vastly disparate from the benefits they derive from it financially. He knew from experience that if he were to upload the video he was working on he would not be able to recoup his investment, so he though up a plan to enable creators to get paid by their fans for creating content and that idea with the help of his Sam Yam, a serial entrepreneur and programmer they co-founded Patreon.

Patreon is now one of the biggest platforms that provide a way for content creators to earn a monthly income. In a couple of presentations and speeches, Jack Conte has attributed his success to all his previous failures.
How can you set up Business Intelligence as a Small Business Owner?
By: Richa Verma
Tags: Dashboard, Small Business, Business Intelligence, Power Bi, Data Analysis

If you want to know whether Business Intelligence can help a small business, read this first: Can Small Businesses Leverage Data Science?

You are convinced that your business will benefit from Data Science, but don’t know what you can do about it. You can set up data reporting for your organization in no time, with little help. How? This post will guide you.

Data Input → Data Storage → Data Processing → Data Analysis & Reporting

Let’s see how you can replicate this journey in your organization.

Data Collection/Input

To make data useful for your organization, you need to first ensure that you are collecting enough data through various specialized tools or customized data entry forms. Typically, you will have to set up the following to collect organization data and automate processes:

Accounting Software (Tally type software useful for creating accounting charts, ledgers, and balances.)

ERP (For recording Sales, Purchases, Production, Operations data.

Sales CRM — For keeping records of new leads and how the sales process is being managed. Freshsales / Hubspot CRM / Salesforce

Google Sheets — to keep organizational records that otherwise can’t be recorded in existing software.

Data Storage/Processing

Usually, such software have their own databases, therefore, your data will be well organized. However, you can also set up a MySQL DB to collect and store information from various sources. MySQL DB will allow any analyst to write SQL queries to create any type of report.

For Data Processing purposes, there are many open source ETL (Extract Transform Load) tools and data science platforms such as Pentaho, KNIME, Dataiku, etc. These tools help when you are handling multiple data sources and you need to create data flows which bring 2–3 data sources together. However, such advanced reporting comes into play, only if the data is stored in various DBs and can’t be used for analysis.

Data Analysis, Reporting, Alerts

A sample BI report

Typically, you need an analyst to create reports, analysis, and alerts. However, if you or someone on your team learn a self-service BI tool such as Tableau, Domo, Google Data Studio, PowerBI, QlikSense, which are good enough tools for creating internal reports and alerts quickly. Also, this would not require any coding experience.

If you are acquainted with setting up open source systems, you can also try Metabase, Redash, or Superset for your needs.

Hope this helps you understand what all you need to do to set up BI in your organization. Do reach out in the comments for more help.
What are the three biggest challenges affecting businesses operating in the UK and globally?
By: Rich Bishop Frsa
Tags: Diversity And Inclusion, Globalization, Sustainability, Business Intelligence

I was asked by the CBI what I thought the three biggest challenges affecting businesses operating in the UK and globally were. Here’s my reply…

Diversity of Leadership

We have seen a huge amount of public attention, quite rightfully, on diversity in various groups, including in politics, law enforcement, and more and more in business. Whether it be gender imbalance on boards, lack of BAME or LGBT+ representation, or accessibility to people with disabilities.

Currently firms who do publish figures on diversity balance tend to do so across a whole organisation — missing the point that in order to be a truly inclusive employer, people need to see “themselves” at every level.

Impact of business on the environment and communities

As I write this, headlines fly around about the COP26 conference now due to be held in Glasgow in 2021. The Bank of England has suggested that Financial Institutions will need to take a “Climate Stress Test” similar to the “Financial Shock Stress Test” completed after the 2008 “Credit Crunch” — with Public Limited Companies having to complete a similar test soon.

Away from climate change, there’s also the question of businesses’ role in communities. Especially where a community is heavily reliant on one business or industry for employment, and the repercussions of the slowing, or growing, of that business/industry on it’s employees, supply chains, and the community as a whole. How do businesses make themselves good, sustainable, neighbours and members of that community?

Balancing the advantages and disadvantages of increased globalism

The new Zoom-boom we’re currently seeing has opened up doors to some disenfranchised groups, such as those with physical disabilities, or those with caring or parental responsibilities — but it has closed it to others, and created the possibilities of remote work from anywhere with an internet connection, anywhere in the world. The rise of globalism in terms of manufacturing and “blue-collar” jobs over the previous decades has created deep divides across the world.

The increase in globalism into the higher levels of management and “white-collar” work, where employees can be working from home on the other side of the world, stands to create huge challenges for business, and increase the already deep divides.
Hacking Data Discovery in AWS with Amundsen at SEEK
By: George Pongracz
Tags: Data Governance, Engineering, Data Science, Business Intelligence, Data Discovery

Jacking into Data @ SEEK is easier with Amundsen

Twice a year SEEK encourage their people to leave their teams behind, self organise and come together with people from other teams to brainstorm ideas for Hackathon.

This time for Hackathon 15, members from the five Asia and ANZ Data Teams and some fellow ❤️ers of Data, came together to stand-up Amundsen by Lyft.

Amundsen is an Open Source Data Discovery and Metadata Engine for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.

We called our hack “Google for Data”.

Our purpose, to give back time. Time, of which 30% is wasted in data discovery during the creation of a data driven decision making process, according to Lyft. That is, finding the right data to use.

Time for our fellow SEEKers to spend on their next task and get on with their real jobs, to increase their velocity and deliver outcomes to their customers sooner.

So, we stood up Amundsen in AWS and loaded it with metadata. We did this in 48 hours. The speed with which we could do this surprised us.

This speed talks to the ease of use, succinct documentation and the elegance of design by the Lyft Engineering Team and the Amundsen Open Source Community 🙏
Why should you listen to young business leaders?
By: Rich Bishop Frsa
Tags: Future Of Work, Young Professionals, Business Intelligence, Business Development

I was asked by the CBI what role I thought the CBI and the Under 35 Committee should play in helping businesses to navigate the three biggest challenges businesses face now.

The CBI Under 35 Committee is a place where young professionals and future leaders discuss a wide range of topics to bring a reality and younger person’s perspective on the issues that businesses are facing. The group challenges and discusses the future from the mindset of being the ones who will be leading it, which brings a whole new perspective to CBI policy and discussion

Under 35s do not have the hindrance of hindsight bias. As a group, we have grown up as digital natives, in a globalised world, with more global influences on our lives and lifestyles than previous generations. As a group we are very much living in, and through, the now — experiencing the current fast pace of change in our formative years — meaning we naturally look to the future and where things are going, rather than where they’ve come from.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee was 34 when he invented the World Wide Web that changed nearly every aspect of our lives and businesses. Garrett Camp was 30 and Travis Kalanick was 32 when they co-founded Uber and flipped the 400 year old taxi industry on its head.

The role of the Under 35 Committee within the CBI can be, and arguably should be, to inject that enthusiasm for positive change, without the hindrance of hindsight bias, into the thinking of the CBI and for the CBI to be an agent of positive change for its members.
A Journey of Reprogramming
Tags: Hypertension, Exercise, Weight Loss, Nutrition

It was November 2019 when I was following up on my annual physical with my doctor of which result was high blood pressure — 180/100.

I was definitely overweight and simply had a concept of nutrition that roots its way to childhood.

I was never overweight per se, but my obesity did get worse over the course of the last 20-some years. I really did not keep myself accountable to the last 20 years of indulgence and giving-in to my wants.

However, as one of my goals in 2019 — when I was to turn 45 years old — was to focus on my health as one of my frustrations was my self-image concerns when I looked at the mirror.

I did significantly reduced eating out by over 50% (based on my budget expenses) by the summer of 2019. My nutrition at that point began to introduce more fruits and vegetables to a meal during the day. That was a start, but when I got to my annual exam that November, it was obvious something else was not working.

Fast forward to December 2020 and here is what I have learned and I plan to share in future writings. I refer to my learnings as the Five Pillars for Well-Being. I am not sure if a concept like this exists and if it does, great. I am sure I am not the only one on this and a similar or better approach is out there highlighting these pillars. I am not a nutritionist or a medical professional, but there is something powerful when you apply faith and science to make profound change to occur in your well-being.

Five Pillars for Well-Being

Balanced Nutrition — Not all food is created equal. Hydration — Water serves more than one purpose. Exercise — Evolution or Design? Sleep — The restorative purpose. Discipline — Accountability to yourself.

Will publish learnings, thoughts and concepts on these pillars on future writings.
Do you have Iron Deficiency Anaemia?
By: Danone Nutricia Academy
Tags: Anemia, Iron Deficiency Anemia, Anemia Symptoms, Anemia Treatment, Nutrition

If you haven’t thought about this question yet, maybe you should start now! According to the World Health Organization, more that 25% of the world’s population suffers from anaemia, and almost half of these cases are occurring in people due to low iron levels, and that constitutes almost 2 billion people around the world! The question is, if the cases are a staggering 2 billion people around the world, then why do we not know more about such cases, and why are people not being treated for the same? One of the biggest reasons is, that the symptoms of Iron Deficiency Anaemia are very non-specific. This means that the symptoms for Iron Deficiency Anaemia can be easily confused as symptoms for other illnesses. They can also disappear for some time and return, which might cause a lot of confusion. But what exactly is Iron Deficiency Anaemia?

Our blood mainly comprises of three types of cells, white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. The WBC’s play a large role in keeping our body, as they play a large role in our immune system. The RBC’s are responsible for aiding the transfer of oxygen throughout our body, and they comprise of about 40–50% of the blood in our body. The RBC’s contain haemoglobin, which in turn contains iron which enables the RBC’s to do their job more efficiently. Iron Deficiency Anaemia occurs when the iron in RBC’s isn’t sufficient and thus the haemoglobin levels drop in the red blood cells.

Causes of Iron Deficiency Anaemia

One of the most common causes of iron deficiency anaemia is pregnancy. During pregnancy, the body needs a lot of oxygen to be carried from one part to the other, and keeps intensifying as the pregnancy progresses. Which is why, expecting mothers need to be taken care of during this period, and you should make sure that their iron levels are healthy. The best way to do this is to consume a lot of iron rich foods, especially during pregnancy. Other causes include a significant loss of blood. This can have various reasons ranging from heavy periods, internal bleeding, to excessive bleeding caused due a medical procedure or surgery. It is highly recommended that you must visit a doctor whenever you experience any of the symptoms. Let us take a look at some of the symptoms of IDA.

Symptoms of Iron Deficiency Anaemia:

1. Exhaustion: Ranging from sluggish to a full-blown flu like exhaustion where even the most basic activities become tiring.

2. Dizziness

3. Fainting

4. Headache

5. Chest pain

6. Hair-loss

7. Cold hands and feet

8. Pale or off-colouring in skin

How to treat IDA?

The best way to treat iron deficiency anaemia is to make sure you consume a lot of iron rich foods such as red meat and green vegetables. You can also go for iron supplements and over-the-counter medication to counter this issue.
RIGID DIETING ISN’T THE SOLUTION
By: James Mccarthy
Tags: Fat Loss, Flexible Dieting, Diet, Nutrition, Fitness

RIGID DIETING ISN’T THE SOLUTION

I’ve grown up playing sports and always lived an active lifestyle. I wasn’t overweight but as I hit my twenties I was regularly going to the gym and realised that my diet was also important to changing how I looked.

I began researching more about nutrition but unfortunately much of this was taken from non-evidence based sources. I adopted a number of dietary myths and became obsessive about my food choices. An obsession with ‘clean eating’ (known as orthorexia) I would live Mon-Sat eating certain foods and wouldn’t entertain eating out or consuming something that wasn’t deemed ‘clean’.

As a byproduct I lost a lot of weight, both fat and lean body mass. Not only did I look ill but I’d become physically weak, always freezing cold and lost any form of athleticism.

‘The greater I restricted my dietary choices the greater I binge ate.

Now you may read that last sentence and think, ‘that’s just mentally weak and a lack of discipline’.

But when your body is starving and you are living day in day out in a huge caloric deficit, having a taste for any form of highly palatable, calorie dense foods such as ice cream felt like day release from the nutrition hell I was imposing on myself.

For a while this worked for me, over-restriction through the week and bingeing on the weekend. Whilst validating it as a ‘cheat day’ (by the way is a ridiculous term).

Overtime the bingeing became more frequent and I was constantly failing and found myself out of shape (for me).

Rigid dieting is associated with eating disorder symptoms and higher BMI.

Since then I have invested a lot of time and money to develop my knowledge from some of the smartest nutritionists around.

Which had enabled me to greater coach my clients and improve their results.

I’ve also helped myself as I now maintain my body composition with relative ease with no extremes or over restriction. Currently at a place where I’m more athletic than I’ve ever been and enjoying how I train, eat and live.

Flexible dieting is often misunderstood as many people make out that it’s a case of fitting as much pizza and donuts into your diet as possible. When applied it’s based on nutrient dense whole foods but with the unconditional permission to consume any food at anytime.

This means no restriction on eating out, no necessity to constantly prep meals and overall dietary freedom.
Nutrionus- A brand committed to improving quality of life
By: Tamanna Sharma
Tags: Lifestyle, Food, Healthy Lifestyle, Nutrition, Healthy

As the world is coping with the pandemic, everyone has become much more conscious about their immunity and health. This article is about a brand which is significantly making a difference to it's consumers.

Presenting Nutrionus by Khushbu Samani and Ratin Thakkar, the founders of Nutrionus, who started this venture to help the consumers with healthy and nutritious food choices.

They wanted the brand to represent their nutritional responsibility towards the body and the World.

"After much of research and trial and errors we finally settled for Nutri-onus", quotes Khushbu.

An individual's responsibility of providing much needed nutrition to the body is not just a matter of personal health but also it concerns the fiscal health of our nation.

They wanted to bring that change in the snacking industry; so as to affect the fit to healthy ratio of our nation.

Nutrionus is a nutritious heaven for 100% wholegrain snack seekers. The products have no added sugar, chemicals and preservatives.

Then we came across their story of planning such a venture which is the need of the hour.

"It's actually a funny incident that had a greater impact on us and got us to this stage; where once while travelling in a foreign land we were so engrossed in gorging on our favourite fast food items and we often came across a banner outside some food store saying "you cant control everything in your life. But you can control what you put in your body".

From that moment till today this has been our go to thing, when we question ourselves about our products revolution and manufacturing processes." Quotes Ratin Thakkar.

Interesting, isn't it?

To be honest, interesting yet inspiring. Their best selling products include the trail seeds mix and multi-wholegrain diet mix.

The main motto of the brand is that every consumer should discover everytime they eat, it is an opportunity to nourish their body.

Now let me share a few pointers which I feel makes this brand stand out from the rest. All the products are whole grain products, which are healthy as well as wholesome. There are no preservatives or chemicals in the food items. All the products are organic.

Nutrionus is a brand committed to improving quality of life, Nutrionus brings food packed with goodness of nature and keeps you wanting for more.

With products spread across breakfast to mid-night cravings, Nutrionus is committed to 100% Natural, Organic and wholegrain products, free of chemicals and preservatives.

With variety of breakfast cereals, raw and roasted flavoured seeds, roasted snacks and many more, we stand strongly for health. As the products have clear functional benefits, they do tickle your taste buds and leave you enchanted.

So what are you waiting for? Check out the Instagram handle and order your favorites today.

Let healthy journey with Nutrionus begin today!
Soya Chunks Nutrition | Its 5 Mind-Blowing Health Benefits
By: Prativa Sinha
Tags: Health, Diet, Nutrition, Fitness, Health Foods

Soya chunks contain a decent amount of Omega -3 fatty acids, polyunsaturated fats, and proteins. Moreover, they are very rich in calcium and iron while providing no extra sodium, cholesterol, and sugar to your body.

They boost the process of muscle building and metabolism in your body.

Like chicken breast, soya chunks are a full-fledged source of protein.

Soya chunks are made from defatted soy floor by the process of extrusion cooking. Besides this, the protein content present in soya chunks is comparable to that of eggs, milk, and meat.

Furthermore, a study published in the journal Molecules in 2015 found that soya chunks can effectively decrease the fat build up around the stomach and protect the heart from ailments.

Due to the protein content found in soya chunks, weight lifters and bodybuilders can include soya chunks in their diet to promote muscle growth.

To know more, visit : https://fitnesshups.com/soya-chunks-nutrition/
Best Diet 2021
By: How To Pc
Tags: Weight Loss, Diet, Dieta, Weight Loss Diets, Nutrition

i have been using this diet for so long its the best diet in my case

if any of u want to check it out go ahead

https://bit.ly/34MwjdU
Ubiquinol, Ubiquinone… Damn, Whatever Gets Me Energy!
By: Dr Joel Yong
Tags: Health, Lifestyle, Science, Healthcare, Nutrition

The biochemistry of CoQ10

It is mentioned in this article that CoQ10:

plays a substantial role in energy production by acting as a mobile electron carrier in the electron transport chain.

What that means is that CoQ10 exists in our cells. Our cells are synthesising it continuously via the mevalonate pathway. Yes, that same mevalonate pathway that is inhibited by the use of statins in an effort to block the synthesis of fresh cholesterol within the body.

Side note: one who is consuming statins for high cholesterol will be facing issues with reduced cellular CoQ10 production, and that is one of the factors that weakens atherosclerotic patients over time.

The mevalonate pathway synthesises the oxidised form of CoQ10 (ubiquinone), and we have a continuous biochemical tango of oxidation and reduction occurring between glutathione, CoQ10 and other various antioxidants as the CoQ10 keeps on switching from ubiquinol to ubiquinone and back while it is transporting electrons through that electron transport chain.

All for the sake of our cells being able to generate useful biochemical energy that we can then convert into other forms of energy for moving about, lifting weights and doing all the things that a normal human being can do.

Hence, we can read about stuff such as CoQ10 being beneficial for supporting brain health as it is beneficial for supporting heart health. Heck, it also supports liver health.

What’s the main thing that these 3 organs (the brain, the heart and the liver) have in common?

They’re all organs that comprise cells, aren’t they?

It makes sense that an organ can function better if the cells that constitute the organ are functioning better, because the organ is only as strong as its weakest cell. As it was said by Thomas Reid: