Behind my laptop at 01:30. I needed to get this written down. In all details, I possible could remember. Normally I don’t make notes, I just playback the video in my head and write down the keywords and actions. But this one was different, I was so impressed, I wanted to capture it all. And […]
Raising Duocorns
It was great to be part of the new travel agency. The travel agency was essentially selling trips to the promised land: the Great US of A, California, home of the garage startups, land of the customer focussed platforms. Customers from the old world, EMEA, would sign up to listen to, experience, touch and feel […]
Chief Subtitles
He looked at me with complete amazement. Bewildered. After doing the track for Business Process Management with me as lector he was used to me being a bit weird. But this one caught him off-guard. We were discussing his BPM thesis today. Good work, ticked all the boxes for the HU University (interesting set of […]
Digital Off-The-Roadmap
“What are you thinking about?” Well, nothing really.Just tell me what you feel! Uh, uh, nothing at the moment. You got to feel something! Listen Woman: You have to go to mindfulness training, you do your yoga class, you do all the Zen stuff. And without doing all of that, I can just just sit […]
Horizontal KPI’s and Do The Right Thing
Workshop Tuesday evening, 1800, rain, large room, 30 seats, the start of a workshop in digital transformation. Always great to start a workshop in the evening. Workshops after regular working hours means having people that really want to be there. Personal drive, wanting to learn, personal investment at it best. The workshop is focussed on […]
Parallel Tracks
Reading Reading. Reading books. Reading books was our first way of travel. For both my wife and me reading started at a very early age. The public library was the main source of our travel experiences. We would pick up the maximum # of books each week and read them. Read them fast. All the […]
Machine Learning: Predicting house prices
Recently I have followed an online course on machine learning to understand the current hype better. As with any subject though, only practice makes perfect, so i was looking to apply this new knowledge. While looking to sell my house I found that would be a nice opportunity: Check if the prices a real estate […]
Personalised city trip itinerary using integer linear programming
Case As a research project I have developed an itinerary service. The idea started when I was doing a hackathon with colleagues for the city of Amsterdam (see earlier post). I wanted to recommend an itinerary to a tourist visiting the city of Amsterdam. Furthermore, I wanted to make the itinerary based on the user’s interests to recommend […]
City-wide crowd management in Amsterdam
As most residents and visitors of Amsterdam know, every year more people are visiting Amsterdam, city wide events like GayPride, Koningsdag and MuseumNacht are getting bigger and more frequent, putting more strain on the city’s infrastructure and all people living in the city center. That’s why this November 7th, Amsterdam Marketing organized the Museumn8 hackathon […]
Recognizing commercials using the Alphonso API
Liberty Global organized the Hack & Play Appathon in Ziggo dome on September 15th and 16th. More than 20 teams of hackers, designers and programmers were invited to create an app or a game for the Liberty Global product Horizon set-top box. Team Trifork joined with Dennis de Goede (Design & Frontend), Tony Abidi (Devops) […]