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Continue reading →: Upload your local Spark script to an AWS EMR cluster using a simple Python script
Apache Spark is definitely one of the hottest topics in the Data Science community at the moment. Last month when we visited PyData Amsterdam 2016 we witnessed a great example of Spark’s immense popularity. The speakers at PyData talking about Spark had the largest crowds after all. Sometimes we see…
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Continue reading →: Recap: Google Analytics User Conference – GAUC 2016
Last week, I attended the Conference day of the seventh official Google Analytics User Conference in Amsterdam in search of new Google Analytics tips and tricks. More information about the Program of GAUC 2016 can be found here: http://www.gauc.nl/programma-conference-day/. So, what are the key takeaways of the master classes this…
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Continue reading →: How close is Facebook to becoming The Circle?
Sometimes the future is coming at you at a faster rate than you expect it to come. This post is about exactly that feeling. I never thought the ideas I read in The Circle would become a thing in the actual world as quickly as they did. Let me start…
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Continue reading →: Virtual reality: connecting Unity to the CAVE
Imagine being given the opportunity to experience a life-like virtual environment together with your peers just by using technology. Imagine seeing things you have not pictured possible, like visiting an alien planet, exploring the deepest parts of the ocean or even using it for teaching young children. As the technology…
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Continue reading →: Other tag managers on the block: Qubit Opentag
At Greenhouse Group, we’ve been working with tag manager for over 3.5 years now. Over the last part of that period, a lot of articles popped up about Google Tag Manager (GTM), Google’s solution to tag management. It’s a great option, but there are some other vendors out there that…
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Continue reading →: 3D print marketing and best practices
3D printing is the process in which a 3D object is created from a digital file. This is also known as an additive process. In this process, an object is manufactured by laying down successive layers of material until an object is created. Since 3D printing started booming in 2012,…
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Continue reading →: The differences between Adobe Experience Design and Sketch App
Coming from an Adobe Fireworks background I was at least to say displeased with Adobe pulling the plug on my favourite tool. Me and the rest of the Fireworks community felt abandoned by Adobe. How would they ever make up for this mischief? I have continued to use Adobe Fireworks…
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Continue reading →: Improving Optimizely’s Google Tag Manager integration
Adding Optimizely data to Google Analytics has a few benefits. First of all, you can verify Optimizely’s results in GA, which is always a good thing. By segmenting Optimizely-tested users in analytics, you also open up a world of extra reports, metrics and visualisations, that you won’t find in Optimizely.…
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Continue reading →: What I’ve learned by giving a talk about data to 100 people
Last week, I gave my first ever talk for a large audience at the Next Symposium on Growth Hacking at Tilburg University. The message of my talk: “data helps you make better decisions for your company, project or startup. Put it at the heart”. It was a very interesting experience,…
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Continue reading →: Introduction to data binding in Angular 2 versus Angular 1
Data binding, one of the most loved and hated concepts of Angular 1, made its way to Angular 2. There are a couple of ways to bind data in Angular: interpolation, one way binding (unidirectional), two-way binding and event binding. These four types of data binding were already available in…
