Work

Data Makers Festival

Lean Principles for Data and AI Product Development

Data for Good Podcast

systems thinking

Consulting skills for data people

StratOps for Data and AI

How to operationalize a Data and AI Strategy

Handelsblatt Article

data and ai strategy

Advanced analytics for traditional organizations

Let’s Talk AI Podcast

Discussion on career, strategy and being a CTO

Unlocking a Knowledge Factory

How can we combine the lean and agile frameworks?

Operationalizing Data Strategy (Data Masterclass)

A conversation on how to make data strategy operational.

Data Strategy: Key Principles and Best Practices (DataTalks.Club)

A conversation on what technical people need to know about data strategy.

Systems Thinking: 3 Steps to Tackle Complex Technical Problems

engineering management

Practical advice on dealing with complex systems for engineering managers.

Hyper-personalization in LLMs

As of early 2023, most of us are still grappling with the opportunities, challenges, and unforeseen implications of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT. GPT-4 is several days old, Microsoft just announced their “co-pilot for…

Datentreiber Interview

Interview with the data strategy consultancy Datentreiber

Defining Data Strategy (Univ.AI)

In this talk I cover the skills of data strategists, and the fundamental questions that they need to answer.

Managing the century of complexity

Progress in human society’s technological and social development has come at the cost of staggering complexity. Understanding this complexity’s origin, evolution, and…

Decision Making in Black Box Scenarios (LeadDev)

systems thinking

Making technology decisions on well-documented and stable systems can already be challenging, but how about opaque ones - when we deal with a black box? As technology…

Via Negativa for Data Projects (Unstructured)

A negative view on the current state can allow us to see productive patterns. In this talk I describe typical scenarios in how data initiatives fail and uncover ways forward.

Project Management for Data Teams Panel

The adoption and subsequent success of data science projects in organizations are still limited. Even with skilled teams and an abundance of resources and data, this can…

DataFramed Podcast

programming languages

In this episode of DataFramed, we speak with Rick Scavetta and Boyan Angelov about their new book, Python and R for the Modern Data Scientist: The Best of Both Worlds, and…

VSM Workshop Template

The Viable System Model is a tool to model the organizational structure of a system. It was invented by Stafford Beer in the 1970s. While it can be used in numerous domains…

Elements of Data Strategy Workshop Template

The Data Strategy Workshop template provides all the materials necessary for the design of a basic data strategy. It consists of a representation of a data strategy’s…

Towards homeostatic project management

Visualization describing a self-correcting project management system

Explainable AI for Ecology

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology, biogeography and conservation biology to estimate relationships between environmental variables and species…

Research Data Strategy

The need for large amounts of data permeates almost all fields of research. New technologies related to machine learning (deep learning in particular), cloud computing, the…

species2vec

Word embeddings are omnipresent in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. The same technology which defines words by their context can also define biological species. This…

sdmbench

sdmbench is an R package for benchmarking species distribution models. It provides a set of functions to compare the performance of different species distribution models…