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Automating your Python scripts in the cloud ☁

Hey, It can be hard to get started running scripts in the cloud. I waited till my computer could not compute some of the larger datasets in my personal projects. Luckily I had learned some of these Linux commands when accessing the supercomputer at work. If you’re a product manager, marketer, financial analyst or data… Continue reading Automating your Python scripts in the cloud ☁

Robust Principal Component Analysis for everyone

Bonjour Most people have heard of Principal Component Analysis. It was the last thing I learned and perhaps many people learn in their introductory linear algebra course at university. I’ve had to use it plenty of times to reduce dimensions when staring at a dataset with too many columns. Many people are satisfied with vanilla… Continue reading Robust Principal Component Analysis for everyone

Using personas and journey maps to create value

Hi, As a product manager I’ve always encouraged my team to create personas. Creating personas for users is crucial and even customary, but they are also helpful to better understand the entire decision-making unit. If you aren’t familiar with the DMU it mainly consists of influencers, buyers, users and decision-makers. Sometimes it is useful to… Continue reading Using personas and journey maps to create value

Systems thinking for Product Managers part 2

Hi, I thought it would be good to focus on the common problems people encounter and why we get surprised by systems. Perhaps we best get started with an anecdote. In India during the British rule there was a snake “problem”. I imagine it was much like Australia’s spider “problem”. The colonists decided that to… Continue reading Systems thinking for Product Managers part 2

Systems thinking for Product Managers part 1

Ni hao, Systems thinking is a complex topic but we can make sense of it. We will try to define systems and how to think about them in simple terms. The discipline is as useful for product teams as it is for economists, politicians and other strategists. Why product managers? Everybody loves calling everyone else… Continue reading Systems thinking for Product Managers part 1

Accounting ratios for apes

Namaste, Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring, recording and communicating financial information. If you are not yet asleep then please congratulate yourself. Accountants are reputably boring but they are sticklers for keeping records of a company’s assets, liabilities and owners equity. This is useful for people in finance that want to compare similar companies.… Continue reading Accounting ratios for apes

Tips for improving webpage accessibility

Accessibility can be easy Unless you work for a few tech companies people at your workplace probably don’t spend as much time thinking about accessibility. I don’t mean having a UX team that simplifies a journey but catering to users with needs such as having to access the built-in narrator on Apple, Android or Windows… Continue reading Tips for improving webpage accessibility