Codemotion Amsterdam 2018, day two

Back on the ferry to the north of Amsterdam I went, back for day two of Codemotion Amsterdam 2018.

Keynote

Daniel Gebler from PicNic told us about what they are doing today to bring groceries home for people. I’ve seen two presentations by PicNic before and I could really see their progress from session to session.

Daniel explained how they use a recommender system to make it possible for customers to buy their most common groceries with one tap in the PicNic app. Which is actually hard. Even if you get 90% of precision of your prediction for one item, that means that for a set of 12 items you actually get 12% precision. So they really had to work to get a much better precision per item. They managed to do that by working with two dimensions of data: big and deep data. (more…)

Starting at Port of Rotterdam per 1 May 2018

Next week (1 May 2018) I will start as a Hadoop specialist/data steward/data custodian/data something something at the Advanced Analytics team at Port of Rotterdam. We haven’t worked out a fancy data something title yet. I’m already working at this team as a consultant. I’ve been involved with security and data governance of the data lake (for people outside Big Data: a data lake is simply a Hadoop cluster).

The World Port Center

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