How to use data to find the best spot for a sponsor event

As you might know I’m currently doing sponsor events for Tour for Life, to collect funds for the Daniel den Hoed Foundation, for cancer research.

Aniel, me and Transfer Solutions CTO Albert Leenders at a sponsor event last Saturday in Ede.

Aniel and me have been doing this for the 3rd year now. And we noticed quite big differences in proceeds per location. You’d think large crowds (like on Dam Square in Amsterdam) would guarantee large amounts of donations. Not so. A more humble place like my home town Gouda outdid them by a factor of 9 in the same year!

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I started vlogging about data mesh (and other things)

Last June I made a short video while walking in the park next to the DIKW Intelligence office. And I posted it on LinkedIn. To my surprise it did very well. So I thought: why not make more of these short videos on data topics? And why not make them in somewhere in nature?

I’m on my bike almost every day this time of year. Surely I could make a short stop and do a little talk? I started to make them in Dutch and then also in English. (more…)