After almost 4 years since I’ve started working from home, I take a look at what it meant to me and why I think it requires more discipline compared to a work from office style — Not a Medium member? Use the Friend Link to read this article! As many others, I have started working fully from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, more exactly in February 2020. In the last 4 years I worked mostly from home and analyzing my habits I realize that I am…

In the light of the 2023 Dutch election Results, in which the far-right is the winner, I deep dive into the data from the 2021 election results and have a look at party, gender and electoral district distribution. In Python, with Streamlit, Plotly and DuckDB. — Not a Medium member? Use the Friend Link to read this article! The result of the 2023 Dutch elections came as a shock in my bubble of friends and colleagues. The Dutch sub-reddits are full of fearful discussions about citizenship and migration status, while before the election they were full…

Front-end is the most underrated component of software development — Not a Medium member? Use the Friend Link to read this article! Having tried out Streamlit, Dash, and Panel, I concluded that they aren’t the right tools for my ownyourdata project. Consequently, I’ve started learning React Native, a front-end framework utilized in web and mobile app development. Learning has always…

Developing data applications with ease — Not a Medium member? Use the friend link and read this article for free! While in the process of deciding if learning React Native (or Flutter) is something I should follow seriously, I have decided to test-drive a few of the Python utilities out there for web data applications. I’ve…

New insights from Medium user engagement data and how and why I (among others) am impacted by the new Medium algorithm — If you are not a Medium member you can use the friend link to read this article for free. I’ve always dreamed of being a writer. I’ve started writing literature during high school, I’ve had a personal blog when it was cool to own a blogroll and I’ve had, for…

Plotly, AWS Simple Email Service Dashboard, FastAPI File Upload, — Plotly New Discoveries While working on a new article, I’ve came across: 1. Parallel Categories plots, perfect fit for analyzing categories in your data. Best to use them on raw (non-agreggated) data: Parallel Detailed examples of Parallel Categories Diagram including changing color, size, log axes, and more in Python.plotly.com 2. A very good article show-casing how to become a Sankey master and arrange nodes by (x, y) coordinates:

My journey from employee to freelancing in The Netherlands — At the mark of working for 15 years in IT, I have decided to become a freelancer in The Netherlands. Hoera! Which steps did I take, what did I have to arrange and how is my experience overall, one year after I took the leap? …

Python RQ, custom uvicorn log formatting, serverless — Python RQ This week I’ve experimented more with Python RQ, a low entry job scheduler. It is extremely easy to setup and to manage jobs with it. The documentation is also quite well written and provides the steps for most of the use cases. Important to note that: it is best to…

Learnings from week 2023.38 — Following Vincent’s advice from pyData Amsterdam 2023, I’ve decided to try out a this week I learned type of articles, focused on max 5 things I’ve discovered during the week. Django ORM Filtered Relation When you work with versioned data, it can be complex to join between models with the correct condition. For example…