Dynamic pricing of energy

A few weeks ago Gosia and I put together an all-star team with our friends from Über and eBay and went to another hackathon. This time it was organized by Living Lab Smart Charging. There were four tracks dedicated to analyzing and building systems to improve the state-of-the-art of green energy solutions. Being a Beatles …

Cowworking

Last week we went to Leeuwarden to hang out on a farm. Not just any farm, but the Dairy Campus. On this farm they run trials for new food and have the newest equipment. For example, cows can milk themselves and there is a manure-Roomba in the barn.  Surrounded by people and cows, we analysed …

Get in the Ring

Since a half a year I am doing karate, and finally last week I had the opportunity to get in the ring. The only thing it was not related to fighting. It was a local version of the international Get in The Ring event. The event helps startups who want to attract funding, scale up …

AB Testing for Cows

Last week we participated in the Bright Cow hackathon. Yes, it was as fun as you immediately imagined! We had the data on how much milk cows give up-to a nipple level! The farmers and the dairy industry like their cows to be healthy, so they produce more milk, and everybody is happy. FARMING IS …

Coders Co. wins hackathon Omgevingswet

The lucky streak continues.. or maybe there is something to it: we entered a hackathon for the third time this year and for the third time we won. This time it was a 2-day hackathon organized by Gemeente Amsterdam: Hackathon Omgevingswet. THE CHALLENGE The trigger for organizing this hackathon is the introduction of the new ‘omgevingswet’ …

ESOMAR congress

THE FUTURE OF MARKET RESEARCH IS NOT THAT SCARY Since the venerable ESOMAR congress (the 70th edition) took place in Amsterdam this year, all of us at Coders Co. got a chance to visit it. My turn was on Wednesday, the closing day of the conference. The disadvantage of visiting on the closing day was …

Big Data Expo and CRMin1day

Last week we visited both the Big Data Expo and CRMin1day. Then it was followed by a hackathon on Friday and Saturday, so it took a bit to digest all the information! I already posted some small pieces on LinkedIn, but I want to compare both events. My colleague Artem also chipped in with his …

Coders Co. wins Eneco Data Challenge

After our successful appearance at WHAT datathon we decided to try our skills again and, together with an old friend of mine Konrad Banachewicz from TNG Quant Consultancy, we took part in Eneco’s Predictive Maintenance Challenge, a part of Dutch Data Science Week 2017. And yes, we won again! BUSINESS VALUE The competition was fierce and there were many great models created. …

Coders Co. wins Gfk Insights Challenge

Last weekend we took part in the WHAT datathon – a data science competition accompanying the WHAT behavioral data conference organized by Wakoopa.And YES, we won the Gfk Insights track! THE CHALLENGE The challenge was to uncover business insights in clickstream data. We got data of one month in 2016 of a Dutch panel that shows how people have been using …