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SQLSaturday Portugal
SQLSaturday Portugal 2015 has been a huge amount of fun but I’ve also learnt a lot. A big thank you to the organisers! Below are my slides and notes from sessions I attended. Agile BI My session...
View ArticleHow many is too many conferences?
The SQL Server community has a lot of events. In the UK alone this year we will have/had in 2015: more than 75 user group meetings 5 SQL Saturdays 8 days of Relay 1 SQL in the City 3 to 5 days of...
View ArticleCustom LaTeX Beamer style templates for rmarkdown
I’ve been producing presentations via R using rmarkdown and outputting to either ioslides or slidify. That was excellent, because I could provide a CSS that customised the look and feel (relatively)...
View ArticleBoris’ presentation agency – 356 labs
Boris Hristrov, Data Platform MVP, design whizz, and all-round great guy, recently launched 356labs. Boris wrote a great Presentation Design course for PluralSight, you can sign up for a trial of...
View ArticleShould presenters have to pay to attend?
I recently did something for the first time: I declined to speak somewhere. It was never stated on the submission page, and was raised only after my session was accepted – they wanted me to buy a...
View ArticleUpcoming R for Microsoft training days
Tweet In May, I will be delivering two R for Microsoft training days. These two days will focus on some R fundamentals and applying these fundamentals within the Microsoft Data Platform. These...
View ArticleWomen doing technology
Tweet Yesterday, another Women in Technology conference got forwarded around and looking at the agenda, I snapped. I asked to not see any more goddamn WiT conferences. I’m really fed up with women...
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My PASS #Summit2016 submissions feedback
Tweet I really liked the way Brent showed us his feedback received and since mimicry is the best form of flattery, I thought I’d go ahead and do it too! I didn’t get any accepted abstracts, and I’m...
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Not an expert
Tweet I don’t think of myself as an expert because an expert is someone with very deep knowledge of a comparatively narrow field. For better or worse, a lot of my sense of satisfaction with life...
View ArticleIdeas for (lightning) talks
Tweet I’m trying to encourage more lightning talks at my user groups, and I started by writing a plea to folks at my local R user group, caRdiff. In it I included some ideas for lightning talks, and...
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