Thank you to Packt Publishing and Shruthi Shetty for sharing this piece with me before its release and for the continuous trust in me. I remember reviewing Marleen's latest book as if it were yesterday. Time really flies; that was in the summer of 2023, nearly three years ago! Oh, how drastically things have changed in our data visualization community and in technology globally since then. Tim Ngwena's foreword added a nice touch. While AI can enhance dashboards and create s

I recently visited the new Salesforce towers in Amsterdam for the first time! They have relocated a metro station down, next to the Olympic Stadium, moving it from Amsterdam Zuidas. Interestingly, I’ve been visiting the London office more often, despite living in Amsterdam. The Blue Fin building by the Tate Modern was iconic; I clearly remember presenting there while admiring the London skyline. It made me feel like a million bucks, even while holding my overpriced watery Cos

This post shares insights from the masterclass and reflections on why Barcelona remains a special place. When Barcelona calls, it is hard to say no. I gladly accepted the invitation a second time to present a masterclass on data visualisation. It feels like coming home—not just because of my past visits to Boehringer Ingelheim's offices in Sant Cugat, but because Barcelona holds so many meaningful memories. My goal with each class is to enrich the master's students' understan

I didn’t get around to posting about this last year, but now I’m catching up on documenting my activities: the Bind2Tech Podcast is available on Spotify! At the start of 2025, Waheed, the owner of Bind2Tech, kindly reached out to invite me for a podcast appearance. We quickly found a perfect topic match—Leading Integrated Data Teams. To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect going in. However, the experience exceeded my wildest expectations. The other two participants

I shall have to begin with a personal narrative before moving on to the topic of technology and innovation, I promise. To me, Snowflake is far more than just a cloud-based data platform. It's much more. The community and the people who surround it are what make it unique. It was both a blessing and a curse for me to be highly involved in the platform adoption in my previous job. Inevitably, you only recall the good things after some time has passed. I have encountered super b

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