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Lonelyhomes.ca is attempt to get grassroots enumeration of vacant homes in Vancouver, BC Canada

www.lonelyhomes.ca is a new "registry" of empty residential dwellings in Vancouver. These "lonely homes" are shown only by first 3 characters of the postal code (aka FSA) to preser…

I've been recommending to all the people I work with to use Excel add-in Power Query to connect to data and do all calculations and transformations. Then they can just replace/upda…

I put some Google Fiber build, sales and financial data into a basic model to create forecast estimates Gfiber.us

When applying for US jobs I am always a bit startled by the questions that ask me to categorize myself by race. I know this is meant to protect against bias in hiring but you are f…

Yes I am curious to know more about this too. In my case, I have a Canadian incorporation that generates passive income from websites.

Seems simple enough for AirBnb to do. I'd bet a curious Airbnb data scientist has already done it. Do analysis of users' ethnicities/names/profile skin color/gender/ attire etc whe…

Even better, use free Excel add-in Power Query. It's vlookup on steroids.

Good strategy is to move all data transformation into Excel add-in Power Query and leave raw data in original format. No more copy/ paste of data. "Fat finger" events are minimized…

Can I use window functions like partition by?

I scraped my 'people you may know' page over 30 days to make sure LinkedIn removed 2000 of my 'stolen contacts' from it. Once they did, 99% of them never appeared again. http://009…

"Scenario 3: What are the trains near me?" is great feature. Even better would be "Where do trains/buses go from where I am?" It would be very useful to see all route lines radiati…

Great app! Serious question: why hasn't something like this become a standard app if not OS feature? It is something I have always wanted. Want something similar for Android phone …

Yes and send issues and documentation back to operational teams so they can address root issues in transactional systems. Software selection and system design should have this inpu…

"Revitalization" might be better word than "disruption" to explain what is required of corporate sector. But corporate sector is adopting "disruptive" technologies and methods such…

Nice, I like the grid presentation. Looks Bootstrap responsive table? What are you using for the column sort?

Great, now I know why prepaid credit card directory website's Google search traffic has dropped off recently .. hmm.

A web app to quickly record 'visits' .. visits by customers, meeting or event attendees, etc https://www.speedvisit.com

"Like you said, strong AI would change everything. The richest will be the first to utilize them. Things get scary from that point on." Warrants repeating / highlighting.

Recent article on Fitbit "can I have my data please" .. resonates here too .. the better use case and business opportunity for Diaspora model is for healthcare and personal medical…