A trip into the mind of Wajdi

The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy by Domenico Tiepolo (1773)   First things first: could someone remind me of the main goal (or goals) of using Linkedin as a professional social network?  It undeniably seems to me that, while I had more than a few thousand connections and followers, for all the times I have opened Linkedin to check what was going on (or to reply to that desperate student looking for advice or an internship), I could not fully process what was posted and the quantity of things that are of absolutely no interest to me personally. In this post, I will explain the reasons that lead me to delete a big chunk of my Linkedin Network, and how I defined and identified those that have to be deleted As for Facebook, Instagram or even Twitter, every place has its own use.  Keeping in touch with close friends and family on Facebook, taking interest in following beloved artists and brands on Instagram, and enjoying the occasional discussions with likeminded peo...

 Doing data viz on some types of tasks can be difficult, especially when ordinary line, bar or pie charts will not do enough job explaining the ideas we want to convey. Text in particular, is a bit delicate to represent with the traditional techniques. Depending on the core idea we would like to represent, sometimes it turns out be be a much harder task. The Theodore Psalter, AD 1066: Add MS 19352, f. 100r I remember few situations when I attended a presentation, only to leave later with more confusion regarding the charts used. I have talked many times on my Twitter about the importance of data viz, and how we really need to make sure that graphs are as simple and as clear as possible, containing easy to understand information, without confusion to your audience . Yes I really do understand that this requires a certain patience and expertise, however why not get inspired and learn from people having done the task and try to understand the story behind the data, the goal and the ob...

I have always talked about the importance of adopting agile methodology in analytics projects. With the fast pace of data acquisition and the immense volume of data points collected every hour in certain domains,  being  able to iterate and deploy very fast is a vital necessity in today's cutting-edge era.  fish swallows an Egyptian soldier in a mosaic scene depicting the splitting of the Red Sea from the Exodus story I wanted to share some thoughts on a very important set of technologies that are widely used in certain organizations in the automation, the deployment and  the running of robust and stable data products. I am most certainly sure that you have heard of Docker! That big blue smiling whale   🐳  Below, I will boil down in simple terms what is it and why I believe it is an important tool in the field of data analytics. What is Docker ? Simply put, Docker is an open-source application that utilizes the container paradigm at its...

Over the course of history, the world has been through various crisis and chocs. One of the oldest recorded economic crisis was the one that happened about 2000 years ago, in the Roman empire . It was simply caused by the loss of trade ships that sank in the red sea and pushed the prices of goods like ostrich feather and ivory, the crisis expanded to touch real estate, trade and agriculture. Laurens Mort de Tibère About the same time the great house of Malchus and Co. of Tyre with branches at Antioch and Ephesus, suddenly became bankrupt as a result of a strike among their Phoenician workmen and the embezzlement of a freedman manager. These failures affected the Roman banking house, Quintus Maximus and Lucious Vibo. A run commenced on their bank and spread to other banking houses that were said to be involved.  This situation caused the banks to push borrowers to pay back their loans. Real estate value crashed because there were no liquidity available and the rest is hist...