Allo? My Washing machine blew up

Played with Google Allo this week. Interesting AI bot, not there yet, but funny though. Spotted few interesting things this week. Have fun reading.

Growing as cabbage, all sorts of bots pop up out of the blue in several industries or in forms and applications we couldn’t imagine. I’ve played around with Google Allo (released earlier this week) and found out that it was funny and somewhat handy, although not there yet. Not like Google’s search engine, which understands the repeated subject of your search. Fun though. Could become more handy when you can ask different things besides, what i like to call, task-based things. Needs some training i guess. Interesting space to watch these days. And especially in an app format (read: mobile on the go assistants).

The Office for National Statistics in the UK released interesting sector data in what they call “the UK perspectives series”. With the Brexit and all, you know. The cool part is that they also try to make data comprehensible to the main public with blogposts & data visualization. 

While Uber launched its take-away service and Japan gets Spotify, Samsung is having real issues with products blowing up and catching fire.

The first artificial pancreas is a fact and gets a green light.

Everyone knows Elon Musk said they’re planning to go to Mars.
No-one heard the following & neither is anyone thinking about how easy it will be for him to get more solar energy down to earth, colonizing another planet with full exposure to the sun.

Subscription bombing is a real pain in the ass sometimes. COI & Captcha are necessary as spam gets smarter.

Short video is booming in China. Vloggers are emerging while FB is integrating payment options in messenger and welcome screens for bots & pages.

Google opened up an open image dataset with over 9mio urls with automated tagged images in over 6k categories. Personally, I find this even more interesting.

I’m a big fan of analytics and try to spend a lot of my time figuring out how to measure, analyze and above all enthousiast people into using analytics and maximizing the its value. One of the things I’ve come across that blew my mind, was that lots of dashboard tools provide a black background. It might look better, but it makes reading data a lot harder than you think.

There is one simple and above all, it’s the first, step you need to do when making an understandable data visualization: erase the background. 

The purpose is very simple: remove all clutter to make it comprehensible at first sight.

If you see one of these in a dataviz, run to the hills.
Dashboard tool builders should make them dummy proof!

If you need some help or advice, feel free to contact me.
PLS DO. I JUST WANT TO HELP.

I’d bet you wear a jeans every day to work? Well, maybe you didn’t notice. Jeans is having a hard time these days. Stretch is hot right now, anything Jeans is not. That’s why the Jagging is probably is a thing right now.

You might not noticed. I’ve been vlogging for the last two weeks. Daily. Well… not vlogging as we know it, but uploading a video a day. At least one a day. I’ve learned some things just by doing and figuring out this process. Something I personally heavy invest in; learning how to learn faster.

Here is what i’ve learned so far:

Go out & shoot some video!

Part of long-term strategy, e-mail is a process.
Most of marketers don’t get it. Here are some interesting reads about e-mail that could help to spice things up a bit.

And the runner ups below:

Cab + Roller skating camera man + Stabilized pro camera
Video here. 

This week, two pics :) 
Managed to make some good progress this week. 
Same script. Different approach. Exploded vs imploded.

Mika Viano will probably don’t ring a bell. Even for people into techno for some years, don’t even know the guy. Experimental electronic music. Hypnotic from time to time. Extremely laidback with brilliant visuals from time to time. Pure floor material from time to time. I really admire this.

Take 10 min to enjoy this with eyes closed & loose yourself for a minute in space with his track called Stratostaatti.