https://www.manuelrademaker.com/blog/ Recent content in Blog on Manuel Rademaker - Personal Website Hugo -- gohugo.io en Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.manuelrademaker.com/blog/2021-08-31_election_results_and_covid_data/ Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.manuelrademaker.com/blog/2021-08-31_election_results_and_covid_data/ Recently, I stumbled across this graphic from great KATAPULT magazin: The left map shows the final 2017 parliamentary election (second vote) results (Zweitstimmenergebnis Bundestagswahl 2017) by election region (Wahlkreis) for the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD). On the right, the 7-day COVID-19 incidence per 100,000 people is shown by administrative region (Landkreis) as of 18.12.2020. Note that Wahlkreise and Landkreise are generally similar but do differ on many occasions. https://www.manuelrademaker.com/blog/2021-05-04_data_science_to_me/ Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.manuelrademaker.com/blog/2021-05-04_data_science_to_me/ Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Big Data are probably the four most common buzzwords (or better buzzterms) you hear when people talk about digitalization, automation, data-driven decision making or industry 4.0. However, different professional backgrounds and hierarchy levels tend to have different ideas and expectations regarding the meaning of these terms. In this blog post, I want to give my personal view on one of these terms, namely the term data science and its professional equivalent the data scientist. https://www.manuelrademaker.com/blog/2021-05-01_telegram_api/ Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.manuelrademaker.com/blog/2021-05-01_telegram_api/ During lockdown my friends and I started having regular quiz nights via Zoom and Telegram. Initially, my wife and I were the hosts. In subsequent rounds the winning team of the last quiz would have the honor (or burden?) of being the new hosts. So one team prepares questions from varying categories, poses them via Zoom, and the others answer by sending their answers via Telegram to the host team. To collect and sort the Telegram answers from each team one of the host team members had to manually copy-paste these in an Excel file for evaluation – not a particularly effective process.