Web maps are everywhere - but what do people really want to see? We need to start doing analytics on our maps in the same way we do with our other pages.
Ignite Spatial presentation, Oct 2009, FOSS4G Sydney
Uncovering the complexities of designing for major eventsWarwick Bracken
Designing for major events and especially sporting events creates many unique challenges. There are language barriers, international delivery teams, unbreakable deadlines, thousands of variables and mountains of pressure. On top of all that, designers must work without the key element of their final product, live race data. The design team behind one of the worlds premier sporting events will explore the process of how they dealt with these problems, and provide insights into the designs and technology behind the scenes.
Uncovering the complexities of designing for major eventsWarwick Bracken
Designing for major events and especially sporting events creates many unique challenges. There are language barriers, international delivery teams, unbreakable deadlines, thousands of variables and mountains of pressure. On top of all that, designers must work without the key element of their final product, live race data. The design team behind one of the worlds premier sporting events will explore the process of how they dealt with these problems, and provide insights into the designs and technology behind the scenes.
This is a presentation I gave at the Sept. Milwaukee Interactive Marketing Association Meeting in 2013. It talks about how I found my passion and created my "Dream Job."
Get a flying start with Windows Phone 7 - NDC2010Jonas Follesø
Windows Phone 7 is brand new, totally fresh operating system that will appear in phones before Christmas. The new platform is a complete rewrite and offers lots of interesting opportunities to third party developers. The development platform for Windows Phone 7 is all based around managed code and the tools and frameworks you already know and love. This presentation you will give you an overview of the Windows Phone 7 development platform, and how you can leverage your existing Silverlight skills to build great applications for the Windows Phone 7 marketplace.
The session assumes some prior knowledge of Silverlight, as the focus of this presentation will be features that are specific to the phone. It will not only cover the basics of the Windows Phone 7 platform, but also how you can re–use many of the same patterns, frameworks, techniques and practices that you use when building regular Silverlight applications.
Custom Watchfaces, Remote Verification and SmartEyeglass conceptDroidConTLV
In this session we will talk about Sony SDKs available today, but also give a glimpse of what activities we have around the corner, covering everything from what’s new in the SmartWear area, to how you can remotely control Sony Cameras over Wi-Fi, as well as the latest information about the SmartEyeglass concept. We will also touch upon the important topic of app verification, as we introduce a new service planned to be launched during the second half this year.
As presented in DroidCon Tel Aviv 2014 by:
Troed Sångberg, Sony
http://il.droidcon.com
Presentation to Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) from Cabinet of Tele-Education (GATE) - Technical University of Madrid
Prototípus-fejlesztés 3D nyomtatással (Balássy György és Takács Péter)György Balássy
A 3D nyomtatás széles alkalmazási területének köszönhetően az autóipartól a zoológiáig mára minden iparágban és tudományterületen megjelent, hiszen kiváló eszköz a kísérletezésre, egyedi tárgyak gyártására, prototípus készítésre. Nagyon jól használhatjuk kisebb, otthoni projektjeinkben is, legyen az egy Arc reaktor, egy DeLorean fedélzeti számítógépe, vagy éppen egy IoT projekt.
Az előadás célja, hogy bevezetést adjon a 3D nyomtatás világába. Áttekintjük a legelterjedtebb 3D nyomtatók működését, és a prototípus készítési folyamatot a modell alkotástól a nyomtatáson keresztül egészen az utómunkáig. Bemutatom a bevált szoftvereket, mesélek a tipikus bakikról, veszélyekről, szó lesz a legjobb ingyenes modell lelőhelyekről, és az is kiderül, miért lettem rendszeres hajlakk használó.
Monitoring and Debugging your Live ApplicationsRobert Coup
Some ideas about debugging and monitoring live applications: logging, remote-shells using Twisted (even in non-twisted apps), python debuggers, and creating IM bots so your apps can talk to you.
Presented at Kiwi Pycon 2009
This is a presentation I gave at the Sept. Milwaukee Interactive Marketing Association Meeting in 2013. It talks about how I found my passion and created my "Dream Job."
Get a flying start with Windows Phone 7 - NDC2010Jonas Follesø
Windows Phone 7 is brand new, totally fresh operating system that will appear in phones before Christmas. The new platform is a complete rewrite and offers lots of interesting opportunities to third party developers. The development platform for Windows Phone 7 is all based around managed code and the tools and frameworks you already know and love. This presentation you will give you an overview of the Windows Phone 7 development platform, and how you can leverage your existing Silverlight skills to build great applications for the Windows Phone 7 marketplace.
The session assumes some prior knowledge of Silverlight, as the focus of this presentation will be features that are specific to the phone. It will not only cover the basics of the Windows Phone 7 platform, but also how you can re–use many of the same patterns, frameworks, techniques and practices that you use when building regular Silverlight applications.
Custom Watchfaces, Remote Verification and SmartEyeglass conceptDroidConTLV
In this session we will talk about Sony SDKs available today, but also give a glimpse of what activities we have around the corner, covering everything from what’s new in the SmartWear area, to how you can remotely control Sony Cameras over Wi-Fi, as well as the latest information about the SmartEyeglass concept. We will also touch upon the important topic of app verification, as we introduce a new service planned to be launched during the second half this year.
As presented in DroidCon Tel Aviv 2014 by:
Troed Sångberg, Sony
http://il.droidcon.com
Presentation to Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG) from Cabinet of Tele-Education (GATE) - Technical University of Madrid
Prototípus-fejlesztés 3D nyomtatással (Balássy György és Takács Péter)György Balássy
A 3D nyomtatás széles alkalmazási területének köszönhetően az autóipartól a zoológiáig mára minden iparágban és tudományterületen megjelent, hiszen kiváló eszköz a kísérletezésre, egyedi tárgyak gyártására, prototípus készítésre. Nagyon jól használhatjuk kisebb, otthoni projektjeinkben is, legyen az egy Arc reaktor, egy DeLorean fedélzeti számítógépe, vagy éppen egy IoT projekt.
Az előadás célja, hogy bevezetést adjon a 3D nyomtatás világába. Áttekintjük a legelterjedtebb 3D nyomtatók működését, és a prototípus készítési folyamatot a modell alkotástól a nyomtatáson keresztül egészen az utómunkáig. Bemutatom a bevált szoftvereket, mesélek a tipikus bakikról, veszélyekről, szó lesz a legjobb ingyenes modell lelőhelyekről, és az is kiderül, miért lettem rendszeres hajlakk használó.
Monitoring and Debugging your Live ApplicationsRobert Coup
Some ideas about debugging and monitoring live applications: logging, remote-shells using Twisted (even in non-twisted apps), python debuggers, and creating IM bots so your apps can talk to you.
Presented at Kiwi Pycon 2009
Building a Scalable Web Crawler with Hadoop by Ahad Rana from CommonCrawl
Ahad Rana, engineer at CommonCrawl, will go over CommonCrawl’s extensive use of Hadoop to fulfill their mission of building an open, and accessible Web-Scale crawl. He will discuss their Hadoop data processing pipeline, including their PageRank implementation, describe techniques they use to optimize Hadoop, discuss the design of their URL Metadata service, and conclude with details on how you can leverage the crawl (using Hadoop) today.
These are the slides that go with my Euro IA Summit 2007 presentation. It was delivered on Friday 21 September in Barcelona, Spain. It concerns the ways in which the practice of information architecture can be augmented and enriched using game design principles. Please visit my blog (leapfrog.nl/blog) for a version that includes an approximate transcript.
Presentation version of my book, Designing the Digital Experience, given at Computers in Libraries 2009. Focuses on creating digital experiences on websites.
UX and usability is an important part of your website and your business. This presentation (although, out of context without a bit of audio!) helps you understand the key points of UX and Usability from a developers point of view.
a monthly show 'n tell to the folks at interTrend Communications. i wanted to share this idea of engaging people to participate with a brand after reading Faris' blog post "Bring People Together and Give Them Something to do." some of the content in here i also gleaned off of the smarts by a fellow named, Alan Wolk. don't believe me? go check out his work here:
Mr. Alan Wolk: http://www.slideshare.net/AlanWolk/ybinmf-catfoa and alanwolk.com
and more from Faris here:
http://www.slideshare.net/farisyakob/converged-communications-new-ideas-of-influence-alternate-ending and farisyakob.com
Hacking, Making, & Creating - at the library! Technology Innovations & Custom...David King
Traditionally, when our library customers wanted to make something, we'd send them to the craft section or to the "how to write a poem" section of the library. Today's makers want to make gadgets, 3D-printed prototypes, and a video series. And guess what? They want the library's help!
In this webinar, I provide an overview of technology innovations that focus on "making" - including hackerspaces, digital media labs, co-working spaces, and self-publishing tools, and provides ideas on how to incorporate these innovations into your library.
These are slides from my presentation on Functional Interaction Design, presented at DrupalCon Paris 2009. (I presented an earlier version at DrupalCamp Colorado 2009.)
Credits for the wonderful kitten photos are at the end, 2nd to last slide.
What We Learned From Launching Our Mobile Hit Diggy’s Adventure
(White Nights Conference Prague 2017)
The official conference website — http://wnconf.com
Curtailing Crustaceans with Geeky EnthusiasmRobert Coup
As a young and time-poor yachtie I need to get a leg up over the old barnacles who spend every afternoon out racing on the harbour. Can my two friends technology & data help me kick ass and take home the prizes?
Presented as a lightning talk at the Mix & Mash competition launch. Nov 2010, Wellington. http://www.mixandmash.org.nz/
A quick introduction to Python's Twisted networking library, given at a NZPUG meeting in April 2009.
Covers some of the stuff you can do with Twisted really easily, like an XMPP bot and an SSH/Telnet shell into your running applications.
Distributed-ness: Distributed computing & the cloudsRobert Coup
Discussion on distributed apps and the cloud resources available to support them. Some discussion on the XMPP/Jabber based messaging system we use at Koordinates. Part of the seminar series for the Wellington Summer of Code programme.
Talking about improving the use of maps in our web pages, particularly for applications like real estate where the key information (and goal) is inherently spatial. Was a 20x20 (Pecha Kucha) style presentation at the Auckland Web Meetup, August 2008.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
19. where to?
@amatix
robert@coup.net.nz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tico_bassie/120810354
Editor's Notes
Maps are everywhere on the web, and that is awesome. It’s changing the face of geography, and we’re all better off for it. But as we start moving maps from newfangled out-there stuff into the norm, we need to understand what we’re actually doing so we can help our users better.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmcl/381176366/
If you care about your website, you run some sort of analytics. It helps you understand where people come from, how they move around your site, and where they end up going to. And once we have this information, we can change things and see what happens.
http://google.com/analytics
Recently people have started looking at design in the same way via tools like ClickDensity. Is a green button more effective at getting clicks than an orange one? Do people try and click on things we don’t expect? Does anyone read the second half of our pages?
http://clickdensity.com
Analytic tools are all about providing insights - those lightbulb moments where we spot something - then we make changes, hopefully improve, then start over again.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justageek/2158100473/
We need to be doing Map Analytics. Here we have a bakery chain website with a map. My question for you is - has anyone, ever, wanted to locate their nearest bakery in Satellite view?
http://www.bakersdelight.co.nz
Rather than using all the latest cool toys just because they’re there we need to start simplifying our maps in the spirit of reducing choices. Rather than giving our users every option, we need to making some educated decisions for them.
http://saiogaman.deviantart.com/art/Danbo-Wallpaper-107237965
Our maps have at least as many actions for the user as the pages they sit in, and we can look at each action with these ideas of understanding and simplifying.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasmic/292228826
What is the very first thing the user does when they see your map? Click on a marker? Change to satellite view? Do nothing at all? Zoom in?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twid/410697715
If we have a country-wide product, how about pre-zooming the map to the city where the browser is to save those first few clicks? I’m pretty unlikely to be in Sydney and trying to find a pizza place in Melbourne.
http://google.com/analytics
How about we remove some of the map controls? Do we really need an overview map? a scale bar? Terrain or satellite view? Traffic? Street View? Panning? Zoom? Take what people don’t use away.
http://maps.google.com.au
And while it’s fun to make up a separate icon for every conceivable thing that could be on a map, will the user understand what your little blobs mean? Probably not. We need to measure which markers are clicked on most, understand why, and do more of that!
http://code.google.com/p/google-maps-icons/
Our info windows are mini-pages, and should be tracked just like the other pages on our site. Where do people leave to? Do they come back? How often do the other tabs get opened?
http://mappyhour.nerl.net/
Do people actually zoom or pan your map? Or do they just look? I know we’re all paid to create beautiful interactive masterpieces, but maybe we don’t need interactive maps all the time? Pages would load a ton faster. And faster pages are a very good thing.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/3033311038
Google, OpenStreetMap, and others will create plain old images that look just as styley as your slippy map. And there are a number of ways to “power-up” a static map if someone does actually want to interact with it.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/
So, some numbers. What I term the “bounce rate” is how many people actually touch the map on the page? That should help answer whether our map needs be interactive at all.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seandreilinger/180088193
And then, how long between the first touch of the map and the first time they click on a marker? And how much of their on-page time is spent interacting with the map? That can tell us how important the map is compared to the other content on the page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2create/2170597742
Here’s a visualisation of 50,000 map views of a specific data layer on Koordinates. Basically every time the map zooms or moves the bounds are recorded. Different colours show more detailed zoom levels. What’s so special about some of these areas? We need to understand this.
http://koordinates.com
You may have noticed some distinct squares on the previous map. And that they’re in the middle. That’s people just zooming straight in. Why? To “see” more detail? We need to understand this.
http://koordinates.com
Tonight was about planting the seed of an idea and getting some thoughts going. I really want to see some awesome tools built around map analytics so we can all begin to understand what we’re actually doing. And I’d absolutely love to hear from people with thoughts about any of this.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tico_bassie/120810354
