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Where I'm from, many items have to have an easily comparable and visible price per kg (or e.g. l). Works so well (for the consumer) when you are looking at a selection of a specific product category.

Handling all this data and keeping it up to date is much easier with digitised and synchronised displays.

Maybe, and just maybe, if money was not an issue, research would also be more open.

I've also thought about this many times. By coincidence, my closest friends all told about similar thoughts at a gathering recently. It was interesting to hear what people wanted to do, if they wanted to change from their, now established careers.

I myself would take on metalworking and/or blacksmithing. I like the idea of working with milling, threading and cutting metals as well as welding.

I also think that it is very easy to be romantic about these things. It is probably better to understand how you could turn some of these things into hobbies and then get a bit of both worlds.

I'm in the process of trying to automate production of presentation material. Almost all slides contain a single header + chart or a single header + subheaders for multiple charts (think R ggplot charts and faceting). Data is mostly representing descriptives from surveys.

Once I have good data pre-processing and charting in R, what is the best way to easily automate much of the creation of presentations? Any experiences?

I have chosen three books:

1. The first book I read that changed my view of my own mind, that is, taught me to "think about thinking", was Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. I truly felt like my view of myself and the world I live in changed dramatically.

2. The second book that had a huge impact on me was Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky.

3. The third book has to be The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Alexander Solzhenitsyn (the abridged version by Edward E Ericson, Jr). When I mention this book, I meet a lot of people instantly debating the death toll numbers presented by Solzhenitsyn, but for me, the main point of the book is about complicity in the context of the Stalinist regime and complicity in evildoing more generally.

This post is good marketing. Not overly complicated, but it gets a lot of reads and the reader is gently forwarded to a call-to-action.

I guess it also helps getting people to eat and leave faster, which enables restaurants to seat tables more frequently.

What value could they create from using your setup?

Great feedback. I was just about to write a comment regarding 1. above - it feels like you might have brought a bit too much of your open source roots into the presentation and too little of your business oriented foundation.

Of course this depends also on who you want to target as potential customers - who do you want to target?

This makes me scared too. When a single guy's positions can wipe out two thirds of the obligatory default fund, it seems to me that there is a mismatch between the risk allowed taken by exchanges and the amount of money they have to put towards the fund.

It would be interesting to do this experiment with people who had high abilities in drawing lifelike pieces.

Reading the final words is really moving. So much suffering.

For anyone interested in this field should take a look at the work of Ulrik William Nash. I had the pleasure of completing a course led by Ulrik as well as writing an internal paper with him as my supervisor:

His main paper on wisdom of crowds and skew, which is rigorous (free): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Short presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTbzSHi-UQ

The paper above is worth reading for anyone interested in the utilization of collective wisdom.

Now I work for a consultancy specializing in customer loyalty and the connection between customer experiences and profitability, so our needs are of course not representative of all users. We ended up passing on both SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics when we decided to move from our home-built solution and ended up going for Confirmit.

SurveyMonkey is a good survey tool, but although they have some extra additions once you have set up the survey and collected data (visualization and insights sharing), the product just doesn't do enough. If you only want the solid and robust surveying tool, you are almost better off going for Google Forms - simple surveying tools abound. If what you are doing is market research only, then SurveyMonkey doesn't really cut it - there are much stronger tools out there to handle panels, quotas and all the logic that you need to not get bogged down by manual processes.

Most of these Survey tool producers are pivoting into Customer Experience management and are starting to provide tools for handling much deeper parts of organizational processes related to these challenges. This means not only automating customer feedback processes for when it is most relevant for the customer to provide such, but also allowing for collection of data through other means than just surveys, action management systems for automatically creating and managing cases for customers having experienced e.g. unsatisfactory events, allowing for CRM integrations via API, etc.

In the market for handling customer experiences (as well as those for employees), I think SurveyMonkey is in a squeeze.

Rstudio.

That would be cool. Time to unearth that old Cap'n Crunch cereal whistle to test whether we are truly talking with another human.

I'm really curious whether or not this will have an effect and to what extent.

I have been using the last 6 months documenting all of our company's processes that handle customer interaction and data (which is basically all our processes), created flowcharts of how data moves between us, third part providers and customers as well as creating a document for each of these flowcharts that pinpoint exactly how we are complying with GDPR for every sub-process.

If for nothing else, we now have a total overview of what we do and how we do it - in an easily shareable collection of visualisations and documentational material.

I think the Wikipedia reference doesn't do it justice - the article alone is already ~1500 words.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself

Simple and elegant.

But do you agree with the censoring?