Sinds 2017 werk ik als vrijwilliger mee bij Sensing Clues, en inmiddels is dat een al een heel volwassen organisatie die samenwerkt met een flink aantal partijen in het veld op het gebied van operationele natuurbescherming in de breedste zin van het woord.
“SINDS DE OPRICHTING IN 2017 HEBBEN WE ERVOOR GEZORGD DAT MEER DAN EEN MILJOEN HECTARE WILDERNIS PERMANENT BESCHERMD WORDT.”
Het team van vrijwilligers groeit nog steeds en dat is en blijft belangrijk om de kosten voor de inzet van de oplossingen zo laag mogelijk te houden.
Binnen het Healthplus.ai team is ruimte voor een Lead Data Scientist. Als dat je droombaan is, en je wilt graag samenwerken met leuke collega’s en partners aan de verdere ontwikkeling van PERISCOPE en andere projecten, check dan de volgende links
In 2017, just a few months before we left our previous house and hopped around for some time from rental to rental while our current house was under construction, I created a small batch of blended whisky. Of course secret recipe, lots of trial and error, long tasting sessions evening after evening to finally find that mysterious miracle combination of liquid ecstacy. And then, when it happened to be what I wanted it to be , the job was done, a new blend was born!
I could now officially call myself a Disaster Blender by the Unwritten rules of My Own University of Life!! But people actually like the booze that I handed out as gifts so after a few years most bottles are gone. Time for a new blend! This time I’m even more ambitious when it comes to the taste, so again quite some research & investigation ahead of me. Keep an eye on this site for the progress or ping me at tenderblender@basaltaura.nl for a sample. I’m aiming to reach Bombaster Blender level this time, will be a tough job again I guess.
Just a short note on Pinetrail, a very nice tool I used today to test sanitizing GPS log files to correcting the elevation, and remove outliers and idle points. “But GPS is so accurate, do we still need that?” Yes we do, because even nowadays there is still some glitches and quirks due to mobile devices jumping to GSM transmission towers, occasional noisy signals or no signal at all, unknown app errors etc. And cleaning out the idle points also improves the visual representation.
Reason for testing in the first place is Sensing Clues, where the field rangers collect vast amounts of route data with observations and actions when on patrol. This data needs to be interpreted and there it helps to have clean(ed) data. Most probably there are also some additional rules needed but Pinetrail looks like a good starting point, also because it provides a nice report of what it does as you can see in the example above, on one of my running routes I exported from Strava (I really did not start my run with these strange figures).
Oh, and there is some more interesting news coming in a next post on my work for Sensing Clues. As we try to provide the best technical solutions on the web and mobile for the field rangers in the wildlife parks, this also means we need to be sure everything is up and running the whole time. In order to keep a clear overview on that, we need a proper full stack monitoring tool “from mobile to database”, “from network to Docker container” and everything in between.
So Sensing Clues applied for the New Relic Observability for Good program, and the approval came back almost instantly! A very interesting free program for nonprofits, charities and NGOs (or ANBIs in proper Dutch). Currently installing the first monitoring Agents, more on the results soon.
And then just before the year ends the website of healthplus.ai is on par with the business ambitions again! For those of you who visited the -now- old website, there is quite some change: clear statements on what we are working on, fresh colors and a nice layout that contribute to the user experience and make it easier to find the info you need.
Behind the screens we are also working hard on the platform itself of course, so keep coming back to the website every now and then for more news.
If I would tell you that we are getting close to release an MVP for “the next generation self service cloud based solution that enables your organisation to fulfil urgent and valuable enterprise data related requirements in an actionable way”, would you be interested?
I bet you are!
So, just grab the phone or send me an email if you want more information.
At this moment I cannot reveal more but after signup for a trial under NDA, you get all the details you need.
Now I’m back on the writing track I might as well just add a first teaser about another project I’m working on. It is not a home alone project, quite a bit more than that, and it includes some serious technological challenges.
Here is the teaser:
Curious to hear what you think of it. Feel free to post your ideas in the comments. There will be healthy rewards for whoever gets close to the actual concept, and also for best contribution.
It took a bit longer than expected to actually write the next post but whoop, here it is, and there is some nice news!
I started on a freelance engagement assisting Healthplus.ai in translating hospital data into processable data streams and implementing a scalable approach for each and every hospital.
In due time this should result in PERISCOPE, an EHR-integrated clinical tool that uses AI for early warning of post-surgery infections and other major complications. Earlier diagnosis and actions will reduce the number complications, their impact and cost.
Yes, I more or less stole the above header from a NY Times article (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/science/hibernation-spring-bears-bees-bats-arctic-squirrels.html) as I needed a tag line to express how coming back from a long dormant period feels. The time since the last post was mainly filled with finishing building the house, and making it livable (last piece of resistance is the garden), lots of the normal work-work, and for the last few months of course the very sad corona-situation that blocked and changed a lot of things too.
Now the time has come to start doing some more data exercises again, preferably geospatial but I won’t refuse to take up other data challenges too, like linked data (wrote a short post on that a while ago at LinkedIn, mmh need to follow up on that one too).
Sensing Clues is a non-for-profit organisation working with several IT partners that provide technology and free consultancy to create a wildlife intelligence platform that helps to prevent human-induced threats for nature like poaching and illegal logging, and to improve peaceful human-wildlife coexistence.
Sensing Clues is always looking for more help in the form of technologies or services so if you feel you can help, let me know or contact them directly.
Nieuwe hockeyseizoen is bij NMHC alweer van start gegaan, dit jaar speelt Olivier in de JD1. Met een aantal ouders hebben we weer voor mooie trainingspakken gezorgd.
