SQL Saturday Exeter: Steph & Oz’s slides
Well SQL Saturday Exeter flew by. T’was great catching up with people, seeing folks learn how to use (old & new) tools better, and just generally watching everyone having a great time at one of the...
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SQL Relay is here!
SQL Relay is back on tour! Our 6th event sees us yet again touring the country bringing awesome speakers to eight cities over 2 weeks. As usual we’re improving things: A new platform called...
View ArticleWomen doing technology
Yesterday, another Women in Technology conference got forwarded around and looking at the agenda, I snapped. I asked to not see any more goddamn WiT conferences. I’m really fed up with women talking...
View ArticleBoris’ presentation agency – 356 labs
Boris Hristrov, Data Platform MVP, design whizz, and all-round great guy, recently launched 356labs. Boris wrote a great Presentation Design course for PluralSight, you can sign up for a trial of...
View ArticleShould presenters have to pay to attend?
I recently did something for the first time: I declined to speak somewhere. It was never stated on the submission page, and was raised only after my session was accepted – they wanted me to buy a...
View ArticlesatRdays: final push
I talked back in November about the idea of an RSaturday, which were free community-driven conferences on R. Since then, we created a GitHub repository and started hammering out the details for...
View ArticlesatRday location voting now open
Tweet satRdays, free R conferences, are a project being supported by the R Consortium. When Gergely and I submitted our proposal, we said we’d be supporting three conferences: Budapest, Hungary...
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My PASS #Summit2016 submissions feedback
Tweet I really liked the way Brent showed us his feedback received and since mimicry is the best form of flattery, I thought I’d go ahead and do it too! I didn’t get any accepted abstracts, and I’m...
View ArticleIdeas for (lightning) talks
Tweet I’m trying to encourage more lightning talks at my user groups, and I started by writing a plea to folks at my local R user group, caRdiff. In it I included some ideas for lightning talks, and...
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A note to (potential) new speakers: It’s ok not to be perfect!
Tweet This is a T-SQL Tuesday Post in response to Andy Bek’s kick off about growing new speakers. You can write your own advice for new speakers, or blog your journey to speaking. I’m always trying to...
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