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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Historically, disability was seen as a medical impairment, meaning that society believed people with disability had a condition or impairment that needed medical treatment. However, after WWI and WWII, many soldiers returned from war with impairments. With the increased numbers of people with disability, it was necessary to consider alternative forms of care other than institutionalisation.
During the late 20th and early 21st century, both domestically at the international level, people with disability began to heavily advocate for self-representation and self-determination of their rights. In 2006, the United Nations adopted the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a breakthrough movement in the realisation of disability rights. The CRPD was written in consultation with people with disability and is guided by the principle of respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity.
The CRPD is made up of two core components. The Disability Convention itself, which contains the main human rights provisions expressed as a series of articles, and Optional Protocol to the Disability Convention, which is a more limited document that establishes a mechanism for people with disability to pursue a complaint if they feel that their rights have been breached by a State Party to the Convention.


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Sexier, more daring Angeline
Published on Monday, 17 February 2014 08:37
Last year saw Angeline Quinto top-bill her first TV series - the romantic-comedy "Kahit Konting Pagtingin," which ran for almost six months. She enjoyed the experience but, Angeline admitted, she had a tough time juggling acting and singing.
So this year, she said, her music career would be the top priority.
What happens if she gets an irresistible offer? "I would have to think carefully," she told writers at the recent launch of her third album, "Higher Love" (Star Records). "I'd like to focus on singing; it's what my fans love me for."
Highest goal
Aside from recording more albums and theme songs for TV dramas, Angeline, who won the reality singing competition "Star Power" in 2011, said her highest goal was a solo concert at the Big Dome. "I've been praying very hard for that," she said.
Performing in such a big and iconic venue, the singer said, was a prospect that's exciting and daunting at the same time. "For many singers, performing at Araneta [Coliseum] is a defining moment in their career. I do have fans; I'm just not sure if they are enough to fill the place," Angeline said.
The 24-year-old Kapamilya talent said she'd wanted to hold a birthday concert late last year, but the plan was set aside when her father died in October.
In contrast to her past two albums, which had mostly radio-friendly tunes and slow-burning ballads that showcased her range, "Higher Love" has more upbeat numbers such as "Sana 2X," whose words she wrote.
The 10-track album also features Angeline's rendition of Regine Velasquez's "Babalikang Muli" and Sharon Cuneta's "Hanggang Kailan Kita Mamahalin," theme song of the ABS-CBN drama "The Legal Wife."
Telling a story
"I want listeners to hear something new. The album is about love's many stages. And the way the songs are sequenced makes the album feel like it's telling a story… I wrote 'Sana 2X' one lazy afternoon," related Angeline, who hoped to incorporate R&B music into her music eventually.
Asked if she planned to continue writing more original material, Angeline, drawing laughter, quipped: "Yes, but probably in Filipino… Sumasakit ulo ko 'pag English!"
Not a few have pointed out that Angeline bore a striking resemblance to Regine, and even sounded like her. "I'm flattered because I look up to her. Pangit naman kung si Ogie Alcasid (Regine's husband) ang kamukha ko!" she said, laughing. "I have no issues about the comparisons. But of course, I want to have my own identity—I want to be known as Angeline."
Meanwhile, many of the reporters couldn't help taking notice of Angeline's sexy and glamorous photos on the album jacket. She still wasn't used to wearing revealing dresses, she said, but she was starting to get more comfortable in her own skin.
"I worked hard on my body - I've been going to the gym regularly. 'Yung mga pinasuot sa 'kin parang pang-bold star, hindi pang-singer. I just prayed the photos would turn out nicely," she said. "I showed cleavage; next time probably my back!"
She jested, "I'd like to go on the cover of FHM… feeling ko, ang ganda ko ngayon!"
Unlike some celebs who doggedly deny undergoing cosmetic surgery despite obvious changes in their looks, Angeline wasn't shy to admit she had enhancement procedures done. "I'm very open about it," she said.
"I had my eyes done to make them look bigger. A lot of people used to say I looked sad even if I wasn't. I also had a Botox procedure on my armpits [to prevent sweating]," related Angeline. She's undecided about having her nose fixed, she added, "but I'm fine either way."
Previously linked to Coco Martin and Erik Santos, Angeline said she was looking forward to be in another relationship. "But I'm not about to rush things," she said. "I'm happy with what I have right now. Career is my priority." Inquirer.net

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Ramanudźa (tamil. இராமானுஜர், dewanagari रामानुज, ang. Ramanuja) (ur. 1017, zm. 1137) – hinduski filozof, największy święty wisznuickiej tradycji Śri sampradai, uczeń Jamunaćarji. Sformułował nurt zwany wiśisztadwajta (trl. Viśiṣṭādvaita).

Życie
Urodził się w Śriperumbudur koło Kanchipuram jako Ilaja Perumal, syn Aśury Keśawy Somajadźina i Kantimati.
Z wyjątkiem dwudziestoletniego okresu wypełnionego misjonarskimi podróżami, rezydował w jednej ze świątyń w Śri Rangam i całe życie poświęcił jej rozwojowi, czyniąc ją najważniejszym ośrodkiem kultu śri wisznuitów.

Doktryna
Ramanudźa sformułował nurt zwany wiśisztadwajta.
Do podstawowych jego założeń należą tezy:
 Bóg nie jest pozbawiony cech
 Istnieją trzy rodzaje realnych bytów, wszystkie jednak razem tworzą jedną rzeczywistość:
 materia
 dusza
 Bóg, który jest źródłem dwóch powyższych
 Materia i dusze nie mogą istnieć bez Boga, ale też Bóg nie może istnieć bez dusz
 Bóg jest istotą pełną miłości i łaski, szczególnie dla swych wyznawców
 Do Boga dochodzi się poprzez bhakti, czyli pełne miłości oddanie się mu i nieustanne czczenie go
 Należy pokładać niezachwianą wiarę w istnienie Boga (niezależną od argumentów logicznych układanych przez ludzi) oraz w autorytet świętych ksiąg hinduizmu
 Bóg stanowi podstawę egzystencji, kontroluje i utrzymuje materię i wszystkie żywe istoty
 Tożsamość Absolutu nie jest absolutną jednią
 Istnieją różnicę pomiędzy Bogiem, materią i duszami, ale funkcjonują one jako organiczna jedność (Bóg i dusze są identyczne jakościowo)
 Przyczyną Sprawczą jest połączona forma Lakszmi Narajana, będąca opisywanym przez Upaniszady Brahmanem

Dzieła
Do najważniejszych jego prac należą:
 Siddhitraja składająca się z trzech części: Atmasiddhi, Iśwarasiddhi i Samwitsiddhi
 Śri-bhasja będąca komentarzem do Wedantasutry
 Gita-bhasja będąca komentarzem do Bhagawadgity
 Wedartha-sangraha będące zbiorem stwierdzeń wedyjskich z komentarzami z upaniszadów
 Śri-ranga-gadja – zbiór modlitw ku czci Wisznu

Zobacz też
 Ćajtanja Mahaprabhu, Madhwa, Nimbarka, Śankara, Wallabha

Święci hinduscy
Indyjscy filozofowie
Reformatorzy hinduizmu
Wisznuizm
Hinduizm w Tamilnadu
Urodzeni w 1017
Zmarli w 1137

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Wednesday morning one-liners
Posted by Michael David Smith on June 12, 2013, 8:22 AM EDT
Said Bills QB E.J. Manuel, "I'm still trying to learn, still trying to get a great feel for my teammates. I'm still trying to earn the respect of the veteran guys as well as the rookies."
Dolphins offensive coordinator Mike Sherman says the goal is clear: "We need to score more points."
Patriots LB Brandon Spikes, who skipped Organized Team Activities, says he just does things differently than everyone else.
Kellen Winslow made a good first impression at the Jets' minicamp.
Ravens DT Haloti Ngata is still feeling the effects of the knee injury he suffered in the Super Bowl, but he hopes to be good to go at training camp.
Said Bengals coach Marvin Lewis of the latest Pacman Jones incident: "It's unfortunate that he's in this situation. That's really about all I can add to it. Obviously this has got to work its way out whatever way it does."
Browns rookie Barkevious Mingo says he's not worrying about the switch from defensive end to outside linebacker.
Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley is adding to his system in his second season on the job.
The Texans are letting their starters get some rest and giving their backups most of the work at minicamp.
Said Colts coach Chuck Pagano of S LaRon Landry, "His arms are bigger than anybody on the planet. He looks like the Incredible Hulk."
Jaguars CB Alan Ball went to Jacksonville with visions of being a starter.
Titans WR Marc Mariani feels "a lot of emotion" about coming back from last year's broken leg.
Broncos backup QB Brock Osweiler has learned how to study the quarterback position while sitting behind Peyton Manning.
Chiefs CB Sean Smith says he's been shocked at times by the fast pace when going up against Kansas City's offense.
The Raiders' quarterbacks aren't looking great on the practice field.
The editorial board at U-T San Diego (the local newspaper formerly known as the San Diego Union-Tribune) loves the Chargers.
Cowboys WR Dwayne Harris is expected back on the practice field today after hurting his ankle yesterday.
Former Syracuse teammates Justin Pugh and Ryan Nassib are helping each other out as teammates on the Giants.
The Eagles haven't had much of a home-field advantage at Lincoln Financial Field.
Redskins coach Mike Shanahan had good things to say about WR Donte' Stallworth.
Bears QB Jay Cutler says it takes three years to completely install a new offense. So I guess he'll be great in Marc Trestman's system in 2015.
Lions coach Jim Schwartz says he has learned on the job.
Although Packers C Evan Dietrich-Smith appears to be the unquestioned starter, he says he's trying to prove himself just like he always has.
The Vikings need CB Xavier Rhodes to be ready in a hurry.
Tight end Adam Nissley suffered his second torn ACL in the last 10 months before being waived-injured by the Falcons.
Panthers TE Greg Olsen says he wouldn't trade himself for anybody.
Saints LBs Curtis Lofton and Jonathan Vilma appear to be working well together.
New Bucs OT Gabe Carimi blames his knee for being a draft bust with the Bears.
The Cardinals will make every training camp practice open to the public at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Rams LB Alec Ogletree is looking good so far.
A rhinoceros at the San Francisco Zoo was named for 49ers G Alex Boone.
Seahawks QB Russell Wilson says he doesn't even know the words "sophomore slump."
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There were few passes completed downfield by any quarterback during team drills Tuesday. Two of those came on fluttering passes down the sideline by Flynn that Marcel Reece and Denarius Moore managed to catch after leaping over defenders.
Should I be worried???
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I like the raider one liner.


I haven't seen that problem with the Pencil, which tends to be a really responsive tool. Could you send a PTG file in which it happens to us at [email protected] and let us know which version of iOS you're using and we can take a look at that for you.
One other thought - which tool are you using there? If it's the gloop pen then you may be seeing a blob at the start because it 'flows' and the start of the stroke is slower than the rest.
The fact that it's happening in other apps too is interesting. I've been doing some reading and will be looking in to it today to see if I can find out what's going on. Thanks for the info!
As I mentioned above, I did some searching online for this issue when I read that other apps were also experiencing it. There does appear to be a generic issue affecting a large range of apps when using the Apple Pencil that relates to some technical stuff the Pencil does to provide pressure and identify itself as a stylus not a touch (too complicated to go in to detail here). This appears to relate to some changes that came in in iOS9.1.
However - I am unable to replicate the problem here either in iOS9.1 or iOS9.2 in any app. This leads me to believe that there may be a generic problem with OS settings that may be resolved after a restart (because I can't think of any other reason why someone with the same OS and Hardware would have the problem when I don't).
1. Close all parked apps (double tap the home button and swipe all apps up off the top - please wait a couple of seconds before swiping ArtRage up, it can take a few seconds to save background data!).
2. Restart your iPad by pressing and holding the Power and Home buttons until it shuts down (ignore the power off slider, keep holding them buttons!), then restarting it if doesn't auto restart when you release the buttons.
Try that - Does it help?
Edit: I also realised that I should check everyone has updated to 2.1.1 from the store. It shouldn't make any difference at all but it helps to be in the same environment when searching for this kind of thing.
I'd also like to ask anyone who is experiencing the problem to get in touch with me directly about it over the next few days. If those steps don't solve the problem I'm going to spend some time on it over Christmas to see if I can find out what's happening because I'm planning on releasing another update as soon as I can when the iTunes store system opens again for submissions after the break and if there is anything I can do to solve this issue I'd like to get it sorted in that. So, if you still have the problem after restarting, please drop a note to [email protected] and let us know, that will get to me over the break and I can work with you directly on it.
If you're experiencing this problem please go to the Preferences page and turn on Tap and Hold Colour Sampling. That should solve the immediate problem and now that we know how to make it happen we can go in and get a fix sorted for an update when the iTunes store people get back from their break.
When I turn on Tap and Hold Colour Sampling it introduces another problem.
If you use the basic pencil to say draw a rectangle but do it one line at a time (not as a continuous stroke) Each time you try to start the next line at exactly the end of the previous line a small gap is left behind. The only way to solve this is to guess the gap and start the line earlier. I hope I've made sense here.
There is often a small gap between the exact start point and the initial rendered stroke due to the way the direction vector is needed to calculate the start of the simulation. That's something that we're looking in to for future updates, it has been in there for some time and happens with the finger as well as the pencil. There may be something that can be done to mitigate it in the short term but the overall solution requires the paint simulation to be adjusted so I'm not sure when it may be implemented.
I understand what you are saying but the point I was trying to make is that this gap does not occur if Tap and Hold Colour sampling is turned off. I only get that gap when it is turned on!
I've done a bit more research and I understand what's going on now. The Apple Pencil doesn't produce actual pressure values until a brief time after the stroke starts. There's a 'predictive' system that tells you what the pressure is likely to be that updates after the stroke begins but using that relies on the app being able to undo previous events and redo them with the correct values. Most paint apps just splat colour blobs on a canvas which means they can go back undo prior blobs that had the wrong pressure value easily - ArtRage doesn't do that because we're tracking the passage of a virtual brush head so we don't have distinct 'prior events' that can be undone and redone easily.
The reason it works when tap and hold sampling is on is that tap and hold sampling defers the stroke start slightly to allow for handling tap and hold events, but when this is turned off the stroke begins immediately. If the stroke begins immediately then there's no discernable gap, but the pressure values may be wrong. If the stroke is deferred for tap and hold, the pressure values will almost definitely be right, but there will be a small gap.
In the long term, the solution to this requires a complete rewrite of how we generate paint strokes, which in turn requires a rewrite of the virtual brush simulation - Our system wasn't designed for devices that don't provide accurate data at any given point but instead give 'probable' values while they work on things like bluetooth updates then try to update previous values post stroke generation. In the short term, I'm looking in to some ways of mitigating the problem in a manner that will remove the gap and prevent the blobs.
Working on it currently, will update when I've got more information!


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Virtual reality: Helping Manchester Arena survivors
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Last updated at 16:29
Virtual reality (VR) is the future, but not just when it comes to gaming.
Having been around for decades already, we're now at the stage where VR works really well.
Back when your parents were kids, VR didn't have very good graphics, the sound wasn't very good and it was limited to what you could actually do within the VR world. Now, it can offer a truly immersive experience and is used in lots of important ways.
Not only that, the technology has become more affordable and improved to an extent to which big companies are keen to experiment.
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VR in gaming
So, let's start with the obvious. Already on the market are things like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Sony's PlayStation VR. The technology has clear benefits when it comes to gaming.
From picking up objects to hearing creepy footsteps behind you, VR can be a lot of fun, allowing gamers to fully own a character's actions within the game.
Virtual reality has already changed gaming.
Looking to expand on the technology further, developers are moving towards the next generation of VR, in which players will effectively strap themselves into a frame that can rotate as you move in the game world.
It will mean gamers can fling themselves around their bedroom or living room without knocking into the TV or treading on the cat.
VR in schools
If your teacher has ever used Google Earth or Maps to show you where things are around the world, you will know it can be fun. Well imagine how cool it would be to visit these places while sitting in your classroom.
VR field trips could soon become more common in schools and would allow virtual tours of cities or museums.
Could virtual reality school trips become a 'thing'?
Earlier this year, students at Oxford University explored ancient Rome through virtual reality, seeing how it would've looked a thousand years ago.
It also means that those with disabilities or mobility issues maybe able to see places that they would otherwise face difficulty reaching.
VR in therapy
VR can also help with mental health treatments and the NHS is looking at ways the technology can help patients.
Sometimes places have a strong connection with traumatic or upsetting events. Those places can be difficult to revisit for those affected.
Virtual reality can help people who have been injured
VR can help by gradually reintroducing victims to those places, and it has been used in this way recently to help those affected by the Manchester Arena attack.
Not only can VR help with mental health, it can help with physical health too, with the technology being used as a fun way to heal and rehabilitate people who have lost limbs or had bad injuries.
VR in adult learning
Not only can VR help with learning at school, it can also make adults better at their jobs too!
It has begun to be used to help doctors, dentists and surgeons learn what they need to do during medical operations. It means trainees can practice on things that aren't just plastic models or real people.
In a VR simulator, various conditions or illnesses can be replicated by the computer, and that means practicing surgeons can learn from lots of different scenarios.
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A dentist uses virtual reality to practice drilling a tooth.
Like surgeons, VR is also being considered as a way to teach trainee pilots.
Currently, new pilots learn how to fly passenger planes in flight simulators and although that's the tried-and-tested method, VR is potentially an easier and cheaper option.
To become a pilot can cost thousands of pounds, and the technology could provide people with the start they need when it comes to learning how to fly a plane, without actually leaving the ground.
Virtual reality: Would you like to travel the world using VR?
Meet the kids using virtual reality headsets at school
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Ooooh. I've never tried vr before
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121: How to show your boss the value of Alteryx
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If you want to show your boss the power of Alteryx, this episode is for you! As a Senior Manager in the International Tax Team at Expedia Group, Lauren Sparks is full of tips for how to demonstrate time savings with Alteryx, and shares how teams benefit from comprehensive Alteryx training.
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MADDIE: 00:01
[music] Welcome to Alter Everything, a podcast about data science and analytics culture. My name is Maddie Johannsen, and I'm on the community team at Alteryx. While at our Inspire EMEA conference in Amsterdam, I got to sit down with one of our customers, Lauren Sparks.
LAUREN: 00:17
I'm Lauren Sparks. I'm a senior manager in the international tax team Expedia Group. So the kind of global travel platform. I've been with them for kind of two and a bit years, based in London, which is nice. And before that, I was at PwC. But yeah, using Alteryx is a big part of my job, which I love.
Lauren is passionate about enabling her team with Alteryx at Expedia Group, and she has a bunch of great tips for how you can land your own Alteryx license, enable your teams, and help build a culture of learning at your organisation. Let's get started. I would love for you to share with our audience your career journey because, as you said, Alteryx is a big part of your role at Expedia.
Yeah, sure. So I started off my career at PwC. So I started as a school-leaver, which just meant I didn't want to go to university. So I was with them for six years in the end, and that's the first place that I saw Alteryx. I think PwC, especially in the UK, got behind it quite early on, it seemed, so they were licenses for everyone and training for everyone. So I saw it briefly there and was like, "It's awesome. I love it," and then went on a secondment to Expedia. So I was still at PwC but helping out on the Expedia team, and that was about 10 months. And with Secondments, you always say, "I promise. I'll come back," and then if a job offer comes-- often people who stay so, "Wait, sorry, what is that?"
So secondment is like where you are-- you feel like you're working for Expedia. Literally, you're going to their office, you're in their team, but you're still employed by PwC. So it's kind of like a short term like to help with staffing issues. If they've got someone off on leave, then they might get someone in. Or if they've just got resource constraints, they might just say as a kind of stop gap, "Let's just get someone from the big four." And yeah, it's often short-term, so it was meant to be six months, so then we extended it. And then a job came up, and it really surprised me actually how much I loved it because if you are in big four, you can't imagine what being [inaudible]. It's like being in-house, just this complete different kind of world. And I had some preconceptions that weren't actually right in the end, in a good way. So I, yeah, really enjoyed it, decided I wanted to stay. I think after six years, it's nice to have a change. So pretty early on, when I'd actually moved there properly, permanently, I was involved in a piece of work that I just thought Alteryx would be perfect for. So I was just bugging my bosses like, "Please, can I get a license? I've used it before. I know I can do it," and they were really receptive, so they said yes, and that's where it all started.
Yeah. Yeah. No, that's great. And your focus is in finance, is that right?
Yeah, I'm in the tax team, which is part of finance.
Yeah. Okay, cool. So given your time in the analytics and finance world, how have you seen the industry evolve?
So I think the funny thing is finance is still really Excel based. I think because it's so numbers-- there's so much data, and a lot of people, Excel just is their default, right? It's how people have shared data for ages, and it was perfect for a long time, but I think there's just this recognition that not everything should be in Excel anymore. And maybe finance has been a little bit late to the curve on that. I don't know whether that's a reflection of often outsourcing some of the work that you do. So it's not like directly your problem that a lot of things are in Excel. But yeah, there's just lots of Excel, lots of manual stuff, copying and pasting. No one wants to do that, super dull. So they definitely are recognising that. And even when I was in PwC, there was this recognition, so. One of the teams I was in was all about talking tax functions about how you can improve and how you can get better, and automation was like such a key part of that, and clients were really receptive and wanted to do it. So it definitely has been changing. Everyone's on kind of a journey with it, different maturities and things like that, but yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, totally. And then, yeah, I feel like also speaking of the efficiency. Can you also speak to the kind of post-COVID world? There's been a bigger push for that data literacy.
Yeah, I think post-COVID, there's just a lot of pressure on your budgets, right? Especially, in the finance world, we are not kind of making money for the company - we don't have a revenue stream - we're supporting the company. So I think if you don't have revenue coming in, then there's always going to be this focus on how much you're costing the business, which kind of there should be. But I think even more so after COVID, companies are struggling. For a travel company, obviously, it wasn't ideal during COVID. A lot of groups struggled for different reasons during the pandemic, and there's lots of kind of macrofactors that are just going to keep happening. That's what it feels like at the moment, cost of living, that might affect travel. So I think that puts a lot of pressure to make sure that these kind of support functions like finances are just really efficient, super lean. So are we spending time on the right things, basically, and are we adding value for the company, or are we just sat there, in Excel, typing? That's not an efficient use of people's time, especially if you're paying people in expensive locations. You can do that elsewhere. You can automate it, so.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And in trying to make everything efficient, I feel like just having that creative mindset is very important. So I'd love to hear how you've used your creativity to be a great problem solver with Alteryx and how the creativity in general has helped your career.
Yeah, that's the side of using Alteryx that I really love. It is so different to my day-to-day job in tax. Problem-solving is just really fun for me. It's like a little challenge to solve. I know not everyone likes it, but, me, personally, I find that stuff really interesting and really rewarding when you solve something and you get it right and then you can see it being implemented. That's a really nice feeling to know that you're making that change, and things are different as a result of kind of what you've done. So yeah, Alteryx has been a massive part of that.
So when you started at Expedia, you mentioned that you were asking your manager like, "Can I have this license? I've used it before." Do you have any tips for folks who you think would benefit from Alteryx and are trying to also secure a license? Maybe they have a license, and they want the person next to them on their team to also have one. What are some tips that were helpful for you in having that conversation with your manager?
Yeah, so for me, I think because I had a really tangible use case at that point and the added challenge was that this was like a brand-new requirement that we hadn't done before. So it wasn't something that we were already doing but just really manually, it's something that we hadn't even done. And we had just crazy time pressure. You get this in finance all the time, but we had one day that we had to turn this around for our analysis, and I was just like, "It's physically not possible, the amount of work we have to do. Even if I spend 24 hours, it's not going to get done." So something had to happen because it was like, "This isn't feasible. We're not going to be able to do it." So I think that was quite an easy sell, for me, which was good. But I think, for people, if it's them trying to get a license for themselves and maybe they're the first person in their team or their company trying to do it, I think pushing forward for it, getting a trial, because you can get your 30-day trial, maybe pick something that's pretty straightforward for you to do in Alteryx, and if you've built it, then you can show it.
And I think, for a lot of people, they just need to see something that relates to their job to get it. And I think as soon as you show someone something that's relatable to them in Alteryx, it's the easiest sell in the world. They can see really clearly how beneficial it is. So that's often just the first step, and I think if you are thinking about wider use or trying to get more and more licenses-- so we actually had a big training push which we did with Alteryx in the UK. They actually came in for us and did that training. And at the end of that training, we had a list of use cases and time savings that we were expecting. So as soon as you can say, "The time that we're going to save outweighs the cost of this license," then your bosses aren't going to push back. It would be silly for them to.
Yeah, and you helped organise that training. Can you share just like more of what that kind of entailed?
Yeah, so I got a message, out of the blue, from someone at Alteryx, basically, saying-- they were the account rep at the time, just saying, "Hey, we can see that you have a license. We'd love to just talk about what you're doing with it," so had that call, and they were the one to suggest some training, some support that they could give us, and I was like, yeah, because I think the challenge that I had in my team was because I was using it, I was able to solve a few things, but I'm only one person, and I did still have my day job, right? So I can't spend 100% of my time on it. So it was a bit frustrating just, generally, for my team as well because we were getting all these good ideas. We can solve this in Alteryx, that in Alteryx, but we couldn't unlock things. We couldn't get that started. It was quite a slow progress when it's just me.
So yeah, we went through that kind of training programme. It was amazing because we have a NDA with Alteryx, so we could just use something real, we were doing, so we could say, "Here's our Excel process currently," and they just built that out in a workflow with us week by week. So again, to that point of having something relatable, something that you can see, you're like, "I know that data. I get that all the time," think just helps people contextualise. So yeah, we just kind of went ahead with it. There was no kind of like big push. It was more just someone's reached out to me. I think it would be a good idea. Like, why not, basically.
Yeah. Yeah. Totally. And I think you mentioned too that you coordinated that for EMEA and then that training has filtered into other offices, is that right?
Yeah, it's evolved from there. So I think because EMEA was almost like a little trial, I guess, because we got to the end of that, and we had all this kind of-- all these use cases, we had more licenses. I think we got five off the back of that, and because we could show, this is beneficial, and people really liked it. We had really good feedback from that training. Our global tax team then decided to roll something out just for everyone globally. So led from the US, again, with Alteryx, like a very similar setup. So that was much broader. And again, we got lots more licenses off the back of that. And then we were like, "Okay, we've done it for tax, but surely, there's other kind of finance teams that would be able to use it. We're all solving pretty similar-ish things. Just the subject matter might be a bit different." So we then in EMEA showed it to our accounting friends in London, and they were like, "Oh my god, we love it."
Oh, good.
So then they had some training. So I think it's very much like spreading across the department, and it's all kind of word of mouth, which is nice. Someone might be in a-- just having a coffee with someone and saying, "Oh yeah, we're using Alteryx for XYZ," and then that person might just say that that sounds really interesting, and they want to chat. So it's happening like more and more, which is good.
Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And you mentioned the accounting team and, as you just said, having a coffee with somebody and then explaining it, and then they're sharing what they're using it for. Can you share any ways in which people are using it?
Yeah, we've put lots of different use cases, which I think is good because it just shows it's not just applicable for one or two things. There's lots of different things that you're doing. So a lot of finances, just repetition, right? You do something monthly or quarterly or daily, and a lot of processes are really structured. We get financial data in that's always in a set format. So that's quite helpful for Alteryx because we're not having to deal with lots of rubbish data. So it might be things like forecasting, it might be journal entries, doing actual tax calculations for some things. So yeah, lots of different use cases.
Yeah. Yeah. No, that's cool. And what's your favourite Alteryx tool or trick or use case? I guess maybe it's like forecasting or something that's had a big impact for you or your team.
Yeah, so good question. This literally just was part of my session just now. There's some tools called the Blob tools, which I always say are my favourite, partly because of the name, because I just think it's amazing - you have like blob - but mostly, because of the cool stuff that they can do. So we have a big challenge sometimes where we have to report out in a quite structured way, and that's most of the time in Excel, right? Lots of people know Excel, and that's how we share things across the organisation. And those Excel files are really formatted, doesn't lend itself great to just a raw data output from Alteryx. There might be header rows or sign of rows, lots of different things in there. And I think, often, when people get started on Alteryx, they don't actually realise that you can output to things that are so structured and fixed. So people will do all these cool workflows but then still get some kind of like raw data at the end and then spend time still fitting that in to these Excel files that they need to use. So it takes a tiny bit of magic, but once you do it once with the Blob tools, you are just like, "This is transformational for me," because, now, I fix the whole process. I'm not just fixing that front bit. I'm doing kind of end to end, and I just get my output, and I send that off.
Yeah. Oh, cool. I feel like I don't hear about the Blob tool as much as I want to. I feel like that's-- it sounds very impactful for you. That's really cool.
The icons are really sweet as well. They look like little PAC-MAN.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, and so you mentioned your session, earlier today. So for our audience, we are recording in Amsterdam at Inspire and Lauren had a breakout session. Can you tell us about what you talked about during that session?
Yeah, sure. My session probably pretty similar to stuff I'm saying on this podcast. It was all about my personal experience with Alteryx and how we're using it in Expedia, like in my role in tax and how I just think of the finance profession in general, so regardless of what industry you're in or if you're an advisor or if you're in-house, that Alteryx is really helpful, and there's so much use case in finance just generally. So that was it. I guess it was more of a-- compared to a lot of the other sessions at Inspire, which are really technical and, "Here's how you do this really cool thing in Alteryx," it was a bit more just storytelling, like how have I found it? What's my learnings, what's gone wrong, and how can you learn from that? So yeah, we did also have a tiny little demo of that blob thing as well, which--
--was fun. But yeah, it was kind of a bit more kind of high-level.
Yeah, that's great. And with the learnings and just being really open to-- you seem very open to change and very open to trying something out and then learning from it if it doesn't work out totally correct. I think that's just a really, obviously, important quality to have. But you also seem like a really big go-getter, and I feel like those two qualities really go together. You are a go-getter, and you're willing to try things out. You have a breakout session, you're doing this podcast, you went after Alteryx, and you got it. But then tying that with trying things out, making mistakes, seeing how things work, I'm just curious if you have any advice or anything to say about that because I feel like those are two, like I said, I think, good qualities that I think a lot of our listeners also have. One of our big things that we like to talk about on the podcast is just failure and failing and trying things, and that's the nice thing about Alteryx is that you can try things out, and if you mess it up, then you can always change it, and it's fine. So yeah, I just wonder if you have any thoughts on that?
Yeah, I think, I don't know whether it's just me being lucky in the teams that I've been in or the companies, but for me, there's always been space for that if you are keen. So I think it's just about finding that room and just pushing forward for things like-- maybe it's just a reflection of me not wanting a really stable same, samey job. I kind of like the challenge and things that are different. That's just what keeps me-- like, personally, what keeps me interested and excited about my job, the fact that it's changing all the time and I can look at lots of different things. And failing is part of it. Things go wrong, and you learn from it. But again, I think kind of if you are in a team where you have that kind of support and trust-- and that's something that you have to work on, right? You have to build that up. But once you have that, then you shouldn't really be scared of failing because the alternative is just you don't improve things. And I think we just need to not be scared, have a culture of try, get it wrong, be open about it, but then just try again, or let us know what you need to get over that.
And you mentioned, too, you enjoy looking at different things, working on different projects, being creative, and I think that so many of our customers also have that desire. Do you feel like with Alteryx-- you can obviously automate tedious tasks, you don't have to do those boring copy-pasting like you mentioned earlier, but how has Alteryx opened up more space and time in your schedule to allow for that creative thinking?
Yeah, so for me, the time savings from stuff that I didn't want to do before, I'm now able to channel back into more stuff in Alteryx, right? I think that's different to maybe my colleagues who aren't Alteryx users, the benefit that they're getting from that time-saving is to be able to do other things. But for me, because I love Alteryx in that side, I'm just like, that's the thing that I'm pushing to do more and more of.
Yeah. Yeah. No, that makes a lot of sense.
I'm like, "[crosstalk] question."
No, totally. And you mentioned, too, being a senior manager and working in tax and finance. Did you know that you wanted to have this career? Or what did you want to be when you were a kid?
To be completely blunt and honest, it's not, I was really guns blazing. I want to do tax. For me, I guess my decisions were quite practical, right? So at the end of college I was like, "I know I don't want to go to university." I just had my own thoughts of why it just wasn't going to be for me. Because I already knew that, I then looked at industries that had alternative routes. Because I also didn't want that to be a blocker for progression, right? I didn't want to end up in a job where I'd have this ceiling because I'm not a graduate, I can't get any further. And I was always very like numbers and not words in school. So I loved maths, absolutely loved maths and hated anything to do with writing. So because I knew I was numbers, I was like, "Okay, accounting in general." The big four accounting firms offer these school-leaver route, and they're numbers. So that seems to tie into what would suit me.
And then the decision for tax was just-- I guess more of like a interest point because at the time-- still now, I think it's just happening all the time, but there's so much attention on tax, and there's big news headline, grabby stories about tax. So I think there's a lot of interesting kind of challenges about working in tax because of the perception and because of all this kind of like news around it. So that was really my decision. But yeah, my career has taken on loads of different kind of route. I was in lots of different kind of teams in PwC-- or not lots, but a few different teams doing slightly different things and then ended up in a kind of corporate tax role, which I didn't necessarily know I was going to do. So I think, yeah, I'm open-ish to change, I think. I just don't want to get stuck in one thing. It's probably what's led me here, to be honest.
No, I think that's such a healthy mindset to have, and it also, obviously, opens up doors, and you don't know exactly where it will lead you, but that's a really great mindset to have. Any final tips for folks looking to build their career in analytics?
Get Alteryx. Obviously, I'm not been paid to say that. Yeah. No, I think just going back to what I said earlier, just push for it, right? Everyone, I think, recognises that this is a really important skill to have. No profession or industry is going to not want someone who is amazing with data and analytics. That's such a valuable skill. So I think people [music] who are interested in that have a really amazing opportunity to get what they want, basically, find something that interests them and a company that interests them, and just go for it. I think there's no shortage at the moment of wanting that as a skill.
Yeah, that's great advice. Awesome. Thank you so much, Lauren, for joining this episode. This was so fun to talk to you and get to know you more.
Cool. Thank you. It's been my pleasure.
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MADDIE: 00:01 [music] Welcome to Alter Everything, a podcast about data science and analytics culture. My name is Maddie Johannsen, and I'm on the community team at Alteryx. While at our Inspire EMEA conference in Amsterdam, I got to sit down with one of our customers, Lauren Sparks. LAUREN: 00:17 I'm Lauren Sparks. I'm a senior manager in the international tax team Expedia Group. So the kind of global travel platform. I've been with them for kind of two and a bit years, based in London, which is nice. And before that, I was at PwC. But yeah, using Alteryx is a big part of my job, which I love. MADDIE: 00:34 Lauren is passionate about enabling her team with Alteryx at Expedia Group, and she has a bunch of great tips for how you can land your own Alteryx license, enable your teams, and help build a culture of learning at your organisation. Let's get started. I would love for you to share with our audience your career journey because, as you said, Alteryx is a big part of your role at Expedia. LAUREN: 00:59 Yeah, sure. So I started off my career at PwC. So I started as a school-leaver, which just meant I didn't want to go to university. So I was with them for six years in the end, and that's the first place that I saw Alteryx. I think PwC, especially in the UK, got behind it quite early on, it seemed, so they were licenses for everyone and training for everyone. So I saw it briefly there and was like, "It's awesome. I love it," and then went on a secondment to Expedia. So I was still at PwC but helping out on the Expedia team, and that was about 10 months. And with Secondments, you always say, "I promise. I'll come back," and then if a job offer comes-- often people who stay so, "Wait, sorry, what is that?" LAUREN: 01:40 So secondment is like where you are-- you feel like you're working for Expedia. Literally, you're going to their office, you're in their team, but you're still employed by PwC. So it's kind of like a short term like to help with staffing issues. If they've got someone off on leave, then they might get someone in. Or if they've just got resource constraints, they might just say as a kind of stop gap, "Let's just get someone from the big four." And yeah, it's often short-term, so it was meant to be six months, so then we extended it. And then a job came up, and it really surprised me actually how much I loved it because if you are in big four, you can't imagine what being [inaudible]. It's like being in-house, just this complete different kind of world. And I had some preconceptions that weren't actually right in the end, in a good way. So I, yeah, really enjoyed it, decided I wanted to stay. I think after six years, it's nice to have a change. So pretty early on, when I'd actually moved there properly, permanently, I was involved in a piece of work that I just thought Alteryx would be perfect for. So I was just bugging my bosses like, "Please, can I get a license? I've used it before. I know I can do it," and they were really receptive, so they said yes, and that's where it all started. MADDIE: 02:50 Yeah. Yeah. No, that's great. And your focus is in finance, is that right? LAUREN: 02:55 Yeah, I'm in the tax team, which is part of finance. MADDIE: 02:58 Yeah. Okay, cool. So given your time in the analytics and finance world, how have you seen the industry evolve? LAUREN: 03:10 So I think the funny thing is finance is still really Excel based. I think because it's so numbers-- there's so much data, and a lot of people, Excel just is their default, right? It's how people have shared data for ages, and it was perfect for a long time, but I think there's just this recognition that not everything should be in Excel anymore. And maybe finance has been a little bit late to the curve on that. I don't know whether that's a reflection of often outsourcing some of the work that you do. So it's not like directly your problem that a lot of things are in Excel. But yeah, there's just lots of Excel, lots of manual stuff, copying and pasting. No one wants to do that, super dull. So they definitely are recognising that. And even when I was in PwC, there was this recognition, so. One of the teams I was in was all about talking tax functions about how you can improve and how you can get better, and automation was like such a key part of that, and clients were really receptive and wanted to do it. So it definitely has been changing. Everyone's on kind of a journey with it, different maturities and things like that, but yeah. MADDIE: 04:11 Yeah. Yeah, totally. And then, yeah, I feel like also speaking of the efficiency. Can you also speak to the kind of post-COVID world? There's been a bigger push for that data literacy. LAUREN: 04:23 Yeah, I think post-COVID, there's just a lot of pressure on your budgets, right? Especially, in the finance world, we are not kind of making money for the company - we don't have a revenue stream - we're supporting the company. So I think if you don't have revenue coming in, then there's always going to be this focus on how much you're costing the business, which kind of there should be. But I think even more so after COVID, companies are struggling. For a travel company, obviously, it wasn't ideal during COVID. A lot of groups struggled for different reasons during the pandemic, and there's lots of kind of macrofactors that are just going to keep happening. That's what it feels like at the moment, cost of living, that might affect travel. So I think that puts a lot of pressure to make sure that these kind of support functions like finances are just really efficient, super lean. So are we spending time on the right things, basically, and are we adding value for the company, or are we just sat there, in Excel, typing? That's not an efficient use of people's time, especially if you're paying people in expensive locations. You can do that elsewhere. You can automate it, so. MADDIE: 05:26 Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And in trying to make everything efficient, I feel like just having that creative mindset is very important. So I'd love to hear how you've used your creativity to be a great problem solver with Alteryx and how the creativity in general has helped your career. LAUREN: 05:43 Yeah, that's the side of using Alteryx that I really love. It is so different to my day-to-day job in tax. Problem-solving is just really fun for me. It's like a little challenge to solve. I know not everyone likes it, but, me, personally, I find that stuff really interesting and really rewarding when you solve something and you get it right and then you can see it being implemented. That's a really nice feeling to know that you're making that change, and things are different as a result of kind of what you've done. So yeah, Alteryx has been a massive part of that. MADDIE: 06:15 So when you started at Expedia, you mentioned that you were asking your manager like, "Can I have this license? I've used it before." Do you have any tips for folks who you think would benefit from Alteryx and are trying to also secure a license? Maybe they have a license, and they want the person next to them on their team to also have one. What are some tips that were helpful for you in having that conversation with your manager? LAUREN: 06:38 Yeah, so for me, I think because I had a really tangible use case at that point and the added challenge was that this was like a brand-new requirement that we hadn't done before. So it wasn't something that we were already doing but just really manually, it's something that we hadn't even done. And we had just crazy time pressure. You get this in finance all the time, but we had one day that we had to turn this around for our analysis, and I was just like, "It's physically not possible, the amount of work we have to do. Even if I spend 24 hours, it's not going to get done." So something had to happen because it was like, "This isn't feasible. We're not going to be able to do it." So I think that was quite an easy sell, for me, which was good. But I think, for people, if it's them trying to get a license for themselves and maybe they're the first person in their team or their company trying to do it, I think pushing forward for it, getting a trial, because you can get your 30-day trial, maybe pick something that's pretty straightforward for you to do in Alteryx, and if you've built it, then you can show it. LAUREN: 07:36 And I think, for a lot of people, they just need to see something that relates to their job to get it. And I think as soon as you show someone something that's relatable to them in Alteryx, it's the easiest sell in the world. They can see really clearly how beneficial it is. So that's often just the first step, and I think if you are thinking about wider use or trying to get more and more licenses-- so we actually had a big training push which we did with Alteryx in the UK. They actually came in for us and did that training. And at the end of that training, we had a list of use cases and time savings that we were expecting. So as soon as you can say, "The time that we're going to save outweighs the cost of this license," then your bosses aren't going to push back. It would be silly for them to. MADDIE: 08:22 Yeah, and you helped organise that training. Can you share just like more of what that kind of entailed? LAUREN: 08:29 Yeah, so I got a message, out of the blue, from someone at Alteryx, basically, saying-- they were the account rep at the time, just saying, "Hey, we can see that you have a license. We'd love to just talk about what you're doing with it," so had that call, and they were the one to suggest some training, some support that they could give us, and I was like, yeah, because I think the challenge that I had in my team was because I was using it, I was able to solve a few things, but I'm only one person, and I did still have my day job, right? So I can't spend 100% of my time on it. So it was a bit frustrating just, generally, for my team as well because we were getting all these good ideas. We can solve this in Alteryx, that in Alteryx, but we couldn't unlock things. We couldn't get that started. It was quite a slow progress when it's just me. LAUREN: 09:14 So yeah, we went through that kind of training programme. It was amazing because we have a NDA with Alteryx, so we could just use something real, we were doing, so we could say, "Here's our Excel process currently," and they just built that out in a workflow with us week by week. So again, to that point of having something relatable, something that you can see, you're like, "I know that data. I get that all the time," think just helps people contextualise. So yeah, we just kind of went ahead with it. There was no kind of like big push. It was more just someone's reached out to me. I think it would be a good idea. Like, why not, basically. MADDIE: 09:49 Yeah. Yeah. Totally. And I think you mentioned too that you coordinated that for EMEA and then that training has filtered into other offices, is that right? LAUREN: 10:00 Yeah, it's evolved from there. So I think because EMEA was almost like a little trial, I guess, because we got to the end of that, and we had all this kind of-- all these use cases, we had more licenses. I think we got five off the back of that, and because we could show, this is beneficial, and people really liked it. We had really good feedback from that training. Our global tax team then decided to roll something out just for everyone globally. So led from the US, again, with Alteryx, like a very similar setup. So that was much broader. And again, we got lots more licenses off the back of that. And then we were like, "Okay, we've done it for tax, but surely, there's other kind of finance teams that would be able to use it. We're all solving pretty similar-ish things. Just the subject matter might be a bit different." So we then in EMEA showed it to our accounting friends in London, and they were like, "Oh my god, we love it." MADDIE: 10:47 Oh, good. LAUREN: 10:47 So then they had some training. So I think it's very much like spreading across the department, and it's all kind of word of mouth, which is nice. Someone might be in a-- just having a coffee with someone and saying, "Oh yeah, we're using Alteryx for XYZ," and then that person might just say that that sounds really interesting, and they want to chat. So it's happening like more and more, which is good. MADDIE: 11:07 Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And you mentioned the accounting team and, as you just said, having a coffee with somebody and then explaining it, and then they're sharing what they're using it for. Can you share any ways in which people are using it? LAUREN: 11:19 Yeah, we've put lots of different use cases, which I think is good because it just shows it's not just applicable for one or two things. There's lots of different things that you're doing. So a lot of finances, just repetition, right? You do something monthly or quarterly or daily, and a lot of processes are really structured. We get financial data in that's always in a set format. So that's quite helpful for Alteryx because we're not having to deal with lots of rubbish data. So it might be things like forecasting, it might be journal entries, doing actual tax calculations for some things. So yeah, lots of different use cases. MADDIE: 11:53 Yeah. Yeah. No, that's cool. And what's your favourite Alteryx tool or trick or use case? I guess maybe it's like forecasting or something that's had a big impact for you or your team. LAUREN: 12:06 Yeah, so good question. This literally just was part of my session just now. There's some tools called the Blob tools, which I always say are my favourite, partly because of the name, because I just think it's amazing - you have like blob - but mostly, because of the cool stuff that they can do. So we have a big challenge sometimes where we have to report out in a quite structured way, and that's most of the time in Excel, right? Lots of people know Excel, and that's how we share things across the organisation. And those Excel files are really formatted, doesn't lend itself great to just a raw data output from Alteryx. There might be header rows or sign of rows, lots of different things in there. And I think, often, when people get started on Alteryx, they don't actually realise that you can output to things that are so structured and fixed. So people will do all these cool workflows but then still get some kind of like raw data at the end and then spend time still fitting that in to these Excel files that they need to use. So it takes a tiny bit of magic, but once you do it once with the Blob tools, you are just like, "This is transformational for me," because, now, I fix the whole process. I'm not just fixing that front bit. I'm doing kind of end to end, and I just get my output, and I send that off. MADDIE: 13:19 Yeah. Oh, cool. I feel like I don't hear about the Blob tool as much as I want to. I feel like that's-- it sounds very impactful for you. That's really cool. LAUREN: 13:26 The icons are really sweet as well. They look like little PAC-MAN. MADDIE: 13:30 Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, and so you mentioned your session, earlier today. So for our audience, we are recording in Amsterdam at Inspire and Lauren had a breakout session. Can you tell us about what you talked about during that session? LAUREN: 13:44 Yeah, sure. My session probably pretty similar to stuff I'm saying on this podcast. It was all about my personal experience with Alteryx and how we're using it in Expedia, like in my role in tax and how I just think of the finance profession in general, so regardless of what industry you're in or if you're an advisor or if you're in-house, that Alteryx is really helpful, and there's so much use case in finance just generally. So that was it. I guess it was more of a-- compared to a lot of the other sessions at Inspire, which are really technical and, "Here's how you do this really cool thing in Alteryx," it was a bit more just storytelling, like how have I found it? What's my learnings, what's gone wrong, and how can you learn from that? So yeah, we did also have a tiny little demo of that blob thing as well, which-- MADDIE: 14:26 I love it. LAUREN: 14:27 --was fun. But yeah, it was kind of a bit more kind of high-level. MADDIE: 14:30 Yeah, that's great. And with the learnings and just being really open to-- you seem very open to change and very open to trying something out and then learning from it if it doesn't work out totally correct. I think that's just a really, obviously, important quality to have. But you also seem like a really big go-getter, and I feel like those two qualities really go together. You are a go-getter, and you're willing to try things out. You have a breakout session, you're doing this podcast, you went after Alteryx, and you got it. But then tying that with trying things out, making mistakes, seeing how things work, I'm just curious if you have any advice or anything to say about that because I feel like those are two, like I said, I think, good qualities that I think a lot of our listeners also have. One of our big things that we like to talk about on the podcast is just failure and failing and trying things, and that's the nice thing about Alteryx is that you can try things out, and if you mess it up, then you can always change it, and it's fine. So yeah, I just wonder if you have any thoughts on that? LAUREN: 15:33 Yeah, I think, I don't know whether it's just me being lucky in the teams that I've been in or the companies, but for me, there's always been space for that if you are keen. So I think it's just about finding that room and just pushing forward for things like-- maybe it's just a reflection of me not wanting a really stable same, samey job. I kind of like the challenge and things that are different. That's just what keeps me-- like, personally, what keeps me interested and excited about my job, the fact that it's changing all the time and I can look at lots of different things. And failing is part of it. Things go wrong, and you learn from it. But again, I think kind of if you are in a team where you have that kind of support and trust-- and that's something that you have to work on, right? You have to build that up. But once you have that, then you shouldn't really be scared of failing because the alternative is just you don't improve things. And I think we just need to not be scared, have a culture of try, get it wrong, be open about it, but then just try again, or let us know what you need to get over that. MADDIE: 16:32 And you mentioned, too, you enjoy looking at different things, working on different projects, being creative, and I think that so many of our customers also have that desire. Do you feel like with Alteryx-- you can obviously automate tedious tasks, you don't have to do those boring copy-pasting like you mentioned earlier, but how has Alteryx opened up more space and time in your schedule to allow for that creative thinking? LAUREN: 16:58 Yeah, so for me, the time savings from stuff that I didn't want to do before, I'm now able to channel back into more stuff in Alteryx, right? I think that's different to maybe my colleagues who aren't Alteryx users, the benefit that they're getting from that time-saving is to be able to do other things. But for me, because I love Alteryx in that side, I'm just like, that's the thing that I'm pushing to do more and more of. MADDIE: 17:19 Yeah. Yeah. No, that makes a lot of sense. LAUREN: 17:21 I'm like, "[crosstalk] question." MADDIE: 17:22 No, totally. And you mentioned, too, being a senior manager and working in tax and finance. Did you know that you wanted to have this career? Or what did you want to be when you were a kid? LAUREN: 17:38 To be completely blunt and honest, it's not, I was really guns blazing. I want to do tax. For me, I guess my decisions were quite practical, right? So at the end of college I was like, "I know I don't want to go to university." I just had my own thoughts of why it just wasn't going to be for me. Because I already knew that, I then looked at industries that had alternative routes. Because I also didn't want that to be a blocker for progression, right? I didn't want to end up in a job where I'd have this ceiling because I'm not a graduate, I can't get any further. And I was always very like numbers and not words in school. So I loved maths, absolutely loved maths and hated anything to do with writing. So because I knew I was numbers, I was like, "Okay, accounting in general." The big four accounting firms offer these school-leaver route, and they're numbers. So that seems to tie into what would suit me. LAUREN: 18:34 And then the decision for tax was just-- I guess more of like a interest point because at the time-- still now, I think it's just happening all the time, but there's so much attention on tax, and there's big news headline, grabby stories about tax. So I think there's a lot of interesting kind of challenges about working in tax because of the perception and because of all this kind of like news around it. So that was really my decision. But yeah, my career has taken on loads of different kind of route. I was in lots of different kind of teams in PwC-- or not lots, but a few different teams doing slightly different things and then ended up in a kind of corporate tax role, which I didn't necessarily know I was going to do. So I think, yeah, I'm open-ish to change, I think. I just don't want to get stuck in one thing. It's probably what's led me here, to be honest. MADDIE: 19:26 No, I think that's such a healthy mindset to have, and it also, obviously, opens up doors, and you don't know exactly where it will lead you, but that's a really great mindset to have. Any final tips for folks looking to build their career in analytics? LAUREN: 19:42 Get Alteryx. Obviously, I'm not been paid to say that. Yeah. No, I think just going back to what I said earlier, just push for it, right? Everyone, I think, recognises that this is a really important skill to have. No profession or industry is going to not want someone who is amazing with data and analytics. That's such a valuable skill. So I think people [music] who are interested in that have a really amazing opportunity to get what they want, basically, find something that interests them and a company that interests them, and just go for it. I think there's no shortage at the moment of wanting that as a skill. MADDIE: 20:15 Yeah, that's great advice. Awesome. Thank you so much, Lauren, for joining this episode. This was so fun to talk to you and get to know you more. LAUREN: 20:23 Cool. Thank you. It's been my pleasure. MADDIE: 20:26 Thanks for listening. Check out the episode description for a link to a free Alteryx trial and other resources for getting started. You can also join in on the conversation on the Alteryx community at community.alteryx.com/podcast. Catch you next time.
This episode was produced by Maddie Johannsen (@MaddieJ), and Mike Cusic (@mikecusic). Special thanks to @andyuttley for the theme music track, and @mikecusic for our album artwork.


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AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom strike deal on LTE-M roaming
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AT&T, KPN, Orange and Swisscom have switched on LTE-M roaming across their respective IoT networks in North America and Europe.
The deal means LTE-M modules activated with any of the carriers will be able to roam on AT&T's networks in the US and Mexico, KPN's in the Netherlands, Orange's in France and Romania, and Swisscom's in Switzerland.
Orange will add LTE-M connectivity in Belgium, Slovakia, Spain and Poland this year. The group said they expect to add additional operators to the roaming arrangement to expand their cross-border capabilities in the coming months.
LTE-M networks will fully cover Europe by end 2020, reckons the GSMA.
LTE-M piggybacks on existing LTE infrastructure, and offers a low-power wide-area (LPWA) alternative, operating in licensed spectrum, to technologies like LoRaWAN and Sigfox. The LPWA community claims the same characteristics of lower costs, more compact modules, longer battery life, and the ability to penetrate hard-to-reach locations.
LTE-M is different to NB-IoT, the other LPWA technology offered by network operators, insofar as it is more suited to moving objects, and use cases like asset tracking, where NB-IoT is a static technology, typically, designed to be deployed and left for many years.
John Wojewoda, associate vice president for global connections management at AT&T, said: "More and more of our enterprise customers require global capabilities as they deploy IoT devices and applications. These LTE-M roaming agreements help meet that demand and make it easier for businesses around the world to benefit from the power of a globalized IoT."
Carolien Nijhuis, director IoT at KPN, said: "The introduction of LTE-M creates many new possibilities for our partners, customers and prospects. Roaming with LTE-M has been one of the most requested features by our customers in the market. We are very happy we're now able to fulfill their needs and unlock their international IoT-potential."
Didier Lelièvre, director mobile wholesale and interconnection at Orange, said: "Enabling access to roaming on LTE-M for our customers is a clear priority for Orange. We're proud to be among the first operators to deliver such a roaming capability to our IoT customers and more widely to our partners across this market."
Julian Dömer, head of IoT at Swisscom, said: "After offering the first nationwide LTE-M and NB-IoT networks in Switzerland, we are happy to prove our strong position on roaming and be among the first operators that enhance the key technology LTE-M for 2G replacement with international roaming."
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David Frum: Hopes and Worries for John McCain
David Frum is the author of five books, including two New York Times bestsellers: THE RIGHT MAN: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush (2003), and co-author with Richard Perle of AN END TO EVIL: What's Next in the War on Terror (2004).
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Question: What are your hopes and worries for Candidate McCain?
David Frum: John McCain offers something very exciting to the Republican Party. That is, he offers the possibility of reform and change and transformation. That's really what his career as a politician has been about.
The downside, the weakness of his candidacy, is that, as fervent as he is about the need for change, the actual content of the things he offers has always been a little thin.
John McCain has brought his greatest reforming energy to issues about which people tend to care very little. And he also has a very weak screen for sorting good ideas from bad. So in campaign finance, for example, he became tremendously infatuated with a series of solutions that almost everyone else who looked at them said, "These solutions are going to make worse all the problems that you say you care about. And if what you're concerned about is a kind of bias of the political system toward the wealthy and powerful, then McCain-Feingold is going to make that problem a lot worse"--as indeed it's done. So I worry about that.
I served very briefly in government, and not in a very important job, but that short experience created in me an even greater respect than I already felt for the importance of executive management, the ability to make things work. Those are very particular human skills and they are not developed by a career in the Senate. Nor is the Senate a good place to become a close student of the consequences, both intended and unintended, of the bright ideas that occur to you.
Question: What defines great leadership?
David Frum: I don't think there is such a thing as leadership in the general sense.
You see all these books on the bookshelves that will say, "Leadership Secrets of Joan of Arc." Now, the kind of leadership that inspired a mob of semi-literate French soldier peasants to fight a foreign invader five hundred years ago, those are not necessarily the same techniques you use to organize the company softball team.
John McCain tries to draw a distinction between leadership and management, but usually what happens when people talk about leadership is they end up describing themselves. All the characteristics that they have, all the good points they have, they say that is the essence of leadership and they set aside all the things they don't have as not important.
To run the U.S. government effectively requires tremendous attention to detail, it requires tremendous follow-through. The government is a tremendously resistant machine. It is very hard to make it do the things you want it to do. It's never enough to set broad goals and it's never enough to inspire people. You actually have to manage the beast day by day by day. And to make it go in a direction in which it's not already going, that requires not just the exciting quality of the orator or the exciting qualities of the visionary, that requires some of the very daily humdrum qualities of the manager, of the person who checks that the job is being done, follows through, holds people accountable.
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Reform, change and transformation are hopes. Obsession with the wrong issues, like campaign finance reform, are worries.
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"Research shows us that generativity flows downhill," says Katzman. "... New recruits and aging boomers can really change the world together but we have to not be afraid of stating our age."
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Researchers believe that the practice of sleeping through the whole night didn't really take hold until just a few hundred years ago.
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She was wide awake and it was nearly two in the morning. When asked if everything was alright, she said, "Yes." Asked why she couldn't get to sleep she said, "I don't know." Neuroscientist Russell Foster of Oxford might suggest she was exhibiting "a throwback to the bi-modal sleep pattern." Research suggests we used to sleep in two segments with a period of wakefulness in-between.
The protesters on the street aren't just taking up space, they carry on a well thought out tradition.
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Nonviolent protests designed to effect change are a common occurrence around the world, especially today.
While they may seem to be a sign of sour grapes or contrarianism, there is a serious philosophical backing to them.
Thinkers from Thoreau to Gandhi and King have made the case for civil disobedience as a legitimate route to change.
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. – Henry David Thoreau

On the 24th or 25th of July 1846, American writer Henry David Thoreau was placed under arrest while walking to the shoemakers for refusing to pay the poll tax. While he had enough money to pay the bill, he refused to pay on the grounds that the money would go to finance the Mexican-American war, which he found to be unjust, and the institution of slavery, which he detested.

 He spent one night in jail. Someone, widely believed to be his aunt, paid the bill, and he was released the next morning. He then went to get his shoe fixed.

While no lasting harm was done, Thoreau used the incident as a reason to put his ideas on lawbreaking for good to paper. The resultant essay, commonly known as Civil Disobedience, is a classic of American political thought and has influenced thinkers around the world.

Thoreau's reasoning is easy to follow, he points out that there is such a thing as justice but that not all laws adhere to it. This presents any lover of justice with a problem:

"Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Perhaps obviously, he thinks the solution is the last one. He argues that just because the state is carrying out a particular policy doesn't mean that the individual is obligated to sit quietly and accept it if it is unjust. Everybody has a conscience, and they must follow it.

While it is possible that waiting until the next election could be an effective method of altering the law, Thoreau reminds us that people don't live forever and that such methods "take too much time." Furthermore, a person who obeys an unjust law for years acquiesces to the injustice. Instead, it is just to act now and prevent yourself from being an accomplice to injustice.

As an illustration, he compares the state to a machine. While he admits that sometimes the machine might incidentally create injustices, other times, the injustice is systemic and directly results from bad policy. In such a case, the only thing for a just man to do is to "Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."

He further calls for us to "Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence," rather than sit back and let the majority run things unjustly. He goes on to imagine what would happen if masses of people stopped paying their taxes while the government still uses them to promote unjust laws and notes that it is more likely that there would be policy changes then mass arrests.

While it might look like Thoreau is just trying to get out of his taxes, he says explicitly that he would be happy to pay a highway tax, since that only helps people. However, since he cannot trace the route of his money as it works its way through the bureaucracy, he finds it better to avoid showing allegiance to the state at all through paying anything.

If you are noticing a few radical notions here and there, you're not seeing things. Thoreau's ideas are part of the foundation of the school of thought known as individualist anarchism. This school, like many strains of anarchism, views the state as "expedient" at best and a threat to freedom and dignity at the worst. While Thoreau wasn't a bomb thrower, he notes in his essay that the American Constitution has many excellent features, he firmly believed the state would wither away as society advanced to a point where it was no longer needed.

He is also an influence on the schools of anarcho-pacifism, green anarchism, and anarcho-primitivism.

The lasting influence of Civil Disobedience

The essay directly inspired Mahatma Gandhi, whose brand of nonviolent resistance to British rule in India would inspire Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez in the United States. Dr. King would write his own essay, The Letter from Birmingham Jail, expanding on the same themes.

King's arguments are less anarchistic than Thoreau's, but the basic principals remain the same; there is such a thing as justice, a person has no obligation to follow an unjust law, and a person is morally obligated to break a law that promotes injustice.

Dr. King's letter, written while in jail as opposed to just after leaving, also adds a strategic element to the analysis of nonviolent protest.

"You may well ask: 'Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?' You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation."

As you can see, King believes that nonviolent demonstrations can bring ignored issues to the forefront of public opinion. It is then possible for progress to be made on those issues. This idea isn't totally unique to King; a similar philosophy was used by Emmeline Pankhurst during the suffrage movement, though she was much more open to destructive tactics.

Nonviolent resistance has a long and noble history of creating positive change without resorting to destruction. Thinkers like King and Thoreau make excellent arguments as to why we should not be content with injustice and slow progress but should instead take action to improve our situation.

So next time a protest march inconveniences you, remember that the participants are carrying on a well thought out tradition, and maybe try to hear them out before you dismiss them.

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