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Using Google BARD Anywhere by installing Firefox in a Docker container and routing its traffic through a VPN. This secure setup enhances your online privacy and data protection, ensuring safer browsing.

In-depth guide for anyone interested in starting a career in data analytics. It covers essential skills, the best educational routes, gaining practical experience, and real-world application of data analytics skills. This guide aims to motivate, inform, and guide you on your journey to become a data analyst

Revolutionize Data Analytics with the 80/20 rule. Application in analytics for decision-making, and tips for leveraging this Principle to prioritize resources effectively. Master the art of identifying the vital few from the trivial many in your data-driven journey.

After deploying the Trip Planner DASH app in GCR last month, I got an interesting bill to pay. That made me consider to use the Docker DASH image of the App together with Cloudflare to deploy it securely.

A bikepacking journey between two historic cities in Poland: Krakow and Czestochowa. Exploring lesser-known marvels: ancient castles, Orlich Gniazd, Ojcowski National Park, and the fascinating Błędów Desert.

Are you planning your next adventure but not sure if the weather will be fine? This Python Dash app allows you to explore historical weather data for any location you are planning to visit.

Guide - How to use Google Cloud Run free tier to deploy your Python DASH apps.

Discovering the differences between building Docker images using the Cloud and Local Builds. Comparing the advantages and limitations, such as automation, resource usage, and build times. Example: Python DASH

Guide - How to use Github Actions as your CI/CD tool to build and push Docker containers automatically.

As I plan to make a complete route by bike from Tallin to Athens, I need to see how my fitness level improves over the months, to be ready for the next challenge. Polar and Python are helping me with it.

Having a closer look at System Engineering and Infrastructure Management, why it matters for developers, and how it relates to CI/CD tools and processes.

Negotiation is a process of discovery, uncovering information. We need such skills to perform a superb job in analytics. Learn techniques to consider while working with others. Ensure that your requirements are met.

Installing Grav CMS with Docker is a user-friendly static site generator that offers speed, flexibility, and security advantages over other CMSs. Discover how to build websites that are easy to maintain.

Installing Matrix server with Docker and Cloudflare - decentralized messaging platform that provides a secure and privacy-focused alternative to centralized messaging services like Facebook/Whatsapp/Telegram.

Installing Timelite with Docker - Boost your productivity with this time tracking open source tool. Learn how tracking your tasks can improve your focus, planning, and provide actionable insights.

Building a website with Ghost CMS: Pros, Cons, Comparison to WordPress, and How to Install with Docker and Expose Safely to the Internet with Cloudflare Tunnel.

Accessing Your Self Hosted Services WITHOUT Port Forwarding with Cloudflare. Discover the benefits of Cloudflare Zero Tunnel deployed with Docker for securing connections and expose services globally.

A journey from Poland to Hungary by bicycle: three countries, across mountains, rivers, and ancient towns. The story, the route in the map and how to track your own routes with Python.

Just for the purpose of improving my R Shiny skills, I was wondering if there was any open source project that gets financial data and display it interactively. Found no active projects, so started this one.

If you are wondering how gas price increase is affecting your commuting costs and the comparison with a bycicle - This post is for you, let me explained you what I found out based on this data experiment.

If you have been using SQL and Pandas with Python for a while, you might want to leverage that knowledge by learning PySpark - You will enter to the Big Data domain after you read this post.

Talking about Lean and how we can apply this philosophy to all processes to improve efficiency, quality, response time as well as reducing costs and waste.

You might be curious about getting historical fundamental data on companies, for some project that you want to accomplish - QuanDL is an open source library that helps us with this task (provided the API).

You might be curious about getting historical dividends and stock splits for some project that you want to accomplish - QuantMod is an open source library that helps us with this task.

You might be curious about getting historical exchange rates between currencies or check historical inflation data for some project that you want to accomplish - PriceR is an open source library that helps us with this task.

You might be curious about getting historical stock price on companies, for some project that you want to accomplish - yfR is an open source library that helps us with this task.

Everyone talks about Web3. I was wondering if I could use some knowledge that I got while creating static sites with HUGO and its actually pretty simple. Follow this post and you will get your Web3 ready in 2 hours.

Installin Uptime Kuma - the free and open-source monitoring tool that allows you to monitor the health and performance of your web applications and infrastructure.

Another option to make your HUGO site available to the internet, is to use Github and Github Actions as CI/CD tool that will look for changes in our repository and build and deploy the changes to a free domain.

We already got our HUGO site ready locally. Sharing our great job with the world is possible by using Google Firebase. It has a free tier and you also get a free domain to start with.

Discover how you can shape data products and address requirements. Learn the essential questions to collaborate with the product team for successful data-driven projects and maximizing impact.

After selecting a theme for HUGO and exploring its documentation, we might need some further customization to make it look even better. Read me to know the must know tips to enhance your HUGO site.

You might have been using Wordpress or heard about Wordpress. With this tutorial you will learn how to create your website with another open source alternative, HUGO. Which offer a much faster response.

Deploying WordPress with Docker is a simple and efficient way to get your website up and running. With Docker, you can easily install and manage WordPress. An user-friendly platform for creating your website.

You might be looking for some open source monitoring tool for your LAN. In this post I will cover how to install WatchYourLAN in Docker for that purpose.

What Chevereto is, how it works, and why you might want to consider using it for your own image hosting needs.

A Quick guide for Data Analytics who want to get better on Business Analysis Skills.

In this post I show you how to build a simple interactive shiny dashboard and how to deploy it to shinyapps using its free tier. The topic I chose to visualize is inflation and how affects a person wealth.

For a successful career in data analytics, you will need to gain self-awareness and learn about decision making process, habits building and biases. This is a guide will help you understand and apply it to work.

During your career in data anlytics you will be working with different teams and you will be in need of meetings to sync up ideas. Here are some techniques to run and be part of effective meetings.

Dive into crypto data analytics fundamentals, covering essential concepts such as hash functions, transactions, blocks, and block explorers. Learn about the role of tokens, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, unstoppable domains, and more. Equip yourself with the knowledge to analyze and navigate the ever-evolving crypto landscape with this post.

Providing that we have a working Shiny Dashboard, we can be interested to expose it to a wider audience instead of just locally. One simple option is to use ShinyApps.io as I cover in this post.

In this post I am summarizing the must know points to level up your career in analytics. Excel at this Business Analytics skills and you will improve your workflow.

During your career, you will be having many situations when you will need to understand your client to deliver the best value. This phase is one of the most important to understand.

Techniques to better cooperate with stakeholders to understand what they want to achieve through a project.

The best way to use resources to accomplish a particular set of goals and objectives is defined by strategy. We will gather the points that we must consider for better strategy setting.

What you need to know about Solutions evaluations and recommenadtions from the BA view.

Integrating R Flexdashboards with GitHub Pages. Learn how to create interactive data visualizations, host them on GitHub, and share your insights effectively for free.

Techniques to better cooperate plan and monitor the status of a project.

In this post I am summarizing the must know points to level up your career in analytics. Excel at this Business Analytics skills and you will improve your workflow.

Been commited to dive into Data Analytics will require that you excel at Time Management techniques. In this post I cover some of the techniques to help you stay on top of your projects.

Google Photos is no longer free. Fortunately there are some open source alternatives to have a self-hosted alternative to Google Photos. Lets deploy with Docker Photoview.

I have just deployed on Github Pages content regarding Raspberry Pi

Docker is not the only one. Streamline your workflows, improve security, and enable better resource management in your data-driven applications to enhance your data analytics projects.

Discovering the world of container registries - one pilar to optimize our development workflow. Comparing popular options like Docker Hub, Quay, GitLab, GitHub, and Google Cloud. Learn their unique features, strengths, and weaknesses.

Enhancing portability across various environments with Docker. Deploy applications efficiently: Learn to create Dockerfiles, build images, run containers, and push images to registries.

Consolidating the MUST know for your career as a Business Intelligence Analyst.

Enhancing your data analytics skills with visualization tips.

Learn to build a powerful data analytics brand by defining your niche, understanding your audience, crafting a unique value proposition, creating valuable content, and forming strategic partnerships. Establish your expertise and stand out in the competitive world of data-driven decision-making.

The art of storytelling in data analytics: transform complex data into engaging narratives. Explore techniques like data visualization, context, and emotion to captivate your audience and drive decision-making. Learn how to create impactful data-driven stories that resonate with your audience.

You might be looking for some alternative to Github or Bitbucket to track your code changes on some project. In this post we will selfhost Gitea with docker for that purpose.

Whether you are creating the roadmap for some personal project or checking critical path for a team task, you will be in need of a Project Management tool. Leantime is a free open source tool for that purpose.

You might be looking for some alternative to Google search that is less privacy invasive, but at the same time provides with relevant search results. In this post we will selfhost whoogle with docker for that purpose.

In search to improve the efficiency of your team and your projects, you will might need to have a kanbar board to optimize the workflow. Focalboard is an Open Source tool that we can self-host with Docker for this task.

You might be looking for an open source tool that enables Linux/ machines to communicate with Windows machines in a Network. This guide will help you by installing Samba with Docker.

You might be looking for some alternative to Google search that is less privacy invasive, but at the same time provides with relevant search results. In this post we will selfhost whoogle with docker for that purpose.

Setting up and configuring Nginx for use in your own projects. Exposing services easily and securely with nginx and get automatic https certificates with lets encrypt.

Reviewing software development methodologies - Understanding them and choosing the right one will provide a systematic, efficient, and quality-oriented way of working on a software project.

When starting your self-hosting journey you might be not 100% confident with the terminal. By installing Portainer - you will have a tool to manage containers with a graphical interface.

Explore the intersection of A/B testing and data analytics to elevate your optimization efforts. Learn how to integrate advanced data analysis techniques, uncover valuable insights, and make informed decisions that drive conversions, enhance user experience, and boost your online success.

Discover the secrets of ROC curves and learn how to evaluate and optimize binary classification models in machine learning. Gain insights into true positive rates, false positive rates, and the ideal balance for your specific problem, ultimately enhancing your classifier performance.

I wanted to summarize the most important ML concepts to work as a data analyst.Even if you will not be performing Data Science tasks, this knowledge will be of great help when collaborating with them. Understand their language.

PiHole is a free open source tool that we can selfhost with docker to block ad domains, so that they wont appear in any device connected to our router. Here is the guide.

In this post I show you how to use the Knit package in R to build a simple website.

As part of your Data Analytics journey, you will have to build knowledge of Python. In this post I am collecting some of the must know tricks to start your projects.

I have been compiling the most recurrent SQL queries that you will require in your first job as a data analyst. Master these and you will make a great progress with your analytical skills.