March 16, 2020

Rookie recap: the 8-hour Cure Kids adventure race

On Saturday 7th March, our Theta race team of 4 took part in their annual Adventure Race. This time around, they travelled to the beautiful Coromandel to compete in the new 8-Hour Cure Kids category that we’d been working alongside Cure Kids and Adventure Race Coromandel to set up. To date, we’ve raised over $126k for Cure Kids with this race being another addition to our fundraising efforts.

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March 16, 2020

5 Quick questions with the Master's students

During their time at Theta, they were placed into different areas of Theta – Kien in Analytics and Crystal in Project Delivery. As expected, good things happen when you combine the latest academic knowledge and an innovative environment! But don't just take our word for it, here's what Crystal and Kien had to say about their experience over the past ten weeks.Here are the 5 questions we had for Crystal and Kien:

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March 9, 2020

Top 3 best practices for dashboard design

An increasing number of organisations are adopting self-service BI, leading to the production of more reports and dashboards. Unfortunately, this often equates to a lack of governance and data literacy. Many people creating these reports and dashboards often have little formal training in the analytics space, leading to an abundance of visualisation artefacts that don’t adhere to some of the fundamental dashboard design best practices.

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January 21, 2020

The 'Future of Work' and the NZ AI Opportunity

The World Economic Forum projects that from 2018 to 2022, 133 million jobs will be created by new technologies (not just AI), almost twice as many as the jobs that will become displaced.

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November 27, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 3: Predictive Maintenance with Azure Databricks

In this post, we will detail the R analyses we conducted on our Predictive Maintenance dataset from post 2 to help our digital twin projects make more informed maintenance suggestions.

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November 27, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 4: Writing Databricks' Predictive Maintenance Results to Blob

In this post, we will detail how we committed our results from part 3 to Azure Blob Storage so it's accessible to our Digital Twins project.

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November 26, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 2: Setting up Azure Databricks for Predictive Maintenance

In this post, we will elaborate upon Azure Databricks, and explain how we set it up to prepare for Predictive Maintenance of our digital twin’s corresponding real-life assets.

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November 25, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 1: Harnessing Data and Predictive Maintenance to Enhance Digital Twins

Part 1 of a 4-part series about displaying Predictive Maintenance insights in Digital Twins, using Azure Databricks. Before we get into the setup details, we’ll introduce the concept of Predictive Maintenance and the tools we used to make predictions.

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October 31, 2019

Event wrap up: MicroStrategy user group conference 2019

One of Auckland’s most iconic buildings, The ClockTower at the University of Auckland, was the impressive venue for this year’s MicroStrategy NZ User Group Conference.

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October 10, 2019

Directions EMEA 2019

I’m on my way to Directions EMEA with my colleague Wagner Silveira. This is my first time in Vienna and also to Directions EMEA. Wagner and I presented in the last two Directions ASIA conferences, but I’m sure the vibe is totally different in Directions EMEA.

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