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Interested in hearing if anyone out there has any insights on the acquisition. Why would Nike acquire a data science company that has previously raised $30+M?

I don't agree with all of this but I am absolutely flabbergasted that Democrats seem to be falling into the exact same trap as they did during the previous election...

I'm an American living abroad and was as shocked as anyone when Trump was elected. The racism/xenophobia and pseudo-intellectual far-right rhetoric is more vocal than it has ever been before and that does have a lot to do with Trump. It should be making it painfully easy to get Trump out of office in the coming election and yet somehow the Democrats seem to think we should continue down the weird neoliberal path of the past. Just start speaking in a language that blue collar workers can understand... that's it. Nothing fancy. But for some reason it's just not happening.

I'm not 100% sure if this is a good match for Hacker News but thought somebody here might appreciate it.

Obviously I don't encourage the use of Excel for most data analytics projects, but I get so many client requests for Excel dashboards that I thought I should just make a standalone toolkit I could send to them. It's basically just a big 35mb+ Excel file with a ton of copy-pasteable charts/elements, color palettes, tips/tricks and other goodies. There's enough there for most use cases and it's easy enough for anyone with basic Excel skills to use.

Feedback has been a funny mix of "holy moly is that really Excel, I want it!" and "this is too pretty and not practical".

I've seen enough 90s style, clip-art packed, badly-laid-out Excel workbooks that I think there's room for something a bit more visually engaging especially if it adheres to the basic principles of data visualization.

I can completely relate to this.

I feel like the extent of my problem solving and social skills has slowly been hemmed in by my hyper-focused work. Year by year I've started struggling to adapt to new situations. If I run into a challenge outside of work that is even mildly complex I have a hard time figuring out where to start. That has definitely made me think differently about my career and I'm starting to come to terms with the idea that success in a really narrow niche has some unexpected consequences.

This is definitely not the 'recency bias' I expected.

I've always noticed that when a show is released it gets WAY higher ratings in the first week or so of the release date. I've learned not to trust the ratings until at least a 2 weeks after a release.

It looks like this analysis focuses on the year a film was released. This seems like it would be a lot harder to determine because film quality changes (subjective) and the audience writing reviews is probably changing over time.

Could you talk a bit more about what services you offer? Do you have more of a consulting relationship or are you offering a service at a set price?

Also, one random question: do you find most of your clients are from the UK? For some reason I've always associated Wardley maps with the UK but I'm not sure if that's actually the case.