Good morning. Thank you, Tom. I'm really excited. We have a great panel today of four people who are leading companies that range in size from about 12 employees to 50 plus and they're Leading their companies from four different countries. So with that, let's bring on our panel First we'll start with Magna Ilses. He's the founder of decode and he is based in Norway And we have Alex Frisant. He's the co-founder of impside and he's based in Germany Ilona Philippi, she's the co-founder of move based out of the UK and Matt Johnson is the co-founder of alley interactive and he is based in the US in New York City Thank all of you for being here. I'd like to start with a brief overview if you could do by razor hands Whether you are 100% remote In your agency Okay, so one 100% remote and what about fully We'll get to we'll get to the definition And what about fully in one location? Almost in one location and then two that are quasi office-based and remote correct Great. So the focus of our talk is about cultivating happy teams and how that makes for better business so I'd like to start by Just understanding the true cost of an employee and recruiting employees So Ilona if you want to start maybe tell us about your first time recruiting a new employee what she went through and Yeah Thank you very much Matt So move agency is six years old now and we evolve over the time We started as two co-founders initially and now we are 12 employees and we're what we call hybrid Environment, which means we all work from offices, but in three different locations So what that means is we have office-based culture that transfers Same kind of one location. We use slack extensively. We use Google Hangouts extensively Google Docs etc And that's that regards just to introduce it Half of our company is in London where we source all our business. So essentially We work with UK based customers and we have our development resources across Europe and the way we hire our first employees back in the days because we were very small starting up very cautious we started with interns and Then grown into Fantastic employees over time. So that was great. However now we are a mature company We need senior people. So we tend to hire through various means we use recruiters. We use our own ads We go to networking events, etc. So it's a combination oftentimes. We also try to Grow people Inside of the company so we recruit from universities, etc. And then train them to be with developers Matt are your new hires Ready to go on day one or is there an onboarding process that you go through? Well, it depends. I mean we we want to be able to hire people at a bunch of different levels we We've definitely hired people who were so anyone that we hire needs to be able to hit the ground running with PHP We have a number of different roles, but I'm speaking primarily about people who are going to be wordpress developers So we were willing to hire people who are who can demonstrate knowledge of PHP and We believe they are Intelligent and we'll be able to pick up the basics of wordpress and be able to start Contributing to wordpress based on their knowledge of PHP We also are very happy and have a number of cases have hired people Who are very familiar with wordpress who are often very plugged into the wordpress community? so every hire that we we make we really approach very contextually and We we try to figure out is this person a good fit for our team a good fit for the type of work that we're doing at the time and Do we think that they have the the prospects to grow at alley and eventually take on greater roles and Contribute more and more to the team Alex as a fully remote agency have you focused historically on trying to hire WordPress designers and developers or have you brought in people to wordpress that had knowledge of The technologies that we use in wordpress. I mean it's a mix like sometimes people approaching us at a Yeah at a word camp or something like this and of course they know already wordpress or they have an application and Well, we know them because they did some patches for any plugins or Just they end the word for scene, but sometimes we also have some people. They never had any Contact with a wordpress before you know so for us. It's very important that they Yeah, they have talents for code writing and you know, there's also potential to getting better and this is very important for us our Codex is even more restrict than the wordpress codex and When we start to hire we ask them for you know some code what they have then they have we do have some task Specific tests for them and after that we do have a telephone call and check out Is it also not you know if the code quality is very good? This is the first step and the second step is like it's a person the right one and fits in our team like personal wise So this is very important and Magna is a more of a landlocked agency Recruiting has surely been more of a challenge to get people with built-in wordpress knowledge So how have you all managed to either recruit people with wordpress knowledge or on board them? To be familiar with your platform and be ready to go I Think in Norway, it's a it's really a mix Norway WordPress is it's just getting really popular so in the beginning we had to there are some Developers and people working on wordpress that are really into the community into wordpress. So that's easy but we really have to tap into other skill sets as well and and Kind of teach them the wordpress way away and introduce them to the community through the events like these and also We have a bunch of different roles who are not developers and So we really have to compete with other agencies not wordpress agencies and so so for these different skills and How many employees to each of you have and we'll start over here and just work our way across we're 20 now Okay The same 20 12 we're 52 I believe at last count and Are the majority of all of your workforces full-time? Ours are entirely full-time. Yeah, okay, so We have this establishment here. We have employees with people working for you and We want to focus on how do you keep your teams happy? So that you can have tenure so that you can have people that actually stick around So I'd like to start and set Matt How long do you consider long enough to where you feel like someone has? Stuck with you and has provided value that it was worth the investment that you made hiring them I would say I mean we we want people to stick around as long as possible We have a couple of We have one of the things that I think maybe sort of unique to to us I don't know if other agencies are doing this, but we we start providing a Quarterly profit-sharing bonus every quarter once someone has been employed for one year So that's kind of the the point at which we say like you've made a real commitment to our team And we're gonna start staking you in to how the company is actually doing and this is part of our commitment to really like Very significant transparency with our team like we really open the books about how the company is doing financially and business wise to Our team we really believe the people who work for us are smart They it doesn't make sense to withhold information like that from them So as soon as someone's been around for a year that really that kicks in but even before a year we still Can tell pretty quickly if someone is making significant contributions to the company so we have We have that we have that metric, but we also Have In a lot of cases we have various significant tenure. I mean we have people who've been around for two and a half three Even close to four years at this point Who are and you know, that's That is a you know, there's a mixture of people like who've been around for less than a year But I would say that's like a significant chunk of the company's total time. It's been around which is six and a half years and you know, we also Over time our like ultimate promotion is that someone can make partner in a sense of how law firms work in the United States and Brad who's sitting over there near the front was the first person to alley to make partner. So that's we have a lot of Like paths to Promotion within the company that we can recognize people who've been around longer and longer periods of time Alona Beyond things like beanbag chairs in the office. How do you cultivate? employee happiness and a positive team culture So do we even look at it and move All these benefits that you're talking about we also almost consider it standard within our industry Unlimited holidays working hours that you choose Team retreats, etc. So that's the basics But we look more deeply into motivations of Employees that we look for those who are ambitious who are really passionate about what they do We want people to really like what they do So it extends into the kind of projects that we tend to work on and we're very selective We're not a typical agency in that sense because we want to work on things that move us forward that are Exciting for our team to to work on that enhance our portfolio that are Interesting in in all sorts of aspects, but that is some new API to be integrated or a larger scale or Large client that's interesting to work with so for us It's especially about the type of work because the people that we like to work with that we believe fit our culture Come to work because they want to move forward in in their careers in in their skill set, etc So it's it's a type of work that we bring in apart from all the usual stuff And the demand in your market has been high enough that you can be more selective so that the clients that come in are Exciting projects for for employees. That's a good question We all wish there would be more projects, but that's where The leadership comes in Which says instead of growing for the sake of growing will be growing at a pace that allows us to Pick the right projects for our team There's a concept that's been popularized over the past couple of years in the WordPress community and agencies Called five to the future, which is something that Matt Mullen-Waig Discussed a couple of years ago, and it's about contributing five percent of your time or your workforce's time back to the community Have any of y'all tried doing this or something similar and what kind of success have you seen? I mean we do quite a bit for the community We also are co-organizing like WordCamps in Germany or we have also like plugins available and some of them, you know, I'm really participating to develop or have some patches for the core development and all the stuff and also that we go to WordCamps together and have a retreat and with a whole team that we go there and Yeah sessions speaking sessions and all the stuff on WordCamps So we really support that because we are from the community We were created or we met in first place in the community So and then we started the agency and so we always give back because we also receive a lot so this is very important for us and this is Yeah, also our employees there really like to Provide something to the community because it's it's a good thing, you know because and also Yeah, like I said, we receive a lot of it. Does anyone else have a specific program in place at their company for contributing back to The WordPress community Or is it more self-selective? Again, we're a strange little country up north and and since it's us introducing a lot of employees to the WordPress community And we're not used to necessarily this the way of sharing So code-wise we do some contributions, but I think our biggest contribution is to help Moving WordPress in into a position Where it's popular enough so that the community can grow and there's actually Work to be found for more people and I think as the community and as businesses in Norway Mature there will be more contribution contributions towards the kind of the code code part of WordPress so For us, it's about organizing meet-ups and WordPress work camp in Norway and so on I Would just add briefly that one of the we don't have like a dedicated 5% policy But we do one of the things that we do try to apply as a strategy when we're building Projects for clients is to try to work with clients to sell them on the benefits of underwriting an open source project And we've had a pretty significant amount of success with some clients one of our oldest clients Which is the health policy research firm called the Kaiser Family Foundation in the US? they essentially sponsored us to build a plug-in called field manager, which is a At this point very robust Meta-manager for WordPress that we've released as open source And we've had a significant amount of community involvement from outside Allian And that was something where we got a client to As part of the project they were paying us to do anyway to build code that was going to be Releasable to the whole community and that we would continue to support and in exchange for which they would get like sort of a Recognition and and goodwill from the community for it So we try to create those sort of like public-private partnerships if you will When we when we work with clients, so we have we have a number of projects that have grown out of that that type of cooperation what role does salary play and creating happy employees and This is a hairy subject a lot of times because salary is something that we don't talk about a lot and it also varies greatly depending on where the employees located where The company is located. So when you're recruiting new employees I'd like to hear maybe from magna from from a local sense and then Alex from a remote sense How do you negotiate salary and how do you find a middle ground so that it's good for the company so that singular employees are not Getting too much salary, you know income away from the company, but also so that you're Fully equipping this employee and enticing them to do their best work I Think the most important thing is that We we try to establish a culture and we try to learn from the WordPress community and kind of the openness and the way of thinking through working on WordPress and to create a really good work culture and to have a Work culture where where people can Really take responsibility if they want to and by creating in the attractive work environment Now we are attracting really good people who Where salary is of course important, but they also understand that we're we've been a startup company that we need to kind of grow into Not higher standards, but higher salaries and bigger projects and bigger income So it's a it's a step-by-step process. I think and we're It's sometimes really hard because we're competing against non WordPress companies and there may be two three four five hundred employees And of course they have a different Economy so it's really important to also focus on the the non economic sites on building company I mean like he says, you know, we competing with other agencies or corporate companies And they offer a much better salary most of the time, but you know, we do also have some other benefits You know people they are liberal in their work time. We they have a lot, you know interesting projects and Also, we give them a lot of trust and responsibility which they really like and they can do a lot of their own and this these are quite important benefits to the comparing also to the salary and Because of the location since we are remote We don't have any salary because of any location and it's because of the quality of their work Ilona was the number one benefit that you've been able to provide employees to Help create satisfaction So I suppose choose choose their own hours. Well, I wouldn't say what number one benefit, but choose their own hours Take as much what it is as they need work independently I suppose the combination of all three where you give the Environment to the employees to to especially senior type of employees that they can work on using their own initiative and and feel like They're part of something that they're building not just a small wheel in a in a big big machine And Matt's in question Well, you know there's perks perks and benefits are good But I think that what really keeps people around is the the chance to work with really great co-workers and on really engaging projects So that's that's one of the best things that I think we can give people the other but probably the most important like actual perk that we can give people is that they're freed from the the tyranny of a like physically attending an office from 9 to 5 which if you Europeans have heard that there's like a very oppressive overwork culture in the United States that's quite true and Freeing people from that system is like an immense benefit like my wife has a job Or she has to be chained to a desk from 8 a.m. To 6 p.m. Every day And it like really affects her happiness with her job So I see that firsthand that contrast between what she has to go through and why she's looking for another job right now And what our employees can sort of structure just just to take like a small amount of like flex in their schedule or their ability to not have to commute on a day that it doesn't work for them to Then really like that that causes an immense increase in anyone's happiness that that I've seen So I think that's one of the most important benefits that we offer Great. Thank you, and I believe we have a few minutes for questions from the audience while Go ahead. Do you want to go ahead? No, I was gonna say well while You're grabbing the first questioner. Yeah, I have a filler between them. I would love your filler. I would like If you have a question, please raise your hand, okay, and we'll listen to Brian's filler How many of you have managed to grow your companies from 1 to 12 to 20 to 50? Using a retainer based model where you have long-term clients where employees spend a number of hours per week or month or something on them everybody and Have you found that an effective route for? Being able to grow to have that steady income that's I thought so. I just wanted to make sure Okay, so hopefully we have our first questioner I would say when you ask your question and it would also be useful if you Make it clear whether that question is for the entire panel or for someone specific So that we know who it's directed to okay, I help run an agency in Bulgaria and I'm kind of wanting to open things up to flex time and More open holidays and half of our employees are very into that and half of our employees Really like that rigid standard schedule. So this is kind of for Iana How you balance employees that want that flexible holiday time with employees that just Want that very formal work environment? Thank you. So to answer the question. We still currently have all our employees coming to the office So it's not that some work from home. All of them come to the office. It's just that we're across three locations You can think of it as free offices But we're thinking of moving into even more remote working model where people can choose simply Whether they want to work from home or coming to the office, it will be their choice and our Processes are ready for it already because we have these three offices and the way We will manage it is I suppose as every other remote company there'll be some core hours where we would expect people to be online and We might meet initially once or twice a week in the offices, but I don't see it being such a big Difference as it might seem initially However, you do need to accommodate for the people who do like the office type of environment that they like the separation between Work and person life and who who feel more productive in in the office space which for us also is at least 50 percent maybe even 80 percent of our employees so Giving them the option. I think is the best maybe downgrading the The big office and allowing 50 percent of your people working from home and 50 percent still coming to Some some environment might be the answer Which we are looking into as well by the way Do you have another one ready again? Hi, my name is Martin and I have a question for the whole panel. Do you Use any form do you have like a weekly short meeting? How do you actually assess if somebody is? Happy or is not happy because I mean in order to to make your team happy first You need to know where the people stand, right? Especially if you're not in the same office all day, you don't pick up on the little clues, right? somebody's probably not looking so good or You don't have like a coffee corner talk about what's going on and how people are performing So how do you actually find out if the people are happy or not and what to do about it? I mean since we are remote office. It's more difficult. That's right and We do have talks like one-on-one or also in a team How frequently do you do and we have like in the team once a week and one-on-one? Depends if they really want to but they always know I know that the door is open And we also Emphasize that they can say everything. I mean we are open for critics. We are open for new ideas for everything It's not like okay, they are right and the employer wrong or something like this Really want to have the feedback and sometimes you get to it's kind of an experience that you know Okay, they have something on their chest to talk about but they don't so you really Emphasize them to say like hey, what's going on or what's wrong or maybe also with the teammate or in a project It's always good. We have really like an open community kind of and everybody has has a voice and this is very important for us and So there we can find out if they are happy or not And if they're not happy we can always talk about it and try to you know find a solution or change something and Yeah, it's it's been good for that. Does anyone have a significantly different one-on-one feedback policy? Well, I so we I think we do something that's a little unusual Maybe it's not but Since our projects are organized unlike our ad hoc and rolling basis We just we don't have like direct supervisors We have instead of something called coaching where each person has a coach who's not their boss, but they're their Advocate slash mentor and that's the main forum where someone would be able to explain to their coach like because of that We have you know, you have a weekly or bi-weekly meeting with your coach And at that point you can talk about like how's it going? Well, how do you feel about what you're currently working on?  Do you want a different challenge? Stuff like that and then we have every twice a year We have reviews where coaches come together and like we compile all the feedback about everyone and we tell we tell the The team members how we think they're doing and that's also a forum for them to kind of tell us how we're doing and Just come together about how we're all feeling about their relationship to the company And so that that's been actually it took us a while to get to that system But it's been a really helpful forum for like decentralizing the feedback channels to make it actually scale to 50 people Because it used to be that I as one of the partners could talk to every employee when we were 10 people I could definitely do that I can't really do that when we're 50 people like can't talk to them once a week It's just too many people. So this was this has been really helpful to kind of like, you know Make it a peer-to-peer feedback system in a sense All right. Thank you very much if anyone has additional questions you can track these folks down Outside and I am sure I can speak on behalf of all of them when I say they're probably hiring. Thank you


Okay, now is the fun stuff. So we've established the different cells that make up the epidermis. We know that cells, different kinds of cells working together for a common function make up a tissue. We are comfortable with the kind of tissue this is. And now we're going to zoom in to the single cell, the melanocyte. And you can see how I feel about the melanocyte. And I want to remind you that the melanocyte is this awesome looking, very unique looking cell at the bottom in the most deep layer of the epidermis. That's where the melanocyte hangs out. Hangs out along with those basal cells, which are giving rise to everybody else. Melanocytes don't have that same function. They have a different function in which is what? To produce melanin. So we're going to look at how that happens. The melanocyte. Okay. First of all, anytime you answer the question, how did that happen inside a cell? You are likely looking at something we call a cellular mechanism. So a cellular mechanism is the process or the various events that take place to get you from point A to point B in a cell. The melanocyte doesn't just go, okay, I'm going to go to the oven and combine some ingredients and put them in the oven, cook them for a little while and out is going to pop melanin. That's not how the melanocyte works. And in fact, there's a really complicated series of chemical reactions that ultimately lead to melanin. I'm going to show you how I normally draw out the process, how I draw out cellular mechanisms. And then I'm going to show you the chemicals involved in this cellular mechanism. Let's give it a name before we go any further. This process that we're going to look at, this example of a cellular mechanism is called melanogenesis. And that makes sense. Amino melanin, genesis birth of. How do we make melanin from the beginning? My strategy when I do cellular mechanisms is usually to break it down to what's the most important, what are the most important ingredients? Melanogenesis starts with an amino acid, tyrosine.  And we're looking at macromolecules and amino acid is a macromolecule, it's a big molecule with many different pieces. It's one part of building a protein and that one part is going to enter the process of melanogenesis. The next thing that I'm going to tell you is where are we going to end up? Well, the fact is that there are two forms of melanin that we're going to look at. And I want to have both of them on here. We have pheomelanin and we have you melanin. So we start out with tyrosine and then here's how I usually do cellular mechanisms. Are you ready? We start out with tyrosine. We have a series of chemical reactions that result in the production of melanin. Either pheomelanin or humelanin. The other thing that I want to throw at you or have you cozy with is this stuff doesn't happen for free. The process of taking tyrosine amino acids and building melanin usually requires some sort of energy input and usually requires a helper. And the helper in this case is an enzyme. There's probably lots of them. But I want to introduce you to, number one, the idea that in these cellular mechanisms, we need help. They don't just, these chemical reactions usually just won't happen on their own. And enzymes do that help. And enzymes often are easy to identify because of the name that they have. The enzyme that we're dealing with here is called tyrosinase.  ACE often is a ending, not always, but it's often an ending that we see on enzymes. An enzyme is a protein usually that does, that catalyzes a chemical reaction. So let's put some pieces together here or let's restate what this visual is explaining.  We have a series of chemical reactions that take place that are catalyzed by the enzyme tyrosinase. And we end up, there are two pathways we can follow. And we end up with one of, or we end up with two possible forms of melanin. We have phthalomelanin and we have eumelanin. In Rigslandia, that's usually the extent of our details with cellular mechanisms. But I'm always, even though I'm like, okay guys, that's all we need to know. We're good as long as you have this process and you're cool with like that swirly-wirly. In my world, when I see this swirly-wirly, I go, oh phew, there's a whole bunch of chemical reactions that are happening there that we don't have to memorize or know all the stages of. But you could know all the stages of them. We could lay it out piece by piece. Check it out. Do you agree? We start out with tyrosine and this is what tyrosine looks like. Who do you see right here? I can't remember my enzyme. I made it blue. Look, tyrosinase is, and I know this is really tiny, isn't it? Does that help? There. That helps a little bit. I wonder if you could see it before. We start with the tyrosine. Tyrosinase does some magic. This is why I go, awesome, it's magic because now we have dopa and it looks like that.  Tyrosinase turned tyrosine into dopa. That's a great name for a molecule. Look, tyrosinase is back at it again. Has more to say tyrosinase does as it turns, okay, look, it turns the dopa into dopa quinone. Again, I'm only showing you this to say there is a series of things that happen that you could know. We could have to memorize all those intermediate bits of this process, which is called melanogenesis. We're not going to, but look, here's where we have two pathways that we are going to travel. We can go, we can turn dopa quinone and you know, there's an enzyme that is likely involved in that process. We can turn dopa quinone into dopa crone and then dopa crone tata mayors and then 5-6 dehydroxy indole to carboxylic acid, of course, or 5-6 dihydroxyindole, either way, we end up with eumelanin at the end. We could go through this whole process, starting with tyrosine. If we go this route through the process, we end up with eumelanin. If we go this route and we turn the dopa quinone into cysteine, oh no, it looks like cysteine is another amino acid that comes in to join this mix and then we get cysteine aldopa and cysteine aldopa, 2-5 and 5-S, okay, nobody knows what I'm saying, but ultimately we get pheomelanin, starting with the same thing, ending with either pheomelanin or eumelanin. Do you agree that this is a nice way, right here, I'm saying the same thing and we got to the final outcome of producing either pheomelanin and eumelanin. Everybody's different. I am definitely in the camp of, I like the tortoly wets, I like to know that we know how something happens, that's really interesting and cool to me. I don't want to memorize that, I don't want to have to name it or draw it or memorize all the stages and parts of it. We could, if that was important for something that we were learning, it's a nicer way to do it with the outcome being these two different kinds of melanin.  Well, it plays a role, it has lots of functions and so we'll look at that and in particular it is what causes your skin color.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us understand the following question today. In an equilateral triangle A, B, C, D is a point on side B, C such that B, D is equal to 1 by 3 of B, C. Prove that 9 A, D square is equal to 7 A, D square. Now let us write the solution. It is given to us that an equilateral triangle A, B, C and D is a point on B, C such that B, D is equal to 1 by 3 of B, C. We have to prove 9 A, D square is equal to 7 A, B square. Let us see the figure. Here we have equilateral triangle A, B, C, D is some point on B, C such that B, D is equal to 1 by 3 of B, C. And we have to prove 9 A, D square is equal to 7 A, V square. Here we will be having a construction. Draw A, E perpendicular to B, C which meets B, C at E. Draw A, E perpendicular to B, C which meets B, C at E. Now let us solve it further. Let us write the proof. Since by construction A, E is perpendicular to B, C which implies B, E is equal to half of B, C which is equal to half of A, B. Let us name it as number 1. This is because A, B is equal to B, C is equal to A, C in equilateral triangle A, B, C. So now in a right-angle triangle A, B, E by Pythagoras theorem we have A, B that is the hypotenuse A, B square is equal to B square plus A, E square. That is A, B square is equal to B is nothing but half of A, B so replacing it by A, B by 2 the whole square plus A, E square as it is. A square is equal to A, B square minus 1 by 4 A, B square or A square is equal to 3 by 4 A, B square. Let us name it as number 2. Now in right-angle triangle A, D, E by Pythagoras theorem we have A, D square is equal to A square plus D square or we can write A square is equal to A, D square minus D square. And let us name it as number 3. Now it is given to us that D trisects B, C that is B, D is equal to 1 by 3 B, C. B, D is equal to 1 by 3 A, B. Let us name it as number 4. This is because A, B is equal to B, C in an equated triangle A, B, C. So now therefore B, E minus B, D is equal to we have B, E is equal to 1 by 2 A, B by 1. 1 by 2 A, B minus B, D is equal to 1 by 3 A, B by 4. Therefore B, E minus B, D. We can see the figure B, E minus B, D is equal to D, E. So therefore B, E is equal to 1 by 6 A, B. Let us name it as number 5. Now 5 in equation 3 we get we have our equation 3 as A, E square is equal to A, D square minus D square. So we write A, E square is equal to A, D square minus D square. That is A, E square is equal to A, D square minus instead of D we will substitute the value of D as A, B by 6 the whole square. This is our equation 6. Now from 2 and 6 we get we have our equation 2 as A, E square is equal to 3 A, B square 3 by 4 A, B square. So substitute A, E square as 3 by 4 A, B square. 3 by 4 A, B square is equal to A, D square minus 1 by 6 A, B square. That is 3 by 4 A, B square is equal to A, D square minus 1 by 36 A, B square. Or 3 by 4 A, B square plus 1 by 36 A, B square is equal to A, D square. 27 A, B square plus A, B square is equal to 36 A, D square. Or 28 A, B square is equal to 36 A, D square. Dividing both sides by 4 we get 7 A, B square is equal to 9 A, D square. And this is our required result. Hence proved, I hope you understood the question. Bye and have a nice day.


My name is Aditi and I am a geospatial data analyst at Ilk Labs in Bangalore, India. This is my first user. I use R to work with air quality data. Today I will present about how are you shiny to build tools to provide a workflow to analyze air quality data. R in the air. R in shiny are a powerful couple which can be used to build interactive platforms to manage and work with data collected. With the ever increasing global measurements of air pollutants through stationery, mobile, low cost and satellite monitoring, the amount of data being collected is huge and it necessitates the use of management platforms. In an effort to address this issue we developed two shiny applications to analyze and visualize air quality data. As we say, necessity is the mother of invention. We at Ilk Labs always wanted to work with high dimensional data and talk air quality to make it possible be designed and develop these two applications. Shiny applications are user friendly, so team members across continents can use the application without any prior knowledge of programming. Another added benefit is having the vibrant and supportive R using community. Both the applications developed have pre-loaded data sets to work around. The first shiny application is called NMEQ Shiny which helps in processing high resolution air quality data collected on a moving platform, usually called mobile monitoring. So we take multiple sensors in a car, take repeated measurements of each road in an area to generate stable high resolution air pollutant maps. Usually daily maps are generated. There is a superior performance in estimating long term mean concentrations when multiple repeated drives are possible. This is how NMEQ Shiny looks like. NMEQ Shiny can handle data in multiples of thousands every day from each of the instrument. We had nearly five specific instruments in this app and also used for the study. It reduces the time consumed for analyzing each pollutant individually, helps in visualizing the data collected on field each day. It can also be used to look for pollution hotspots, locations that are relatively more polluted than neighboring areas. Each pollutant or sensor data requires specific kind of pre-processing which depends on the principle on which it operates or its mechanical setup. Eventually this application joins different instruments data into one single corrected file. This really helps us in achieving the unit of analysis for the rest of the study. This application has reduced computational labor since mobile data contains a huge amount of spatial data. GPS data file is mandatory while other files from different instruments are not necessary. Since alarm tab is also present in the application, it helps the user to give a near real time check on the health of all the instruments used. This application is available on CRAN. The second application, Polycheck, helps processing open source air quality data usually called stationary monitoring. There are several platforms which provide open source air quality data. We built this application for users of these specific platforms who can have a quick analysis and basic plots of air quality easily generated and think about science. This is how Polycheck looks like. Polycheck can be used for data downloaded from Central Pollution Control Board specific to India, OpenAQ and AirNow. It aims at generating a range of statistical plots and summary statistics with several data processing options. There are options for different averaging periods as well. It checks for normality, generates density, QQ plots. Along with all these checks for any trends in the time series for the selected parameter. It can implement linear or multi-linear regression. Polycheck allows users to upload another set of data to compare selected parameters and generate plots. It also implements two plots from the open air package. This is made into a package and will be on its way to CRAN soon. Don't forget to check out air quality of your city using our application. A huge shout out to all the packages which made these applications possible. Manipulating different timestamps has been the most challenging part since there are different timestamp formats and multiple time zones. Integrating a number of files from different instruments has also been a task. Joining all files together to make a single file saves a lot of time for further analysis. And I think we are all fans of tidyverse. Thank you and to know more or to provide feedback, find me at these places. I'm also available in the lounge for further discussion or questions. Enjoy, use our and have a great day ahead. Thank you.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a box of opulence basketball from 2017-18 This is a one-box random team break number two All 30 30 spots everyone gets a team a Lot of cool stuff in here. So Thank you to these folks for filling this one up Big thanks to the people who got their spots straight up and congrats again to the winners of those spots That's why I have those little rooftops next to your name And all teams are in let's roll it. Let's randomize it Four and a three seven times for each list and a seventh and final time after seven. We've got Scott down to Robert Four and a three lucky seven times with the teams one Two and a seventh and final time after seven. We got the Milwaukee Bucks down to the Chicago Bulls Trades are allowed. Remember. This is 2017-18 edition.  Let's sort by column B by team Let's box that up here and now let me flip screens just for a second magic up for trade by the way Remember we opened these opulence That opulence case a while ago and mark that RT so we know to be a for a future random teen break 1718 opulence right here So we're gonna select a die. We're gonna select that one right there We'll go one two three for the top box and four five six for the bottom box and it's one We're into the top box right here. So this box we will say for break three. It's a three box case final box So we'll mark that break three. This is for break two We're gonna pause the video and when we come back We're gonna see if there's any trades and then at the break stick around BRB All right, welcome back folks. No deals were done It's all good on a Wednesday the second random team number two 1718 opulence basketball. There's the box here and Let's see what we got. All right. What do we have here? We've got a book on the bottom. Are these hits on the bottom? I think they're hits on the bottom Okay. All right. Good luck everybody. We're gonna lead off with the Marta Rosen for the Raptors That's gonna be for Scott 53 at a 79 Damian Lillard trailblazers That'll go to JC with Dame at time 52 at a 79 got Mike Conley Memphis Grizzlies edition that'll be for Jason. That's one out of 25 and opulence scripts For the Rock it's Clint Capella Robert Wolfe with Houston Two out of ten. Nice little number on that too. We've got a redemption Rookie patch autographs hollow gold It's Malik Monk I think Malik Monk's a Charlotte Hornet Am I blanking on where Malik Monk goes? Was a Hornet, still a Hornet And that goes to Brian Croft and Charlotte Now Brian, I know this is an expired redemption Right here, but Panini is pretty good if you contact them Chances are you'll probably be able to scratch that off and go through the whole process and then uh And they might still have that car to send you if not They usually do a pretty good job about getting you something back in return So there you go Jersey and autograph Miles Turner for the Pacers That'll be for Chad 27 out of 49 We got championship hall 2003 2004 NBA championships. It's Richard Hamilton Nice one for cat and the Detroit Pistons 10 out of 10 on that one. Oh nice. Yeah, I remember that one The book 24 out of 25. It's Luke Conard another piston for cat It's a nice big patch right there nice autograph Although I don't think he's not on the didn't he get moved recently? All right, a couple more to go. We've got rookie Otto opulence rookie Otto Frank Telekina For the New York Knicks That's gonna be for Luigi 10 out of 25 on that one right can our went to the clips All over saying oh, look at this opulent scripts autograph. It's Reggie Miller You got a number inscription in there as well. That's awesome That's Chad Meyer with the Indiana Pacers 21 out of 25 Miller family pretty popular in LA Nice, that's really cool. You don't see Reggie Miller autos too often Chad Meyer and there you go ladies and gentlemen That's it. That was the break. I'm Joe for jazpiece case breaks.com. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time for the next one


guys welcome back to my channel it's been really long since I've filmed a sit-down video and it feels really really good to actually sit down and talk to you guys so off late I've been uploading a lot of travel videos I hope you guys have caught and watched all of those videos I'm traveling yet again I'm currently in Vietnam it's me and my husband here and we are here for about seven days so in this video I thought I will share with you how I take care of my health when I'm traveling so this video is especially for those people who love to travel but who are also very concerned about their health and really want to take care of their health for me the whole approach to taking care of my health when I'm traveling is always to sort of is always to sort of find that balance you know the balance between enjoying the local food and enjoying the local treats plus at the same time you know taking care of your health and sticking to some basic rituals so this video will have a lot of such information and I will share with you how I prepared for this trip from India what are the things that I carried from India and what are the things that I bought here so that I could take care of my health and my husband's health so let's get right into the video and let's start right away the first step I have for you is that to prepare beforehand so when you're doing your bookings make sure that you either book an Airbnb or you book a service apartment which has a kitchen and the reason for this is that when you have your own kitchen and in your own cooking space it kind of becomes easier to manage your health otherwise you will be eating out all the time so I'll just give you a quick tour of this place that we are in and I'm going to show you what are the things that I carry from India and what are the things that I bought here so this is where we are staying it's a pretty basic setup so you have a table here that's the bedroom but the part that I really wanted to show you guys is this so we make sure that you know there's some basic kitchen setup in place then we are staying for more than a week so here you can see that there is an induction top there's a fridge and there's a microwave which is pretty much enough to you know take care of your basic food I've just kept the basic staples which are carried from India so this is a poha this is I made this at home so this is basically like instant poha you add hot water and the poha is ready I leave link for this I leave the link for the recipe for this below I carried some rice with me because some days you know it's just nice to have plain rice and curd and also some dalya and of course a packet of instant noodles just in case of an emergency so these are the basic things which are carried from home apart from that what I do is whenever I visit a place I usually go to the supermarket the first day and stock up on some basics so I went to the supermarket yesterday and I got milk I got some yogurt and I also picked up some fruit so we are coming to a country where there are lots of fruits which are very very easily available so I got some pineapple and some mangoes so in this way it becomes really easy for me to plan both our meals and depending on my husband's schedule and my schedule for the day I know that these are the options that are available for me to eat at home and these are the options that I can go out and eat so when you have both the options with you it kind of becomes easier to balance out your meals and to plan your day tip that I try and follow when I'm traveling is to have a really light breakfast and the reason for this is that breakfast is usually the one meal when you're still in your Airbnb or when you're still in your apartment so this meal I try and keep it as light as possible breakfast I usually prefer having a fruit this is because when you're traveling you know you tend to forget to have fruits so it's good to get one serving of your fruit in first thing in the morning because then you get all your essential vitamins minerals and more importantly fiber which is I think something that we totally miss out when we're traveling so what I like doing is having breakfast in the house and keeping it really light by either having fruits or having some yogurt or having milk so in this way not only is it easy to prepare it's healthy but at the same time I'm making sure that I get at least one serving of fruit into my body the third tip that I follow when I'm traveling is to stick to my basic routines as much as possible so the routines that I'm talking about are things like drinking warm water in the morning taking my supplements having my apple cider vinegar in the night I know it's not easy and it's very tempting to just get lazy and to skip all this but I think that it does make a difference so I actually carried nimbu and apple cider vinegar from India because I know that if it is available with me I'm more likely to have it and if I do not even carry it there's no chance that I'm gonna go out buy these and you know stick to my routine and that's what even you can do so you might have different routines you might have a routine of you know say having maybe funny in the morning or you might have some other routine that you follow religiously when you're back home so when you're traveling as well try and make that little extra effort to carry your supplements and to carry the things that you leave with you so so that you can follow the same routines when you're traveling the fourth tip that I follow when I'm traveling is a very basic one but I think this is extremely important and that is to drink water now obviously when we are traveling water is expensive most of the times you need to buy water and we are so busy doing a lot of things that we just forget to drink water moreover most of the you know hotels or service apartments yeah will give you tiny bottles like this which are obviously you know they don't last long so you eventually run out of that so when I'm traveling what I like to do is that the first day when we are here like I mentioned I like visiting the supermarket to stock up on the basics and I also usually pick up a big keg of water like a 5 liter or a 6 liter keg of water this is because of two reasons number one is that it is obviously cheaper than buying multiple tiny bottles like this and of course you consume less plastic and the second reason is that once you buy a keg of 5 or 6 liter it's good enough to last you for at least two to three days depending on your family size but it makes sure that you have water available with you so that you see the water you're reminded to drink water so like doing is carrying water with me when I am stepping out of the house so whenever we are out so obviously when you're traveling you tend to be out almost the entire day so I usually carry a backpack with me and I make sure that I have at least two bottles of water filled and kept with me so just the sheer weight of having that bottles on my back is enough to remind me to continuously sip the water and the last tip I have for you is about striking now when you're traveling and you're moving around so much you tend to get hungry it's natural I am all pro for trying the local food and the local cuisine I love doing that but I also feel that it's good to come prepared with some of your own snacks from home so for this tree for example I'll just show you the snacks that I prepared and came from India so guys these are the snacks that I carried from India these are basic atta cookies salted ones makhana this has been made at home I carry some mixed nuts with me so in this I have mixed almond and walnut and I like you can see there's an entire packet of this and I also like carrying chickpea because chickpea something which gives you instant energy and it's also fun to eat so there are two types of chickpea and just for emergency I have a yoga bar now I do not like the taste of yoga bars to be very honest and I try not to eat them but this is just an emergency you know like if there's nothing available at all and we are starving then we can have yoga bar and one more very interesting thing which actually my mom made for me and which I usually carry when I'm traveling are these white fruit laddoos so these are basically laddoos made up of dates and mixed nuts they're extremely healthy they give you a lot of energy and they're so simple to carry when you're traveling so like you saw these are the snacks that I got from India and trust me it wasn't very difficult all it required was a little bit of planning and a little bit of time but it made the entire trip so much convenient right because I know that any time if my husband is hungry or if we are out the entire day and we do not find anything to eat especially if you're vegetarians it can happen that if you are in a country like Vietnam you know veg food isn't easy available so instead of just consuming anything or consuming bad food it's better that you consume the snacks that you got from home and which are made in your house so guys this was a video on how I take care of the health of me and my family when I'm traveling so in this video I just shared with you the basic things that I like to do when I'm traveling and like you and you must have realized that these are very very simple basic things nothing fancy nothing complicated about it and this is something which you too can implement extremely easily so just to give you a quick summary and a quick recap of what I spoke in this video basically I mentioned that when you're traveling plan your travel a little bit better so that you book either a service apartment or a Airbnb where there's a kitchen and a small cooking space easily available for you so that at least one meal a day if you can have at home if you want that is no compulsion if you feel like having a meal at home you can do that the second thing is to carry enough snacks with you so that in case food is not available or good food or good quality food is not available you're not starving and you do not end up eating anything which is not good for your health you always have your snacks with you the third tip is to drink enough water make sure that you stock up on water please do not rely on tiny bottles like this which are kept in the hotel rooms they're just not make sure that you buy a big keg of water with you and keep it with you in the room fourth tip is to consume at least one serving of fruit a day preferably for breakfast because breakfast is usually the time and you have more control over your meal and you are more likely to be in your apartment the last one was to maintain simple basic health routines that you follow back home like drinking lime water drinking your apple cider vinegar and taking your supplements so I hope you found this video useful if you have any more routines or any more tips that you implement when you travel please share that with me in the comment section below it would help me out and it would also be good to have a discussion on what more we can do to take care of your health that's all for today's video thank you so much for watching please remember to hit the subscribe button if you haven't done that give it a thumbs up and of course hit the bell icon so that the next time I upload a video be it on travel minimalism or productivity you are notified of that all right signing off for now thank you so much for watching I'll see you in the next one bye