The Youtube embed shortcode for Hugo allows you to embed Youtube videos in your Hugo pages. Which is a pretty neat feature they provide to you out-of-the-box. However, there are a ton of additional parameters you can include to customize your Youtube video embed. [Read More]

It was one of those rare moments in my freelance career when I had some extra time on my hands. Eager to work on a website and tinker with some code. I was looking at my personal website (which you're on right now). It was still built on Wordpress, with a basic theme and some useful features. In reality, I wasn't using much of the power that Wordpress holds. [Read More]

Spotify has made its data very accessible to endusers to play with. Their API provides you with a plethora of options to get to their data, which is a ton of fun to analyse. To get started, you wil need to R packages to access the data and process it afterwards. [Read More]

It’s a well-known fact that for many content-rich websites like e-commerce website the internal search engine is one of the most important features to navigate the website to find the right product. Google Analytics has created several standard reports to show you how visitors use your internal search engine and how this impacts your KPI’s. These reports can be quite useful, but they may also limit your way of analysis. [Read More]

Google is happily tracking my every move, thanks to my Android Samsung phone and poor privacy setting skills. Google collects my data about my movement through their location tracker. A lot of data! In this blog I will explore the location data Google has collected about me since 2016. [Read More]

In my previous post about analysing IMDB ratings in this series I explored some of the data I collected about my movie preferences, also compared to the ratings other IMDB raters. In this post I will dig a little deeper to learn more about my own personal movie preferences. [Read More]

In this post I will explore the data to learn about my movie preferences. I will be using some R packages to structure the data properly and other packages to build plots. [Read More]

This post is part of a series of posts to analyse the digital me.

This is likely the most self-centered blogpost you will read today, maybe even this year. Because this post is all about me, the digital me. Just like all people these days, I leave a digital footprint. I use apps, digital services and websites to share my experiences with others, keep people posted of what I do and compare what I do with all the stuff other people do. [Read More]