Oracle Analytics Summit 2022 Last week I attended the second Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywalker_Ranch]. The last Summit was in 2019 and attended by Jon Mead and he summarised the experience here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2019/07/oracle-analytics-summit-2019/]. The purpose of the event is
Rittman Mead Sponsor Fastnet Entry 2021 Part 2 It started well… we left the pontoon in strong winds and heavy rain. Before the start of Fastnet everybody has to sail past an entry gate with storm sails or equivalent flying. The winds were strong enough to sail with them and a bit of engine assist so we enjoyed
Rittman Mead Sponsor Fastnet Entry 2021 Part one. In 2002 my wife Val and I decided to buy our first yacht. We lived in the Brighton so it seemed to make sense. In 2005 we replaced our first boat with a Sigma 400 [https://sigma400.com/]. A Sigma is a well made boat so it seemed
kafka Real-time Sailing Yacht Performance - Kafka (Part 2) In the last two blogs Getting Started (Part 1) [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2018/01/real-time-yacht-performance/] and Stepping back a bit (Part 1.1) [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2018/06/real-time-sailing-yacht-performance-stepping-back-a-bit-part-1-1/] I looked at what data I could source from the boat's instrumentation and introduced some
kafka Real-time Sailing Yacht Performance - stepping back a bit (Part 1.1) Slight change to the planned article. At the end of my analysis in Part 1 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2018/01/real-time-yacht-performance/] I discovered I was missing a number of key messages. It turns out that not all the SeaTalk messages from the integrated instruments were being translated to
kafka Real-time Sailing Yacht Performance - Getting Started (Part 1) In this series of articles, I intend to look at collecting and analysing our yacht’s data. I aim to show how a number of technologies can be used to achieve this and the thought processes around the build and exploration of the data. Ultimately, I want to improve our