Dutch Data Dude

Data Nerdiness

Search
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • About
  • Disclaimer
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • About
  • Disclaimer
  • Making your own ‘smart’ garage door controller

    / February 9, 2021

    I have two garage doors, both of which can have motors and can be opened automatically from my car, using a remote or a press off a button. Very convienient. However, sometimes I want to check if…

    read more
  • Updated: Annual Radio Countdown Top 2000 in Power BI

    / December 23, 2020

    Here we are again – trying to continue the tradition of updating my Power BI analysis of the Dutch Radio 2’s Top 2000. This year however, the report was fully redesigned by my friend Marc Lelijveld after…

    read more
  • Never forget to water the plants again: building a DIY automatic plant watering / irrigation system for <$5

    / November 12, 2020

    One thing we never seem to get right is when to water plants. We either overfeed them or forget them. In either case, they die quickly. As part of my many home automation endeavors I wanted to…

    read more
  • Power BI Pro Tip: show 0 instead of (Blank)

    / May 12, 2020

    Default behavior of Power BI is to show (Blank) even when summing a numerical column that happens to be all empty. Want to show 0 instead? COALESCE helps.

    read more
  • Azure SQL firewall settings for Power BI refresh

    / April 28, 2020

    I do not claim that what is included in this post is the perfect way of doing things. However, some things related to Azure SQL firewall settings for Power BI data refresh caught me by surprise recently…

    read more
  • Fixing ‘subscription is not registered with NRP’ error in Azure

    / April 24, 2020

    Today I hit the following error while trying to write a PowerShell script to automate some Azure Networking related tasks (more on that soon!): 'Subscription [subscriptionID] is not registered with NRP'. In this short post I will…

    read more
  • Working with aggregations in Power BI Desktop

    / April 23, 2020

    Aggregations bring me back to the good old SSAS days.You can imagine that I was curious but skeptical when I tried aggregations in Power BI Desktop.

    read more
  • Updated: Annual radio countdown Top 2000 in Power BI

    / December 30, 2019

    A bit later this year, but even after my move to the US I decided to keep up the tradition of updating my Power BI analysis of the Top 2000 analysis for this year. Read all about…

    read more
  • Stepping back into the ring.

    / July 24, 2019

    I am happy to share with you all that I am stepping back into the ring. After a ‘brief’ period (“It has been 6 months, how can you call that brief?”) I am back. And better than…

    read more
  • Passing command line settings to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages using dtexec on Linux

    / March 1, 2019

    This is my first blog post since I moved to Redmond. A lot of time has passed, sorry for that! I kept busy filling out forms, forms and some more forms. After that came more forms. I…

    read more
 Older Posts

Shop (more available)

  • AI: Artisan Intelligence (dark colors) $21.99
  • Evil pie chart Ni sticker $7.99
  • Data Scientist (dark colors) $21.99
  • Data. (dark colors) $21.99
  • It's not a logo, it's an icon $21.99
  • Data Scientist sticker $7.99
  • Data Miner sticker $7.99
  • The Truth About Statistics (dark colors) $21.99
  • Data Artist (dark colors) $21.99
  • Python Says Ni sticker $7.99
2021 Dutch Data Dude | Bard Theme by WP Royal.
Back to top