Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Mar 10, 2021Member-onlyInsights from an Art Investor’s DatasetA dataset with more than 228,000 artworks from around 17,000 artists — A few weeks ago I started my journey of investing in physical art pieces; an investment with a meaning, an Artventure I want to share with you. As a software developer, machine learning engineer, and data analyst, I want to follow a data-driven approach to finding artworks for affordable prices…Art5 min readArt5 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Feb 19, 2021Member-only5 Reasons Why I Want to Invest in Art This YearLife is full of surprises; until last Sunday, I wasn’t interested in Art at all — As a kid, I visited many art galleries and museums while travelling through Europe in a caravan with my parents. However, I found it quite BORING. My sister, on the other hand, loved it, because she was painting by herself. …Investing4 min readInvesting4 min read
Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)·Nov 23, 2020Member-onlyEveryone who produces content needs an email list from day oneWhy it is important whether as a startup or as an author and how I learned the lesson — About two years ago I started writing articles on my personal blog about all kinds of topics. The goal was to train my writing muscle, because I had realized how important content can be for building up my own business. …Marketing Strategies7 min readMarketing Strategies7 min read
Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)·Oct 30, 2020Member-onlyAn easy way to find exciting niches for side hustlesWhile writing the article I found accidentally a surprising niche for ‘programming’ — You might have noticed that it is more difficult than you thought to find a niche within your passions. A data-driven approach will help you to find niches, business opportunities or to validate your ideas. However, sometimes there is too much competition in a niche. …Business4 min readBusiness4 min read
Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)·Oct 7, 2020Member-onlyThe Secret of Finding an Idea for a Business or Side Hustle…and why it’s often not about ideas — When I was looking for a gig on Fiverr for logo design, I experienced a moment of enlightenment. I searched for gigs to find the most suitable one for me. However, the search overwhelmed me with increasing duration, because there were simply too many providers. To be more systematic, I…Business Strategy6 min readBusiness Strategy6 min read
Jul 17, 2020Member-onlyWhy it’s important to validate business ideas with Minimal Viable Products (MVP)4 reasons why should never build the whole product in one go — In 2006 I started the development of a Unified Messaging Server as a side project; with the server, you were able to send out messages via E-Mail, SMS, Letters, Fax and other channels. The software was quite flexible by using a plugin concept for the different channels. My goal was…Business Strategy6 min readBusiness Strategy6 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Apr 23, 2019A practical example of Training a Neural Network in the AWS cloud with DockerHow to train a shallow neural network on top of an InceptionV3 model on CIFAR-10 within Docker on an AWS GPU-instance — My last article Example Use Cases of Docker in the Data Science Process was about Docker in Data Science in general. This time I want to get my hands dirty with a practical example. In this case study, I want to show you how to train a shallow neural network…Docker10 min readDocker10 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Apr 14, 2019Make A Living in Data Science and Not Trading Time for Money5 product ideas for Single Person Entrepreneurs — You made yourself a plan. You want to make a living in Data Science. Well, why aren’t you applying for a data science job then? There are tons of them right now, as we all know data science is hot right now. You tell me that you want to create…Data Science3 min readData Science3 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Apr 4, 2019Example Use Cases of Docker in the Data Science Process…or how to avoid the It-works-on-my-computer-but-nowhere-else-problem — The excellent comic by Jeff Lofvers illustrates what you often face in software development but also in data science. You are preparing a data analysis or predictive model, but when you want to share it, then it does not work on someone else machine. It fails, because libraries are missing…Docker7 min readDocker7 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Mar 20, 2019Image aesthetics quantification with a convolutional neural network (CNN)Project report for training a MobileNetV1 based convolutional neural network (CNN) with only 14,000 images with transfer learning — Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash I. Definition Project Overview The “A picture is worth a thousand words” stresses how important images are in the modern world. The quality of images, e.g. influences our decisions in different domains. Especially in eCommerce, where we cannot touch things they are essential. …Deep Learning16 min readDeep Learning16 min read
