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Mikael Ahonen

Inspiration | Attitude | Stories

12.04.202212.04.2022Data Science

An undocumented product_id parameter in Pipedrive API to attach products to deals

I found an undocumented product_id parameter in Pipedrive API to attach products to deals. The issue is reported to Pipedrive dev team.

SaaShop valittu vuoden Pipedrive kumppaniksi EMEA-alueella vuonna 2021.
16.02.202212.04.2022Business

My Pipedrive partner SaaShop nominated as the EMEA Partner of 2021

SaaShop nominated as the Pipedrive EMEA Partner of 2021. I announced my co-operation with SaaShop recently.

My company Yet Another Data Agency and SaaS licence platform SaaShop start a Pipedrive cooperation.
02.02.202212.04.2022Business

My Pipedrive business has been aquired by saashop.com

My part-time company has signed a contract with Finnish SaaShop to move all my existing Pipedrive customers under their business.

Alternatives for a free data science workspace.
25.12.202129.12.2021Data Science, Machine learning platforms in cloud

Free data science workspaces

Google Colab, Databricks Community Edition, Visual Studio Code and Dcoker are some options to create a free data science workspace.

27.11.202115.12.2021Data Science, Machine learning platforms in cloud

Comparison of machine learning platforms in major clouds

Comparing the major machine learning platforms AWS SageMaker, Azure Machine Learning, Google Vertex AI and Databricks.

Example of a simple machine learning process.
21.11.202126.11.2021Data Science, Machine learning platforms in cloud

What is a machine learning platform?

What is a machine learning platform? Introducing different components such as workbench, MLOps tools and cloud computation.

Koneoppimisen hyödyntäminen ennakoivassa huollossa. Kaksiosaisessa sarjassa asiaa kustannusäästöistä ja esimerkki Python-kielellä.
29.10.202027.10.2020Data Science

Machine learning in predictive maintenance

Machine learning in predictive maintenance. The two-part blog series provides insights for cost savings and an example script in Python.

How to fool a web service about your actual location? In an experiment I pretended being in Ireland while traveling in Sweden.
28.10.202021.11.2021Data Science

Faking your geographical location to a web service – A hobby project

How to fool a web service about your actual location? In an experiment I pretended being in Ireland while traveling in Sweden.

Difference between Data Science and Data Engineering 1. Data platform built by a Data Engineer 2. Predictions and recommendations developed by a Data Scientist
17.08.202025.12.2021Data Science

Difference between data scientist and data engineer roles

In my opinion the big difference is that a data scientist focuses more on business problems while data engineer solves technical problems.

Review about DataCamp data science courses. Read the review about the online training and get familiar with pricing and service offering.
13.08.202010.02.2022Data Science

DataCamp – Learn data science online

Experiences from DataCamp online training. Structured data science courses are easy to organize for yourself or a team.

Databox demo with an interactive report embedded on to an web page. Combine data from multiple sources and share easily with Databox.
13.08.202021.08.2020Software

Databox for enterprise reporting – Review and demo

Databox enables elegant reports in a SaaS interface to be shared and published both internally and outside the organization.

The article goes through the PySpark execution logic and provides guidelines to optimize the speed and performance.
09.02.202009.02.2020Data Science

PySpark execution logic and code optimization

The article goes through the PySpark execution logic and provides guidelines to optimize the speed and performance.

Pipedrive Essential and Advanced comparison of pricing and features. When to choose Pipedrive Advanced or Essential for your company.
29.01.202029.01.2020Software

Pipedrive Essential vs Advanced – Comparison of features and pricing on 2020

Pipedrive Essential and Advanced are by far the most popular plans among my customers. A comparison of different subscriptions.

Clustering time series data with SQL. The purpose is to prove that doing data science doesn't always require fancy tools. Examples in this repository might be helpful, if you must use SQL instead of proper data science tools such as python. Thus this repository is not a comprehensive guide for time series data clustering. Even though clustering is often connected to machine learning, this showcase relies only on logical decision making. I have focused on IoT related data in the field of predictive maintenance.
10.11.201910.11.2019Data Science

Clustering data using SQL – An example with industrial IoT data

Clustering time series data with SQL – Nice 3D visualization using simple logic. Python notebook example in GitHub with industrial data.

Spark and Python tutorial for data developers. The example has been ran on AWS cloud computing platform.
07.10.201904.10.2019Data Science

Spark + Python tutorial for data developers

A tutorial for parallel computation with Spark and Python. The example has been ran on AWS cloud computing platform.

AWS Glue service works especially well for big data batch processing.
01.09.201901.09.2019Data Science

Introduction to AWS Glue for big data ETL

AWS Glue service works especially well for big data batch processing. Read the full post from data.solita.fi.

Excel Power Map-ominaisuus on tarkoitettu paikkatietojen visualisointiin. Katso turvapaikanhakijadatasta tehty demo-video.
15.07.201904.11.2019Data Science

Excel Power Map – Spatial data visualization as a time series

Excel Power Map is designed to visualize spatial data. Watch the demo video about visualizing annual asylum seeker data.

Finnish language stemming and lemmatization in python.
23.06.201913.08.2020Data Science

Finnish stemming and lemmatization in python

I wrote to Solita’s blog about text analytics with the headline “Finnish stemming and lemmatization in python”. The post has code examples.

Pipedrive expert partner certificate. Experiences from Pipedrive. Image ratio 16/9.
02.06.201913.08.2020Software

Migrating CRM to Pipedrive – Experiences and tips

Experiences from Pipedrive CRM implementation. Pipedrive is simple for the sales people, but the migration from an old CRM requires planning.

Blogging about professional topics is an excellent way to increase visibility for yourself and your company. Read the tips and experiences!
09.05.201908.02.2022Self improvement

Blogging about professional topics – Experiences and tips

Blogging about professional topics is an excellent way to increase visibility for yourself and your company. Read the tips and experiences!

Video blog series - Industrial Engineering and Management in career. Picture from Tampere, Pyynikki.
08.04.201908.02.2022Self improvement

Industrial Engineering and Management in career – Video answers to questions from students

Video blog series – Industrial Engineering and Management in career See the answers in the Youtube playlist. There are English subtitles. Thanks Lassi Mäkinen for […]

4. Enter the Pipedrive promo code to redeem the extended trial period. Fill the rest of the sign up form and click "Next".
16.02.201908.02.2022Software

Extended free trial period for Pipedrive CRM

Simple instructions to sign up and get started with Pipedrive CRM. Redeem the extended trial period for Pipedrive.

Experiences from funding application classification by text analytics
27.01.201908.02.2022Data Science

Experiences from funding application classification by text analytics

Experiences from funding application classification by text analytics

MSCI World index history between 1969-2018.
09.12.201808.02.2022Business

Should you start investing if a depression is coming? – Data analysis

Investing when a depression is coming. Is it bad moment to start investing to stock index that are usually seen as sage bets?

Example: How to combine machine learning and business?
15.05.201808.02.2022Data Science

Combining machine learning and business – Practical example

I give an example about machine learning use case in a format that should be understandable also for less technical people.

Read about Solita team's solution in a hackathon organized by Hiab. The task was to take advantage of data to maximize machine uptime.
01.11.201708.02.2022Data Science

Maximizing uptime in Hiab hackathon

Read about Solita team’s solution in a hackathon organized by Hiab. The task was to take advantage of data to maximize machine uptime.

Sarakkeiden muuttaminen riveiksi Excel PowerQuery työkalulla.
01.10.201708.02.2022Data Science

Unpivot columns to rows with Excel PowerQuery

Unpivoting columns to rows with Excel PowerQuery. Watch 30 seconds video how to do it without any formulas.

Python code to automatically list header fields of multiple CSV files. The original use case was related to data warehouse documentation.
01.09.201708.02.2022Data Science

Csv headers to list using Python

Python code to automatically list header fields of multiple CSV files. The original use case was related to data warehouse documentation.

Parsing first name, last name and company from email in Excel - Download Excel template.
22.02.201708.02.2022Data Science

Parsing first name, last name and company from email in Excel – Download Excel template

Parsing first name, last name and company from email in Excel Do you have a list of emails that you want to split by first […]

Landscape in Lesotho.
26.01.201703.10.2021Around the world trip, Free time

A nation that seized the time – Lesotho

Lesotho is a nation that time feels to be seized in. As the Grande finale of my trip I did a real grand old man of all hikes.

I was able to walk to grocery store along closed railway from my hostel. So don't try this at home!
23.01.201703.10.2021Around the world trip, Free time

Robberies in South Africa

9.1.2017 – 21.1.2016 I had bought a bus ticket from Cape Town to Johannesburg from BazBus bus company. With the ticket I was able to […]

Note app - Google Keep vs Evernote
10.01.201708.02.2022Software

Google Keep vs Evernote – Requirements for your note app

Personally, I use a note app to store ideas, observations, travel tickets and debts that should be quickly accessible.

Cape of Good Hope, Cape Peninsula, South Africa
08.01.201703.10.2021Around the world trip, Free time

Cape Town

The top attraction of Cape Town were beautiful Table Mountain and the Cape of Good Hope. The society has it problems, though.

Selfie, Iguazu falls, Brazil. At this stage falling water and wind made conditions very wet.
06.01.201703.10.2021Around the world trip, Free time

From the Edge of the World to the Devil’s throat – South America

Second part from South America. The nature pics are worth seeing! I also made a bus ticket seller so angry that I got in trouble.

Toggl - Work hour logging
04.01.201708.02.2022Software

Toggl – Recording work hours to log has never been such enjoyable

Toggl is a mobile app for work hour recording and management. Toggl is not great because of the uniqueness but simplicity.

Bariloche, Scenery from Circuito Chico lookout
29.12.201603.10.2021Around the world trip, Free time

Traveling through Patagonia

This time I was totally alone. Once again I had no plans prepared and the plane would land in a few hours to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Hidden Brain - Podcast Review
27.12.201608.02.2022Society

Hidden brain – Shankar Vedantam, NPR – When you want to know how the world works

Podcast about society. Examples of topics: climate change, crime, women in leading positions and how is it like being rich?

Does it make sense anymore to buy Christmas presents? We took this kind of trailer loads to landfill eight times.
18.12.201608.02.2022Society

Does it make sense anymore to buy Christmas presents?

Christmas is the festival of joy but buying presents is not so easy. Purchasing presents has became a social compulsion.

Freakonomics Radio Podcast
10.12.201608.02.2022Society

Freakonomics Radio, Stephen Dubner – Exploring the hidden side of everything

The best podcast series on my opinion. The podcasts last typically from 30 to 60 minutes and during that time they try to find an […]

Queenstown, New Zealand
06.12.201603.10.2021Around the world trip, Free time

A place like a story book – New Zealand

The whole country was like a painting. Let’s start with a mellow video of the jump to chilly mountain stream in New Zealand.

Knowledge worker's tips for better productivity
15.11.201608.02.2022Self improvement

This is how I make my every second productive

Power methods for knowledge workers to get your productivity to the next level: Technology, Ergonomy, Work habits and Task automation.

Sustainable happiness - Pie Chart. How much genetic makes from happiness? A LinkedIn video course "Happiness Tips" by Chris Croft.
13.11.201608.02.2022Self improvement

Happiness Tips, Chris Croft, LinkedIn Learning

I didn’t have high expectations for this happiness video course based on my previous experiences. But this video course happily surprised me!

Newcastle obelisk view - Australia, NSW
11.11.201603.10.2021Around the world trip, Free time

Work stress that shouldn’t exist – Newcastle, Australia

Newcastle, Australia. If I would be planning a torture chamber to a medieval castle I would contact Tiger Air company for sure.

Out of the box thinking - Sometimes pure logic leads to better results than the actual ideology.
10.11.201608.02.2022Society

Hated by everybody Trump got the second highest number of votes and became the President of USA – This is out of the box thinking

Sometimes pure logic leads to better results than the actual ideology. What is out of the box thinking and how does it relate to Donald Trump’s victory?

Free Excel course.
04.11.201606.11.2019Free Excel course, Software

The Free Excel Course Online

The free Excel course. Compact video lectures with exercise materials for training. The lectures have an optimal order for learning.

Introduction to Excel for Excel beginners.
01.11.201608.02.2022Free Excel course, Software

Lecture 1 – Introduction to Excel

Introduction to Microsoft Excel. What is workbook and worksheet? How to add and delete worksheets? Where to save and open Excel files?

Formatting cells in Excel.
01.11.201608.02.2022Free Excel course, Software

Lecture 2 – Formatting Cells in Excel

Learn how formatting cells in Excel works. Change font color, autofit column width, merge cells and use bold text and bordered cells.

The basics of Excel formulas.
01.11.201608.02.2022Free Excel course, Software

Lecture 3 – The Basics of Excel Formulas

In the Excel formula basics lecture we’ll first mix numbers and text to create generic sentences and then we use SUM and IF.

Copy and paste in Excel.
01.11.201608.02.2022Free Excel course, Software

Lecture 4 – Copy and paste in Excel

It’s possible to paste only specific components of you data such as formulas, values or formattings. Make you workbook great again.

Number formats, dates and time in Excel.
01.11.201608.02.2022Free Excel course, Software

Lecture 5 – Number formats, dates and time in Excel

Number formats allow you to preserve the original cell value while displaying it as percentage, currency, date or time format.

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