andrewxhill
Ideation skills are super important for effective team work. Collaborative ideation is the process where you tell me an idea, I try to identify any weakness or missing piece, augment the idea and hand it back to you. I have a good friend that I love to ideate with. We often will grab beers and...
andrewxhill
In my post last week, I started digging into the challenges of getting ideas to move quickly in a startup culture. The post briefly summarizes four years of observation, and only near the end did I start to get at the current state of idea flow in the office. In reality, the topic of idea flow is...
andrewxhill
A few years ago, I was part of a collaboration doing research on communities of soil microbes. In the research, I was taking sequence data from soil samples, building phylogenetic trees, and trying to find interesting hints of the universe within the exotic soils from mountain tops, glacial...
andrewxhill
This post is going to be short. Basically, CartoDB runs on the coolest database in the world, PostgreSQL. Because it runs on such an amazing open source technolgy, we often get to tap into amazing advances and amazing documentation of methods that come from the community. One really nice write-up...