The nation has been hit by a baking craze! Lockdown gave some of us more time to do some of the simple things in life, like baking, and, if you were lucky enough to get flour and yeast you could create some delicious treats! I've always enjoyed baking, so loved...
The world has been social distancing for some time now, and will be for a bit longer, depending where you live. To help put off or at least mitigate going stir crazy I thought I would share what I have been doing to keep up some sort of social life. Before the lock...
Lockdown started on the March 26 here in New Zealand, and following the Prime Minister's announcement on April 20th, we're looking at just an extra 2 business days in Level 4, before we move to Level 3 after the ANZAC long weekend. Level 3 means that...
We find ourselves in unprecedented times. All across the globe the impact of COVID-19 is being felt, it’s heart-breaking reading the stories of loss, the impact on societies, businesses and individuals as a result of measures put in place to restrict the momentum of...
This month OptimalBI is hosting a Data Science Pioneers documentary screening. The first screening was crowded and the rest of the sessions are booking up very quickly, so you might have heard about it already. I'm guessing, the selling point (although it's completely...
Probably you know that our boss Victoria supports many digital initiatives across New Zealand. One day she has shared with us one of the latest Digital Future Aotearoa initiative called Electric Garden. This is an Internet of Things solution for garden monitoring...
Last summer we brought you Foghorn, an email notification service which lets you know when a cruise ship is due in Wellington harbour. Well, it's back this summer too! You should have received some notifications in the last week or so if you're already signed up, but...
Earlier this year in a Christchurch auditorium packed with girls, their mothers, fathers and brothers - I learned just what a big deal Ada Lovelace was from the live performance show ADA ADA ADA. And WOW what a show it was. Employing the power of a programmable LED...
It's the third month of 2019 already! Can you believe it?! We can't, the year seems to be flying by at pace. In this newsletter, we've got a spotlight on chatbots as we have been implementing these for customers recently so are learning loads of new...
We use MongoDB as part of our daily life at OptimalBI, and we love it. We did notice that there's not really a Wellington user community, so we figured we'd better fix that! We're pretty happy to announce that there's now a MongoDB Meetup in Wellington! ...