Joost Plattel

Data-strategist, API builder, beerbrewer & long distance hiker

Hello!

I’m Joost Plattel, a data-strategist. I help organizations and individuals develop and build strategies for data-related questions and opportunities.
I connect API’s, work with large datasets, models or visualizations. All to solve these questions, discover patterns or explore new opportunities.

The main question I try to answer is:

How do we turn all the data we have available into information, to knowledge and finally wisdom. Can we use if for good?

My clients range from startups to the government, large organisations or individuals. People recommend my for my unique combination of curiousity with applied solutions. Wondering what else I do? Have a look at my other projects I run and subscribe to my mostly monthly newsletter!

Recent Posts

Automating my brewery (Part 2)

In the first part, I looked at the frame/enclosure for everything that we need to automate my own brewery. In this part I wanted to show which parts are on the inside based functionality. but first a picture of the enclosure while it’s being build: The enclosure contains the following things: Backside: 230V IN: Voltage in, the main power supply for all devices in the enclosure 230V OUT: Switched by the solid state relay based on the PID algorithm RJ12 Female connecter: Input for the temperature sensor that is used by the PID algorithm as input Frontside: Traffic-light interface: lights to indicate what is on.

Nov 17, 2019 2 min read

Automating my brewery (Part 1)

As an avid home-brewer I own a setup that I use for testing out recipes and recreating my favorite beers with my own twist. Over the last years, my gear has improved a bit and one of my main projects is automating my own brewery. I wanted to document this, so maybe other people could use this as well. My brewing system consists of a Brew in a Bag (BIAB) system, build on a modified Weck-kettle.

Oct 21, 2019 1 min read

The Idea Machine

Boredom is something we all experience in different ways. And the solution isn’t always that easy. You might dwell for a certain amount of time on the couch.. Or restless as you are think about thinks you might want to do, but they never seem to come up. I think a certain part boredom is necessary to facilitate ideas and other serendipitous discoveries. However there might be times, in which you would like for the pure boredom to disappear.

Aug 17, 2019 1 min read

Eerst Hulp Bij Abonnementen (EHBA)

One of my first projects for learning programming and navigating around the digitale sphere was building a visualization based on transport data. As I use public transport for all travel I naturally wanted to know how I spend my money on it. This question has been popping in and out of my mind ever since and more recently I had some time to tinker again. This time I was wonder if I could recommend subscriptions based on historical data from a person.

Jan 6, 2019 1 min read

8:36pm 2018

As we close out 2018 and start out the new year fresh, the one thing left to do is make a video of all the 8:36pm photos that I took that year. And when uploading this video I checked out when I started, which is 2010. Thus this marks the 10th year that I’m doing this… Here’s the video: Phew, racking in around 3000 photos so far… For all I can say is that I will probably be going somewhere with this.

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EHBA

Eerste hulp bij abonnementen offers a data-based recommendations train travel subscriptions.

Personalstats

A little web application that pulls in data from Workflowy to make it more understandable

Ambassador for the Digital Society School Amsterdam

In 2018 - 2019 I am one of the ambassadors for the Digital Society School located in Amsterdam

Sous-vide Rice Cooker

I modified my rice-cooker so I can use it as a sous-vide apparatus.

DIY Longboard

I created my own longboard from scratch (with a Mondrian pattern on the back).

De Padvinders

Go find a geek. Someone who understands Gmail, Outlook, and other basic tools. Pay him to sit next to you for an hour and watch you work. Then say, ‘tell me five ways I can save an hour a day.’ Whatever you need to pay for this service, it will pay for itself in a week. ~ Seth Godin