How likely are you to recommend Delighted to a friend? 10/10

Announcing BigQuery ML, a capability inside Google BigQuery that allows data scientists and analysts to build and deploy machine learning models on massive structured or semi-structured datasets. Learn more on the Google AI blog → goo.gl/3yBGJe

The London-based Flourish team are looking for an intern to work with them this Autumn. This looks like an awesome opportunity to work with a really nice team on a cutting edge data visualisation product and platform flourish.studio/jobs/internshi…

#dataviz folk - Can you point me in the direction of the best reference on cultural interpretations, and accessibility, of colour in the context of safety and danger. As in red ~ {stop, danger}, green ~ {back to safety, go}, amber and yellow ~ {warning}, at least to some people.

All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders: a16z.com/2018/09/02/sal… Superb mini course on software product sales from a16z (via @BenedictEvans)

We're hiring for a couple of roles here at @Track24ltd: 1. A UX/UI product designer, & 2. A quality assurance software engineer. Come and make a positive impact on the safety of thousands of folk working for a diverse set of organisations around the world. track24-2.workable.com

I've seen it's #WorldValuesDay today. Here at Track24 we've worked on our values in the past and came up with a succinct trio: 1. Delight the customer. 2. Do things, tell people. 3. Find better paths. We hire and assess impact against these values.

This London-based team are doing interesting work on the seeing, understanding and presenting of questions, answers and narratives, aka #dataviz - check out their work.

Things you don't expect to hear from a prospective fourth passenger on an otherwise smooth Citymapper Smartride: "Is this ViaVan?" :-)

This looks like an interesting move towards a sustainable business model for Citymapper - becoming a transport aggregator and subscriptions service? Companies like CommuterClub have attempted pieces of this puzzle.

Some data tools I'm loving at the moment Stitch Data, #BigQuery, and #GoogleDataStudio. You'd be hard pushed to do analytics engineering with a lower total cost of ownership, including making the results available to everyone in your company.

Great to see this significant new contact tracing effort from Apple and Google! Go team Tim/Sundar!

Hey UK folks, the COVID Symptom Study has 3M+ app installs and are now looking to raise £1M to continue their research. Donate here: uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/ch…

Holy crap. This week I've been using Parabola for the first time to perform a 15 stage data transformation and feed the results back to my team where they want it in Google Sheets. Insanely cool and well designed piece of #NoCode tech from @parabolahq

Thanks Idean UK for hosting this inspiring panel session today. I'll be back next week for more!

The good folks at dbt have launched their first free online course on dbt fundamentals - the analytics engineering workflow. Check it out! courses.getdbt.com/collections

Interesting take on the new feedback loops of the modern data stack. Aside from this, Tomasz Tunguz's blog is chock full of great writings on topics like engineering, data, SaaS markets. Recommended.

Coming up tonight in London: #1 London Analytics Engineering meetup, with talks from Katie Hindson from Lightdash, and Ben Roberts from Brooklyn Data Co. (a Velir company) meetup.com/london-analyti…