Joost Plattel

To enable target marketing towards startups and investors alike, I helped Fundsup create a single database for campaigns and meta-data for their platform.

In two weeks I created the first REST API for a chatbot service that Watermelon is offering to their clients.

Together with Colliers we created the Quantified Workplace, an experiment in which we tracked physical activity, heart-rate, computer usage, productivity and personal scores troughout the day.

Based on LinkedIn data, I created insights for The Ministry of the Interior.

At one of the stands of a flea market during Kingsday here in the Netherlands, I found an old plane.

Past week we spend a day at a brewery!

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

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

My first real project that got a bit out of hand and developed in a business while I was a student.

Input your name and get your own personalized Mondrian!

A small utility that enables automagic fetching of messages of our government.

Below is my wishlist, if there’s something I’ve done for you and you would like to give me something in return, this could serve as a list of inspiration. ✌️ Physical stuff, trinkets and/or activities A light mill.

I co-founded the QS Amsterdam group & started the QS Conference in Europe.

A (almost) monthly newsletter stocked with the stuff I find on the corners of the internet!

Last year before I went on holiday to Portugal I had the opportunity to give a talk at the Quantified Self 2017 Conference in Amsterdam.

This weekend I spend my time on electronics, with a specific goal in mind, automating the tracking of a fermentation vessel that I use for brewing.

As I’ve been doing for the past 7 years now, I made a movie out of all the 8:36pm pictures I took this year.

For Sustrans in the United Kingdom I made a custom dashboard that allows people to gain insights into their own mobility based on the Moves app (sadly, now deprecated!)

Most of the work I do is software related, but sometimes I do dabble in hardware.

Facebook recently released Prophet, a library that makes it easy to create predictions based on time-series data.

Happy new year!

It took me a while, but I managed to write this post about the thing I’ve been spending some time on in the last few months: brewing beer.

This summer I spend 2 weeks in Italy together with Chantal.

For SETUP I contributed on several projects by building prototypes on the topics on ethics, privacy and technology.

On sunday the 10th of June I left my parents place on a double-bike.

How can we use personal data to improve the way we do our work?

On the 14th of March 2016 I gave a short talk at TEDxYouth Groningen, and the video is finally online!

Online services tend to change their functionality or interaction.

So far today has been enjoyable, until around noon when someone texted me with a url pointing to nu.nl, showing an article about the Data Protection Authority telling me it is forbidden for employers to use wearables to track their employees (also on twea…

Just a couple of days ago I read a post from Atlassian explaining some new features, but the most interesting aspect was that they explore gracefully revealing depth.

I’ve been thinking about and exploring transparency a lot lately.

The dutch government and other (bigger) organisations seem to have a habit to annoy people.

This has been on my tinker-list for around 4 years, and I’ve finally got around doing it.

Another year passed an I’m due to update my projects page and create another one for next year!

A few weeks ago I gave a lecture in Ghent, a beautiful city and so I decided to spend the weekend at an AirBnB host to enjoy the city!

Technology is making it easier to collect data, for example phone usage.

Long overdue, but now I have some time to spend writing a blogpost.

I’ve been on holiday for most the past month.

Two months ago I spent some time before a camera for a documentary series of the VPRO.

And it’s beer!

I’ve been on a little holiday!

In the past few months I’ve been building more and more dashboards for clients.