I am getting mobilised slowly to start building demonstration videos of the amazing (to me at any rate) stuff I am doing with my social and crime data, and my freshly upgraded MicroStrategy 2019 system.
There’s a lot of moving parts. Working out and acquiring the best microphone to record voice, the screen capture software that does not break the bank – or require a 15 grand Mac to operate… Then there’s getting the new Microstrategy components ready – a demo account for my project (can’t run everything as administrator in real life, I want to show what a consumer experience looks like), polishing the dossiers and cards, checking that the story and the dossier chapters hang together correctly. Plus there’s the copyrights and legal things to consider, and I have to be careful that my ad-libbing does not stray into contentious territory, so I am scripting – loosely – my upcoming demos.
The thing is, it’s fun. I wouldn’t do it if it was tedious… I have two core values. The first one is “Neither bored nor ignored”. The second is “Only if I have to”. It explains why I am not a CEO, I suppose. So this video demonstration endeavour respects the spirit of my values. It’s not boring, I have a very small but precious amount of likes on my posts, and I want to do this. I am not being forced, on the contrary.
Still, it’s taking shape. First, i have an ident prototype for my upcoming channel (where I will host it is still a mystery):
It’s a prototype, testing the screen capture. The fractal tree is generated by hippiefuturist.
The title is a working title. I have a couple of secret weapons: My brother and one of my sons. The former, musician and composer, is not aware yet that I am going to ask him to compose a title track, and some background music. The latter is doing a digital media degree, and is going to polish up the various offerings I aspire to produce: Podcasts, demonstrations, interviews, outside broadcasts… all in good time.
The first offering will be a demo of MicroStrategy’s HyperIntelligence, leading into an exploration of Crime in the Home Counties – see Crime in the Home Counties: A data discovery journey – Part 1.
Here’s Hyper working in Chrome and a bit more slick:
Here’s the dossier about the crime exploration in the Home Counties:
I hate promises, because I don’t like breaking them – but I have the ingredients almost where I want them, so I just need to make the time to produce my first demonstration video. It’s imminent!
I have a lot of data stories to tell…
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