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Open Source Analytics with Beestat

From Concept to Reality: Serving a Community With beestat’s Free and Open Source Analytics

The Prequel Story I became a homeowner for the first time in 2010. I knew nothing about owning a home, and somehow even less about HVAC systems. The one thing I had going for me was a passion for learning and doing. I learned about air handlers, heat pumps, and not to put the thermostat […]

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Building Science Institute

The Value of Transparency & Trust in the Home Rating Industry: A Building Science Institute Story

I’m Connor Dillon, Quality Manager for Building Science Institute, Ltd. Co. (BSI). While my title might give it away, I’m an oversight agent that ensures verification companies are doing what they claim to do. We hold them accountable to American National Standards (ANSI) and federal program requirements. I fell into this industry and remained for

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Monitor High Performance Computing Systems Health with Psychart

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is a modern data center, home to one of the most powerful high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the world for scientific research in genetics, physics, geology, and more. To ensure optimal performance by NERSC systems in support of science, the infrastructure team at NERSC has to closely

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Performing Residential Building Controls Research with Open Source Tools and aggregating data to ensure the net energy spend of a community stayed below a certain threshold.

Performing Residential Building Controls Research with Open Source Tools

My name is Cory Mosiman and I come from the smart buildings space in the commercial world. I went to grad school to study MPC (model predictive control) for buildings at CU Boulder under Gregor Henze. I learned a lot about smart building technologies and started consulting for commercial building owners on technology strategy for

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Sales Hacking with n8n, Lemlist, Pipedrive, and ChatGPT

Through my companies and writings, I found that in B2B sales, efficiency is king, and the quest for the holy grail of sales automation continues in the wake of ChatGPT. In this post, I’ll share my sales automation process, which relies heavily on n8n, an fair-source (similar to open-source) workflow automation tool that anyone can

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“Be the Hub, Encourage Spokes”

The Open-Source Ethos If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “Open-Source”, we’re glad you’re here. You can read [this post] about what open-source is, but here is a quick summary for our purposes today. Open-source is a term that, at its core, refers to something that can be freely accessed, used, modified, and shared by anyone.

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