There is one thing that I have missed quite a bit throughout my career in the data field: qualitative, hands-on data related professional education. 

With the growth ambitions for 2023 - in which recruiting talent will have an essential role - finding a way to offer qualitative education for newly hired professionals had the highest priority. 

I have been following JADS for the last years, and through the course of 2022 the idea arose to set up a partnership. 

After getting in touch and explaining the premise of Function over a couple of calls, we met up at JADS university. It is impressive, to say the least. 

From this insightful visit, we eventually ended up composing the 3 year professional education path as you find it in our 

A big thanks to Chantal Stevens from JADS (TU/e since January) for her efforts and enthusiasm.

Content Source Maps bridge content silos across your enterprise organization, delivering powerful workflows to work with content at scale.

Hyped! Our partnership with JADS Data Science University 

I am thrilled to announce the launch of the new website for Function Data!

For the past 1.5 years Function has had the opportunity to work with great clients, whilst finetuning its proposition and growing its business. Now, there finally is a website that reflects the ambitions and tells the story on how we make data work.

We build data cultures. Why? Because over the last 7 years, it is what I have seen projects succeed or fail by. I have seen great data initiatives with limited resources and money, and I've seen the biggest inconsistencies where the former and the latter seemed to be unlimited.

I have learned that technical solutions to solve data problems are a utopia, and that the best people that can hired will not be able to turn a company into a data-first organisation on their own.

As with most things in life, the best solutions are nuanced, and not one size fits all... However, there can be an approach that is universal, that serves as a framework for every organisation to innovate, that allows for custom needs and adapts to ongoing changes.

I have tried to concretise something like that for data projects.

What I have come up with is something that goes back to the (50+ years old) framework of Process, People and Technology, which I adapted to Approach, People and Data.

A culture is all about behaviour and beliefs. We try to establish a movement in every organisation that positively reinforces these behaviours and beliefs about data. We do so by integrating an approach that works smoothly, resulting in data that can be trusted, all facilitated by passionate enthusiasts.

Too often working with data is still perceived as frustrating and difficult, while it should be the exact opposite. Data should make work easier and decisions better, simple as that. That is why one of our core values became: ‘

’. Beliefs about data should not be complexity, it should be clarity.

Lastly, behaviour is – quite obviously – about doing things. That is why our focus is always to work on something.

 Sometimes doing something wrong is the fastest thing to getting something right.

Every year I select a keyword for the year. 2021 was 'Begin' and 2022 was 'Establish'. 2023 is 'Growth'. I have started Function, established and verified its relevancy in the market and all is now aligned to help more companies forward together together with – soon - a team of ambitious enthusiasts.

I hope you enjoy our storyline and that it triggers your interest. It has been hard work creating this and we are quite proud of it.

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I am thrilled to announce the launch of the new website for Function Data! 

A web application that explains Function's philosophy on how to build valuable data cultures, in collaboration with our clients. Using a solid approach, good tech and even better people. 






17-1-2023

Hyped! Our partnership with JADS Data Science University

4-1-2023

The launch of Function's new website: sharing Function's philosophy.