Interview
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Belgian Ministry of Defence opens internal data since 2009 and centralizes access to enable cross‑domain comparisons between logistics, HR, finance and operations, overcoming database access, turf politics and Excel-only users who lack data modeling. The stack includes Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana with plans to introduce Spark and Scala, and experiments with Node and Mapbox/Turf.js. The community runs Startupbus 72‑hour hackathons (≈1,000 alumni, ~15 events) that produced projects like Instacart (multi‑billion valuation).
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Data-driven initiatives at Belgian MoD
- 0:44Data project launch in 2009
- 1:46Tracking logistical data in deployments
- 2:51Cross-domain data access challenges
- 3:55Lessons learned in data access
- 4:38Limits of internal data projects
- 5:24Startup Bus empowering entrepreneurs
- 7:11Role of Startup Bus conductor
- 7:32Notable Startup Bus projects
- 8:35Entrepreneurial community growth
- 9:39Startup Bus 2015 details
- 10:23How to join Startup Bus
- 10:45Exciting projects to follow
- 13:54Entrepreneurs to watch
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