Creating a whole new customer-facing experience for billing and payments. Working with the business to create a new approach for users to self serve. Giving users the ability to solve issues without needing to contact call centres.
Virgin Media
2020-2021
Senior UX/UI Designer (contractor)
There was a clear plan from the company perspective. Virgin Media wanted to empower its
users to
solve any issue's themselves. With that in mind, we wanted to make journeys as easy as
possible
to understand.
We never wanted users to struggle to find the information they
needed. They
also
always wanted to be proactive in communication with the end-user.
The bill overview was the main landing section of the billing area, and as such, it was the
first section I wanted to tackle. I wanted to utilise the working patterns of the already
released sections of the experience. The last thing a user wants to do is to have to relearn
the patterns of a website midway through.
I introduced an easier way for the end-user to navigate throughout the months of their
contract, as well as giving them the ability to compare the cost of this month to previous
ones. The only way to do this on the existing website was to download each bill
individually, so we made this an easy to see design element, which could then be expanded
upon in the future, by incorporating additional spending
The work had huge success within this project, showing that 9/10 users
could solve the problem using the information we presented to them. The data for
this result came from a containment rate of 89.5% of users clicking that
they needed no additional help in the on-screen dialogue presented to them after their
journey.
With a big change in the way the billing area looked and functioned, I pitched the idea of a
walkthrough guide for both new customers and people who were being brought through into the
new version of billing.
I was inspired by the onboarding style of phone applications,
which allow a user to learn about new sections of the UI as and when they needed them. We
had some difficulties with being able to explain certain features as the user may not have
interacted with their bill in a particular way, and I didn’t want a new area to pop up in
the future without an explanation, whilst also not wanting to force a new onboarding the
next time a customer opened the web page.
In the end, I decided on using real billing data but showing all the possible fields a user
may face. This allowed them to see every area they might interact with in the future, which
could also be hidden when they finished the onboarding session.
I took the prototype
through a few iterations of user testing, focusing on what a customer would expect to be
shown, as well as incorporating as much data tracking from the existing website.
This in turn ensured that the most clicked items were shown to a user so they knew
where to find them in future.
Notifications gave us the opportunity to give warning of events to the users when they
arrive on
pages
I wanted to ensure that users were aware of changes to their bills, as well as reassure
them
when they had actioned something on the website concerning approach billing. I decided
to
use the notification pattern that was in use in other areas of the project. By
introducing a
level system of notifications. We could create easy to dismiss notifications when no
user
action is required up to emergency customer interaction is needed events.
Long term these could also be used to make users aware of future billing events. An
example
is a higher than expected bill due to On Demand content being purchased previously. By
solving the problem of unexpectedly high costs we make the user feel more in control of
their billing.
Existing data showed that the number of users navigating to the billing area from
outside
the virgin media website was skewed dramatically towards not being logged in. We wanted
to
ensure that the high number of users in a logged-out state could still try to solve
their
problem, before being pushed to log in. With that in mind, I reimagined the journeys for
anonymous users. These designs were just about to be launched as I joined the project so
I
made them a focus in the first few weeks.
I reduced the number of clicks a user would need to act before coming to their selected
page
by improving the flows to a more logical paginated state, at the same time reducing some
of
the videos and additional media which was slowing the web page down and which data
showed
was not been interacted with in any way.
Alongside giving users a pay to see and interact with their bill, A goal of the project was to allow users to also pay their bill or any fines they may have incurred in their account. To do this we explored various aspects of not just the actual bills, but how could we ensure that the customer knew any upcoming payments which were due to be paid in the near future.
Being able to pay the bull was one of the most important aspects of the whole project,
but
users were constantly frustrated with the existing usability of paying their bill.
I simplified the page, enabling the user to save their most common cards, to
bring
it in line with industry standards.
By utalizing the end users secure access, we created the ability for a user to pay their
bill
without being logged into their account. Through user testing we noticed this feautre
was
commonly requested, Most notably in two use cases. One was users with elderly relatives
that
they took the responsibility for, and also parents who had children in university.
This got brought into a short sprint of work as it was seen as not much work for
an
instant improvement to the experience.
For a subset of users, paying their bills is not financially achievable.
These more vulnerable customers were given the ability to make a partial payment,
allowing
them to pay a percentage of their bill with the rest of the bill being added onto a
future
payment.
I explored different variations of micro-interactions to enhance the feature. By leading
the
eye with animation it ensures that the user is able
Virgin Media had a problem that was affecting the ability to interact with customers in a way
which allowed them to solve customers' problems. It was noted on the user analytics that many
people were not logged into the service when using the Help sites.
We had data which showed that customers were unwilling to log in due to the conflicting nature
of the user data Virgin had, the Virgin Mobile information was different to Virgin Media which
was different again to Virgin Money or Virgin Trains.
This information was not shared between the different businesses so customers had frustrationns
with forgotten passwords and user names.
With the first releases of the Virgin Care updates, there was no way for a user to log in. This
was causing issues for the initial subset of users who were taken through the new pages.
There was work going on in the background to release a Log In phase, but it not being
available caused major issue’s for the Billing team as we had to force the user through the
older experience to log in before redirecting them back to the new design, a frustrating
incohesive and incomplete experience.
I created a short-term approach as a stop gap to solve the problem for my team, ensuring that
users could continue their journeys without needing to rely on external sites while maintaining
Virgin Media’s strict security protocols. This quick feature improved monthly user’s completing
a Log In journey by 35.8% compared to the existing live site. A huge improvement for the team
The usage stats of the project showed that existing customers were only logging into the
site
less than 20% of the time.
Feedback from users showed that there was a variety of problems with the login journey,
but
due to security reasons, these wouldn’t be fixed in a reasonable time.
Our data team reported that the main issue that users noted was forgetting their
username
and/or password with 9/10 customers saying they would rather just exit the site rather
than
trying to reset the password.
With this in mind, I was given a short spike to investigate an alternative way for users
to
log in. After numerous ideation sessions with the wider agile team, I settled on the use
of
a One Time Password entry.
This allowed a user to receive a code via SMS or Email, they could use that code to log
into
their account. In line with Virgin Media security protocols, this was also restricted to
being on their local WiFi network associated with the account to protect private
information.
The first iteration of this feature was only used to allow someone to pay their bill as a
proof of concept on both the design and technical side and was met by unanimous approval
in
customer feedback sessions
User flow's provided to the development teams allowed me to explain interaction decisions without visual design impacting the understanding of a user jouser journey
As the user feedback is under an NDA, I can only share some stats and results from our
user
testing sessions.
Across the features I worked on, we saw a 200% increase in satisfaction vs other areas
of
the new project.
We also saw 93.4% of people in our testing sessions responding positively to my 'Quick
Pay'
feature with most participants commenting on its ease of use and clear messaging as well
as
90% of people feeling that they could solve their issue without needing to phone a call
centre, which was the main goal of the project.


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LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/sergeyolontsev
Contact: http://SergeyOlontsev.com/
I have been working with SQL Server since SQL Server 2000 version as a database administrator, developer, consultant and trainer, focusing on high availability and disaster recovery solutions, ETL, troubleshooting and performance tuning, developing high performance solutions . I'm a regular speaker at SQL Server user group meetings, SQLSaturday events and other conferences. An owner of MCM certification and MVP award on SQL Server.
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/edwinmsarmiento
Contact: http://www.EdwinMSarmiento.com
Edwin M Sarmiento is the Managing Director of 15C, a consulting and training company that specializes in designing, implementing and supporting SQL Server infrastructures. He is a 12-year former Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Microsoft Certified Master from Ottawa, Canada (but he’s originally from the Philippines) specializing in high availability, disaster recovery and system infrastructures running on the Microsoft server technology stack. His background in Unix has taken him to the world of DevOps and Docker to containerize SQL Server. He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pturley
Contact: http://www.sqlserverbiblog.com
Paul is a Principal Consultant for Pragmatic Works, a Mentor and Microsoft Data Platform MVP. He consults, writes, speaks, teaches blogs about business intelligence and reporting solutions. He works with companies around the world to model data, visualize and deliver critical information to make informed business decisions; using the Microsoft data platform and business analytics tools. He is a Director of the Oregon Data Community PASS chapter user group, the author and lead author of Professional SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services and 14 other titles from Wrox Microsoft Press. He holds several certifications including MCSE for the Data Platform and BI.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentozar
Contact: https://www.BrentOzar.com
Brent Ozar loves to make SQL Server faster. He created sp_Blitz and the SQL Server First Responder Kit. He shares what he's learned at BrentOzar.com.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paultebraak
Contact: http://www.paultebraak.wordpress.com
Paul te Braak is the principle consultant of abaX Data and has over a decade of experience in delivering reporting and business intelligence solutions across a variety of verticals. This experience includes systems auditing, planning and business simulation models that predict activity through heuristic rules imbedded into the model. He holds several qualifications including MCT, CA, MIT, MComm.
Contact: http://www.ssis-components.net
Oliver Engels is CEO of oh22data AG, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Germany specializing in CRM and BI. His special interests are Azure, Data Governance and Integration, Visualisation Tools like SSRS, Power BI, Tableau, R, and SharePoint. He has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5 and is a founder and Board member of PASS Germany, a PASS Regional Mentor, and runs the Frankfurt PASS Local Group. For more than seven years he is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and a Microsoft pTSP.
Contact: http://blogs.solidq.com/dsarka/Home.aspx
Dejan Sarka, MCT and Data Platform MVP, is an independent trainer and consultant that focuses on development of database and business intelligence applications. Besides projects, he spends about half of his time on training and mentoring. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. Dejan Sarka is the main author or co-author of eighteen books about databases and SQL Server. Dejan Sarka has also developed many courses and seminars for Microsoft, Radacad, SolidQ, and Pluralsight.
LinkedIn: https://pt.linkedin.com/in/pjtmatos
Contact: http://www.paulomatos.com
From the dawn of 1977 he came; moving silently down through the years; living a not so secret life, struggling to reach the time of another SQLSaturday Portugal when the few who remain will be speaking to the last. No one has ever known or care that he was among you... not even now!
LinkedIn: http://dk.linkedin.com/in/regisbaccaro
Contact: http://theblobfarm.wordpress.com
Regis has more than 15 years of experience with SQL Server, SharePoint and .Net as an architect and developer. R#233;gis is a SQL Server MVP since 2014 and a frequent speaker at SQL conferences, a PASS Regional Mentor and the founder of SQLSaturday Denmark community event. He is also a certified industry trainer on the APS/PDW platform. In his freetime he is an avid runner, cook and farmer.
Contact: http://www.ssis-components.net
Oliver Engels is CEO of oh22data AG, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Germany specializing in CRM and BI. His special interests are Azure, Data Governance and Integration, Visualisation Tools like SSRS, Power BI, Tableau, R, and SharePoint. He has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5 and is a founder and Board member of PASS Germany, a PASS Regional Mentor, and runs the Frankfurt PASS Local Group. For more than seven years he is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and a Microsoft pTSP.
Contact: http://www.jenstirrup.com
Jen is a database strategist, small business owner, SQLFamily and community advocate, public speaker and blogger. Jen was elected Director-At-Large (elect) for the Professional Association of SQL Server, responsible for the EMEA regions plus the Virtual Chapter portfolio. Jen is passionate about all things data and business intelligence, helping leaders derive value from their Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and Office365 investments.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mihail-mateev/1/6b3/4b1
Contact: https://mmateev.wordpress.com/
Mihail Mateev is a technical consultant, community enthusiast, PASS Regional Mentor for CEE, chapter lead, Microsoft Azure MVP, Microsoft Regional Director. He works as a Senior Solutions Architect at EPAM Systems, focused on Data Platform, IoT and cloud related solutions. He also worked many years like a Technical evangelist in the Infragistics. Last years Mihail was focused on various areas related to technology Microsoft: Data Platform, Visual Studio, ASP.Net, Windows client apps, Data Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Michael also has a PhD in cloud computing area. He is a university lecturer on Smart Homes and Smart Energy IoT Solutions.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabeelderhem
Nabeel is a data culture passionate who works at Microsoft as a Data Platform Architect. His +15 years of experience with data platform technologies moved him through OLTP, DW, BI, ML, and cloud. As an ex SQL Server MVP (until joining Microsoft), Nabeel is still a regular speaker on international events.
Contact: https://sqland.wordpress.com
Etienne Lopes currently works as a SQL Server DBA at Celfinet. Working with SQL Server since 1997, member of sqlport community (www.sqlport.com), regular speaker since 2012 at SQL Server events such as: SQLSaturday and 24 Hours of Pass. Blog: http://sqland.wordpress.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pturley
Contact: http://www.sqlserverbiblog.com
Paul is a Principal Consultant for Pragmatic Works, a Mentor and Microsoft Data Platform MVP. He consults, writes, speaks, teaches blogs about business intelligence and reporting solutions. He works with companies around the world to model data, visualize and deliver critical information to make informed business decisions; using the Microsoft data platform and business analytics tools. He is a Director of the Oregon Data Community PASS chapter user group, the author and lead author of Professional SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services and 14 other titles from Wrox Microsoft Press. He holds several certifications including MCSE for the Data Platform and BI.
Contact: http://blogs.prodata.ie/author/bob.aspx
Bob Duffy is a SQL Server MVP from Dublin, Ireland who is MCA, MCM. and Analysis Services Maestro certified. Bob works as a Database Architect at the Prodata SQL Centre of Excellence where he specializes in business intelligence and performance tuning.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/retracement
Contact: http://tenbulls.co.uk
Mark Broadbent is a Data Platform MVP and SQL Server MCM with more than 20 years of experience working with SQL Server and principal of SQLCloud, a consultancy specializing in concurrency control and highly available solutions. He is the founder of the UK's SQLSaturday Cambridge (its first and largest), SharePoint Saturday Cambridge, the Hybrid Virtual Chapter and the East Anglia SQL User Group.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pedromsimoes
Contact: http://pedromsimoes.wordpress.com
Works in Glintt - Global Intelligent Technologies (http://www.glintt.com) as a systems administrator and DBA in some specific situations; has about 20 years experience and has some certifications which can highlight the following: MCP, MCSA 2003 MCDBA, MCSE 2003, MCTS, MCITP (Windows 2008 + SQL2008). It is one of the oldest and most active members of the Portuguese community SQLPORT.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentozar
Contact: https://www.BrentOzar.com
Brent Ozar loves to make SQL Server faster. He created sp_Blitz and the SQL Server First Responder Kit. He shares what he's learned at BrentOzar.com.
LinkedIn: https://pt.linkedin.com/in/quilson
Quilson Antunes #233; DBA na hmR - Health Market Research, licenciado em Inform#225;tica de Gest#227;o pelo SLA Campus Lisboa - Laureate International Universities. No decurso do seu percurso profissional adquiriu experi#234;ncia na coordena#231;#227;o de recursos e compet#234;ncias em infra-estrutura e desenvolvimento de processos ETL. Cumulativamente possui s#243;lidos conhecimentos em administra#231;#227;o, desenho e desenvolvimento de bases de dados em SQL server desde a vers#227;o 7
Artur Vieira, has a degree in Computer Engineering awarded by the ISIG and a Post-Graduation in Business Intelligence at Instituto de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa. With several years of experience in Development and Support to BI platforms. In 2011 joined the PFE SQL/BI Team at Microsoft Portugal where we provides strategic and operational support on the MS Business Intelligence Stack, working with SSAS, SSIS, SQL Parallel Data Warehousing, Development and Workshop delivery on BI Stack.
LinkedIn: http://tr.linkedin.com/pub/turgay-sahtiyan/15/b46/682
Contact: http://www.turgaysahtiyan.com/
Turgay Sahtiyan has been working in IT industry over a decade and he currently works as a PMC (Premier Mission Critical) Solution Engineer at Microsoft.He is based in Turkey and primarily giving proactive and reactive services with solution based approach to top enterprise customer in the MEA region.Before joined to Microsoft, he was one of the SQL Server MVP in Turkey,in addition he is founder and former president of SQLPass Turkey Chapter.(Detailed BIO http://www.turgaysahtiyan.com/about.aspx)
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/edwinmsarmiento
Contact: http://www.EdwinMSarmiento.com
Edwin M Sarmiento is the Managing Director of 15C, a consulting and training company that specializes in designing, implementing and supporting SQL Server infrastructures. He is a 12-year former Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Microsoft Certified Master from Ottawa, Canada (but he’s originally from the Philippines) specializing in high availability, disaster recovery and system infrastructures running on the Microsoft server technology stack. His background in Unix has taken him to the world of DevOps and Docker to containerize SQL Server. He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases.
Contact: http://aka.ms/sqlscott
Scott Klein is a senior consultant with SQL Solutions Group with over two decades of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server. Prior to SSG, Scott spent almost 10 years at Microsoft, traveling the globe as a technical evangelist training and speaking about SQL Server and Microsoft’s Azure data services. Scott’s recent focus has been on advanced analytics, including big data and IoT, providing real-world training to help bring intelligence to your data. Scott has authored several books focusing on data and data analytics. Scott is continuously striving and looking for ways to help developers and companies grok the wonderful world of data.
LinkedIn: http://at.linkedin.com/pub/milos-radivojevic/1b/7bb/290/de
Contact: https://milossql.wordpress.com/
Miloš Radivojević is a database consultant located in Vienna, Austria. He is Data Platform MVP and specializes in SQL Server for application developers and performance and query tuning. Currently, he works as a principal database consultant in bwin GVC (the largest regulated online gaming company in the world). He is co-founder of the SQL Pass Austria and speaks regularly at local and international database conferences. He is also co-author of the books SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide, SQL Server 2017 Developer's Guide and Mastering SQL Server 2017.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ruben-pertusa-lopez/24/ba3/b0
Contact: http://www.sqlpass.es
Ruben is a Global BI/BigData Manager and Global Data Lead Architect at DUFRY HQ, member of PASS Spanish Group and founder of SQLSaturday Barcelona and Madrid. MCP and MCSA in SQL Server 2012 and also awarded with Microsoft MVP Data Platform. With more than 9 years of experience, he has been working in top projects for leading worldwide companies and teaching in the SolidQ BI Master. He has presented at the SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2014 Spanish launch event, PASS BA Chicago, TechNet Webcasts, Microsoft Partner Program and SolidQ Summit events.
Contact: https://onlysearch.wordpress.com/
Allan Mitchell is a SQL Server MVP and runs elastio, a small consultancy helping customers to make informed decisions about their data storage and integration. His focus is on enterprise search as well as real-time data integration.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmitchell/
Contact: http://www.TimMitchell.net
Tim Mitchell is a business intelligence architect, author, and trainer. He has worked with SQL Server for over a decade, specializing in data warehousing, ETL/SSIS, and reporting. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Texas AM at Commerce, and is recognized as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Tim is a business intelligence consultant and principal at Tyleris Data Solutions. Tim is an active community speaker and volunteer, having spoken at over 100 events including the PASS Summit, SQLBits, Dev Connections, SQL Intersection, and scores of SQLSaturdays. He blogs at TimMitchell.net, and tweets at @Tim_Mitchell.
LinkedIn: http://pt.linkedin.com/in/murilomiranda/
Murilo Miranda is a blogger, speaker and SQL Server MVP from Portugal. Nowadays he#39;s a Cloud Operations Engineer at DataStax. Murilo’s passion for working with people coupled with his honesty have helped him establish effective, meaningful relationships with his clients. When he isn’t working, he can be found enjoying life with his family, watching football and playing Playstation.
Contact: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/hugo_kornelis/default.aspx
Hugo is co-founder and RD lead of perFact BV, a Dutch company that improves analysis methods and develops computer-aided tools to generate completely functional applications from the analysis deliverable. The platform for this development is SQL Server. In his spare time, Hugo likes to share and enhance his knowledge of SQL Server by frequenting newsgroups and forums, reading and writing books and blogs, and attending and speaking at conferences. Hugo is also a SQL Server MVP since 2006.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9488495amp;trk=tab_pro
Johan Bijnens is a database firefighter, involved with SQLserver since 2000, who works at Aperam Genk as member of the Industrial IT support department. Involved in designing architectural solutions based on the Microsoft SQL Server Platform. Performing operational performance and troubleshooting support in co-operation with the dev teams.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmitchell/
Contact: http://www.TimMitchell.net
Tim Mitchell is a business intelligence architect, author, and trainer. He has worked with SQL Server for over a decade, specializing in data warehousing, ETL/SSIS, and reporting. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Texas AM at Commerce, and is recognized as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. Tim is a business intelligence consultant and principal at Tyleris Data Solutions. Tim is an active community speaker and volunteer, having spoken at over 100 events including the PASS Summit, SQLBits, Dev Connections, SQL Intersection, and scores of SQLSaturdays. He blogs at TimMitchell.net, and tweets at @Tim_Mitchell.
LinkedIn: http://pt.linkedin.com/in/webcaravela/
Contact: http://www.nikoport.com
Niko Neugebauer is a Data Platform Consultant. A SQL Server MVP with over 20 years of experience in IT, he is passionate about the Microsoft Data Platform and community. Founder of the Portuguese SQL Server User Group and the main organizer of the first SQLSaturday event outside of North America (#78 Portugal), Niko speaks regularly at events such as PASS Summit, SQLRally, SQLBits, and SQLSaturday events around the world. Niko loves sharing information and knowledge and has authored over 130 blog posts on Columnstore Indexes, and regularly contributes to the open-sourced CISL library focused on Columnstore Indexes.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaswolter
Contact: http://www.andreas-wolter.com/blog/
Andreas Wolter is a Program Manager for SQL Server- and Azure Security at Microsoft. In this role he is working on Security features of SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance. He is currently focusing on “Separation of Duties”-concepts and RBAC-Integration. He has 18 years of experience with SQL Server before joining Microsoft and is the founder of Sarpedon Quality Lab, the Germany-based company specialized on SQL Server HA, Performance and Security. He is Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for SQL Server and Microsoft Certified Solutions Master for the Data Platform (MCSM) and was recognized as MVP for multiple years in row.
Bruno Basto, senior consultant #160;and senior trainer #160;at Rumos. SQL certified since 6.5 version (1998). Work with MSFT tools and infrastructure since 1992 in the financial, banking and insurance areas. Responsible for several training projects for software solutions with MSFT infrastructure. Speaker at several MSFT and SQLPass events.
LinkedIn: http://si.linkedin.com/in/matijalah/
Contact: http://milambda.blogspot.com
Matija Lah has more than a decade of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server, mostly architecting data-centric solutions in the legal domain. His contributions to the SQL Server community have led to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in 2007 (Data Platform), which he held until 2017. In 2008 Matija joined SolidQ as a Mentor, located in Central and Eastern Europe. He spends most of his time on projects involving advanced information management, and natural language processing.
Contact: http://kostjaklein.wordpress.com
Constantin is working at Syntax Systems GmbH Co. KG. He mainly deals with the design and development of solutions based on Microsoft products and technologies. Since 2010 he was each year designated Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the Microsoft Data Platform. In addition he is member of the board of Just Community e.V. (http://www.justcommunity.de) and PASS Deutschland e.V. (http://www.sqlpass.de). He also leads the .NET User Group Frankfurt/Germany (http://dnug-frankfurt.de). Find his blog at: http://kostjaklein.wordpress.com
LinkedIn: https://nl.linkedin.com/pub/peter-ter-braake/1/b87/1aa?
Peter ter Braake, SQL Server MVP, co-founder of the Dutch PASS Chapter and organizer of the Dutch SQLSaturday, teaches SQL Server since 2002. Teaching is for Peter the perfect opportunity to share his SQL Server knowledge and his enthusiasm for the product. Since 2008 he works as an independent contractor giving him the opportunity to use his classroom experience in the real world and use his real world experience in the classroom.
LinkedIn: http://at.linkedin.com/pub/milos-radivojevic/1b/7bb/290/de
Contact: https://milossql.wordpress.com/
Miloš Radivojević is a database consultant located in Vienna, Austria. He is Data Platform MVP and specializes in SQL Server for application developers and performance and query tuning. Currently, he works as a principal database consultant in bwin GVC (the largest regulated online gaming company in the world). He is co-founder of the SQL Pass Austria and speaks regularly at local and international database conferences. He is also co-author of the books SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide, SQL Server 2017 Developer's Guide and Mastering SQL Server 2017.
LinkedIn: https://pt.linkedin.com/in/fernandomarcal
Contact: http://sqlargonauts.com/
Fernando Mar#231;al is a father to two wonderful boys and husband to a lovely wife. Has been living and breathing Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence for the last 11 years (since version 8.0) and, as a paradigm of a good Portuguese, tries to be a specialist in every component of the stack. Works as an PFE at Microsoft and really enjoys everything that is business analytics related.
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Several form classes are provided with django-registration, covering common cases for gathering account information and implementing common constraints for user registration. These forms were designed with django-registration’s default backend in mind, but may also be useful in other situations.
A simple form for registering an account. Has the following fields, all of which are required:
The constraints on usernames and email addresses match those enforced by Django’s default authentication backend for instances of django.contrib.auth.models.User. The repeated entry of the password serves to catch typos.
Because it does not apply to any single field of the form, the validation error for mismatched passwords is attached to the form itself, and so must be accessed via the form’s non_field_errors() method.
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RJ has been working for several years in the medical industry; most recently in bioprocessing, and prior in vascular devices, optics, and sterilization. His responsibilities have been a unique blend of manufacturing, failure investigation, equipment design, team supervision, and project management. The content of his personal projects is no less diverse and has ranged from MEMS design and Hub Motors to passively powered microcontrollers and portable gaming systems.
When not striving to build a better mouse trap, RJ can be found refining his culinary skills, working on his next homebrew, or planning his next venture into the California wilderness.
Born and raised in Huntington Beach CA, RJ currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area.
RJ holds a Bachelor's and Master's in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in MEMS and microfabrication.
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It's the last day of July and the bees are working hard to meet their pollen quota!
This plant sure has the bees attention! This vibrant edible plant is in Desert Harvest Garden in the Water Conservation Garden.
Can you spot the bee? This bright flowered beauty can be seen in the Water Conservation Garden.
Check out the cute sweat bee! This is not the first time I have seen them on this shrub in the Herb Garden.
This bee-licious shrub has been used to improve the reproductive system. See it in the Herb Garden.
This Utah native thistle seems to 'bee' the talk of the town. Check it out in the Rain Garden of the Water Conservation Garden.
The bees sure love these semi-double white blooms.
Come see what all the bees are buzzing about!


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And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.


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The Macquarie University TeX Users group is for all students, staff, researchers, and interested folk wanting to learn, enjoy, and help others with publishing documents. We help people at MQ to publish professional and academic assignments, documents, and journal articles. We explore the technologies of Markdown, LaTeX , Overleaf, ConTeXt, and Pandoc.
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This is another Deep Q Learning demo with a more realistic and larger setup:
- The **state space** is even larger and continuous: The agent has 30 eye sensors pointing in all directions and in each direction is observes 5 variables: the range, the type of sensed object (green, red), and the velocity of the sensed object. The agent's proprioception includes two additional sensors for its own speed in both x and y directions. This is a total of 152-dimensional state space.
- There are 4 **actions** available to the agent: To apply thrusters to the left, right, up and down. This gives the agent control over its velocity.
- The **dynamics** integrate the velocity of the agent to change its position. The green and red targets bounce around.
- The **reward** awarded to the agent is +1 for making contact with any red target (these are apples) and -1 for making contact with any green target (this is poison).
The optimal strategy of the agent is to cruise around, run away from green targets and eat red targets. What's interesting about this demo is that the state space is so high-dimensional, and also that the sensed variables are agent-relative. They're not just toy x,y coordinates of some fixed number of targets as in previous demo.


As already referenced in the variables section, Ansible uses Jinja2 templating to enable dynamic expressions and access to variables. Ansible greatly expands the number of filters and tests available, as well as adding a new plugin type: lookups.
Please note that all templating happens on the Ansible controller before the task is sent and executed on the target machine. This is done to minimize the requirements on the target (jinja2 is only required on the controller) and to be able to pass the minimal information needed for the task, so the target machine does not need a copy of all the data that the controller has access to.
New in version 2.8.
The now()
Jinja2 function, allows you to retrieve python datetime object or a string representation for the current time.
The now()
function supports 2 arguments:
True
to get the current time in UTC. Defaults to False
See also


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PHOTOREC(8) Administration Tools PHOTOREC(8) NAME photorec - Recover lost files from harddisk, digital camera and cdrom SYNOPSIS photorec [/log] [/debug] [/d recup_dir] [device|image.dd|image.e01] photorec /version DESCRIPTION PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (Photo Recovery) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it'll work even if your media's filesystem is severely damaged or formatted. Pho‐ toRec is safe to use, it will never attempt to write to the drive or mem‐ ory support you are about to recover lost data from. OPTIONS /log create a photorec.log file /debug add debug information SEE ALSO testdisk(8), fdisk(8). AUTHOR PhotoRec 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011 Christophe GRENIER<EMAIL_ADDRESS>http://www.cgsecurity.org 2011 November PHOTOREC(8)


Apache CloudStack v4.8.0 Root Admin API Reference
getUploadParamsForVolume
Upload a data disk to the cloudstack cloud.
Request parameters
| Parameter Name | Description | Required |
| format | the format for the volume/template. Possible values include QCOW2, OVA, and VHD. | true |
| name | the name of the volume/template | true |
| zoneid | the ID of the zone the volume/template is to be hosted on | true |
| account | an optional accountName. Must be used with domainId. | false |
| checksum | the MD5 checksum value of this volume/template | false |
| diskofferingid | the ID of the disk offering. This must be a custom sized offering since during upload of volume/template size is unknown. | false |
| domainid | an optional domainId. If the account parameter is used, domainId must also be used. | false |
| imagestoreuuid | Image store uuid | false |
| projectid | Upload volume/template for the project | false |
Response Tags
| Response Name | Description |
| id | the template/volume ID |
| expires | the timestamp after which the signature expires |
| metadata | encrypted data to be sent in the POST request. |
| postURL | POST url to upload the file to |
| signature | signature to be sent in the POST request. |


A slapdash intro to Slick
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the for
Slick is FRM
It's:
A DSL for generating and executing SQL
That statically checks the types of your SQL
With a monad for describing SELECTs
And a different monad for combining queries
into transactions
What's it like
Start with a table:
class Coffees(tag: Tag) extends Table[(String, Double)](tag, "COFFEES") {
def name = column[String]("COF_NAME")
def price = column[Double]("PRICE")
def * = (name, price)
}
val coffees = TableQuery[Coffees]
Insert some values:
val insertActions = DBIO.seq(
coffees += ("Colombian", 101, 7.99, 0, 0),
coffees ++= Seq(
("French_Roast", 49, 8.99, 0, 0),
("Espresso", 150, 9.99, 0, 0))
)
You can get the id back on your assert too
//table users has an auto increment id, first name, and last name
val userId: DBIOAction[Int, NoStream, Write] =
(users returning users.map(_.id)) += (None, "Stefan", "Zeiger")
Pain Point #1 be very careful with the syntax. The type error
you will get if you change the grouping not friendly at all.
DBIOActions are monadic
val grandOldDuke = for {
//march our user up the database
id <- (users returning users.map(_.id)) += (None, "Stefan", "Zeiger")
//and march him back down again
users.filter( _.id === id ).delete
} yield id
val usedId: Future[Int] = dbconnection.run(grandOldDuke.transactionally)
What about queries?
They make a pretty cool monad too.
val q: Query[(Repr[String], Repr[String]), (String, String), Seq] = (for {
c <- coffees
s <- suppliers
if(s.id === c.supplier)
} yield (c.name, s.name)).sortBy(_.name.desc).drop(2).take(10)
//Equivalent to
//select c.name, s.name from coffees as c, suppliers as s
//where c.supplier = s.id order by name desc limit 10 offset 2
Get the DBIOAction to run by saying q.result
Let's look at a bigger example
Schema code gen
Slick has a code generator that can read your db's schema and generate
all the table description objects and row objects for your schema.
lazy val genTables = TaskKey[Unit]("gen-tables")
lazy val slickCodeGenTask = (sourceManaged,
dependencyClasspath in Compile,
runner in Compile,
streams) map { (dir, cp, r, s) =>
toError(r.run("slick.codegen.SourceCodeGenerator", cp.files, Array(
"slick.driver.PostgresDriver", "org.postgresql.Driver",
"jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/dataanalysttool",
"src/main/scala", "com.workday.search.relevance.database"
), s.log))
}
libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.slick" %% "slick-codegen" % "3.1.1"
genTables <<= slickCodeGenTask
TTFN
That's the basics, along with a few things that caused me to pull my
hair out. May you fare better.


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Snapshots of the clinical, mutations, CNVs, rnaseq, RPPA, mRNA, miRNASeq and methylation datasets from the 2015-11-01
release date (check all dates of release with checkTCGA('Dates')
) are included in the RTCGA.data
family (factory) that contains 9 packages:
For more detailed information visit RTCGA.data website https://rtcga.github.io/RTCGA. One can install all data packages with installTCGA.
If you have any problems, issues or think that something is missing or is not clear please post an issue on https://github.com/RTCGA/RTCGA/issues.
# installation of packages containing snapshots # of TCGA project's datasets ## Not run: # # ## RTCGA GitHub development newest versions # library(RTCGA) # ?installTCGA # # ## Bioconductor releases # source('http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R') # biocLite(RTCGA.clinical) # biocLite(RTCGA.mutations) # biocLite(RTCGA.rnaseq) # biocLite(RTCGA.CNV) # biocLite(RTCGA.RPPA) # biocLite(RTCGA.mRNA) # biocLite(RTCGA.miRNASeq) # biocLite(RTCGA.methylation) # # # use cases and examples + more data info # browseVignettes('RTCGA') # ## End(Not run)
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pause()
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AstroCult is an astrological natal chart generator built entirely in AngularJS. The goal of AstroCult is simpy to provide astrological information to the user, and to create a database of natal charts for comparison.


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This document describes a simple, self-describing, binary encoding for structured data. The base format defined here allows for nested values made up of dictionaries, lists, and atomic values without arbitrary size limits.
[brief description of Binary]
This format is being developed as part of Scarab, a framework for handling data and distributed computing. Scarab itself is being developed as part of Casbah, a language independent environment for writing applications that access a wide variety of data sources. Scarab also includes a plain-text, XML-based format comparable to the binary format. Scarab supports storage or transfer using other serialization formats as well.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119[1].
Within this draft, text enclosed within brackets (`[text]') represents issues or incomplete specifications.
LDO binary serialization (LDO-Binary) provides for the representation of data as dictionaries, lists, and the atomic types integer, float, opaque (string), and null. All values can have optional attributes, such as their type or encoding. Identifiers may be assigned to values and a value may be reused by reference.
Dictionaries are sets of key/value pairs. Keys and values may be of any type. This document does not define whether dictionary key/value pairs are ordered or if keys must be unique within a dictionary.
Lists contain sequences of values. Values may be of any type.
The atomic values--integer, float, and null--may be encoded either in the BER format described here or opaquely using strings. For example, the string "123" is semantically equivalent to the BER compressed integer 123.
LDO-Binary defines several types of atomic values: integer, float, opaque (string), and null.
Variable length encoding is used for integers, floats, and the length of opaque values so there are no bounds to the size of these values.
Floating point values (floats) are represented in decimal as a mantissa and an exponent.
Opaque values are used to represent both string values and binary values.
Null values are used to represent undefined values, comparible to NIL or NULL in many languages.
All values may have attributes associated with them to hold information describing the value, such as a type or encoding. Attributes are passed as a dictionary.
All values may have an identifier associated with them that will allow those values to be re-used later in the encoded data.
The binary format is described by the following grammar:
stream := magic version item* magic := #x89 'C' 'B' 'F' version := VERSION Major Minor item := define-id? attributes? ( atomic | list | dictionary ) | reference atomic := ( INTEGER-N | INTEGER-P ) Integer | ( FLOAT-NN | FLOAT-NP | FLOAT-PN | FLOAT-PP ) Mantissa Exponent | FLOAT-INF | FLOAT-NAN | OPAQUE Length String | NULL reference := REFERENCE Id define-id := DEFINE-REFERENCE Id attributes := ATTRIBUTES ( REFERENCE Id | define-id? dictionary ) list := LIST Length item* dictionary := DICTIONARY Length (item, item)*
The terminals "Major", "Minor", "Length", "Id", "Integer", "Mantissa", and "Exponent" are BER encoded integers.
"String" is an 8bit-clean value and can be used for any plain text or binary value.
The length of "String" is the number of octets contained in the string. The length of a list is the count of the number of items in the list. The length of a dictionary is the count of the number of key/value pairs in the dictionary.
"Id" values start at one (1) and increase sequentially.
The octets of a BER compressed integer represent an unsigned integer in base 128, most significant digit first, with as few digits as possible. Bit eight (the high bit) is set on each byte except the last.
[Issue: is BER the right name? ASN.1 uses the term but it doesn't match this usage. Possible solution: drop the term entirely.]
The explicit field types are defined as follows:
VERSION := #x01 INTEGER-N := #x02 INTEGER-P := #x03 FLOAT-NN := #x04 FLOAT-NP := #x05 FLOAT-PN := #x06 FLOAT-PP := #x07 FLOAT-INF := #x08 FLOAT-NAN := #x09 OPAQUE := #x0A NULL := #x0B LIST := #x0C DICTIONARY := #x0D DEFINE-REFERENCE := #x0E REFERENCE := #x0F ATTRIBUTES := #x10
[Issue: it may be possible to label these checks or provide an outline for implementations to copy so they can communicate what their limits are. It might also be useful to define default minimums or maximums.]
Several elements in this protocol have no defined upper limits on size or quantity. Implementations MUST perform sanity checks on data received to avoid buffer overruns and out of resource (memory, disk, etc.) conditions. The following elements are highlited for sanity checking:
- BER compressed integers
- The format for BER compressed integers allows for unlimited size. Implementations SHOULD check for integers outside the limit supported by the implementation (five (5) BER digits for a 32-bit value, ten (10) BER digits for a 64 bit value). Implementations that support large integer values for scalars SHOULD, nevertheless, check BER compressed integers used elsewhere in the protocol.
- BER integer overflow
- In addition to the gross size checking above, implementations SHOULD also check for bitwise integer overflow, including the sign for integer and float scalar values, when converting BER compressed integers to smaller integers.
- Opaque values
- Opaque values are explicitly sized, implementations SHOULD check that the size of an opaque value will not exhaust resources.
- Lists and dictionaries
- There is no defined limit to the size of lists and dictionaries, implementations SHOULD check that a list or dictionary being decoded will not exhaust resources.
- Attributes and dictionary keys
- Attributes are dictionaries and dictionary keys may be any item, possibly including their own attributes. These elements are recursive and can be of any size, implementations SHOULD check these values to ensure they are reasonable.
- Overall size
- Most elements are unlimited in size and recursive, implementations SHOULD check the overall size of the data being decoded and the depth of recursion to ensure they are reasonable.
This protocol does not contain any features for initiating actions.
The section Sanity Checks contains a checklist for ensuring the reasonableness of data being decoded.
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``If you must use a binary format, you can improve portability, and perhaps take advantage of prewritten I/O libraries, by making use of standardized formats such as Sun's XDR (RFC 1014), OSI's ASN.1 (referenced in CCITT X.409 and ISO 8825 "Basic Encoding Rules"), CDF, netCDF, or HDF. See also questions 2.12 and 12.38. -- comp.lang.c Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ List)
Perl modules NetCDF and PDL::NetCDF RFC 1832 XDR: External Data Representation Standard http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc1832.txt RFC 971 A SURVEY OF DATA REPRESENTATION STANDARDS http://www.java.sun.com/products/jdk/rmi/doc/serial-spec/protocol.doc.html Python's pickle.py ObjC?'s serialization (similar to pickle, tho) WDDX http://www.wddx.org/ http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-low-sdr-00.txt This document describes a human-readable, textual syntax for representing self-describing structured data. This representation was designed as a transfer syntax for loosely-coupled distributed applications where one cannot depend on sender(s) and receiver(s) sharing a schema for exchanged data. The syntax is compact, expressive, intuitive, and simple to implement.


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I’m a UX/UI designer and front-end developer who is currently working for Meteorcomm in Renton, Washington. Here I was able to work on two wonderful projects that gave me oppurtunities to hone my UX/UI and coding skills.
I thoroughly enjoy designing interfaces that provide positive experience and do whatever it takes to get it done. In every stage of the design process I strive hard to put together a simple, intuitive and usable designs.
I have a solid multidisciplinary background starting with Cognitive Psychology, Computer Programming, User Research and Interaction Design. I have a M.S. in Applied Cognition - with a specialization in HCI, from University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas).
In my free time I like to work on craft projects. As the saying goes ”One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” I especially focus on repurposing the discarded items into whole new fun, beautiful art works.
I also have a fascination towards designing interfaces for kids. As one of my side project I am currently designing a voice based game for kids of ages 3-5 years using Amazon’s Echo.
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SEETab is an android tablet application used by a team of researchers at ThinkLab (UT Dallas) to study child cognition. This game like research experiment was traditionally conducted using powerpoint, however since that method had practical difficulties and also because children nowadays are tech savvy, the research team decided to conduct such research studies on a tablet.
In this game like application, kids of ages 5-8 will see a set of images(Animals, birds, cars, etc.) and they can choose any one image to seek information based on their curiosity. Right after a short information about that item, children have to rate the quality of the explanation and can opt to know more detailed explanation on that item.
From start to end all the user actions are stored in the database to study the pattern of cognitive behavior. For example, which image was chosen, what was the rating given to the explanation and did the child opt for more information, so on.
Barrel Race
This android game application project aimed to recreate the traditional Barrel Race competition of the famous rodeo event. In this multiplayer game a horse rider attempts to complete a clover-leaf pattern around preset barrels in the fastest time. For maneuvering the horse rider around the clover shaped pattern of barrels, android device’s accelerometer sensor was used such that tilting the device moves the player’s horse in the game.
Easy Review Prototype App
EasyReview is a prototype app that I built to encourage people to change their behavior towards restaurant review/rating system. I observed a behavioral pattern among my friends where each person would look at the reviews before visiting a restaurant but almost never write a review in return after their visit even for extreme good or bad reviews which would benefit others.
With an aim to motivate everyone contribute to the system and initial need finding sessions, I found out that posting an experience as a review about the restaurant takes effort from the user and demotivates them even if they have a valuable review. So reducing the effort needed to post a review was imperative.
On that account, I designed an easy review interface that encourages every one to write the review in a much easier and quicker way.


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Interface definitions for a general Compensating Transaction framework based on PlatformTransactionManager.


Beautibook gives you an organized interface to add makeup looks to your look books and input/store information such as: (1) exactly what products and shades you used and where you used them, (2) the specific steps you took to achieve this look, (3) and attach photos to the look.
You can easily share any look you have stored in your look books through a direct link or through social media. You can also follow your favorite beauty gurus to view their makeup looks (including exactly what products they used and what steps they took)!
BeautiBook allows you to discover new looks and artists. You can search for makeup inspiration by searching through other people's looks filtering by product, color, eyeshadow shape, and more.


Elon Musk: About 150,000 orders thus far for Tesla Cybertruck
REUTERS: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Saturday (Nov 23) that there have been about 150,000 orders thus far for the electric carmaker's Cybertruck, which was unveiled on Friday.
"146k Cybertruck orders so far, with 42 per cent choosing dual, 41 per cent tri & 17 per cent single motor", Musk said in a tweet, adding separately that the orders were achieved without any advertising or paid endorsements.
The launch of the Cybertruck pickup suffered a setback when its "armored glass" windows shattered in a much-anticipated unveiling. The overall look of the electric vehicle had worried Wall Street on Friday.


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The RSS feeds of Medical News Today are used to retreive medical information headlines. There are 126 RSS feed categories consumed from this source.
Each RSS headline includes the following fields:
{{model.medNews.status}} {{model.medNews.status}} {{model.medNews.status}}
Claims data is stored in a CSV file that looks like an export from a relational database. This information is structured. The data is anonymized patients claim records which includes patient age, drugs prescribed, dates patient was seen, anonymous member id, anonymous pharmacy id, anonymous physician id, anonymous prescriber id, etc.
This CSV file can be imported into MarkLogic using MarkLogic Content Pump (MLCP) or using the button below.
{{model.claims.status}} {{model.claims.status}} {{model.claims.status}}
Member data is stored in a MySQL relational database. The identifier field for the Member records are pre-loaded to match with the anonymous member id field from the Claims data in order to show the claims data can be enriched when member data is imported. The import process utilizes MLSAM to enable MarkLogic to get data from the MySQL relational database.
The information stored in the Member table of the MySQL database can be previewed using the SQL Sandbox.
Each member record includes the following fields:
{{model.memberData.status}} {{model.memberData.status}} {{model.memberData.status}}
The Geonames website provides a download of US Postal Code Data. The download includes a latitude/longitude centroid for each postal code. The Geonames Postal Code data has been stored in a table in a MySQL relational database.
The information stored in the geonamesPostcode table of the MySQL database can be previewed using the SQL Sandbox.
The Geonames Postal Code data is used to enrich the Member data as it is imported. Each Member record includes a zipcode field that is linked the postalCode field in the geonamesPostcode table. This integration is implemented using MLSAM to query the MySQL database using the zipcode from each member record as it is being imported. The latitude/longitude fields from the Geonames data is added to the Member data. With the Member data including geospatial information, member data and claims data can be displayed/searched on a map.