2021 was the best year so far!

Dilan Jayasekara — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 12:48:46 +0000

2021 and Dilan Jayasekara.

The greatest learners don’t just consume, they contribute and Dilan achieved this in several ways in 2021.

👉 1️⃣ Firstly, there’s us, the Jayasekara.Blog where he covers topics ranging from Data Science to Programming to Poetry – vital to growing well-rounded Data Scientists who appreciate the magic that comes from combining science and art

❇️ Web: https://lnkd.in/gFkTvbt8

👉 2️⃣ Secondly, there is his contribution to the AWS Community where he has now been accepted for their Community Builders

Program for Data and Analytics. The program offers technical resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to AWS enthusiasts and emerging thought leaders who are passionate about sharing knowledge and connecting with the technical community.

👉 3️⃣ Dilan has been invited to speak to Japan’s AWS User Group's 'JAWS Pankration 2021' virtual conference in November.

❇️ Post: https://lnkd.in/gRXiJhxc.

❇️ More Info: https://lnkd.in/gwqbH4dM

👉 4️⃣ Then comes the most interesting project - Since childhood, Dilan has always wanted to do something that combined the logic and reasoning of science with the passion and creativity of art. Finally, after many years of education, experimentation, and exhaustion, he figured out how to combine

the two with a special project – Cestine Music Analytics.

❇️ Web: https://www.cestine.com/

❇️ LinkedIn page: https://lnkd.in/gnjE-GmM

❇️ Listen for free: https://lnkd.in/gjj47Q5q

👉 5️⃣ He did his first podcast episode with an AWS consultant where he speaks about how DevOps can help data science and what's lacking in the data science market.

❇️ Post: https://lnkd.in/gzx5VTTB

❇️ Listen for free: https://lnkd.in/gwTpk_mm

👉 6️⃣ Learning is not just building leadership skills or technical skills, It's a combination of all the possible skills you can absorb. Dilan was able to expand his Business Rio Engineers to the Asia Pacific region in 2021.

❇️ Rio Engineers: https://lnkd.in/g5wqWRsW

👉 7️⃣ Last but not least, Dilan created an opportunity for himself during extreme uncertainty, in an entirely new country with English as his second language. He embodies the mindset and spirit of what Australia’s next generation of ICT Professionals need to be, which is

synonymous with the intrinsic goals of ACS. As a result of that, Dilan was recognized as a finalist nominee for the 'Emerging ICT Professional of the Year' award as part of ACS's annual Digital Disruptor Awards.

❇️ Post: https://lnkd.in/gde5ESgC

❇️ Finalists announced: https://lnkd.in/ggdfTN-7

2021wrapped

Make 21% more money during the week at your Pub using music data

Dilan Jayasekara — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 04:11:15 +0000

Everyone knows beer and music go hand in hand. At the point when you plunk down to have a drink, it is likely because you’re relaxing. Music is also used to relax, as it occupies brain space that is normally consumed with stressful thoughts, such as work. Thus, people often listen to music while drinking beer.

As a pub owner, surely you already knew this. But what you don’t know is that you can convert this human nature to increase revenue while keeping your customers happy if you know the rules of the game!

Findings

“94 UK pubs took part in research, a mixture of ‘music’ pubs and non-music pubs. On Friday and Saturday, the average sale was 48% more in music pubs. Even on weekdays, the average sale was up 21% in music pubs. On average music, pubs made the equivalent of $545 (AUD) more per day on drinks sales alone. At weekends this rose to as much $1,188 AUD per day.”[1]

***But the key factor is, You can’t expect the 21% increase by playing “any song” or the “Top 50-week” or “Taylor Swift” on Spotify!!!!!!!!!*****

You live in 2021 where everything is data. If you’re still one of the businesses without a loyalty card system and you haven’t decided on a way to collect behavior data of your customers, You are gonna regret it in 2 years!!

Why in two (2) years? Because “Live Music Restaurant” and “Live Music Pub” are skyrocketing in google search results with the beginning of 2021.

At Cestine Music Analytics, We believe “Music is Not Just Instruments Anymore”. They are unstructured data files that we can start analyze after certain steps. And then we can consider the demographics of your customers, break it down by days/time they come in, and create a model to predict the best music/songs to play, which decade the music should be from, does it have to be acoustic, Instrumental only, More tempo,.. etc.

The bottom line is — You need to have a curated playlist to play at your pub for your customers for each day of the week! Because you should seriously consider upskilling the pub game to the next level.

Follow Cestine Music Analytics for all the new updates regarding Music Data Analytics (This is the very first article of more to come in this domain) and connect with me on LinkedIn.

Thank You.

DEV Community: Dilan Jayasekara

2021 was the best year so far!

2021wrapped

Make 21% more money during the week at your Pub using music data