New enviornment... new profile pic?

Below is my initial post discussing my profile pic pickle - I created this during testing not realising that this section was to stick around - will keep it for entertainment purposes :-).

Now for a proper introductions:

I’m Martin, known by my handle martindddd in the old forum. I discovered KNIME back in 2017/2018 and funnily enough initially prioritised learning a BI tool… my poor rational at the time was that KNIME looked a little like “Windows 95” and I didn’t (yet) get the concept (well if you try to use KNIME with Excel data, but instead of replacing the sheet with 5-row-complex-formula, you load exactly that sheet… you certainly missed the point entirely 😁).

Moving on a few years I actually had a challenge where a Financial Model that I have been building to perform complex accounting calculations was hitting its limit for very large projects. We explored a couple of directions, one of them was using KNIME to build the logic and output a flat file, that can be pivoted and consumed in BI tools. Where a lot of other tools failed, KNIME could do it. That’s when I really started to get hooked =).

I’ve used KNIME Analytics Platform and KNIME Business Hub by now extensively and started building a career on becoming a KNIME Expert - I’m running two businesses - Finnovation Flows as my freelancing brand and DataNautics as a joint effort with fellow community members @Mike Wiegand and @actionandi .

Along the way I’ve also grown very fond of the KNIME community - having contributed many solutions in the “old” forum, joining KNIME podcasts, running KNIME Webninars - my small claim to fame is that my team and myself manged to become “runner up” in the inaugural Game of Nodes Tournament 🗡️

My general career background is finance, accounting and controlling and my career took me from Germany to Australia, to UK and back to Germany - and that’s also where my focus lies these days - making finance professionals lifes easier by deploying and teaching KNIME.

Excited about this new platform and looking forward to the next step in the evolution of the KNIME community :-)

Hi guys,

glad to be amongst the early birds in this “new place”.

Given the opportunity to start fresh - given that this somewhat feels like pushing the “hard reset” - I’ve really been loosing sleep over one key question:

Is it time to abandon:

And to start anew?