Management

Management articles by Daniel Pradilla about project management, sales, delivery, teams, planning, communication, and practical execution.

Minimum Viable Model

A lot of the discussion around AI model routing starts from a common idea: don’t use the most powerful model if a cheaper one can do the job. Microsoft Research has explored this multiple times. In Hybrid LLM, BEST-Route, One Head, Many Models and, more recently in 2026, Switchcraft, the objective is broadly the same:… Continue reading Minimum Viable Model

Creating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript

Crossfilter is a JavaScript library initially designed by Square to explore large multivariate datasets in a web browser. It basically allows you to create sorted indexes and feed them to a charting library like D3, and enable the user to filter by clicking and dragging, even when sifting through 200.000 rows in a 5MB file:… Continue reading Creating interactive visualizations of large datasets using JavaScript

Data + Design

A team of over 50 people have collaborated in Data+Design, a book about preparing and visualizing information. It’s a thorough but simple introduction to data collection and visualization, very thoroughly written and chock full of great advice.   It’s open-source too, published in its present form using O’Reilly’s Atlas e-publishing platform, which produces very clean,… Continue reading Data + Design

Two Dropbox alternatives

Like everyone else, I’ve run out of space in my Dropbox and my Google Drive. Besides, I’m low on space in my hard drive, so I’ve been looking for a solution that enables me to do manual backups, to have some mp3 and video files in an off-site and relatively safe place. So, I’ve been… Continue reading Two Dropbox alternatives