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· 9 min read

I've been interested in emotions ever since I've become aware of them. Maybe because I was unsure how to process and interpret them, in both myself and others. How do people express emotions and why do they do it so differently? Is being scared the same as fearing? Can I really understand or experience sirva vigad if the word doesn't exist in my native language?

My solution to deal with this personal struggle was to read and research about emotions. I know I know, you can't learn everything from books, especially not human feelings and interactions, but nevertheless I've discovered some fascinated learnings about emotions.

This is why in university I chose to research verbs of emotion, more specifically to investigate the semantic characteristics of Romanian verbs of emotion.

· 5 min read

If you're into productivity and organisation hacks, you've probably heard of (and even got to love) Notion, the all-in-one workspace app that allows you to take notes, create databases, manage projects, and schedule tasks--all with highly customisable designs.

At n8n, we've been using Notion since day one for the internal organisation: from meeting notes and onboarding checklists to content calendars and product research. Imagine our excitement when we heard that Notion launched their API (beta), thus opening new possibilities of using the app in a more personalised way!

· 5 min read

Google creates some of the best services on the web for professional use cases, with G Suite being the go-to choice for many businesses. One of the main advantages is having an ecosystem of apps for various specific uses: from organisation and productivity tools to databases and language processing services.

n8n offers 15 nodesfor the most popular Google apps that you can combine to build powerful automated workflows. In this article, we'll give you some ideas of processes you can automate, so that you can boost productivity in the workplace, save time from repetitive tasks, and focus on what matters.

Specifically, we'll show you six workflows that use various Google nodes to automate analytics reports, database monitoring, onboarding processes, event registrations, feedback analysis, and file management--there's something for everyone!

· 11 min read

If you've ever struggled with setting up pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading data (so-called ETL jobs), managing different databases, and scheduling workflows -- know that there's an easier way to automate these data engineering tasks.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a no-code n8n workflow that processes text, stores data in two databases, and sends messages to Slack.

· 4 min read

Cinephiles and lovers of glam rejoice this Sunday – it's Oscars Award Ceremony time! Due to Corona, this year's 93rd edition was postponed from February to April 25th – the latest in the history of the award. I was personally happy about the delay, because it gave me more time to analyse some data and come up with this blog post.

On this ocassion, I was curious to do some text mining on the acceptance speeches. Specifically, I analysed the speeches of the Best Directors between 1941 and 2019. I used a dataset from Kaggle and added missing data for 2017, 2018, and 2019 directly from the Academy Awards Acceptance Speech database.

· 6 min read

n8n is a fair-code licensed tool that helps you automate tasks, sync data between various sources, and react to events --- all via a visual workflow editor. Our team has been using Mattermost for internal communication since the very beginning, and in time we have developed a ChatOps practice by integrating Mattermost with our workflows.

In this article, we present five of our favorite use cases of n8n with Mattermost, for both work productivity and team engagement.

· 4 min read

March 21st is World Poetry Day, a day dedicated to one of the most treasured ways of expression around the world and linguistic diversity. I have always loved reading poetry with creative rhymes and melodic rhythm, and lately I have come to appreciate free verse poetry as well. In any case, I would like to make time to read more poetry and discover new international poets.

To automate this goal, I created an n8n workflow that sends a poem translated into Romanian in my Telegram chat every day. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to set it up in four steps.