I'm Vladimir Bugay, a tech entrepreneur on the edge of ML, data and analytics. I built a BI platform at Prognoz, co-founded Knoema, and led R&D at Wrike. 43D is home for what I make now: open-data sites about Cyprus and a cookie business.
Cyprus, in data
Four sister sites built on official open data. Each one is in English, Greek and Russian, and they share one stack and one design language.
Storage levels, inflows and drain forecasts for all 21 major reservoirs in Cyprus.
fragmata.info
186 hiking trails with GPS routes, elevation profiles, drive times and Strava tracking.
monopatia.info
Cyprus weather in plain words: live stations, desert dust, heat, sea and a daily brief.
kairika.info
Where public money comes from, where it goes, and what one person's share is, told as short stories.
foroi.info
GiatroiA directory of 8,800+ GeSY doctors and healthcare providers, by specialty, district or name, plus night pharmacies.giatroi.infoLatest articles
Kairika · The 2026/27 water year opened with thunder: 28 mm on average across 54 stations in 12 days, lightning on 8 of them, more rain due this week, and a satellite's view of the 29 August storm.
Fragmata · A reader asked how much closer four new desalination plants will bring Cyprus to breaking even on water. The honest answer needs a map of the whole system first: what comes in, what goes out, and where the two meet. Desalinated water never reaches a dam. It helps the dams only when it replaces da...
Fragmata · Today the Water Development Department's inflow counter goes back to zero and Cyprus starts a new hydrological year. The one that just ended opened with the dams at their lowest in seventeen years and spent five months short of rain. Then came a record-breaking spring, nine overflowing reservoirs...
Kairika · Athalassa ran 17 days in a row at 35°C or more, 7 September broke station records across the island, then two storms on 18 and 30 September brought record September rain to the west — September 2026 across Cyprus, in data.
Monopatia · The median Cyprus trail is 3.9 km — which means you never spend a whole day on one thing. Seven walks worth planning a trip around, a tour of all ten hiking areas, and the three things that catch first-timers out.
Monopatia · We modelled the sun's path over every metre of 181 hiking trails — terrain plus every tree. The result: Cyprus has two kinds of trail, shade is a place you drive to, and every trail's day has its own shape. With interactive charts — every dot is a real trail.
Past
Where the 25 years went.
Invited by the founder to recharge a large part of R&D. My team rebuilt Wrike's dashboards and analytics, turning one of the top three reasons customers left into a strength.
www.wrike.com
A search engine for the world's data, used by more than 50 million people. I built and ran a 60-person team and its ML research, including Deep Search and DataFinder. knoema.rip is its memorial.
knoema.rip
Portfolio management for venture investors, built on data. It offered a dashboard and a data room for tracking traction, valuations and data feeds across a portfolio.
smartdata.vc
Led Prognoz BI Platform from the ground up, a product used by hundreds of organizations and named in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for BI. Helped scale the company from 50 to 1,500 people and take it international.
prognoz.com, 2014 archive