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An Interview with Daren Willman, Director of Baseball Research & Development for Major League Baseball
The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity. “SN” refers to Senthil Natarajan, and “DW” refers to Daren Willman.
SN: Let’s get some quick context for our readers. Can you tell us a little bit about y... | ['Data Visualization', 'Sports', 'Sports Journalists', 'Design', 'Sportsviz'] |
Co-Founder of Chigyosha Marketing Copr. based in Taipei. Addicted in data mining and content marketing. Passionated by visions and dreams.
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To perform the above scenario, let’s move ahead step by step. So let’s see.
Create an IAM Account
Create an IAM Account with programmatic access to get the access and secret key so that we can access the AWS services.
So you have to click next and next with proper access, your IAM account will be ready after a mintu... | ['Rolê', 'Apache', 'Ansible', 'AWS', 'Vault'] |
Visual Solution
This view is simpler, it culls unnecessary detail from the representation in order to represent the answer to precisely what the researcher wants to understand. This has a downstream affect on the researcher’s workflow: the visualization more clearly tracks or resonates with how the researchers think a... | ['Space', 'Mars', 'Visualization', 'Data Visualization', 'Mars Rovers'] |
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If you asked me what being an entrepreneur is like I would have to say, “It’s hard. Plain and simple, being in business for yourself takes effort, a lot of time and it’s can be lonely.”
On the outside, it’s portrayed as all rainbows and unicorns. On the inside, it’s exhausting and, ... | ['Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Abundance'] |
With AI often thrown around as a buzzword in business circles, people often forget that machine learning is a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. For most companies, building an AI is not your true goal. Instead, AI implementation can provide you with the tools to meet your goals, be it better customer servi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Ai Software', 'Tech', 'AI', 'Software'] |
Improve App Engine Startup Times through Warmup Requests
Season of Scale
Season of Scale
“Season of Scale” is a blog and video series to help enterprises and developers build scale and resilience into your design patterns. In this series we plan on walking you through some patterns and practices for creating apps th... | ['Software Development', 'Google Cloud', 'App Engine', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Cloud Computing'] |
(SharePoint Online) + Flow = (Salt+Pepper)
Search Contents of a PDF File in SharePoint Online, Make them Searchable Using Microsoft Flow Sibeesh Venu Follow Mar 4 · 6 min read
We all get stuck somewhere in our so-called “Programmer Life” for a small requirement. And I was stuck with such a requirement that the conten... | ['Flow', 'Sharepoint Online', 'Ocr', 'Computer Vision', 'Sharepoint'] |
I’m a mountaineer and software QA engineer, and would consider myself ‘intermediate’ as a technical practitioner in both disciplines. I started climbing and joined my first tech team 7 years ago, at 27. Never having ever worn a backpack with a hip belt nor written a single line of HTML, I embarked on two journeys that ... | ['Climbing', 'Software Testing', 'Software Development', 'Mountaineering', 'Software Engineering'] |
A hot research area in computer vision is to build software that understands the human face. The most obvious application is Face Recognition, but we can also do lots of other cool stuff like Head Pose Estimation, Emotion Detection, Eye Gaze Detection, and Blink Detection.
A cool example of facial analysis in real lif... | ['Programming', 'Dotnet', 'Dotnet Core', 'Facedetection', 'Computer Vision'] |
№1 — Five Of The Most Absurd & Dangerous Places You’ve Shagged In:
One location per day for five consecutive days. A lot of explanations, with as many diagrams, as you feel necessary to set the scene. All the juicy details, including a photo of your absurd and dangerous partner, and what particular positions you may h... | ['Challenge', 'Facebook', 'Humor', 'Social Media', 'Covid 19'] |
Over the past few years I’ve met and encouraged many people facing their first ever arrest. I’m not a drug dealer or a member of a pickpocket gang. The people choosing to break the law and possibly ruin their clean records have included students, professionals and retirees, but the one thing they have in common is thei... | ['Justice', 'Future', 'Law', 'Climate Change', 'Activism'] |
By any number of metrics and rankings, the data science program at Harvard University has long been considered the premiere option for individuals looking to pursue careers in the field. As with any program at a prestigious Ivy League school, Harvard offers a combination of top-of-their-field instructors, outstanding n... | ['Coding', 'Harvard', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Sololearn'] |
Climate finance is critical to addressing climate change because large-scale investments are required to significantly reduce emissions, notably in sectors that emit large quantities of greenhouse gases. Climate finance is equally important for adaptation, for which significant financial resources will be similarly req... | ['Climate Wednesday', 'Climate Finance', 'Wash', 'Climate Change', 'Renewable Energy'] |
Change Your Facebook Profile to Support Black America
Black Lives Matter. Be an Ally. Click here to create your picture.
This week we watched two black men be murdered by police, but no prayers came. There will be 305 more in the next 365 days. Time to demand change.
It is clear who matters to the leadership at Face... | ['BlackLivesMatter', 'Facebook', 'Politics And Protest', 'Racism'] |
Often the biggest impact starts on a small scale. Sometimes that means one person raising their voice, sometimes it’s one person saying no, and sometimes it’s someone making an effort to change the game.
Whether it’s coming from a mother or father or both, gender equality can start early — by teaching girls from a you... | ['Education', 'Family', 'Society', 'Feminism', 'Relationships'] |
Virtue #1: Laziness
It’s telling that computer science is the only field where “lazy” is a technical term.
Programmers have a lot of work to get done. Logically, the best way to address a large set of work tasks is to get rid of any of them that you don’t really need to do.
Next, try to get rid of any repetitive tas... | ['Career', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
The “Kotlinisation” of Java
Some of the upcoming Java features are going to be a massive improvement for Java in terms of readability and in terms of improving one of the main weaknesses in Java, its verbosity. We could affirm that they all have a suspicious similarity to some Kotlin features.
Please keep in mind tha... | ['Software Development', 'Android', 'Mobile', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
Gone are the days when data science was strictly the domain of the data scientist, engineer or technologist. We’ve moved forward to the age of the data entrepreneur, and with that mindset, into collaboration with businesses at the intersection of innovation. Most days you’ll find me here, the mediator and advisor betwe... | ['AI', 'Data Science', 'Change', 'Food', 'Agriculture'] |
Portrait of Leonhard Euler by Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1753)
Unless you study Mathematics or Physics at a university level it is very unlikely that you have ever heard of Leonhard Euler (1707–1783). But as many of the people who know who he is would tell you, his impact on the scientific world cannot be overlooked. Sim... | ['History', 'Astronomy', 'Mathematics', 'Science', 'Physics'] |
Devin Lundberg | Pinterest Tech Lead, Product Security
When a security researcher discovers a bug in a piece of software, the responsible thing to do is inform the company so they can fix it. And so platforms like Pinterest need to provide clear and actionable programs, typically with rewards or recognition, for those... | ['Engineering', 'Security', 'Spam', 'Bug Bounty'] |
I especially want this for Veterans who work retail. Imagine being told ‘thank you for your service’ by someone enjoying the day off in your name while you have to ring up their purchases or bring them food or serve them drinks. It’s obviously not the worst thing in the world but it just doesn’t seem right.
And if sma... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Culture', 'Veterans', 'Elections'] |
Artificial Intelligence in bins? I know of many council and supermarket recycling containers that would benefit. Some people can’t even be bothered to put the correct items in the corresponding bin! Also, Fife, the county I live in, doesn’t recycle plastic bags.
I want to do everything I can to ensure packing gets rec... | ['Film Noir', 'Advice', 'Technology', 'AI', 'Technology Hits'] |
Rashad Grove
Photos: Motown Records Archives
Emanating from Detroit, aka Motor City, the Motown sound forever transformed the landscape of soul and pop music. For the last 60 years, guided by the vision of founder Berry Gordy, Motown’s music has transcended generations and left an indelible imprint upon culture all o... | ['Music', 'Culture', 'Lists', 'Soul', 'Pop Culture'] |
What Women Want You to Know About Pregnancy Loss
Mothers share the things that surprised them, grieved them, and helped them during the pain of miscarriage.
Photo by Andrey Zvyagintsev on Unsplash
I love Chrissy Teigen. No, I don’t know her. She doesn’t know me. But she is smart, and funny, and real. And her sufferi... | ['Health', 'Grief', 'Pregnancy', 'Parenting', 'Women'] |
Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash
In my previous article on progress we’ve seen that fashion and marketing are not a friend of progress, because they bind existing know-how into doing useless things. But why do companies see fit to create hype? Why on earth would two big corporations go to the length to create programmin... | ['Marketing', 'Greed', 'Progress', 'Software Development', 'Waste'] |
Logistic Regression is a Machine Learning classification algorithm that is used to predict the probability of a categorical dependent variable. In logistic regression, the dependent variable is a binary variable that contains data coded as 1 (yes, success, etc.) or 0 (no, failure, etc.). In other words, the logistic re... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Logistic Regression', 'Classification'] |
2. JSON to Images
I started with defining a simple JSON to test if I can render images based on this structure.
The JSON should describe:
sprites — image URLs for our actors and decorations
— image URLs for our actors and decorations scenes — should contain and position actors and decorations
— should contain and ... | ['Animation', 'JavaScript', 'Programming', 'React', 'Web Development'] |
How Core Values Influence Diversity and Inclusion with Kim Crayton
Episode 47
In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Kim Crayton, discuss how organizations are shaped by core values, and why values are integral for establishing true diversity and inclusion. Kim dives into some very uncomfort... | ['Management', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Technology', 'Leadership'] |
Last Friday, we lost one of the funniest and hardest working men in show business when Fred Willard passed away at the age of 86 from natural causes at his home.
Fred Willard is among the most recognizable faces in Hollywood, even though he never quite became a household name. Much of his critical acclaim and fame was... | ['Movies', 'Comedy', 'Television', 'Society', 'Culture'] |
I remember around 3 or 4 years ago, there was a saying that I used to hear a lot: “Money Talks”. Now I can see that this no longer holds; the better way to phrase it would be: “Data Talks”. We are now in the Cognitive Era, all the buzzwords in the media are around data: Cognitive, AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data A... | ['Data Science', 'Data', 'Insights', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
How to Choose the Right Number of Clusters in the K-Means Algorithm?
What is Within-Cluster-Sum-of-Squares(WCSS) in clustering? The Elbow method used in K-Means Algorithm.
Before we dive deep into choosing the right number of clusters in the K-Means Algorithm, we first Know What is K-Means Algorithm?
Now, the import... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
New Features:
There’s five main new features we think you love!
Introductory Tour Guide
Wao! So slick!
We have a new tour guide that’ll introduce you to the basics of how Modulus works, how courses are laid out, and how to make courses as a teacher and navigate the web application interface. We think our interface ... | ['Software Development', 'Release Notes', 'Startup', 'Edtech'] |
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Bestselling author Seth Godin has been writing frequently about creativity on Medium the past few weeks. This week he wrote about the importance of simply showing up. For Godin, creativity isn’t as much inspiration as it is application: arriving on time and doing the work. In a word: practic... | ['Creativity', 'Self', 'Practice'] |
How to use Firebase UI to control data flow after signing in successfully(redirect or stay?) Yingqi Chen Follow Aug 16 · 3 min read
To build a user authentication system, Firebase UI is a brilliant tool! Once you install and configure it properly(both in your code and in Firebase console), you get 11 beautiful and wor... | ['Firebase', 'Firebaseui', 'Signinsuccessurl', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
Information Design Round-Up: COVID-19 Edition
A curation of information design and dataviz that aids in the public understanding of COVID-19
Credit (top-left to bot-right): Reuters, Periscopic, Reuters, Financial Times, New York Times, Pentagram
This post is the second in a series dedicated to my favorite informatio... | ['Dataviz', 'Covid 19', 'Public Health', 'Data Visualization'] |
The question “how technically hands-on should I be as a team leader?” comes up frequently in my conversations with engineering leads. The short answer is: “definitely to some extent”, but for a more specific answer we need to consider context, your individual team makeup, and your goals as a leader.
Remaining technica... | ['Engineering', 'Leadership', 'Management'] |
Bitcoin challenged our core economic assumptions — here is why it is the future. I will walk you through some core fundamentals that govern Bitcoin, without going into any technical details. These are notes I made after a fascinating conversation with an economics major.
What is a Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is money. If anyone... | ['Future', 'Bitcoin', 'Money', 'History', 'Government'] |
With all the bad news lately, I decided it was time to put together an upbeat punk-pop-rock station on [Pandora](http://www.pandora.com) so at least *something* sounded kind of happy, if not peppy-mad. The thing is, I could think of a few bands I wanted to seed this one with, among them, [The Ting Tings](http://www.mys... | ['AI', 'Metric', 'Pandora', 'Brit Pop', 'Internet Radio'] |
Following the implosion of the US housing bubble, when the mid-2000s Great Recession began to hit markets worldwide, many enterprises found themselves in dire straits. In the ensuing crisis, enterprises vied for suddenly limited resources amidst a global economic downturn. As consultants, Starschema provided them with ... | ['Snowflake', 'Covid 19', 'Data Engineering', 'Data Sharing'] |
How to use Figma: the essential guide
Includes 4 quick tips that you might not know about
Photo by Med Badr Chemmaoui on Unsplash
What is Figma?
Essentially a prototyping tool that is primarily web-based. It can be used as a vector graphics editor too and it has additional offline features but I personally just use... | ['Technology', 'Prototyping', 'UI', 'Software Development', 'Design'] |
Teaching Customers How To Use Your Product One At A Time: What Works For Tyme Iron Creator Jacynda Smith Tara McMullin Follow Nov 21, 2019 · 4 min read
The Nitty-Gritty:
How Tyme founder Jacynda Smith manages 100–200 individual consultations with new customers each week
Why these personalized consultations help Tyme... | ['Podcast', 'Business', 'Small Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Customer Experience'] |
Why Mastercard Bought a Point-of-Sale Lending Platform
Mastercard’s acquisition of Vyze opens the door for adoption of POS financing in a way acquirers might not be able to achieve.
As banks, merchants, and even tech companies offer consumers new and different ways to pay for stuff, credit card companies are trying t... | ['Fintech', 'Startup', 'Business', 'Technology'] |
To begin modelling, the first step is to import the required libraries and most importantly the dataset. The drinks dataset has been used for this tutorial which can be found here. The goal is to analyze and predict alcohol consumption using the features present in the dataset.
Now, that the dataset has been loaded it... | ['Data Science', 'Linear Regression', 'Data Visualization', 'Python', 'Predictions'] |
In stories, stars will light the path
to victory, grief’s aftermath
if only you would crane your head
and let your stubborn self be led
where Heaven wills — follow that trail
and you are destined ne’er to fail
nor fall: your spirit guarded still
should all of Hell besiege your will.
So says the myth — but where... | ['Grief', 'Winter', 'Depression', 'Creativity', 'Poetry'] |
Archetype
In the above picture, you’re seeing a shape reminiscing a rose. Its form is so distinctive that your brain receiving this stimulus immediately creates a percept of a rose. You’re subconsciously experiencing archetype.
ἀρχέτυπον — Greek “archétypon” — original pattern from which copies are made. Philosophers... | ['Design', 'Business', 'Product', 'Product Design', 'Management'] |
Back in January, when we were still free to move about the country, I took a trip to Key West for a music festival. Traveling by air is a dicey proposition for me. Like a lot of people, the changes in altitude, cabinet pressure, and the two drinks it takes for me to not be a crazy person on a plane have side effects. N... | ['Society', 'Fashion', 'Feminism', 'Women', 'Body Image'] |
Often times in the implementation of a python class, it would be useful if we could easily add extra processing to getting and/or setting an instance attribute. For example, it would be useful to be able to perform type checking or some other form of validating during getting/setting instance attributes. In this post, ... | ['Programming', 'Technology', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Software Development'] |
Two helper methods we need to discuss before we can do anything too linear algebra-y are isZero() , which returns true if all entries are 0 and false if there are any non-zero entries in the vector. An isZero method is important because some vector operations––like normalizing––will result in division by zero if we don... | ['Mathematics', 'Linear Algebra', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Java'] |
These Rappers Choose With Their Wallets Not Their Values
If They Ever Had Values In The First Place
Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash
The last week or two has been chock-full of rappers showing their priorities to their fans. As the Election Day approaches, quite a few rappers—Ice Cube, 50 Cent (though he w... | ['Music', 'Culture', 'Equality', 'Race', 'White Supremacy'] |
On Names
Names are important; they are more than just words, they shape and color the things they name.
— From the Journal of Xavier Desmond by George RR Martin
SWAT is our on-call and release team. It stands for Site Wellness, Availability, and Triage. While the three tenets are important, and the name is catchy an... | ['Medium', 'Inside Medium', 'Engineering', 'Company Culture', 'Company'] |
JSON is the de-facto logging standard. JSON is so ubiquitous that the popular logging data tools (such as Elasticsearch) accept JSON by default. Although JSON is an evolution over previous logging standards, JSON’s lack of strict types make it insufficient to use for long-term persistence or as a foundation for a data-... | ['Software', 'DevOps', 'Logging', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
Astonishing Ancient Viking Temple Discovered in Norway
1200-year-old church deeply devoted to Odin and Thor
A typical Viking landing — Image by Pixabay
Many of us became familiar with the Viking gods Odin and Thor while watching the excellent TV series ‘Vikings’ on the History channel. We learned quickly from how th... | ['Society', 'Ancient History', 'Religion', 'History', 'Vikings'] |
Don’t Run From Conflicts. Engage in Passionate Discussions.
Being a Product Owner is exciting yet daunting. Every day you have tons of decisions awaiting you, but one is quite impactful: do you want your day to be exciting or boring? If you want an exciting day, don’t run from conflicts. Otherwise, your day is going t... | ['Agile', 'Product Management', 'Leadership', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
What Do We Do Then?
One of the many solutions can be to create a function that we can call on the pages where we need the third-party library and to dynamically create and inject the <script></script> tag into the <body></body> of the application.
Suppose we want to integrate the Google Maps API through a script and ... | ['JavaScript', 'Front End Development', 'React', 'Reactjs', 'Programming'] |
How to ask for feedback:
Every client, new or old, can help you with his or her knowledge about the service or product you provide. These clients can help you to solve their problems better and faster, but also increase your sales and give you fresh ideas to attract new clients. But the only way to get them to share t... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Business', 'Business Development', 'Feedback', 'Improvement'] |
How I Plan on Saving 83% of My Income In 2021
Without making any drastic changes to my lifestyle
Designed by Freepik
In 2020, I wrote quite a bit about the importance of saving more of the money you already have and finding ways to make more money.
Today, I want to go deeper on these concepts and take them from the... | ['Life Lessons', 'Personal Finance', 'Business', 'Money', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Until recently, the process around progression and promotion as a Medium engineer was relatively opaque. We did have the concept of levels, and senior leadership were reasonably well calibrated on what being at a certain level entailed. However, engineers did not know what their level was, or the kinds of work they spe... | ['Medium', 'Engineering', 'Professional Development', 'Values'] |
In the last post, we introduced Rogue, the type-safe DSL we implemented for writing queries against MongoDB. In this post we’ll extend QueryBuilder to support query sort ordering, while making sure we can’t build any nonsense queries like this:
Venue where (_.mayor eqs 1234) limit(10) fetch(100)
Sort ordering
Here’s... | ['Engineering', 'Foursquare'] |
Grey DeLisle — ‘O Holy Night’
Interview: Grey DeLisle Talks about The Zombies, Petunia and The Vipers, and the Musical Holy Trinity Randall Radic Follow Dec 17 · 4 min read
Grammy-winner Grey DeLisle unveiled the music video for her interpretation of “O Holy Night” a while back.
You already know who Grey is because ... | ['Grey Delisle', 'O Holy Night', 'Interview', 'Christmas Music', 'Music'] |
1- Read more articles on Medium.com about writing more articles on medium .com so you can write more articles on Medium.com so your readers can read more articles and write more articles for their readers. Medium.com is not a pyramid scheme getting everybody to write on this platform at all.
2-I have read as many book... | ['Life Lessons', 'Humor', 'Health', 'Life', 'Sarcasm'] |
The case for adding TypeScript to your JavaScript Applications
History
Undeniably, JavaScript is the programming language of choice for most web developers, and it has been the “language of the internet,” for over two decades. During the early days of the internet, websites were mostly static pages, using HTML and so... | ['JavaScript', 'Typescript'] |
Which format of the configuration file should I use?
In fact, there are no constraints on the format of the configuration file as long as the code could read and parse them. But, there are some good practices.
The most common and standardized formats are YAML, JSON, TOML and INI. A good configuration file should meet... | ['Python', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Data Science', 'Coding'] |
Being a Billionaire Sounds Amazing.
Imagine if you woke up tomorrow with billions of dollars suddenly at your fingertips. If you hated your job, you could finally quit. You could tell your boss exactly what you thought about them.
You wouldn’t have to worry about the future anymore, at least not half as much as you d... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Equality', 'Culture', 'Money'] |
One of the last pages in every venture capitalist funding presentation is the “hockey stick” of revenues and profits shooting through the roof. VCs expect a bit of optimism from a startup, but at the same time want to do a reality check on these numbers.
I often use a company snapshot, a tree of the key factors that a... | ['Presentation', 'PowerPoint', 'Presentation Design', 'Design', 'Data Visualization'] |
1. Leave the Ego at the Door
Developers have huge egos. That’s a fact.
Why, though? I would argue that anyone who takes our profession seriously would consider themselves to be somewhat of an artist. Yes, we might not be singing in front of millions of people or painting the Mona Lisa, but we’re sometimes writing cod... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Lessons Learned', 'Startup'] |
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation website is a treasure trove of data. On a semi-regular basis, the institute publishes data visualizations using the daily freely available on the website.
While the data is “freely available” on the charts, most of it isn’t downloadable or “unlocked” as such. By re-plott... | ['Dashboard', 'D3js', 'Data Science', 'Tableau', 'Data Visualization'] |
The forbidden fruit taken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden certainly seems like it must have had a sour taste. For indulging their appetites a little, the two brought sin and death into the world, got kicked out of paradise, and were each assigned their own specially frustrating labor projects. Bible commentators ... | ['Social Justice', 'Politics', 'Society', 'Privilege', 'Religion'] |
Introduction
Everyday we access the computer, jump onto our favorite websites and without thinking are surfing hundreds of pages of information. The internet is an amazing and powerful tool at our disposal, whenever we choose to use it. Without thinking we tend to take the internet for granted every single day.
In th... | ['Coding', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering'] |
#1. An initial assessment
A personal trainer should be just that — your personal trainer, and the sessions your trainer puts you through should be designed around your personal needs.
Before your first session together, your trainer should be performing an initial assessment to identify what exactly those needs are.
... | ['Fitness', 'Health', 'Lifestyle', 'Coaching', 'Self Improvement'] |
When working with and implementing BigQuery, there’s a number of small problems to which I couldn’t find documentation to, or a working example of a solution. This occasionally happens with any database. While these won’t probably be groundbreaking problems to solve, hopefully it’ll make someone’s day a little easier. ... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'Analytics', 'Big Data', 'Bigquery', 'Data'] |
Set the Stage
Both JavaScript and Python offer a wide range of features and have extensive, amazing communities behind them. We are going to delve into the technical and professional aspects of both languages while avoiding some of lower-level technical details. In doing so, I hope to paint a picture of which language... | ['Programming', 'JavaScript', 'Data Science', 'Python', 'Web Development'] |
Although Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software has become a burgeoning phenomena, there is no wisdom in simply jumping on the bandwagon and investing in CRM technology. Firstly, you should know what CRM software is and how it will impact your business operations. Secondly, you should look for the following te... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Customer Service', 'CRM', 'Technology'] |
At its core, conservatism is a dogma of immobility and regression. It is turned towards the past and deterministic in nature.
We need to preserve our traditions. We need to revert to an ancient golden age. We need to be great again. Our actions do not define our selves. Our actions are defined by who we are. It is an ... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Philosophy', 'Existentialism', 'Conservatism'] |
Pantone Connect is a recently released app for selecting Pantone colors or for extracting Pantone colors from images on your desktop or mobile devices. Personalized color palettes can be digitally created from Pantone’s color library of more than 10,000 hues. In this writing, I discuss how the Pantone Connect app can b... | ['Visual Design', 'Data Science', 'Color Theory', 'Data Visualization', 'Design'] |
Your Stories, Heard and Shared
Now is not the time for silence.
Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images
We at Medium want to acknowledge the pain and trauma that people across the United States are feeling right now due to acts of racist violence that have unfolded recently in Georgia, in Minneapolis, in Louisvill... | ['Equality', 'Society', 'Race', 'Racial Justice'] |
Technology is changing the way we live our lives almost every day and in a multitude of different ways. One of these transformations is occurring in the field of healthcare. Health is a business that has been around for centuries with modern medicine helping to extend the average lifespan by decades, however, new innov... | ['Healthcare Technology', 'Software Development', 'Healthcare', 'Nix', 'Business Intelligence'] |
Data science, also known as data-driven decision, is an interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, process and systems to extract knowledge from data in various forms, and take decision based on this knowledge. There are a lot of things that a data scientist should know, I will give you a list of data science in... | ['Machine Learning', 'Neural Networks', 'Deep Learning', 'AI', 'Data Science'] |
From ‘Fat Amy’ to ‘Fit Amy’
Once again, society is focusing on all the wrong things about Rebel Wilson’s weight-loss journey
Photo Credit to Daily Mail UK
Growing up in a family that lived on Roger and Hammerstein, I was super excited about a series of more current musical films I could share with my daughters. In t... | ['Weight Loss', 'Body Image', 'Society', 'Women', 'Lifestyle'] |
User code can raise built-in exceptions. Python defines try/except to handle exceptions and proceed with the further execution of program without interruption.
Let’s quickly get to an example of a basic try/except clause
try/except statements
Assuming the file is unavailable, executing the below code will give the o... | ['Programming', 'Python Programming', 'Python3', 'Python', 'Software Development'] |
Hello World of Machine Learning using TensorFlow Prajwolpkc Follow Jul 30 · 8 min read
Let's learn the basic ‘Hello World’ in machine learning. We will use TensorFlow, an end-to-end open-source machine learning platform deployed on google cloud platform.
The basics view of machine learning.
Consider building applica... | ['Google Cloud Platform', 'Neural Networks', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'TensorFlow'] |
by Erin Sullivan
Part Gregorian chant, part Native American soundscape, part Pure Moods, this song was a disaster in theory and execution. Still, it topped the charts in December of 1991 and I’m pretty sure I loved it. I was shocked to find out the actual date, though, because if you’ll recall that song continued its ... | ['Erin Sullivan', 'Enigma', 'Music'] |
Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Marketers with Rich Mironov
Episode 48
Have you ever been told to be more “innovative” with your code? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Rich Mironov, discuss the all too common disconnect between developers and those on the marketing side of orga... | ['Management', 'Technology', 'Leadership', 'Software Development', 'Startup'] |
I have written some getting started guides on data visualization o business dashboards, but those articles are still a little theoretical. Recently, I have been working on a sales dashboard project for data visualization. From the determination of indicators, layout design, chart types to dynamic effects, I summarized ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Dashboard', 'Data Science', 'Tutorial', 'Programming'] |
Dear beautiful sky,
Fading out,
In its twilight;
Hanging on,
To the last rays,
Of sunshine.
Dear beautiful sky;
Enshrouding the sun,
As it recedes,
Into the clouds.
Going dark,
As the light,
Drains out of your eyes.
Dear beautiful sky;
You are a sight.
To admire,
Day and night.
A colourful display,
Of... | ['Literary Impulse', 'Nature', 'Weather', 'Sky', 'Poetry'] |
Configure Hadoop and start the cluster services using the Ansible
Let’s see how we can configure the Hadoop cluster and start through Ansible
In this article, you will see the configuration of the Hadoop cluster but you have some idea about Hadoop and Ansible so I am also writing some introduction part of them. So th... | ['Cluster', 'Hadoop', 'Ansible', 'AWS', 'Automation'] |
1.Increased Chances of a Stroke
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year, nearly 800,000 adults in the U.S. suffer from a stroke. Although smoking and excessive alcohol consumption still remain the biggest risk factors, recent studies show that physical inactivity might be just as risky.
... | ['Body', 'Aging', 'Health', 'Physical Fitness', 'Life'] |
Data Distributions
Let’s start with data distributions, which will give us an overview of all the possible values, as well as how often they occur. In visual terms, that means drawing a histogram of the thermostat rebates. For simplicity, we can use a uniform sample of 1k rows taken from a larger data set.
The Data R... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Watson Studio', 'IBM', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
For Will, school was simply a chore that must be endured, as mandated by the state. Will was far smarter than any of his teachers, so classes were tedious for him. He was also bored by the banal interests of his classmates. Sports, entertainment, girls, video games, and other such activities only kept him from his prim... | ['Science Fiction', 'Dont Trust Ai Dogs', 'Fiction', 'Relationships', 'AI'] |
How to Quickly Preprocess and Visualize Text Data with TextHero
A brief introduction to TextHero library to quickly preprocess and visualize the text data in Python
Photo by chuttersnap on Unsplash
When we are working on any NLP project or competition, we spend most of our time on preprocessing the text such as remo... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'NLP', 'Naturallanguageprocessing', 'Data Science'] |
Many organizations struggle with both identifying and prioritizing what sales leads to pursue. Where do you start when you have a large stack of leads to go through? What do you when your leads have gone cold?
For Product Leaders, it's often a challenge to get a broad spectrum of feedback from their customers. How do ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Unsupervised Learning', 'CRM', 'Tutorial'] |
Leveraging Remote Work with Laurel Farrer
Episode 42
How do we leverage remote work in our businesses and on our teams? In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus talks with Laurel Farrer, CEO and founder of Distributing Consulting, about the challenges facing remote workers and their managers. Despite being a... | ['Leadership', 'Management', 'Software Development', 'Startup', 'Technology'] |
Step 1: Setup and project structure
If you don’t already have a Next.js project setup, you can setup a starter by following the instructions on the official Next.js tutorial.
Most Next.js websites have static and dynamically generated pages living inside the pages directory. To read these page names we will install g... | ['JavaScript', 'Front End Development', 'React', 'Nextjs', 'SEO'] |
OPINION
Machine Learning Engineers Will Not Exist In 10 Years.
The landscape is evolving quickly.
When you can’t find a good title image for the life of you, just add a cat. Photo Creds: Unsplash
Note: this is an opinion piece, feel free to share your own opinion so we can continue to move our field in the right di... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Software Development', 'Data Science', 'Programming'] |
Start Doing and Stop Hoping For Inspiration
In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, he credited hard work to people’s successes. In 1960, The Beatles were invited to play in Hamburg, Germany, a place which didn’t have rock-and-roll clubs back then. Before they rose to prominence, audiences didn’t care much about what th... | ['Creativity', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
The reality is quite simple. Your behavior is your personal currency — that is, unless you’re willing to pay.
Our own mental models of experience and perception of value exchange are complex. The Social Dilemma served as an example of the “voice” of the concerned as it relates to privacy and manipulation of perspectiv... | ['Facebook', 'Privacy', 'Social Media', 'Data Science', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
Photo Credit: AbsExperiment
Most people get a gym membership after they’ve made a firm decision to lose the excess weight, however most them give up way easily and early in the process.
The main reasons for this are a combination of a lack of motivation, knowledge and having the right guidance which will never make t... | ['Health', 'Fitness', 'Nutrition', 'Metabolism', 'Weight Loss'] |
How to create an SEO strategy
7 Things every SEO strategy needs
SEO Strategies needed in 2019
In the past few years, the world has seen numerous revolutions regarding the internet sector. The massive information sector is practically uploaded online and the businesses have grown revolving it. Search Engine Optimisat... | ['Business', 'Strategy', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'SEO'] |
I’ve been working with React and D3 for the last 2 years building custom interactive charts for both startups and well established companies across the world in my remote work endeavors :). In that time, I’ve really enjoyed the flexibility I get while making visualizations with these tools and I’ll share my vast experi... | ['D3js', 'React', 'Data Visualization', 'JavaScript', 'Bitcoin'] |
Twitter is a rich source for information. From minute-to-minute trends to general discussions around topics, Twitter is a great source of data for a project. Also, Twitter has built an amazing API for developers to use this data. Could we track an event and see what people are thinking? Is it possible to run sentiment ... | ['Data Visualization', 'Sentiment Analysis', 'Twitter', 'Data Science', 'Python'] |
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