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Create “Weather-Proof” Validations for your Time Series Forecasting Model Photo by Marco Brito on Unsplash TIME TRAVEL!!— It is time to take our explorations to the next level and work on predicting outcomes that are dependent on time. Time Series is a sequence of data that is present in intervals of time. These inte...
['Data Science', 'Predictive Analytics', 'Forecasting', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Python']
Playing To Win The Delusion of Revenue Forecasting Source: G2 Learn Hub (https://learn.g2.com/income-statement-example) The epitome of waste occurs when human effort is expended on an activity that produces worse outcomes than doing nothing at all. I have already chronicled one of the biggest wastages of effort in b...
['Strategy', 'Revenue', 'Forecasting', 'Playing To Win']
Introducing a graph data-model for market analytics: The emerging hydrogen economy in 2020 Lukas Strohmeier Jan 21·5 min read Over the past years, I have worked with several different methodologies, tools, and approaches to increase the accuracy of industrial market models & forecasts. I am going to introduce a new ap...
['Data Visualization', 'Hydrogen', 'Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Market Analysis']
There is no doubt 2020 was quite challenging and demanding, it made us think outside the box, challenge our limits, and open up extraordinary and never-seen-before facets. On the other hand, challenges are always progress, and I’m happy to admit how many positive outcomes and comprehensions almost each of us have achie...
['Digital', 'Fashion Trends', 'Forecasting', 'Trends', 'Digital Transformation']
Let’s take an example to understand the bullwhip effect Suppose you, as an end customer goes to a retail store near your house to by a packet of detergent. Now as an end customer you may buy one pack, but to fulfill the demand of customers like you, store has to keep a stock of around 1000 packs. Similarly, the retail...
['Supply Chain Solutions', 'Operations Management', 'Forecasting', 'Optimization', 'Bullwhip Effect']
Four years ago, I started writing a book about unpredictability. One nerdy detail kicked it off: the very best forecasters did not believe they could predict accurately beyond 400 days. That was the best there was. The rest of us? Maybe 150 days. This, I thought, changes everything. All management (of life and work) si...
['Efficiency', 'Prediction', 'Epidemics', 'Forecasting', 'History']
From shaken financial markets to international travel restrictions to a virus yet to be contained — here’s what the stars say is headed our way. Your guide to astrology and the coronavirus. It’s been quite a week in the news, and as astrologers, we consider it our job to look for astrological patterns and predictions ...
['Horoscopes', 'Astrology', 'Forecasting', 'Epidemic', 'Virus']
Tajikistan and Mali are both at high risk of electoral violence this month, while the surprise discovery of oil shook Guyana’s politics, resulting in violence Swallows by Edouard Manet The Electoral Violence Intelligence System (ELVIS) is a machine learning driven forecasting system that estimates the risk of electio...
['Elections', 'Data Science', 'Politics', 'Forecasting', 'Political Violence']
The importance of demand forecasting accuracy In supply chain management it’s important to be able to measure the accuracy of your demand forecasts. Inaccurate demand forecasting can lead to the accumulation of excess stock or, the reverse: issues with product availability. Both are unwelcome problems for inventory pl...
['Supply Chain Management', 'Demand Forecasting', 'Supply Chain', 'Forecasting', 'Calculate']
Many real world problems involve time-series forecasting, and all forecasting problems can be improved with the right data. But getting the right data for a forecasting problem can be a challenge. Once in possession of the right data putting that data in the right format to start building forecasts presents new challen...
['Demand Forecasting', 'Weather Forecasting', 'Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Data Engineering']
Global data states that victims exposed to COVID19 are those from high-income groups. To this pandemic, several predictions related to COVID19 were made by various institutions, for example, University of Indonesia (March 24, 2020) with the Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease model, stating that ther...
['Coronavirus', 'Pandemic', 'Science', 'Forecasting', 'Indonesia']
Exploratory v6.2 Released! I’m super excited to announce Exploratory v6.2! 🎉🎉🎉 As always, we have a bunch of new features & enhancements, here’s a quick overview of the following areas. Summary View Analytics Chart Data Wrangling Dashboard Parameter Summary View Reference lines for Mean & Midian Now you c...
['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Announcements', 'Statistics']
General Concept The ARIMA model (an acronym for Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average), essentially creates a linear equation which describes and forecasts your time series data. This equation is generated through three separate parts which can be described as: AR — auto-regression: equation terms created based o...
['Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Time Series Data', 'Time Series Forecasting', 'Arima']
Probabilistic Forecasts: Pinball Loss Function Probabilistic forecasts are essential to optimize supply chains and inventory targets. How can we evaluate the quality of probabilistic forecasts? Nicolas Vandeput Aug 20·6 min read Self-Assessment Quiz Let’s start with a few questions. Read them first before going thro...
['Probability', 'Demand Forecasting', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Supply Chain', 'Forecasting']
Image Source: Team Latestly Authors: Rashmini Rathnaweera, Rashmi Jayasekara, Chalani Pradeepika “What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past” - Victor Hugo We’re in 2021 now and things really have changed drastically but have it all changed according to what we used to i...
['Excess Death', 'Covid 19', 'Mortality', 'Population', 'Forecasting']
How to Find Weaknesses in your Machine Learning Models Any time you simplify data using a summary statistic, you lose information. Model accuracy is no different. When simplifying your model’s fit to a summary statistic, you lose the ability to determine where your performance is lowest/highest and why. Figure 1: exa...
['IBM', 'Deep Learning', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning', 'Predictive Modeling']
Feature selection for forecasting algorithms Features are not guaranteed to improve forecast performance. In this article we explain why, and how to perform feature selection. Jack Baker Aug 23·9 min read In this article, we talk feature selection for forecasting. We start by explaining why you should think twice bef...
['R', 'Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning', 'Statistics']
Model Selection We had selected a sample of refrigeration systems with good data quality to assess different algorithms. Forecast MAPE on an average was around 4–6%, 2.5–4% & 3.5–5% for ARIMAX, BSTS and Prophet respectively. Usually we use accuracy measures for model selection but here we needed to consider other impo...
['Pyspark', 'Data Science', 'IoT', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning']
Photo by Wil Stewart on Unsplash Time series forecasting is one of most demanding object in machine learning. The easiest way for projecting your time series data is using a module named Prophet (a.k.a. fbprophet). Prophet is a procedure for forecasting time series data based on an additive model where non-linear tren...
['Time Series Analysis', 'Forecasting', 'Anaconda', 'Machine Learning', 'Python']
Why isn’t out-of-time validation more ubiquitous? The purpose of supervised machine learning is to classify unlabeled data. We want algorithms to tell us whether a borrower will default, a customer make a purchase, an image contains a cat, dog, malignant tumor or a benign polyp. The algorithms “learn” how to make thes...
['Validation', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning', 'Practical Guides', 'Towards Data Science']
This post, written by Nicholas Otis, a second-year PhD student in Health Economics at UC Berkeley, is cross-posted to the BITSS Blog. Researchers are increasingly collecting forecasts of social science research results. For example, researchers have recently integrated predictions into studies examining questions like...
['Transparency', 'Research', 'Social Science', 'Bits', 'Forecasting']
TL;DR: In this article you’ll learn the basics steps to performing time-series analysis and concepts like trend, stationarity, moving averages, etc. You’ll also explore exponential smoothing methods, and learn how to fit an ARIMA model on non-stationary data. Time series are everywhere Situation 1: You are responsibl...
['Arima', 'Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Statistics']
Stationarity We can notice a couple of things which you should be familiar with if you’re used to analyzing time-series: We observe a clear upwards trend Mean and variance increase through time We also observe spikes which may be caused by external events (holidays and weather ?) The first two bullet points are a si...
['Time Series Analysis', 'Deep Learning', 'Forecasting', 'Lstm', 'Machine Learning']
Forecasting Success: Percentages Don’t Work. Leverage all we have learned and implemented to forecast like a pro. I worked for 17 years at Siebel Systems and salesforce.com. I promise I had nothing to do with implementing the concept of a percentage tied to a given sales stage. I had nothing to do with the crazy notio...
['Startup', 'Board Of Directors', 'Sales Operations', 'Sales', 'Forecasting']
TLDR: You might potentially save up to ~$12,570 a year depending on the area you are interested. Recently, I have been thinking on moving out and rent my own place, and wondered to myself: How am I able to save and get the best deal for the same place? These were my two main considerations: 1. Is there a seasonality ...
['Linear Regression', 'Data Science', 'Real Estate', 'Learning', 'Forecasting']
Pipeline Slippage: How to Factor this in Your Analysis and Efforts Many people reached out to really bare their soul around those darn deals that always slip and how best to decide what is truly “Lost to No Decision” versus still alive. Instead of calling them dead, why not just push the close dates farther out in the...
['Startup', 'Pipeline', 'Sales Operations', 'Sales', 'Forecasting']
Forecasting Success: Percentages Don’t Work. Leverage all we have learned and implemented to forecast like a pro. I worked for 17 years at Siebel Systems and salesforce.com. I promise I had nothing to do with implementing the concept of a percentage tied to a given sales stage. I had nothing to do with the crazy notio...
['Startup', 'Pipeline', 'Sales Operations', 'Sales', 'Forecasting']
Written by: Ken Cottrill More than a decade after the 2008 Great Recession, what have companies learned about preparing for a severe economic downturn and how many of these lessons have they put into practice? Dr. Bruce Arntzen and Dr. Nima Kazemi at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) analyzed the...
['Recession', 'Thought Leadership', 'Forecasting', 'Supply Chain', 'MIT']
Image by Author Time series forecasting focuses on analyzing data changes across equally spaced time intervals. Time series analysis is used in a wide variety of domains, ranging from econometrics to geology and earthquake prediction; it’s also used in almost all applied sciences and engineering. Examples of time seri...
['Statistics', 'Mathematics', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning', 'Arima']
Time Series Analysis is a widely used method in business in order to get useful pieces of information such as demand forecasting, identify seasonal products, demand pattern categorization and other characteristics. Here we are going to focus on Time Series forecasting (using Statistical / Machine Learning / Deep Learni...
['Timeseries', 'Deep Learning', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning', 'Time Series Forecasting']
Weather forecasting with Machine Learning, using Python Physicists define climate as a “complex system”. While there are a lot of interpretations about it, in this specific case we can consider “complex” to be “unsolvable in analytical ways”. This may seems discouraging, but it actually paves the way to a wide range ...
['Climate Change', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning']
Steven Waterhouse, a well-known entrepreneur and crypto investor, once gave a good example: while Bitcoin is an HTTP data transfer protocol for the financial world, Zcash is an HTTPS protocol that offers encryption support for enhanced security. Most crypto enthusiasts agree with the analogy since Zcash is traditionall...
['Cryptocurrency Investment', 'Zec', 'Stormgain', 'Forecasting', 'Cryptocurrency']
The Holt-Winters method — also known as triple exponential smoothing — is an incredibly popular and relatively simple method for time series forecasting. This article will be a somewhat thorough introduction into the math and theory of the Holt-Winters method, complete with a Python implementation from scratch. HOLT-W...
['Statistics', 'Mathematics', 'Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Python']
Fitting the Data with Holt-Winters Exponential Smoothing Now we shall fit this data on Single, Double, and Triple Exponential Smoothing respectively, and will see how it performs. Before starting with the models, we shall first define the weight coefficient Alpha and the Time Period. We also set the DateTime frequenc...
['Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning', 'Analytics Vidhya']
Dogecoin (DOGE) is a fairly unique cryptocurrency. While the creators of other cryptocurrencies and payment systems try to surprise and attract potential users with certain technological moves and innovative solutions, Dogecoin gained popularity in a completely different way. The developers used an image of a Japanese ...
['Cryptocurrency Investment', 'Stormgain', 'Forecasting', 'Dogecoin', 'Cryptocurrency']
Any quantity varying over time can be represented as a time series: sales numbers, rainfalls, stock prices, CO2 emissions, Internet clicks, network traffic, etc. Time series forecasting — the ability to predict the future evolution of time series— is thus a key capability in many domains where anticipation is important...
['Open Source', 'Timeseries', 'Forecasting', 'Machine Learning', 'Python']
Our review of recurrent issues encountered in a sales forecasting project, and how we handled them for the M5 competition. TL;DR This article sums up our learnings from the M5 sales forecasting competition, which consisted in predicting future sales in several Walmart stores. We will walk you through our solution and...
['Retail', 'Data Science', 'Forecasting', 'Lightgbm', 'Machine Learning']
Something I feel people don’t understand is the actual work required to succeed. I never really understood it; however, recently I've been feeling so overwhelmed with the work I need to get done in order to be successful. What motivates me is seeing where I want to be in 2 years, and realizing that it’s all in my hand...
['Motivation', 'Hustle', 'Business', 'Process']
breathe in + breathe out * logion 11 The sky and all that lies in the dimensions above it will cease to exist. The dead know nothing of life, and the living will never die. When you consume that which is already dead, you are turning it back into life. So, then, when you too re-e...
['Wisdom', 'Spirituality', 'Gospel Of Thomas', 'Cosmos', 'Process']
The Process States or the Lifecycle of a Process is demonstrated below : PRIMARY STATES New : In this state the process begins to get created . It is present in the secondary memory. Ready : Now the processes get transferred to the RAM (Main Memory).Since there is a limitation on the size of RAM , only a few proces...
['Operating Systems', 'Engineering', 'Coding', 'Process']
The Critical Process Conversation That No One Is Having truematter Jul 15·5 min read Forget Agile or whatever for just a minute. This is the most important process conversation you’ve never had. Digital leads and their teams love to talk process. We’re always wondering, how do we build faster, better, leaner, happier...
['Development', 'UX', 'Design Process', 'Process', 'Content Strategy']
This document is a personal reflection on the Engineering Design Process. An outline used to guide young engineers through the steps of the engineering design process and documentation. The engineering design process and documentation thereof is not unique, however, the process outlined is in my view sensible. The appr...
['Engineering', 'Process', 'Design', 'Mechanical Engineering']
Gov’s need new processes for cyber prosecution and safety funds for targets of cybercrime The government must rethink their strategy on prosecuting cyber criminals. With the current legislative setup it is very hard to properly punish and sue criminals abusing other peoples cyber systems. Solutions are relatively easy...
['Law', 'Processes', 'Government', 'Cyber Crime']
Photo by Alfons Morales on Unsplash A year and a half ago, I took the opportunity to build the Frontend Platform team that I’m still leading today. While I did this for many reasons, one of them was particularly striking: To empower product teams to make high-impact changes, enable and support innovation, and share ou...
['Company Values', 'Rfc', 'Company Culture', 'Process']
Define your target group and hypotheses: (½ a day) The first thing to do is to define the target group you want to investigate. Based on your market research, decide on the one where you think you could add the most value and then commit to it for the current phase. If you have done your quantitative research right, y...
['Process', 'Product Discovery', 'Validation', 'MVP', 'Startup Building']
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash 1. Start — Pick a process Choose a process that is either too complex. One that you have no idea what is going on with (low visibility, no measurements). Or a process that is inconsistent. 2. Gather — Define the process 2a. Define what you need to start Here you will want to collect all...
['Automation', 'API', 'Process', 'How To', 'Business']
The boys were up at 5:30 to draw, so I consider them artists. They produced works; they drew pictures. Maybe it was just scribbles on the page for now, but they are falling in love the work, with what they are creating — that’s what artist do. They are not worried or concerned about reaching a goal. The boys have no e...
['Art', 'Process', 'Leadership', 'Work', 'Business']
Recently I had the chance to sit down with one of Envoy’s first product designers, Jon Rundle. We chatted about his process, love for his team (and hockey) plus his guilty pleasure of finding inspiration on Dribbble. Jon Rundle, Senior Product Designer at Envoy. In your own words, what do you do at Envoy? I think in...
['Product Design', 'Design', 'Stories', 'Process', 'Interview']
Don’t think too much about your app UX or UI when your basics are fucked up. New startup everything is going well we made app’s and websites with user-centric design pattern designers work’s hard to get those pixels perfect design on board after the first build testing lots of basic features do not work that well so t...
['UX', 'UI', 'Process', 'Apps', 'Websites']
Under GDPR most business have an obligation to keep an inventory of their data processing activities in relation to personal data. This is no mean feat and it is more onerous than it looks at face value. Trust me, I know, I’ve been through it. In this post I will share my experience, best practice and tips on how to g...
['Process Improvement', 'Process', 'Business', 'Gdpr', 'Privacy']
Imagine this: you’re presenting a complex, well thought-through design (which was just updated based on feedback during a usability test). Five minutes into the presentation someone noticed that you used an old 4px border-radius on a button, where he thought everyone agreed to use 5px… Half an hour later you’re still t...
['Product Design', 'Product Management', 'Group Dynamics', 'Process', 'Teamwork']
Product Management A Guide to Reflective Meetings Reflection is one of the most important parts of growth, within individuals and within teams. Whether you are a product manager or not, you will likely encounter many work situations that require reflection. This act enables us to learn from the past and improve for t...
['Product Management', 'Retrospectives', 'Process', 'Post Mortems', 'Meetings']
5. User testing Stakeholders Designers, Users Duration 45–60mins Conducted for Understanding the user acceptance We conducted this exercise after we had created some final prototypes of the product. Before passing them on to the tech team for implementation we wanted to validate them with the users. In our case,...
['Collaboration', 'Design', 'Razorpay Design', 'Process', 'Ideation']
I know the tool does not make the designer, and it is really about what you can do and not the gear you use. But what if you have top-notch skills and also use the best gear for your craft? I feel winning both ways is better. Imagine thinking creatively and widely without worrying if your laptop can take the kind of ...
['Kefto', 'Process', 'Gad', 'Growth', 'Designer']
If you’ve ever heard of the old saying, “Just showing up is half the battle” or “80 percent of success is just showing up”, you’re not alone. These messages have been replayed and recycled throughout my entire life. I think they’re good messages and encourages one to consistently work at a certain thing. But as an adul...
['Process', 'Substack', 'Showing Up', 'Success', 'Hard Work']
Frameworks and tools are like sugar It’s important to know that when we react using System 01 we believe we are actually thinking. But the truth is that we scanned our memorized heuristics and convinced ourselves that there is a safe path there. To use this decision without acknowledging the risks is like eating some...
['Decision Making', 'Design', 'Design Process', 'Process', 'Ux Desig']
Finding a passion for design after studying music for 10 years, I found that they are similar to their core. Just like music, design has the extraordinary potential to leave a lasting impression on the viewer. This potential, along with the multitude of communicative styles each hold, has the ability to create an impac...
['Art', 'Design', 'Process']
Photo by Fancycrave on Unsplash A couple of months ago, our MD Claire Moyne asked Mike Dunn and I to review our internal process with the aim of streamlining them to increase efficiency and productivity. You might think that sounds boring, but I was thrilled! I’ve been itching to get my teeth stuck into this and was e...
['Lean', 'Agile', 'Process']
How do you become good at “doing” science? Less of a weird question than you might think at first glance. If you are a scientist, most of your work and education has mostly focused on producing good science, making sure that the result stands up to the expectations of your field and maps well to reality. But do you get...
['Productivity', 'Writing', 'Academia', 'Process']
The headline was almost: “My Secret Process for Success on Medium,” but I couldn’t go with it because it was a little too clickbaity for me. As you will soon see, there is nothing secret about my process, and it hasn’t been proven to be successful. Yet. “It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of ...
['Writing Life', 'Writing', 'Process', 'How To', 'Writing Tips']
For years I was a full stack developer and loved what I did. Around 2014 I decided that I wanted to focus more of my development time on the front-end. My first real experience of developing accessible websites started in 2016. I worked on a project where our goal was to achieve WCAG 2.0 AA compliance. The experience w...
['Accessibility', 'Usabiilty', 'WCAG', 'Process']
A yarn, a fern, an arctic tern, all this and more for 02019–02020. The Globe Theatre in Atlin, British Columbia. The annual theme for chairsandtables.org (and, adjacently, adjacent.furniture) is Habits/process. We’re just wrapping up volume ek (read: ache)/one/un of our interviews. We interviewed ~11 people. The peo...
['Chatkahaani', 'Habits', 'Process', 'Adjfur', 'Interview']
Lets explore step by step Substitute You should think about substituting part(s) of your product or process for something else. Guiding questions: What can I substitute so as to make an improvement? How can I substitute the place, time, materials or people? Can I substitute one part for another or change any parts...
['UX Research', 'Scamper', 'Process', 'Brainstorm', 'Ideation']
Among the most significant advantages of working on a popular open codebase is the constant feedback stream in all forms, including GitHub issues and pull requests. Over the past 6 months, our team did a lot of work triaging over 4.5k issues across our 3 main repositories and merging hundreds of pull requests. Going th...
['Feature Request', 'Angular', 'Process']
In this fourth article in my series about how to design a universal mental model for personal organization, productivity, and sanity, I will revisit the original mental model from part I and reveal how it has evolved since the time that I embarked on writing this series. I’ll attempt to be candid about what has worked ...
['Organization', 'Information Management', 'Productivity', 'Process', 'Knowledge Management']
My journey with Grab started in 2018 when I was looking for new challenges after almost 3 years as an Android (and iOS) engineer in my company. I looked at several tech companies in Singapore since I was already based here. The big names in Singapore with fast growing mobile (IOS / Android) teams at that time were Shop...
['Android App Development', 'Android', 'Process', 'Learning', 'Software Engineer']
First weeks: Discover, observe & audit So here I was, alone in my living room, trying to get familiar with a new job, new company and new colleagues, all of this through the window of my computer… Me, my living room and my computer… Feel quite alone here :) I must confess that my first week was quite repetitive: Ca...
['Product Design', 'Process', 'Careers', 'Team Building', 'Remote Working']
The UX/Product Designer role has evolved past simply designing solutions in a silo. To build the best solutions we know Designers should be involved throughout a project's lifecycle & work cross-functionally. We all know at a high level a design process looks like this: define, ideate, prototype, & test. It serves its ...
['Product Design', 'UX Design', 'User Experience', 'Process', 'Methodology']
Enhance it While it may well be a fantastic tool, chances are your projects always start with a big overhead. If your first step after running CRA is to spend a day setting up default functionalities and configuration, creating your own template will definitely boost your productivity. Creation Using GIT the right w...
['JavaScript', 'React', 'Productivity', 'Process', 'Typescript']
I began methodically with questions and provocations, owing perhaps to my decades-long career as a designer. I used Keynote to organize my thoughts, an app with which I explored product stories and created quick and dirty prototypes as a designer at Twitter many years ago. It’s a versatile tool with powerful transition...
['Product Design', 'Design', 'UX', 'User Experience', 'Process']
On the two last engineering organizations, I led as a VP, when I joined, we faced that kind of dilemma daily. When we analyzed it, we figured out that there are just too many open bugs all across. In this reality while the support is trying to call what is the right SLA, the developers are overwhelmed with the number o...
['Policies And Procedures', 'Process', 'Engineering', 'Management', 'Quality Assurance']
The Missing Smile Recently on one of my daily, unmasked senior walks through Cambridge (Harvard flavor), I came upon a masked mother and a quite young unmasked child in the park. When the youngster spotted me, she ran toward me just beaming and waving. I couldn’t help but give her a big smile in return. The mother’s s...
['Darwin', 'Survival', 'Communication', 'Smiling', 'Managing']
Dear Friend, I’ve never really had an opinion about Mars Bars. My favourite has always been anything with nuts really. Mars was too sweet and caramelly — there is no texture. Anyway, like I said, I was indifferent to them. If you’ve ever bought the chocolates “Celebrations” you know that there are like 1 Mars Bars in ...
['Survival', 'Boundaries', 'Trauma', 'Growth', 'Life Lessons']
A couple of years ago I wrote the first 65,000 words of a post-apocalyptic novel: a version of our future where a great many of us, globally, died from a virus, and then nearly all the rest died in the grim aftermath: from cold, illness, starvation, suicide, fire, random violence, and more. It was a grim future, made s...
['Writing', 'Survival', 'Zombies', 'Apocalypse', 'Farming']
What Is The Most Insane Survival Game Worth Buying And Playing In Xbox One X? Ogreatgames Jan 21·10 min read A lot of gamers engage in this type of game sub-genre. Playing survival games will give you a taste of action and adventure in just one game. Technically, survival games are a subgenre of action video games. In...
['Gaming', 'Videogames', 'Survival', 'Adventure', 'Xbox One X']
Farmers protests in India: The financial agendas and political atmosphere in it. As we all understand it has been 4months old, the protests led by farmers from the Indian state of Punjab became international news. The farmers are protesting for the repeal of three farm reform laws elapsed the Modi government in Septe...
['Survival', 'Farmers Protest', 'Farmers', 'Indian Politics', 'Parliament Of India']
A country in war is not a safe place for anyone, especially women — they are the most to suffer and the last to fall. I still remember the amount of fear, oppression and humiliation that day brought. I cried so hard — I was terrified. When war first escalated in 2015, I was living happily with my family in Taiz city....
['War', 'Survival', 'Oxfam', 'Yemen', 'International Women Day']
Thanks to Macau Photo Agency for this free photo on Unsplash A close friend teaches young children. An uncle of one of the students just got diagnosed with COVID-19. My friend is immune-compromised due to medication she takes, specifically it affects her lungs and her body’s ability to fight off illness. I’m scared. ...
['Survival', 'Virus', 'Crisis', 'Worry']
A Poem by Mercy Williams Dear Lover(s), We wrung gold from the zest of many sun rays. You’d wanted to bathe me in the shimmery pool, because in your words, I was immortal; because to you, I was a miracle. You were once my light, remember? I told you the stories of the ones before, Numbers five, nine, twelve, ...
['Love', 'Survival', 'Letters', 'Numbers', 'Life']
I was raised by a Marine. He taught me to be brave and that hell should fear me. I was raised by a single parent who was never home. She taught me that I need to grow up and I better do it fast. I raised myself to be resilient. I taught myself life was an asshole, but I could take it. And life is an asshole. I only re...
['Survival', 'Sexual Assault', 'Overcoming Obstacles']
The following is adapted from Better Off Bald by Andrea Wilson Woods. I used to think that in the fight against cancer, winning meant going into remission — it meant being cured and putting cancer behind you for good. But supporting my sister, Adrienne, as she battled advanced liver cancer at age fifteen taught me th...
['Survival', 'Relationships', 'Memoir', 'Oncology', 'Cancer']
The Sole Survivor of a Plane Crash Who Then Spent 11 Days in the Amazon Rainforest The incredible story of Juliane Koepcke, who found herself alone in the Amazon following a crash that killed 90 people Liam Hunter-Bailey Follow Mar 1 · 5 min read An adult Koepcke posing beside a replica wreckage / Photo by pinterest....
['History Of Yesterday', 'Plane Crashes', 'Survival', 'History', 'Amazon']
What My First Two Weeks With Cancer Taught Me About It, Me and Us. Eric Zerkel May 17·10 min read On a Tuesday I shoved my face into the crook of my wife’s shoulder and cried. It was infantile. It was feral. It was a Newtonian reaction to the word cancer. I have cancer. I have cancer. I have cancer. It tastes alka...
['Survival', 'Inspiration', 'Love', 'Cancer', 'Mwc Death']
Last Survivor of 9/11: The Incredible Story of Genelle Guzman The Port Authority worker lay in the WTC rubble for 27 hours before rescue came. Verity Partington Follow Jun 17 · 8 min read The wreckage of the World Trade Center after 9/11 (Image: David Mark from Pixabay) September 11th, 2001 should have been an ordin...
['Survival', '9 11 Attacks', 'World Trade Center', 'New York', 'History']
The Skydiver Saved by Fire Ants After Plunging 14,500 Feet Photo by Kamil Pietrzak on Unsplash There are people such as me who tend to play it safe. I don’t care to meet my maker before absolutely necessary. Then there are people who love living on the edge, running towards the unthinkable and sometimes achieving the...
['Survival', 'Humans', 'Science', 'History', 'Nonfiction']
5 Chilling Survival Stories That Will Shock You To The Core From being burned alive to being left for dead in a field for 14 hours, these stories prove that women can overcome anything. Fatim Hemraj Follow Aug 29 · 9 min read Kristie Reed Kristie Reed and her mother, Lorraine. Source: The Washington Post On January...
['Survival', 'True Crime', 'Justice', 'History', 'Equality']
When first you start using React JS, it feels like the greatest thing that has happened to you and it feels as if there is no other tool that can make your frontend development experience easier. And then your project gets bigger and more complex, which makes you want to abandon React because your states are super mess...
['React', 'Front End Development', 'Software Development', 'State Management', 'Redux']
The Battle of state management So, 2021 will be over in the next 6 months! What an amazing half year this was, wasn’t it? Enough of this sarcasm. I think we all know the reality. I only turned this on because timing is really important for the topic this post will cover (as it might get change over time). Let’s talk...
['React', 'Node Js Development', 'App Developement', 'Redux Toolkit', 'Redux']
What is react? React is a JS library used to build user interface. 2. Differentiate between functional and class components. What do you prefer to use and in which situation? Functional component: A functional component is just a plain JavaScript function that accepts props as an argument and returns a React element...
['React', 'Interview Questions', 'Frontend', 'React Concept', 'Redux']
Understanding Redux Workflow If you worked with React in any capacity at all, it’s highly likely you’ve heard of a library called Redux. If you haven’t used it before you might be wondering what it is and how it might be helpful to you. Well lucky for you, this blog post is here to answer that. In addition, we’ll also...
['JavaScript', 'React', 'State Management', 'Jsx', 'Redux']
In application development using a component-based library like ReactJS, every component is managing its own local state, and the root component usually manages the state for the whole application. But the problem is as the complexity of the application increases, the component state becomes unstable and it leads to a...
['Dev', 'React', 'Mobx', 'Redux']
I’ve always believed there must be a better way to do the same with React JS. Although I have been using Redux to handle data fetching in projects. Why React Query? In redux, each fetch operation requires the developer to create: three actions (fetch request, succeeded, failed) three reducers (fetch request, succee...
['JavaScript', 'React', 'React Query', 'Axios React', 'Redux']
Flux architecture A way to organize changes in global states of our application. Global states that are shared across multiple components. Middleware are interceptors. I can intercept my action, make an external action inside the middleware that will have some action. In this case, stock check. After this check is co...
['React Native', 'Redux', 'Redux Saga']
Typescript 4.1 introduced an incredibly powerful feature called Template Literal Types . It allows developers to write better typing for strings, so typescript can check them to match certain template: In the example above a variable of type Percent can accept a string value, that starts with a numeric string and term...
['Typescript', 'React', 'JavaScript', 'Redux']
The article describes how I worked through a technical assessment. Keeping in mind the criteria for the assessment, I’ve concealed all the relevant information about the assessment provider. Recently, I was working on an exciting application scenario; where I was provided with a mission to create a web app where users...
['React', 'Material Ui', 'Mongodb', 'Mongoose', 'Redux']
Redux-thunk 原始碼 短短14行到底做了什麼呢XD? 開始之前我們先看一下 redux 的 applyMiddleware 做了什麼,這樣回過頭來看redux-thunk的原始碼才更清楚。 Redux API: applyMiddleware() api Each middleware receives Store 's dispatch and getState functions as named arguments, and returns a function. The last middleware in the chain will receive the real store’s dispatch m...
['Redux Middleware', 'Redux', 'Redux Thunk']
Redux or Context API: Differences between the state managers. Photo by Filiberto Santillán on Unsplash First I’d recommend you have a basic knowledge of React or any other component based frontend framework. For the last few years, thanks to Dan Abramov, Redux has been the state management solution for “big” React ap...
['React', 'State', 'Context Api', 'Front End Development', 'Redux']
4.Context Performance The most important bit to understand about Context is that it will re-render all components that are descendants of the context provider, whether or not they consume the context when a state change happens. The only exception to this rule is when the context provider’s children do not change and ...
['JavaScript', 'React', 'React Context', 'Programming', 'Redux']
There are plenty of SSR tutorials out there. This article goes over how you incrementally work on SSR — how you add it to an existing application. If you want a basic tutorial on how to code a hello world SSR app, I think Redux’s article does a good job. Why Server Side Rendering (SSR)? At Spreetail we have a strateg...
['React', 'Nodejs', 'Server Side Rendering', 'Ecommerce', 'Redux']
My first app! This is my first major attempt at creating a fully functional React/Redux application. It’s available to use (Beta version) at https://kids-star-chart.herokuapp.com/. When creating this application I used a back-end language Ruby on Rails. The front-end of course has JS React/Redux. I implemented a full...
['React', 'Redux']