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How Will Reinforcement Learning Based Recommendation System Be In The Future — Part 1: Recommender System
Every day, we always face with the huge amount of information available on many means leading to information overloading problem, which make people feel difficult to make right decision. Neurond AI Follow Jun 8 · ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Recommendation System'] |
How Will Reinforcement Learning Based Recommendation System Be In The Future — Part 2: Reinforcement learning in Recommendation system
Reinforcement learning is how to make the actions to maximize the reward we will receive based on the situation (environment). It is exactly like the user react to recommendation syste... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Reinforcement Learning', 'Recommendation System'] |
A tutorial to demonstrate the process of training and evaluating various recommender models on a online retail store data. Along with the positive feedbacks like view, add-to-cart, we also have a negative event ‘remove-from-cart’.
The complete tutorial (+code) can be found here.
In e-commerce, the number of products ... | ['Tutorial', 'Recommendation System'] |
Written by Niladri Banerjee
Introduction
Food, such a wonderful delight!
Food, such a delightful sight!
Food that makes an imagination take flight,
Food that lightens up the day bright!
Our lives are all about food. Good, timely, nutritious food is vital not only to us as humans for survival, but it is also essen... | ['AI', 'Foodtech', 'Data Science', 'Recommendation System', 'UI'] |
Recommender Systems in 10 minutes!
What are they and how do they Work? An Introduction for the Everyday Person. Rohit Baney Follow Sep 6 · 11 min read
Image by Nicolas J Leclercq on Unsplash
Amidst the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic, we have become intimately familiar with online services like Netflix, Amazon... | ['Introduction', 'Netflix', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Recommendation System'] |
Topic Model Based Recommendation Systems
A very quick and (hopefully) easy to follow introduction into the intuition (and very low level Maths) involved in Topic Model Based Recommendation Systems. Jamie McGowan Sep 6·9 min read
Check out my GitHub for a working simple recommendation system based on Topic Modelling.
... | ['Editors Pick', 'Data Science', 'Topic Modeling', 'Machine Learning', 'Recommendation System'] |
When meeting someone new, first impressions are crucial: the expression “You never get a second chance to make a first impression” indicates how people often make snap judgments. The same holds true when installing and trying a new application for the first time. Just as you’d negatively judge someone showing up late t... | ['Deezer', 'Music', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Recommendation System'] |
Selecting the best recommendation algorithm out of hundreds available
Building a recommendation engine is something most data scientists have done at some point. There is absolutely no dearth of approaches to address this business problem. Whenever a newbie starts with the literature review, he/she ends up creating a ... | ['Business', 'Analytics', 'Data Science', 'Algorithm Selection', 'Recommendation System'] |
Take Banking Personalization to the Next Level with 3 effective ML practices Srdjan Jovanovic Sep 8·21 min read
Source: pinterest.com
You can hear the word “personalization” at every turn nowadays. Everyone has their reasoning about the definition of this term (fun fact). In the original sense, this term signifies ta... | ['Personalization', 'Data Science', 'Banking', 'Machine Learning', 'Recommendation System'] |
GNNs for recommendation
Recommendation systems are used to generate a list of recommended items for a given user(s). Recommendations are drawn from the available set of items (e.g., movies, groceries, webpages, research papers, etc.,) and are tailored to individual users, based on:
user’s preferences (implicit or exp... | ['Graph Neural Networks', 'Recommender Systems', 'Gnn', 'Machine Learning', 'Recommendation System'] |
This is the final part of our 4-part series! In the previous 3, we covered the theory of collaborative filtering, how to build a Flask API, and how to deploy the API on AWS ECS. Here are the previous posts:
In this post, we’ll build a simple Vue.js frontend that aims to simplify the movie recommendations as much as po... | ['Movies', 'Vuejs', 'Recommendation System', 'Front End Development'] |
By Wangde
In a distributed system that reads and writes data on multiple nodes, if you still need to ensure the atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability (ACID) features, you must implement distributed transactions. The key to this implementation is an appropriate commit protocol. At present, the two-phase commit ... | ['Acid', 'Oltp', '2pc', 'Database', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Jingxuan
The concept of data lakes has recently become a hot topic. There are currently heated discussions among frontline personnel on the best way to build a data lake. Does Alibaba Cloud have a mature data lake solution? If so, has this solution been applied in actual scenarios? What is a data lake? What are the... | ['Storage', 'Big Data', 'Data Lake', 'Database', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Meng Borong and Wangde
Most developers are familiar with transaction isolation levels and know common terms related to this concept, such as dirty read, non-repeatable read, read committed, and repeatable read. However, developers, as technical personnel, must also have an in-depth understanding of transaction isol... | ['Acid', 'Transactions', 'MySQL', 'Database', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Zhixi
I/O-related technologies are becoming more and more important for system design, performance optimization, and middleware development. Learning and mastering I/O-related technologies is a plus as well as a necessary skill for Java engineers. This article will show you how blocking I/O (BIO), non-blocking I/O ... | ['Java', 'Alibabacloud', 'Computing', 'App Development', 'Developer'] |
Released by ELK Geek
Elasticsearch is a popular, distributed open-source search and analytics engine. It features high performance, scalability, and fault tolerance. It strengthens the search capabilities of Apache Lucene and significantly improves control over massive data indexing and querying. Based on the practica... | ['Elasticsearch', 'Json', 'Big Data', 'Deep Learning', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Released by ELK Geek
Elasticsearch is increasingly used as an enterprise business solution due to its simplicity and excellent performance in big data processing. However, any new solution must undergo a series of investigations and tests before it is adopted. In this spirit, this article introduces esrally, an offici... | ['Elasticsearch', 'Big Data', 'Stress Testing', 'Rally', 'Alibabacloud'] |
“The King of Goods” on Taobao: What Is Behind the Low Latency of Live Streaming? Alibaba Cloud Jan 5·15 min read
By Chang Gaowei (Chang Shan)
Collated by LiveVideoStack
From Taobao Technology Department, Alibaba New Retail
Editor’s note: This speech is from Chang Gaowei, a Technical Expert from the Taobao Technolog... | ['Web Development', 'Mobile Development', 'Networking', 'Live Streaming', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Hu Zheng (Ziyi) is an Alibaba Technical Expert
Apache Flink is a popular unified stream-batch computing engine in the big data field. Data Lake is a new technical architecture in the cloud era. In this article, we will discuss the following question, “What will happen when Apache Flink meets the Data Lake?”
Backgr... | ['Big Data', 'Alibabacloud', 'Flink', 'Storage'] |
Authors: Bo Teng
Reviewers: Bo Teng, Rosa Wang, Weiwei Jiang
1. Overview
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) is a platform for developing and running containerized applications. It is designed to help developers and operations personnel to easily build, deploy, and manage applications, allowing the supported ... | ['Containers', 'Kubernetes', 'Computing', 'Tutorial', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Written by Liu Xiaoguo, an advocate of the China Elasticsearch Community
Edited by Lettie and Dayu
Released by ELK Geek
This article gives a detailed description of the use of Filebeat to transfer MySQL log information to Elasticsearch.
Prepare the Environment
Install MySQL
You need to install MySQL by running th... | ['Elasticsearch', 'Data Migration', 'Big Data', 'Database', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Monitor the Device Status Change Using the Rule Engine
1) Online and Offline Status Messages
When a device connecting to the IoT platform goes offline, a message of a specific topic is generated to signify the device status change. Easily learn about the device status change by subscribing to this topic on the server... | ['Internet of Things', 'IoT', 'Database', 'Trends', 'Alibabacloud'] |
1) Background
When device debugging becomes difficult during IoT development, it is imperative to use the network packet capturing tool Wireshark for analyzing device behaviors and subsequently troubleshooting problems. Let’s consider an example that shows how to use Wireshark to analyze the communication between a de... | ['Optimization', 'Networking', 'Internet of Things', 'IoT', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Microsoft called on governments and companies around the world to share more of their data with other organizations to prevent what it warned will be a concentration of digital power in the hands of a small number of giant tech companies; the French government tussled with Apple over control of the collection of data f... | ['Big Data', 'Microsoft', 'Apple', 'Facebook', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Pan Zhenxuan, nicknamed Taichu at Alibaba.
Over the past 15 years, Ant Financial has reshaped how people pay for things in China and transformed the lives of countless people, now having served more than 1.2 billion people around the world. However, these achievements have very much depended on the support of the t... | ['Lending', 'Sql', 'Computing', 'Database', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Updating the Running Parameters of Offline IoT-enabled Devices Through Device Shadow
1) Technical Solution for Updating the Running Parameters of Devices
In many IoT service scenarios, we need to dynamically adjust the running parameter settings of devices on the cloud. Many IoT-enabled devices fail to stay online ro... | ['Devices', 'Nodejs', 'Internet of Things', 'IoT', 'Alibabacloud'] |
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In order to win this inevitable battle against COVID-19, Alibaba Group is stepping up its efforts... | ['Coronavirus', 'E Commerce Business', 'Retail', 'Alibabacloud', 'Sme'] |
By Yang Xu, nicknamed Pinshu at Alibaba.
The progress of Flink in the machine learning field has long been the focus of many developers. This year, a new milestone was set in the Flink community when we open-sourced the Alink machine learning algorithm platform. This also marked Flink’s official entry into the field o... | ['AI', 'Algorithms', 'Machine Learning', 'Performance', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Before we get into what exactly I think will be the three biggest things to look out for in 2020 from PostgreSQL. Let’s have a little recap of what happened over the past year.
In 2019, at Alibaba Cloud we have witnessed the rapid buildup and deployment of Alibaba Cloud’s ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL, our enterprise-gr... | ['Sql', 'Alibaba', 'Database', 'Postgresql', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Integrating Apache Hudi and Apache Flink for New Data Lake Solutions Alibaba Cloud Jul 6·8 min read
By Wang Xianghu, from Apache Hudi Community
Apache Hudi is an open-source data lake framework developed by Uber. It has been incubated in the Apache Incubator since January 2019 and graduated as a top-level Apache proj... | ['Storage', 'Big Data', 'Spark', 'Computing', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Wu Chong (yunxie), Apache Flink PMC and Technical Expert
Edited by Chen Zhengyu, a Volunteer from the Flink Community
Flink 1.11 introduces Flink SQL CDC. What changes can CDC bring to data and business? It will focus on traditional data synchronization solutions, synchronization solutions based on Flink CDC, more... | ['Big Data', 'Sql', 'Flink', 'Database', 'Alibabacloud'] |
JindoTable for Data Optimization and Query Acceleration in a Data Lake Alibaba Cloud Jul 6·4 min read
Overview
With the rise of data lake architecture in the recent past, many enterprises have become interested in building a data lake. Compared to big data platforms, a data lake has high data governance requirements.... | ['Hadoop', 'Big Data', 'Cloud Native', 'Data Lake', 'Alibabacloud'] |
At the Computing Conference 2020 last September, Zhu Shunmin, a researcher on Alibaba Cloud intelligent network products, announced the launch of Application Load Balancer (ALB).
In this blog, we will discuss the recent updates of this product and the new designs that have been made to its architecture, including feat... | ['Server Load Balancer', 'Networking', 'Computing', 'Load Balancing', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Bruce Wu
Background
In software development, the small update and fast iteration development model has been widely recognized and used by more and more Internet companies. The frequency of application changes and upgrades has been continuously increasing. To address different upgrade requirements and ensure the sm... | ['Containers', 'Kubernetes', 'Deployment', 'Elastic Container Service', 'Alibabacloud'] |
In this guide, we will install and set up a PostgreSQL database on an Ubuntu instance using Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS).
After you have an instance installed with Ubuntu OS, follow the steps below
1. SSH into your instance using your key pair for Linux user. For windows, you can use SSH client such as... | ['Ubuntu', 'Psql', 'Database', 'Postgresql', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Apps of a certain scale usually have a set of mature and universal fundamental libraries, especially for apps in the Alibaba system, which generally rely on many fundamental libraries in the system. The cost and risk of using Flutter to re-develop an app from scratch are high. Therefore, incremental migration in Native... | ['Flutter', 'Mobile Apps', 'Docker', 'App Development', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Bruce Wu
Background
You can conveniently deploy a highly available and scalable distributed stateless service in Kubernetes (K8s) by using Deployment and ReplicationController. These applications do not store data locally and they distribute requests based on simple load balancing policies. With the popularization... | ['Kubernetes', 'Deployment', 'Elastic Container Service', 'Log Service', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Bruce Wu
Background
In the previous article in this series, we described several application upgrade methods for different deployment methods. We also showed you how to configure upgrade strategies for native-supported deployment methods of Kubernetes (K8s): downtime release and rolling release. This article will ... | ['Containers', 'Kubernetes', 'Deployment', 'Elastic Container Service', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Hujt
Stream output is widely-known in Alibaba as a powerful performance tool to improve business transformation. However, what is still unclear is its definition, technical theories, and application scenarios. This article will introduce these concepts in detail.
1. Interpretation
1.1 Stream
Stream, also known a... | ['Web Development', 'Computing', 'Websocket', 'Stream', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Bai Xueyu, R&D engineer of Zhongyuan Bank
This article is written by Bai Xueyu, an R&D engineer of a big data platform for Zhongyuan Bank. It mainly introduces the application of a real-time financial data lake in Zhongyuan Bank, including:
Background
Real-time financial data lake architecture
Scenario practices... | ['Fintech', 'Big Data', 'Computing', 'Open Source', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Jeremy Pedersen
Welcome back for week 2 of our Alibaba Cloud Q&A blog series.
This week, I’m going to address just one question, because it’s a big one!
Q: Could Alibaba Cloud survive a nuclear war?
I’m paraphrasing a bit here, but I really did have a customer ask me if Alibaba Cloud was “nuclear proof”.
Let’s ... | ['Disaster Recovery', 'Disaster Planning', 'Reliability', 'Redundancy', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Find out more about how the cloud powers The Technologies behind the Biggest Global Shopping Festival in our latest whitepaper.
The Double 11 Global Shopping Festival continues to set new records. The 2020 event recorded more than US$74 billion GMV, with a peak of 583,000 orders created per second.
Events like Double... | ['E Commerce Business', 'Big Data', 'Cloud Computing', 'Trends', 'Alibabacloud'] |
To hear more from our customers and access exclusive use cases about leveraging the cloud, download Best Practices of Cloud Adoption in Indonesia whitepaper today.
Cloud adoption rates are soaring as organizations continue to develop and launch new digital initiatives. But how can you find the right cloud provider for... | ['Networking', 'Cloud Migration', 'Computing', 'Database', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Boben
Background
In the Deisgn2Code (D2C) project, we usually extract metadata from design files using developer plugins of design tools such as Sketch and Photoshop. These plugins enable us to quickly extract native elements such as images, text, and shapes from design files. We then use these elements to build t... | ['Big Data', 'Deep Learning', 'Algorithms', 'Machine Learning', 'Alibabacloud'] |
By Ruiguang
Have you ever encountered an annoying git commit during team development? How can we write commit messages more clearly to avoid similar problems? In this article, we will discuss practices for standardizing git commits, define a format for commit messages, and monitor commits through webhooks to avoid non... | ['Git', 'Alibabacloud', 'Computing', 'App Development', 'Developer'] |
By Buchen, Alibaba Cloud Serverless Team
“Only keep going beyond can drive us forward.”
Buchen has been working in Alibaba Cloud for 10 years. Since Buchen joined Alibaba Cloud in 2010, he has participated in the R&D of the Alibaba Cloud Apsara distributed system, acted as a Batch Compute architect and Tablestore (No... | ['Computing', 'Function Compute', 'Serverless', 'Trends', 'Alibabacloud'] |
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Dear Internet Marketer,
There ... | ['Alibaba Advertising', 'Alibaba India', 'Alibaba', 'Alibaba Group', 'Alibabacloud'] |
Alibaba Cloud
Cloud computing has transformed contemporary information technology. Businesses are migrating their on-premises data centers to the cloud to save money and improve their agility. Businesses that formerly built brand new data centers are increasingly opting for cloud computing to avoid the high expenses i... | ['Cloud Computing Services', 'Cloud Services', 'Alibaba', 'Cloud Computing', 'Alibabacloud'] |
As the world continues its battle against the novel coronavirus, this post is a hybrid between a poignant reminder of the most tragic event of my life and recounting an inspirational life that we can take a leaf out of in today’s VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous) world, regardless of the age or life stage... | ['Tribute', 'Inspirational', 'Fathers', 'Obituary', 'Covid 19'] |
Some precious truths are like the light of distant stars; They only become discernible by searching the heavens on the darkest nights. In Santa Clarita, California, I experienced such a night on October 6, 2017. The stillness of that lonely night filled me with anxiety as I waited for my wife to come home. Katie had ca... | ['Healing', 'Inspirational'] |
Superintendents quickly learn to depend on each other for advice and assistance. We come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Whether the issue is school finance, human resources, social media, UIL activities, student services, bond elections or special programs, I never thought there would be a problem that at le... | ['Leadership Development', 'Inspirational', 'K12 Education'] |
Failure Fails when you Rise & Act for one more time.
Our society has a tendency to display success in all its glory. The struggles behind that success never see the light of the day.
Sometimes, all I can see is the glory and the fame that success brings but the real struggle that those successful faced in their journ... | ['Beyourself', 'Inspirational', 'Hard Work', 'Success', 'Motivational'] |
I culled this title from Archbishop Fulton Sheen. He is one of my favourite televangelists and one of the teachers that I look up to for spiritual direction. His teachings have a way of bringing out the scriptures with deep intimacy and wit. I am writing this to not only feed my hungry soul but also to share how we can... | ['Inspirational', 'Healing', 'Relationships', 'Freedom', 'Life'] |
Zero to Dream Job in 90 Days!
Day #35 Evelyn
Picture from unSplash
Tomorrow is the birthday of a dear friend that has been through many ups and downs along the bumpy roads of life, with me. Thirty seven years ago, I wrote the following poem for her, to celebrate that birthday and here I offer it to her again, lookin... | ['Friendship', 'Inspirational', 'Hopes And Dreams', 'Joy', 'Life'] |
I just finished watching the Skater Girl movie and have penned down my thoughts.
First of all, it’s really an inspiring movie. It focuses on the story of a poor village girl, who initially had no idea what to do in her life and soon introduced to the world of skateboarding by a foreigner. But she faces a rough road ah... | ['Inspirational', 'Women In Technology', 'Technology', 'Woman In Tech', 'Insights'] |
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” — J.K. Rowling
Over the years, the role and rights of women have changed beyond all recognition. We have countless awe-inspiring women that exist all over the world that inspire us women to take the lead and figh... | ['Inspirational', 'Women In Business', 'Empowering Women', 'Netflix', 'Motivation'] |
Photo credit: Brett Jordan
We all heard certain idioms growing up and probably use them to justify things we do in our lives or use them as a way to shape our lives.
I came across a TikTok video last year that led me into more research, and it was wild to me how most of us were only taught one side of the idioms and ... | ['Motivational Quotes', 'Inspirational', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Idioms'] |
I am Tim, the man who knew infinity is a metaphor. I chase down every one of my dreams. How can I do that? Yes I did so because my dreams were for the near future. I heard people saying “live in the present”. Sorry I am not interested. The present will be gone when we say the word present. So I wanted to live in the ne... | ['Inspirational', 'Fitness', 'Lifestyle', 'Life', 'Beauty'] |
The decision to leave was relatively easy. Not because I wanted to, but because it made sense to leave. Being locked in a box, without access to a proper grocery store and zero human contact, not to mention in an apartment where the walls were leaking water every other week and landlords who were unwilling to fix the p... | ['Inspirational', 'Covid Diaries', 'Entrepreneur', 'Journey', 'Relocation'] |
Christ The Healer.
Photo by Allef Vinicius on Unsplash
In the world today, disease and sickness are claiming a terrible toll of human lives. In spite of the fact that medical science is demonstrating its most remarkable achievements, disease still persists to ravage human lives all over the world.
…I WILL TAKE sickn... | ['Christanity', 'Devotional', 'Inspirational'] |
Humans of Gwalior: Prabha Shankar Pandey
Meet Prabha Shankar Pandey, HoD of Chemistry at Resonance, Varanasi.
Disclaimer: This is the 10th chapter of Humans of Gwalior, an endeavor of Rotaract club of Youth at ABV-IIITM Gwalior which aims to identify ordinary people who pull off an extraordinary amount of hard work. ... | ['Education', 'Teachers', 'Inspirational'] |
College student in sheriff’s office ‘wanted poster’ has been harassed online for two days
Imani Simmons said her court date was postponed because of the pandemic and she did not receive any updates — until she saw the sheriff’s Facebook page Michael Indriolo Follow Feb 19 · 5 min read
For two days, Imani Simmons, a 2... | ['Sheriffs Office', 'Local Government'] |
A screenshot of the Portage County Sheriff’s office’s Facebook post
Sheriff’s office ‘wanted posters’ for traffic tickets raise ethical concerns over public shaming
Facebook posts are meant to resolve outstanding warrants more quickly and without arrests, the department says Michael Indriolo Follow Feb 18 · 5 min rea... | ['Local Government', 'Sheriffs Office'] |
County leaders question parts of the sheriff’s spending plans
Commissioners cast doubt over a proposal to give new cars to every deputy, and the prosecutor questioned the fairness of salary increases Michael Indriolo Follow Mar 5 · 5 min read
Portage County officials have raised concerns about key parts of the sherif... | ['Sheriffs Office', 'Local Government', 'County Commission'] |
New sheriff gifts big raises to command staff and a big truck for himself
Within his first weeks in office, Portage County Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski raised command staff salaries by more than $152,000 per year in total and purchased a new Ford F-250 for himself, to the dismay of at least two county commissioners.
Sheri... | ['Local Government'] |
The Portage County sheriff is seeking $1 million for new patrol vehicles
After a big salary bump for command staff, the union is optimistic that rank and file could also see raises Michael Indriolo Follow Jan 29 · 4 min read
Sheriff Bruce Zuchowski asked Portage County commissioners this week to consider purchasing a... | ['Local Government', 'Sheriffs Office', 'County Commission'] |
March 9, 2021
Three Storms and a Pandemic
Thank you everyone. This is my first time attending a National League of Cities conference via Zoom, and I hope it might be everybody’s last time attending the National League of Cities conference via Zoom.
I find these virtual get-togethers aren’t quite as good as the real ... | ['Cities', 'Local Government', 'Janet Yellen', 'Covid 19', 'Economics'] |
Boosting Economic Mobility: The Great Challenge of Our Time
The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened, and highlighted, the urgent need for solutions. Cities were already on the case.
By Maia Jachimowicz and Zachary Markovits
The American Dream has always been built around ideals of freedom and opportunity — the freedom ... | ['Cities', 'Data', 'Local Government', 'Covid 19', 'Economic Inequality'] |
Alongside their NHS peers, staff in local authorities are at the coalface of the Covid response. Their work has been relentless. Creating new hubs to support the vulnerable. Working with volunteers to distribute food and medicine. Dispersing grants to support local businesses. And dealing with thousands of calls from p... | ['Government Innovation', 'Data', 'Local Government', 'Covid 19', 'London'] |
Four steps to help catalogue a nation’s bins
#govbins is a project to photograph wheelie bins in every UK local council.
It started sort of by accident when I noticed that bin designs varied in different areas. It’s a bit niche; each photo is like a postcard to myself. But it’s been nice and surprising when it’s got ... | ['Photography', 'Design', 'Local Government'] |
Just before the lockdown, I went to a some rammed, stuffy rooms in Bristol to see something that was politically completely inconceivable five years ago. Here, socialist historians, tenants rights activists, self-professed communists, Labour MPs, non-binary Marxist-Leninist physicists and trade unionists got together t... | ['Revenge', 'Local Government', 'Socialism'] |
Abraham Lincoln (Left), Fredrick Douglass (Center), and Ernest Shackleton (Right)
No pressure, but how mayors handle the Covid-19 crisis is likely to define their legacy as leaders for years to come.
That weighty reminder was just one message Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn presented during the latest o... | ['Coronavirus', 'Local Government', 'Covid 19', 'History', 'Crisis Management'] |
In December, former Google Cloud executive Max Henderson grew so worried about the coronavirus that he began building a model website that could help local and state leaders “cut through the noise” and make quick and effective decisions.
In just the past week, 10 million visitors came to CovidActNow.org, a volunteer e... | ['Coronavirus', 'Hospitals', 'Data', 'Local Government', 'Covid 19'] |
Last Thursday night, I walked into the Wawa on Congress and Lake Worth Road to pay for gas. I counted 21 people in the store as I waited in line. Two of those 21 people wore masks: me and the cashier. The other nineteen entered the store without so much as a cloth face covering. That is, the other nineteen could have k... | ['Coronavirus', 'Omari Hardy', 'Local Government', 'Palm Beach County', 'Covid 19'] |
Milford, Pa., Mayor Sean Strub, then and now: attending 1991 ACT UP demonstration in Albany, N.Y., (left) and distributing locally produced hand sanitizers to Milford’s first responders (right).
When the Covid-19 outbreak began to be felt in the U.S. in February, Sean Strub had a sinking feeling; he’d seen this movie ... | ['Coronavirus', 'Local Government', 'Activism', 'Covid 19', 'AIDS'] |
Exciting news: Croydon Council have signed up to use the Create low code platform as part of their ambitious plans for digital. Create is the new name for MatsSoft, the platform Adur & Worthing have been using for several years.
Low code platforms allow online services and whole software systems to be built rapidly by... | ['Local Digital', 'Local Government', 'Low Code Development'] |
Recharging Racine
By Alison Gardy
RACINE, WI — For decades, Racine has had the highest unemployment rate in Wisconsin, even though at first glance, its job boards seem to offer thousands of work opportunities.
Upon closer inspection, however, many of these jobs are low-wage, geographically remote, part-time, or seas... | ['Cities', 'Data', 'Jobs', 'Local Government', 'Racine'] |
Good Work Camden
The world of work is changing. From people’s shifting expectations around the flexibility and support work should offer, to the way the internet and technology has reshaped jobs across industries, the nature of work, the workforce and work relationships are transforming.
There’s also a growing number... | ['Policy', 'Employment', 'Local Government', 'Camden', 'Economy'] |
Public engagement that’s fit for purpose
Armed with a broad set of principles and a loosely defined brief to address health and wellbeing issues in Camden, it was difficult to know what to expect. But as a fresh-faced policy officer, new to the council with little experience in citizen engagement, I jumped at the chan... | ['Local Government', 'Neighbourhood Assembly', 'Public Engagement', 'Wellbeing', 'Health'] |
Finding Purpose, Connection, and Courage at San Jose City Hall
Last week I served my last day as Digital Services Lead for the City of San Jose, marking the end to an exhilarating and defining chapter of my career. I’ve had the privilege to be a founding member of San Jose’s Office of Civic Innovation, and to pioneer ... | ['Government Innovation', 'Digital Government', 'Digital Service', 'Service Design', 'Local Government'] |
I don’t travel much.
This isn’t an affectation. A blend of being an introvert and a lack of disposable income means that I am not the sort of person who relishes getting too far out of my comfort zone. However, I am also a sucker for a freebie, especially if said freebie involves visiting one of the few countries that... | ['Sustainability', 'Industrial Strategy', 'Local Government', 'Tokyo', 'Japan'] |
What is TikTok?
TikTok is the culmination of all social content platforms leading up to today – it’s mobile first, short form videos, with a heavy emphasis on music, comedy, dancing, intimacy, and trends. You can follow people, you can browse popular videos, and you can explore hashtags. Simple.
Liverpool’s results
... | ['Tik Tok', 'Social Media', 'Local Government', 'Liverpool', 'Marketing'] |
“Death. It’s something we try not to think about. We don’t really talk about it. It’s too depressing. Dying young is even worse. It’s painful, it’s difficult to get our heads around, it’s best not to talk about it.”
Yet I think Liverpool should be having a conversation around how many people die in the city (far too m... | ['Local Government', 'Analytics', 'Liverpool', 'Death', 'Blog'] |
This article was co-authored by Josh Sorin and Andi Mirviss.
At CPI our mission is to reimagine government so that it works better for everyone. As recently explored by my colleague Danny Buerkli, what we think that means to us is accelerating a movement that’s percolating in governments across the world — a movement ... | ['Cities', 'Innovation', 'Local Government', 'Failing Forward', 'Our Vision For Government'] |
In May of this year Citizens Advice published a report on local area energy planning and what might be needed for this to be a critical part of our action on zero carbon.
I am excited about the prospect of greater local involvement in the decision-making and delivery of net zero. The concept of local area energy plans... | ['Sustainable Housing', 'Net Zero Energy', 'Local Government', 'Climate Change', 'Low Carbon'] |
I set myself a challenge to take last week at a sustainable pace. I made sure I built in enough time to prepare for things and then reflect on them. I colour coded meetings and time blocks so I could really easily see how much context switching I was going to be doing and then added in extra time to the blocks to accom... | ['Local Government'] |
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Written by Pierson Kubel
To Americans, July 4th means many things: cookouts, time with friends and family, history, and — most of all — dazzling fireworks displays. Every Independence Day, 61% of Americans will attend a Fourth of July picnic, and 40% of Americans will attend one ... | ['Government', 'Elections', 'Voting', 'Local Government', 'Voting Rights'] |
So here we go; Series 1 Episode 1 and my first my attempt at week notes.
Starting as I mean to go on, I firstly must apologise, as in order to use up the only available slack time I seem to have these day a large amount of the content of these will be through a voice recorder whilst either driving or doing some other ... | ['Government', 'Transformation', 'Change Management', 'Local Government', 'Planning'] |
How does cooperative purchasing work?
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There are nearly 90,000 local government agencies across the U.S. Since governments spend public dollars, the way they spend these dollars is highly regulated. Above a certain dollar threshold, as low as $5K or $6K in some jurisdictions, government... | ['Innovation', 'Local Government', 'Govtech', 'Procurement', 'Public Procurement'] |
The ROI of design-led change
There’s a saying that change is the only constant. But a constant challenge we face is making change transformational for organisations. This is true across local authorities, central government and health & care providers.
Too often, we see organisations focus solely on their technology ... | ['Organizational Change', 'Local Government', 'Change', 'Leadership'] |
This week has been ‘the one before the holiday’ when you realise you really do need a break and are digging deep to finish/move forward keys things, so this is a very short weeknote.
I’m taking a week off next week and — I’ve finished a first draft of my thesis, my supervisors are eagerly awaiting the pleasure of read... | ['Weeknotes', 'Change', 'Local Government', 'Leadership', 'Digital Transformation'] |
Covering 18–31 May 2021
Welcome back to our Cyber Sprint Notes, an opportunity to catch up on the progress of the Local Digital Cyber team.
Cyber Health
The Cyber Health team completed their Alpha Service Assessment on 19 May. This gave us an opportunity to present our work during the Alpha phase to peers from other... | ['Local Digital', 'Cybersecurity', 'Cyber', 'Cyber Sprint Notes', 'Local Government'] |
I started the working week with a swim at the lido. It felt, well normal. I’m sure I’m not the only one struggling with the dissonance between what’s ‘normal’ and what’s still not, and how we are going to collectively process the last 18 months. I don’t have the answers, but I do know it’s not going to just go away.
W... | ['Local Government', 'Weeknotes', 'Leadership', 'Digital Transformation'] |
Headshot Credit: Helena Raju Photography
After four years of service on the City of Philadelphia’s Millennial Advisory Committee (MAC), I am grateful, but more so humbled to be appointed as Chair. I take seriously this role to steward MAC’s efforts to affect positive change within Philadelphia. Now, after a fruitful r... | ['City Living', 'Local Government', 'Millennials', 'Millennial Trends', 'Philadelphia'] |
Domestic resource mobilization is key to better public services
In December 2020, the GERÉ project agreed to work with five communes in Haiti’s North and Northeast departments — Pignon, Saint-Raphael, Caracol, Cap-Haitien, and Ouanaminthe — as part of a USAID and local authorities’ collaboration to help improve local ... | ['Caribbean', 'International Development', 'Local Government', 'Community', 'Haiti'] |
How investing in our childcare system can create a more resilient and equitable local economy while setting Sacramento apart.
As we consider how Sacramento can build back stronger (if by stronger we mean more equitable, resilient, and community-focused) from the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest opportunities we h... | ['California', 'Early Childhood Education', 'Local Government', 'Sacramento', 'Childcare'] |
Making a citizen’s arrest will now be illegal for most people in Georgia. Student athletes will start making endorsement deals and getting paid for them. Stealing Amazon packages from someone’s porch will become a felony. Your standard state tax deduction will be higher, meaning you’ll probably pay less in taxes. You c... | ['Voting', 'Local Government', 'Georgia', 'Politics', 'State Legislature'] |
To the people of Chattanooga,
My time as your mayor has come to an end. Before I leave City Hall, I just wanted to say thank you.
Eight short years ago, you placed your trust in me to lead this wonderful city. Whether it was making unprecedented investments in early childcare, effectively ending veteran homelessness,... | ['Local Government', 'Chattanooga', 'Mayor'] |
How do we know if this text message campaign worked and how cities can run their own similar evaluation and project
Tulsa designed and launched a randomized control trial to evaluate the impact of this text alert on people who were considered at risk of eviction because they were experiencing financial distress. The a... | ['Cities', 'Tulsa', 'Data', 'Local Government', 'Behavioral Science'] |
Council Meeting, April 13, 2021 Actions Taken.
The following actions were taken at the Monessen City Council meeting on April 13, 2021.
The meeting was called to order at 7 pm.
Roll call was given. All council members were present.
Pledge to the flag.
Minutes were approved for the March 9, 2021 meeting.
Ron Mozer... | ['Pennsylvania', 'Monessen', 'Mayor', 'Local Government', 'City Government'] |
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