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Last Wednesday, I hosted Pavi Sandhu to discuss the importance of building and maintaining good developer documentation. Pavi has more than 20 years of experience leading documentation and user education initiatives at companies such as Salesforce, Amazon, Mesosphere, and MongoDB. Pavi co-founded Salesforce’s learning ... | ['Development', 'Engineering', 'Founders', 'Documentation', 'DevOps'] |
Investing hundreds of hours in discussions helped me to model this method. If you were wondering, I’ve just implementing DaS159. After almost eighty (80) failures, successes, advocacy, presentations and liberation of this framework, I have started to call it a Design at Scale.
Figure 07: Design at Scale Confluence Hub... | ['Product Design', 'Transparency', 'Das', 'Documentation', 'Atlassian'] |
Published on 2021–04–01
Please welcome to the stage our eleventh major release of Dagster, codenamed “Lucky Star.”
This release marks a substantial step forwards in several areas.
Release highlights
Dynamic orchestration, which lets pipeline subsets execute once for each element of an input processed at runtime, is... | ['Partition', 'Data Engineering', 'Dagster', 'Documentation', 'Backfill'] |
Who are your API users?
Your API users might be developers in your organization, outside your organization, or both. Understanding their needs is your top priority because they are your customers and ‘customers are always right’.
If necessary, you may want to further categorize these users. For example, internal user... | ['API', 'Documentation', 'Tools', 'Rest Api'] |
21 makers just graduated with our inaugural class, and I can’t stop smiling.
The Coda Doctorate is a five-week, asynchronous learning program with live elements — a blend of self-paced learning through video lessons, workbook exercises, weekly virtual office hours, and an active community Slack channel for conversatio... | ['Mariamarquis', 'Documentation', 'Coda', 'Learning', 'Startup'] |
Meet Plinko
Companies frequently build systems that model real-world processes. First passes at building these systems often rely on a collection of endpoints and software that too loosely works together to enable the large-scale transitions, which a company can expect over time as it grows. Often, these systems becom... | ['Engineering', 'Product Development', 'Documentation', 'Open Source', 'Go'] |
What have we studied? What do we do? But better still… What value do we create for users and how do we impact worldwide ecommerce? This article sums up our experience as Technical Writers at Mercado Libre and Global Selling Developers. Let ‘s go!
First, the not-so-good news: there is still no Technical Writer career i... | ['Ecommerce', 'Technical Writing', 'Mercado Libre', 'Documentation', 'Mercado Livre'] |
Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay
“Technical writing is Copywriting’s old boring uncle.”
Someone once wrote that on Copyblogger.
I thought it was true.
I lusted over Copywriting for years.
At parties, Copywriting was always surrounded by beautiful people. He mesmerized them with his stories, and that perfec... | ['Technical Writing', 'Careers', 'Documentation', 'Writing', 'Copywriting'] |
In this article, we will deal with the different sections of the scanner point by point in an attempt to better understand its overall functioning.
I. Rug Pull Safety
The Rug Pull Safety section is used to determine the likelihood of a token getting rugged, i.e. owners withdrawing liquidity, or dumping a massive amou... | ['Cybersecurity', 'Crypto Tokens', 'Scanner App', 'Documentation', 'Crypto'] |
Context Diagram
It is all about the big picture. We don’t need to know the technical details here. What is important for us are people (actors, who are using the system) and software systems that are part of a business solution.
Context is a diagram that we would show a business person explaining what kind of a syste... | ['Documentation', 'Software Architecture', 'DevOps', 'Application', 'Software'] |
Think about you’re creating a library and you want to publish it on Git, or even you’re writing your casual code on some project, you need to write good documentation for other people too. what happens if someone wants to use your library or work beside you on an old project?
Here is KDoc, a language for writing docum... | ['Kotlin', 'Programming', 'Java', 'Android', 'Documentation'] |
My Boyfriend Asked Me to Stop Shedding in his Immaculate Apartment
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels
Saying my boyfriend G was a neat freak is an understatement. His place looked like a catalog — the living room with its carefully folded afghan on one couch cushion, the kitchen counter with nary a crumb, and the... | ['Feminism', 'Boundaries', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Dating'] |
It’s 7 am and am up. Took out the first few minutes to say my prayers and then drank a glass of warm water and today I skipped checking the news first. Picked up from page 91 and am ready to continue my journey with the laws of boundary.
Law #6, ‘The Law of Evaluation’. Our boundaries are for our safety, like the auth... | ['Books', 'Boundaries', 'Reading', 'Self', 'Life Lessons'] |
There are some memes that appear on my social media feed that I never get tired of seeing over and over.
And then there are some that drive me insane, as toxic messages become normalised within our culture and society. The one I have the biggest issue with, is “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”
An aspect of our nervous... | ['Fear', 'Boundaries', 'Healing', 'Trauma', 'Stress'] |
To be compassionate is to reduce suffering. The suffering of others, as well as ourselves. However, in a bid to practice compassion towards others, we often add to our own suffering instead.
When people take advantage of our proclivity to be compassionate and consequently walk over us, the “compassion” we’re exercisin... | ['Boundaries', 'Relationships', 'Compassion', 'Advice', 'Kindness'] |
Oh what a thought what a thought!!
“Panchi nadiyan hawa ke jhonke koi sarhad na ise roke.” says a Hindi movie song means there is no boundary which can stop the flow of bird, river and breeze.
Photo by Matthias Götzke on Unsplash
As I was sipping my cup of coffee in the evening and listening to this song I had this ... | ['Dream', 'Boundary'] |
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Setting limits and boundaries with our children can feel hard, but is important! It’s natural for children to want to push those boundaries — it’s part of their development and part of how they learn independence. Children thrive on repetition and routine. Having boundaries can hel... | ['Toddlers', 'Boundaries', 'Limits', 'Positive Discipline', 'Connected Parenting'] |
By Brianna Wiest
Your entire life is constructed of boundaries.
Your coworkers know how to treat you because of your office culture, because of your company’s policies, because of common sense. Your family knows how to treat you because of what you have shown them you’ll tolerate. The people around you know how to tr... | ['Self Improvement', 'Boundaries', 'Self', 'Healing', 'Personal Development'] |
How To Hone Your People Pleasing Ways By Becoming Responsibly Selfish Amymetson Apr 25·8 min read
What if you don’t need to ‘recover’ from people-pleasing and instead you could make a few tweaks, hone it and turn it into your new superpower? How would that feel? To embrace all of yourself, the light and the dark? Let ... | ['Boundaries', 'Confidence', 'People Pleaser', 'Strengths And Weaknesses', 'People Pleasing'] |
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If you can live alone, then you can live with yourself.
You get to know yourself and your personal boundaries. You come to have a relationship with yourself. Ultimately, you come to have healthier relationships with other people.
When you live alone and really enjoy it, the decision to... | ['Living Alone', 'Boundaries', 'Healthy Relationships', 'Dating', 'Personal Growth'] |
Blurred Boundaries
Are you the “Yes-person”? In my words, this is the kind of person who says a resounding “Yes!” to everything that comes their way and doesn’t consider the effect that it has on his personal time, and commitments.
Photo by Lance Asper on Unsplash
“Will you be able to help me out with this quiz?” “I... | ['Self Care', 'Boundaries', 'Setting Boundaries', 'Saying No', 'Self-awareness'] |
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My Sweetie and I broke up Thursday night.
Like so many moments and aspects of our relationship, the breakup was another first. It was the sweetest, most mutual ending I’ve been through. I had the courage and integrity to set a new, important boundary. He had the c... | ['Relationships Love Dating', 'Boundaries', 'Breakups', 'Personal Growth', 'Heartbreak'] |
In fact, 63.15% of the values in the overall data are null values. So, it is very important to carefully deal with these null values as they can significantly affect our results.
Null values visual plot:
Handling null values:
Handling null values is an important task here. In the below code, you can see that there a... | ['Classification', 'Decision Tree', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Case Study'] |
Overfitting is the second worse problem for data scientists, after missing values and outliers. Compared to other machine learning models, overfitting in decision trees can easily happen as their learning algorithms can produce large and complex decision trees that perfectly fit training instances. In general, overfitt... | ['Hyperparameter Tuning', 'Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Overfitting'] |
This post will serve as a high-level overview of decision trees. It will cover how decision trees train with recursive binary splitting and feature selection with “information gain” and “Gini Index”. I will also be tuning hyperparameters and pruning a decision tree for optimization. The two decision tree algorithms cov... | ['Gridsearchcv', 'Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Scikit Learn'] |
Decision Trees are well-known algorithms in the field of statistics and machine learning. For sure, every data scientist has ever tried to fit Decision Trees. They are one of the first topics in every course of data mining where we learn how to deal with supervised and unsupervised tasks. When fitting a Decision Tree, ... | ['Linear Models', 'Editors Pick', 'Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
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Chefboost — an alternative Python library for tree-based models
I randomly encountered chefboost in my Twitter feed and given that I never heard about it before, I decided to have a quick look into it and test it out. In this article, I will briefly present the library, mention t... | ['Decision Tree', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Education', 'Machine Learning'] |
Gini impurity and entropy
Two friends Joe and Sam were getting bored. So they decided to play a game. The one who finds the line that best splits the following points into blue and orange wins the game. The only constraint is that the line must be parallel to any of the axis.
Figure 1
Both tried a lot and came up wi... | ['Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Algorithms', 'Machine Learning'] |
Decision Trees and Random Forests — Explained
Decision trees and random forests are supervised learning algorithms used for both classification and regression problems. These two algorithms are best explained together because random forests are a bunch of decision trees combined. There are ofcourse certain dynamics an... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Random Forest', 'Decision Tree'] |
Introduction
Do you remember climbing trees in your childhood? According to researchers, at the University of North Florida, climbing a tree can dramatically improve cognitive skills, including memory. Climbing trees can help children become more flexible in body and mind, while also developing strong spatial reasonin... | ['Heartbeat', 'Decision Tree', 'Python', 'Data Science For Ml', 'Machine Learning'] |
Let’s get started!
Decision Tree Model
We will be using the Titanic data set from a Kaggle to predict survivors. We will import the data and select some features to work with. ‘Survived’ is our target value.
data = pd.read_csv(‘path_or_link/train.csv’)
data = data.loc[:,(‘Survived’,’Pclass’,’Sex’,’Age’,’SibSp’,’Par... | ['Decision Tree', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Machine Learning'] |
Here I am writing notes for the third chapter “Decision Tree learning” from book “Machine Learning — Tom Mitchell”. Hope this story, will help them, who are studying Machine Learning in their university or willing to understand the theoretical fundamentals of machine learning.
Chapter 1–3-steps-introduction-to-machine... | ['Tom Mitchell', 'Machine Learning', 'Decision Tree', 'Tree Pruning'] |
Practical issues in learning decision trees include
determining how deeply to grow the decision tree,
handling continuous attributes,
choosing an appropriate attribute selection measure,
handling training data with missing attribute values,
handling attributes with differing costs, and
improving computational eff... | ['Tom Mitchell', 'Machine Learning', 'Decision Tree', 'Tree Pruning'] |
In this post, we are going to talk about one of the most important algorithms in machine learning, which is called Decision Trees. They are important because without them other state-of-the-art algorithms like Bagging and Boosting wouldn’t have been invented.
First, Let’s talk about the Pros and Cons and then paraphra... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Decision Tree', 'Algorithms'] |
Predicting Micronutrients using Neural Networks and Random Forest (Part 2)
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Welcome back! Glad you can join me in part 2 of this series of “Predicting Micronutrients using Neural Networks and Random Forest.”
In the previous blog post, I mentioned that UNICEF has invited us to join their ... | ['Random Forest', 'Decision Tree', 'Python', 'Machine Learning', 'Scikit Learn'] |
Immigration is a hot topic in the United States, but how can data science evaluate the immigration process and potentially help you out?
1 in 7 of the US population are immigrants and for many of these people, permanent residency is a high priority in the hope of staying in the United States. As a UK citizen currently... | ['Decision Tree', 'Xgboost', 'Data Science', 'Supervised Learning', 'Permanent Residency'] |
Now you may ask yourself: how do DTs know which features to select and how to split the data? To understand that, we need to get into some details.
All DTs perform basically the same task: they examine all the attributes of the dataset to find the ones that give the best possible result by splitting the data into subg... | ['Open Data', 'Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Random Forest Classifier Implementation from scratch with Python
Soon to finish the third semester of graduate study, the overcautious me start to browse the internet on how I can land a job in machine learning field. After a few minutes of redditing /r/MachineLearning, I stumble upon an interesting blog of a guy disc... | ['Random Forest', 'Random Forest Classifiers', 'Decision Tree', 'Sklearn', 'Machine Learning'] |
Random Forest Regression
In this blog we’ll try to understand one of the most important algorithms in machine learning i.e. Random Forest Algorithm. We will try to look at the things that make Random Forest so special and will try to implement it on a real life dataset.
The Code along with the dataset can be found he... | ['Random Forest', 'Decision Tree', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Supervised Learning', 'Machine Learning'] |
Decision Tree Regression in Machine learning
The decision tree is the simplest, yet the most powerful algorithm in machine learning. Decision tree uses a flow chart like tree structure to predict the output on the basis of input or situation described by a set of properties. It falls under the category of supervised l... | ['Decision Tree', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Regression'] |
1. Linear Regression
Linear regression is simple, which makes it a great place to start thinking about algorithms more generally. Here it is:
ŷ = a * x + b
Read aloud, you’d say “y-hat equals a times x plus b.”
y-hat is the output, or guess made by the algorithm, the dependent variable.
a is the coefficient. It’s ... | ['Internity', 'Machine Learning', 'Linear Regression', 'Decision Tree'] |
Decision Trees are one of the most famous algorithms out there in the field of machine learning. There are many methods based on the decision tree like XgBoost, Random Forest, Hoeffding tree, and many more. A decision tree represents a function T: X-> Y where X is a feature set and Y may be a continuous value or a clas... | ['Decision Tree', 'Machinelearningalgorithms', 'Gini Index', 'Machine Learning', 'Decision Tree Algorithm'] |
Source:- scikit-learn
Decision Tree is a famous Machine Learning Algorithm which is used in both Regression and Classification problem.
This algorithm works by making the statement of a choice and based on its results whether True or False provides different conclusion.
Below is the diagram of a very basic decision ... | ['Classification Algorithms', 'Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
Typical Decision Tree
If you are a beginner in machine learning then this doubt must have arrived to you that “why entropy is crucial for making a decision in DT???”. Lets dive into the topic.
What is Entropy?
In Machine Learning, Entropy is a measure to calculate the impurity of the group. Entropy is used in tree a... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Decision Tree', 'Decision Making'] |
Machine Learning 🤖
Machine Learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence based on the idea that models and algorithms can learn patterns and signals from data, differentiate the signals from the inherent noises in the data and use the learnings to predict over new, unseen data. As the model can scale and predict ov... | ['Random Forest', 'Decision Tree', 'Classification', 'Xgboost', 'Machine Learning'] |
Entropy
As mentioned above entropy is one method used to partition a decision tree into smaller subsets, by partitioning the tree it acts as a threshold value for a tree node. Entropy is the measure of the impurity of a set of data alternatively we can think of this as the measure of the disorder or uncertainty of a g... | ['Entropy', 'Gini Index', 'Decision Tree'] |
Decision Tree is a supervised machine learning algorithm used for both classification as well as for regression.
Content
Definition Types of Decision Tree Terminologies Advantages of Decision Tree Disadvantage of Decision Tree Assumptions of Decision Tree Attribute Selection Measures Working of Decision Tree Points t... | ['Trees', 'Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Algorithms', 'Machine Learning'] |
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Boosting performance by combining trees with GLM: A benchmarking analysis
A common pitfall of statistical modeling is ensuring the modeling method is appropriate to the structure of the data. linear models like logistic regression assume the existence of a linear relationship between... | ['Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Logistic Regression', 'Machine Lear', 'R Programming'] |
Basic Terminologies
Entropy
A decision tree is built top-down from a root node and involves partitioning the data into subsets that contain instances with similar values (homogenous).
The algorithm uses entropy to calculate the homogeneity of a sample.
If the sample is completely homogeneous the entropy is zero and... | ['Interview Preparation', 'Interview Questions', 'Decision Tree', 'Algorithms', 'Machine Learning'] |
Following article consists of the seven parts:
1- What are Decision Trees
2- The approach behind Decision Trees
3- The limitations of Decision Trees and their solutions
4- What are Random Forests
5- Applications of Random Forest Algorithm
6- Optimizing a Random Forest with Code Example
The term Random Forest has... | ['Random Forest', 'Decision Tree', 'Decision Tree Classifier', 'Python', 'Data Science'] |
Decision Tree vs Random Forest — Which Algorithm is Better
The field of data science is an interdisciplinary field that mines raw data. After that, careful analysis is done on it, and various patterns are derived from the same that are used to extract valuable insights from the data. Statistics, computer science, mach... | ['Random Forest', 'Technical Interview', 'Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Machine Learning'] |
What is Decision Tree?
Decision Tree is used to solve Regression and classification problems via Tree based methods using Root nodes,edges, decision node and leaf with different technicques for a given data set.
Decision Tree algoritham is one of the most important algoritham in machine learning which can be used in ... | ['Data Science', 'Machine Learning', 'Decision Tree', 'Machine Learning Python'] |
Reviewing the TensorFlow Decision Forests library
Thanks to https://undraw.co/illustrations for providing free illustrations
In their paper, Tabular Data: Deep Learning is Not All You Need, the authors argue that while deep learning methods have shown tremendous success in the image and text domains, traditional tree... | ['Random Forest', 'Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'TensorFlow', 'Machine Learning'] |
“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful…”
In this article, we shall be covering the following:
Introduction Components of a Decision Tree Classification Trees Regression Trees Exploring the Algorithm Entropy, Gini Index, Variance Building a Decision T... | ['Decision Tree', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Algorithms', 'Machine Learning'] |
HOW THE NODE & HOW DO WE KNOW WHICH FEATURE TO SPLIT THE NODE ON?
To select the feature for the split, we calculate the impurity of the node. We want to select the feature which gives us the lowest impurity.
Lowest impurity means that the split will produce “less” impure nodes.
The aim is to reach pure nodes, where ... | ['Data Science', 'Data', 'Machine Learning', 'Decision Tree'] |
XGBoost, Light GBM and CatBoost
Photo by Kirill Nechmonya on Unsplash
When developing a Machine Learning Model, Data Scientists and Data Engineers often apply the algorithm they believe to be the most efficient, hoping for fast performance and accurate predictions, without much thought on how well it caters to the pr... | ['Decision Tree', 'Lightgbm', 'Xgboost', 'Data Science', 'Catboost'] |
The (ir)relevance of experts: top-down versus bottom-up information flow
Over the past years and decades, the public debate in modern society has been slowly reduced to “my expert is better than your expert”. Rather than giving substantive arguments, we’ve crippled our public discourse to the point that it’s become an... | ['Conservatism', 'Bitcoin', 'Game Theory', 'Tradition', 'Decentralization'] |
A short note on how ancient people identified each other.
Recently, I was deep into anthropological studies to understand the behavior of Modern Man in Indian Subcontinent. We see that different tribes of the world have different cultures of their looks too apart from their other behavior. One of the behavior of moder... | ['Hairstyle', 'Culture', 'Tradition', 'Modernhumanbehavior', 'Rigveda'] |
The Lady Who Stopped the Killing of Twins
Mary Slessor (Image source: workoutyourfaith.com)
Most people don’t believe that in the past centuries, twins were killed in a certain part of Africa. As far back as the 19th century, the barbaric and archaic custom of killing twins once existed amongst the Ibibio people of N... | ['Women', 'Culture', 'History', 'Writing', 'Tradition'] |
Natella Speranskaya: Western civilization is going through a general crisis and, by all appearances, is moving towards a catastrophic end. René Guénon called it the inversion of traditional civilization. He also affirmed that Western people today had lost their knowledge of what pure intellectual activity is. He reproa... | ['Religion', 'Nasr', 'Education', 'Tradition', 'Philosophy'] |
Photo Credit: Manasvita S
New Promposity Challenge: Anniversary
Life is shorter than we realize. People change, the year slides away into the next, kids grow. We must hold on to memories while also making new ones.
We often remember anniversary events — birthdays, marriages, when we met someone, when we started work... | ['Promposity', 'Tradition', 'Writing Prompts', 'Life', 'Medium'] |
Our problem is a classification problem. So we want to know if the herbs we find are relevant for making the green sauce. We intend to classify them as parsley, chives, chervil, borage, sorrel, garden cress and salad burnet. As input for our little algorithmic helper we select pictures. Once we are in the fields, we ca... | ['Neural Networks', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Tradition', 'Machine Learning', 'Fastai'] |
It is no secret that young Men have had a tough time adapting to the modern world. Men are less likely to go to university now (35% in 2015) and the ones that do are nearly twice as likely to drop out as their female counterparts (this year alone 30,000 more women graduate than men). At the ages of 20–24 the rate of ma... | ['Mental Health', 'College', 'Men', 'Masculinity', 'Tradition'] |
In this part of Russia, there are no oil and gas resources. However, forests not only have cultural value for local people but also have become an object of industrial interest as a source of wood for both industrial companies and government. Logging in this territory has a long history. Industrial logging first took p... | ['Indigenous People', 'Russia', 'Environment', 'Parks', 'Tradition'] |
Can an application change your life?
Yes, Couchsurfing has been changing my life. If somebody asks me about my hobbies in a job interview, the answer is definitely CouchSurfing. Do not tell me an application is not a hobby! I am going to tell you:)
So what is the COUCHSURFING? Couchsurfing is a service that connects ... | ['Culture', 'Couchsurfing', 'Host', 'Tradition', 'Travel'] |
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Every so often, I experience a spasm of quixotic impatience at the slow advance of veganism. It’s painful to imagine the suffering endured daily by the animals living under human dominion, and all but intolerable to contemplate that suffering multiplied by years, decades, or even ... | ['Culture', 'Ethics', 'Veganism', 'Vegan', 'Tradition'] |
Recently, I have come across a hell lot of stuff which compelled me to write this article. This is one of the most “not so discussed” topic in India. To give you a glance of how ridiculously this obsession hits us, I would start with the fact that people from other countries have actually figured this out, and have sta... | ['India', 'Culture', 'Tradition'] |
The Spare is the Heir
Photo by CBS News
In general, the second sons of British monarchs have a pretty sweet life, enjoying all the royal perks with far less responsibility. The spares aren’t destined for the throne so they’re free to pursue personal happiness (to a certain extent, anyway). Aside from ribbon cutting, ... | ['Royalty', 'Culture', 'History', 'Tradition', 'British History'] |
A lot of smart, independent, adventurous and incredibly dazzling women I have had the pleasure to have met, spent time with, laughed with and now follow wide eyed on instagram have undertaken a common sport. Long-boarding. The skateboard kind. Most of them to help them with their surfing technique. Others because, well... | ['Reflections Of Life', 'Gratitude', 'Decisions', 'Exploration', 'Tradition'] |
Tribal Marks: The Struggle between Tradition and Abuse
Photo source: Hellenrose
Tribal marks are bodily marks that people bear, particularly Africans. Their history can be traced back to the 14th century in West Africa. Many people attribute this tradition’s origins to the slave trade era when slave raiding was a reg... | ['Culture', 'Children', 'History', 'Africa', 'Tradition'] |
In Jordan, the statement we often hear to justify why things are the way they are is simply “It’s tradition.”
Said like fact, it’s expressed as though this being that is “Tradition” was a source of wisdom and genius.
And it’s not.
It’s actually the greatest obstacle to tapping into the possibilities of an upgraded f... | ['Spirituality', 'Change', 'Empowerment', 'Evolution', 'Tradition'] |
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Tribute to Gwaramari
I am a member of a Toastmasters club (TM), where its members learn leadership and self-improvement skills through public speaking. My club met once a week in person before the pandemic. But since the COVID pandemic, we have been restricted to virtual meetings. Despite experiencing... | ['Food', 'Family', 'Nepal', 'Tradition', 'Memories'] |
A Tribe’s Fattening Room Culture and How It Affects the Women Involved
The fattening practice is prevalent amongst the Efik and Ibibio people of Cross River State, Nigeria. It is otherwise referred to as the 'Mbodi’, an age-old cultural practice that has existed for years.
The practice requires young ladies to be kep... | ['Culture', 'History', 'Writing', 'Africa', 'Tradition'] |
If you want to see a masterclass in the Culture War™, watch Nick Ferrari clashing ‘with Black Lives Matter activist Femi Nylander over whether it’s right for Oxford University students to remove a portrait of the Queen from their common room,’ as LBC headlines it. This is a particularly useful document, because it help... | ['Culture War', 'Tradition', 'Bourdieu'] |
I heard something and saw something today. Obviously, we all do this every day, hear and see. But how often do we experience watching oxymoronic situations and then contemplate about them and disintegrate them later?
There is a very popular Bengali song ‘sohag chand bodoni dhoni nacho to dekhi’ — one that is greatly k... | ['Instagram Reels', 'Culture Change', 'Tradition', 'Folk Song'] |
Samoan ‘Malaga’
For the Samoans who participated in our study, modern ‘tourism’ is considered a palagi concept. They feel that the word ‘tourism’ does not capture the range of activities, meanings, and motivations that describe why they travel.
Instead, Samoan’s suggest that a better expression is found in the Samoan... | ['Culture', 'Relationships', 'Tradition', 'Tourism', 'Travel'] |
Romanian gastronomy, as well as Romanian culture, is a mirror of the fascinating history of the country. Romanians have always been involved in hunting, agriculture and animal husbandry. Despite this, at the beginning, the Romanian cuisine was quite poor in ingredients. In addition to meat, the Romanians used to eat di... | ['Travel', 'Food', 'Tradition'] |
'Shakha Pola' :Traditional bengali bangles
Just like the tradition of wearing the ‘Chooda’ amongst Punjabis’, Bengali brides are bound by the age old custom of donning their hands with a pair of red and white bangles, known as the ‘Shakha Pola’. However similar the two may be, the former are worn in a count of 21 . Th... | ['Indian', 'Marriage', 'Custom', 'Tradition', 'Bengali'] |
In modern times when the grandest art and science of Yoga has been often reduced to a skeletal manifestation of mere physical postures with a little breath manipulation and some so called meditation, Yogamaharishi Dr Swami Gitananda Giri’s contribution to the development of Yoga in the past century and his codification... | ['Yoga', 'Indian Culture', 'Gitananda Yoga', 'Tradition', 'Yoga Teacher'] |
Unculture is anything useful or enjoyable that culture leaves behind.
It is the mysterious garden from which our institutions bloom, namely:
The Church
The Family
The School
It is the fuel propelling these bones of civilization, the set of life-giving ideas, emotions and activities that animate society. It stands ... | ['Culture', 'Family', 'Tradition', 'Manifesto', 'Philosophy'] |
This piece was written in 2017 in response to controversy around a ritual in Vellalur, Tamil Nadu, India. I believe its arguments stand true for the latest controversy regarding the rain ritual in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, as well.
Details change, but the media story remains the same
Over the past few days a custom in V... | ['India', 'Media', 'Children', 'Progressive', 'Tradition'] |
It’s never been easier to collect data from customers and analyze their journey’s different steps. Companies that master this skill definitely have a competitive advantage, as research shows. Yet, too many Product and Marketing teams mostly rely on quantitative data and analytics. These are critical, but not enough. Th... | ['Product Marketing', 'Leadership', 'Product Management', 'Customer Success'] |
One strategy to consider is doubling down on customer retention.
Businesses are being pushed to pivot at a faster rate than ever before.
The changes the market has experienced in the past five years have driven costs up for customer acquisition by 50%. Companies like Blue Apron and Homejoy have floundered, warning bu... | ['Retention', 'Churn Rate', 'UX', 'Customer Success', 'Cro'] |
“There’s a SaaS for that”: Why Customer Success will be the next vertical to explode in SaaS solutions Eugene Lee Follow Feb 16 · 5 min read
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay
The other day, I was chatting with a coworker and the question came up as to whether the role of ‘Customer Success’ was just a tech thing, or whethe... | ['Customer Success', 'Venture Capital', 'SaaS'] |
4. Modeling + Confidence Intervals
Our goal in modeling is to provide a simple low-dimensional summary of a dataset.We use models to partition data into patterns and residuals. Fitted model is just the closest model from a family of models.
Classification models are models that predict a categorical label. It will be... | ['R', 'Data Science', 'Modeling', 'Customer Success', 'Machine Learning'] |
Intro
What’s the Return On Investment (ROI) of your Mom?
What’s the ROI of spending time with your family, friends, or kids?
What’s the ROI of that delicious glass of whiskey after a long day of work?
Nobody knows how to calculate these things, yet we all invest time and money in them. Similarly, SaaS leaders know ... | ['SaaS', 'Retention Strategies', 'Notion', 'Customer Success', 'Typeform'] |
Chapter 4: Tactics with the Community Growth Pyramid
Did you define your community growth pyramid?
Think about growth from lower tiers to higher tiers and user retention and activation.
Community tactics can be summed up in three questions.
Question 1
How do you develop followers into leaders?
How do we retain le... | ['Community Engagement', 'Marketing', 'Customer Success', 'Community Management', 'Network Theory'] |
Crazy Simple Anomaly Detection for Customer Success
The topic of anomaly detection is fascinating. There is a vast number of methods that can be used, from simple statistics to more complex unsupervised learning methods. Additionally, the impact of anomaly detection is huge. The ability to detect when things are not g... | ['Statistics', 'Analytics', 'Customer Success', 'Anomaly Detection', 'Customer Health Score'] |
Customer success the JoyTunes way: How we reduced ticket response time by 98%
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I joined JoyTunes’ Customer Success efforts at a time when it became clear that we need to make a radical change in the way we do support. At JoyTunes we work in small multidisciplinary teams called pods, each dedicated... | ['Customer Success', 'Startup', 'Data Driven', 'Generalists'] |
Paige Pollara is a former High School English teacher who transitioned into Customer Success at NoRedInk, a startup that builds stronger writers through adaptive practice, writing exercises, and assessment. Paige shares which parts of her career switch came naturally to her and which parts took more effort & patience. ... | ['Edtech', 'Teaching', 'Career Change', 'Customer Success', 'Interview'] |
As a professional or business owner you might know the feeling where you look at your website and think, “well, how can I improve my website and increase sales, leads or any other goal?”. For me, the problem of “where should I start?”, has always been one of the challenges when I looked at sites, especially new project... | ['Web Analytics', 'Web Optimization', 'Customer Success', 'Ds In The Real World', 'Customer Experience'] |
Customer Success is a relatively new and evolving function, therefore, there is fair bit of overlap in terms of roles, functioning and goals with other teams. Although Customer Success requires fair amount of collaboration with different teams across the organization, currently, the function itself is overlapping. Henc... | ['Customer Success', 'Customer Success Manager', 'SaaS', 'Account Management'] |
Customer Success vs Customer Experience: The Difference Between the Journey and the Destination: Customer experience concentrates on touchpoints, while customer success focuses on the end game
Customer success is fast becoming one of the most vital functions for software as a service (SaaS) companies providing subscri... | ['Customer Centricity', 'Customer Experience Tool', 'Customer Centric Approach', 'Customer Success', 'Customer Experience'] |
Customer Service is an integral part of customer experience. In fact, according to stats, ‘90% of Americans use customer service as a factor in deciding whether or not to do business with a company.’ Well, you can’t mess up when it comes to customer service then. When that’s the case, you’ll need skilled employees, pro... | ['Customer Success', 'Customer Service', 'Customer Support', 'Customer Experience'] |
Just as we recently celebrated ten years of the UK Customer Satisfaction Index (UKCSI), so in a couple of weeks’ time The Institute will be holding our tenth annual conference and customer service awards.
This creates a good opportunity to step back and reflect on where organisations are heading with their customer se... | ['Customer Engagement', 'Customer Service', 'Customer', 'Customer Success', 'Customer Experience'] |
1. Be Rapid in Response
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According to ICMI data, 71% of Millennials consider “time” the most important factor when receiving customer service. But it isn’t just millennials, everyone hates long waits for mail or getting stuck in a call queue.
Customer service agents need to be on their toes to quickly an... | ['Customer Support', 'Customer Engagement', 'Communication', 'Customer Service', 'Customer Success'] |
The Acceleration Team here at Bowery Capital pays close attention to our portfolio companies’ early customer success, and for good reason. With the trend of enterprise sales cycles becoming more complex and at times longer, we have seen the continued rise of land-and-expand sales models. Due to the customer already hav... | ['Entrepreneur', 'SaaS', 'Customer Success', 'Startup', 'Venture Capital'] |
The tale of pathetic customer service from a five year old consumer-facing furniture renting platform with 4 million USD in funding.
Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos, a company known for its excellent customer service once said, “Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.” Operating in a cr... | ['Customer Success', 'Customer Service', 'Shared Economy', 'Rental'] |
Make CS the heart of your data driven company
Customer Success is one of those jobs that your grandparents give you a quizzical look when you try to explain that no, you’re not in Customer Service and no, you’re not in Sales, and yes, you work in this thing called “Enterprise Software”.
My entire job is working with ... | ['SaaS', 'Data Visualization', 'Enterprise Software', 'Customer Success', 'Data Analytics'] |
Understanding Why Customer Review is necessary for your brand? Here are 8 reasons… Why User Reviews are important for a business today!
Everyone looks for a review and you too! We directly or indirectly depend on people’s opinions about a product or a service. That’s why an existing brand or product sells more than a ... | ['Digital Marketing Agency', 'Seo Services', 'Customer Success', 'Customer Review Platform', 'Digital Marketing'] |
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