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Most of the data analysts and data scientists use different sorts of visualization techniques for data analysis and EDA. But after going through a lot of Kaggle notebooks and projects, I couldn’t find data visualized in the form of pie-charts. Although I know, people prefer histograms and bar plots over pie-charts beca... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Pie Charts', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization', 'Data Science'] |
Introduction of Hadoop
Hadoop supports to leverage the chances provided by Big Data and overcome the challenges it encounters.
What is Hadoop?
Hadoop is an open-source, a Java-based programming framework that continues the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. It based on the Google F... | ['Big Data', 'Software Development', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Science'] |
Justice
‘To love another person is to see the face of God’ ~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables.
In 1853, the brutal murder of a woman by her husband shocked the small island of Guernsey. This was not crowded Paris where people felt distant from each other. This was an island of a few thousand inhabitants, where everyone kn... | ['History', 'Literature', 'Art', 'Psychology', 'Creativity'] |
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Data Experience @airbnb / Prev: Turn data into pixels @twitter • Invent new vis @UofMaryland HCIL PhD • From @Thailand • http://kristw.yellowpigz.com | ['Design', 'Business', 'Visualization', 'Data', 'Charts'] |
Do you manage a Facebook page for your business?
Interested in ways to improve your marketing?
In addition to the Facebook features you use for business every day, there are some handy ones you may have overlooked. In this article you’ll discover five lesser known Facebook Page features for marketers.
Discover five ... | ['Social Media', 'Social Media Marketing', 'Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Facebook'] |
An introduction to Linear Algebra for Programmers
A collection of notes on the topic of Linear Algebra, with the intention of helping to understand Neural Networks
Coordinates
x = horizontal
y = vertical
Vectors
A vector, in CS is often characterised as an array with values inside of it. So for a two dimensional ... | ['Coding', 'Programming', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning'] |
1. Python
When Guido van Rossum developed Python in the 1990s as his side project, nobody has thought it would be the most popular programming language one day. Considering all well-recognized rankings and industry trends, I put Python as the number one programming language overall.
Python has not seen a meteoric ris... | ['Python', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Java', 'Programming'] |
Data science… without any data?!
Why it’s important to hire data engineers early
“What challenges are you tackling at the moment?” I asked. “Well,” the ex-academic said, “It looks like I’ve been hired as Chief Data Scientist… at a company that has no data.”
“Human, the bowl is empty.” — Data Scientist. Image: SOURCE... | ['Data Science', 'Technology', 'Data Engineering', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Business'] |
Len Schlesinger is President Emeritus at Babson College and the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice-based faculty and Coordinator of the Required Curriculum Section Chairs. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to 1985, 1988 to 1998 an... | ['Leadership', 'Healthcare', 'Future', 'Higher Education', 'Entrepreneurship'] |
Photo by UX Store on Unsplash
So, you want to build a tech start-up. You have your product idea, your seed capital, and your founding team. Now you just have to hire three engineering teams and build three versions of your product. Surprised?
Let us count them down. A website, obviously, that’s one. An iOS app that w... | ['Cross Platform', 'Engineering', 'React Native', 'Startup', 'Flutter'] |
Photo by Joshua Sortino on Unsplash
When using data, analytics show answers and insight into facts collected in a spreadsheet, document, or database. Being able to understand data in a visual context makes a story pop from numbers and is easily understood by a wide range of readers or viewers. Visualizations are a qui... | ['Analytics', 'Big Data', 'AI', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
THE ADAPTIVE CO: Don’t face your (climate changed) future without them
Climate risk is a team sport. Play to win, with communications and org culture. (Commons image by Pixabay.)
“That can’t be,” said your store manager. “We’ll be fine. It won’t get that bad.”
When you sent him a memo and told him in a conference ca... | ['Management', 'Sustainability', 'Future', 'Climate Change', 'Predict Column'] |
Estrogen (Marilyn Monroe: The Venus Hormone)
Estrogen holds court on the dance floor. She is having a ball flirting and dancing. Her ample backside swings with the rhythm of the music, while her satiny skin glows. Estrogen is a total package deal with a quick wit and a strong mind. But yeah, her physical allure doesn’... | ['Health', 'Science', 'Sexuality', 'Sex', 'Women'] |
Knowing your customers is the foundation of any successful business. The better you understand their needs, their desires and wishes, the better you may serve them. That’s the reason why market or customer segmentation is so useful in the long run: You create profound knowledge about your customers, their characteristi... | ['Unsupervised Learning', 'Customer Segmentation', 'Python', 'Clustering', 'Data Science'] |
9 Edits That Will Improve Your LinkedIn Profile
Updating your LinkedIn profile to increase inbound leads and elevate yourself into a thought leader.
LinkedIn isn’t just for finding new jobs, nor is it only a place to float in a state of passively looking. It’s a platform that can be leveraged to reduce CTA’s, increas... | ['Social Media', 'Business', 'Marketing', 'Creativity', 'Work'] |
How To Handle Success & the Challenges of a Growing R&D Team — Karin Moscovici
Podcast: How To Handle Success & the Challenges of a Growing R&D Team — Karin Moscovici (Hebrew) Riskified Technology Follow Oct 4 · 1 min read
There are many technological challenges at a scaling startup, like architecture changes, implem... | ['Development Methods', 'Managment', 'Development', 'Podcast', 'Engineering'] |
Three reasons why you need a Log Aggregation Architecture today
Log Aggregation are not more a commodity but a critical component in container-based platforms
Photo by Olav Ahrens Røtne on Unsplash
Log Management doesn’t seem like a very fantastic topic. It is not the topic that you see and says: “Oh! Amazing! This ... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
DevOps Practices
Now that we’ve gone over what DevOps stands for and what some of its related benefits are, let’s discuss some DevOps practices. A thorough understanding of DevOps methodologies will help clear any lingering queries you may have. That’s not to mention that it will add to your knowledge and come in hand... | ['Cloud Computing', 'DevOps', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Engineering'] |
Audio + Transcript
Paul Roetzer:
Most marketers still don’t even know what it is. So if you don’t understand the superpower you’ll have, how could you possibly be planning for how to not use it for evil?
James Kotecki:
This is Machine Meets World, Infinia ML’s ongoing conversation about artificial intelligence. My ... | ['Business', 'Ethics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Technology', 'Marketing'] |
10 Algorithms To Solve Before your Python Coding Interview
In this article I present and share the solution for a number of basic algorithms that recurrently appear in FAANG interviews
Photo by Headway on Unsplash
Why Practicing Algorithms Is Key?
If you are relatively new to Python and plan to start interviewing f... | ['Python', 'Data Engineering', 'Interview', 'Algorithms', 'Data Science'] |
We need a new government
Starting the changes to make this work again
We need new governance. The old style of government is very broken in the US and crippled most everywhere. It has been obvious since November 2016 that the US is the worst case and may not survive the failed federal election. The effects of that el... | ['AI', 'Governance', 'Blockchain', 'Future', 'Politics'] |
Hi Folks, Today we are going to look at the AWS Cloud Security Best Practices. Security has become a trending topic all over the world with more and more data leaks from small enterprises to large scale enterprises. So let’s see how we can secure our AWS Account !
AWS Shared Responsibility Model
AWS Shared Responsibi... | ['Software Development', 'Security', 'AWS', 'DevOps', 'Development'] |
Webpack 5 Builds for AWS Lambda Functions with TypeScript
In a previous post, I wrote about self-destructing tweets which runs as an AWS Lambda function every night at midnight.
While that post was about the code itself, most of the AWS CDK infrastructure information had been written in a previous post about sending ... | ['Typescript', 'JavaScript', 'Webpack', 'Lambda', 'AWS'] |
She just wanted the people around her to wear masks.
In early August, a dispute was caught on camera at a Staples store in Hackensack, New Jersey. 54-year-old Margot Kagan, told another woman, 25-year-old Terri Thomas to properly wear her mask inside the store because Thomas’s mask was not fully covering her nose and ... | ['Covid 19', 'Society', 'America', 'Culture', 'Health'] |
I created the exact same app in React and Vue. Here are the differences. [2020 Edition]
React vs Vue: Now with React Hooks Vue 3 Composition API!
React vs Vue: the saga continues
A few years ago, I decided to try and build a fairly standard To Do App in React and Vue. Both apps were built using the default CLIs (cre... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Vuejs', 'Programming'] |
On the drowning of art in a sea of mediocre “content”
By MARTIN REZNY
Whether you are a customer seeking a great experience, or an author trying desperately not to die of starvation on a daily basis, this essay concerns you. I could write this in practical marketing terms, but that would only add to the sprawling mas... | ['Storytelling', 'Astronomy', 'Art', 'Neil deGrasse Tyson', 'Creativity'] |
Dependency inversion Principle (DIP)
This principle states that the high-level module must not depend on the low-level module, but they should depend on abstractions.
Consider the MessageBoard code snippet below
public class MessageBoard
{
private WhatUpMessage message; public MessageBoard(WhatsUpMessage message)
... | ['Engineering', 'Software', 'Software Development', 'Programming', 'Design Patterns'] |
Images from BigHit’s official Twitter.
BTS is known around the world for their relatable music, dynamic concert performances, and their passionate fanbase. But another large element behind this successful group of young men is the “BTS Universe” (BU), a fictional world with a narrative that depicts characters inspired... | ['Storytelling', 'Music', 'Kpop', 'Bts', 'Bts Army'] |
📍 Tip 4. Create user-defined functions and save it in a module
You may have heard of the DRY principle: Don’t Repeat Yourself. If you haven’t heard of this software engineering principle before, it is about “not duplicating a piece of knowledge within a system”. One of my interpretation of this principle in Data Scie... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Jupyter Notebook', 'Data', 'Workflow'] |
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”― Charles Darwin
Life exists on the sharp edged wire of the Guitar. Once you jump, it’s echos can be heard with immense intangible pleasure. Let's explore this intangible pleasure…
Mus... | ['Deep Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Mathematics', 'Music', 'Machine Learning'] |
The Rise and Fall of “Social” Media
Broken promises of an ever-connected utopia we don’t even want
Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire — Destruction (1836)
Imagine a future in which your Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook are so polluted with content by corporate interests that it’s nearly impossible to excavate the con... | ['Society', 'Humanity', 'Facebook', 'Tech', 'Social Media'] |
Over the years, my company’s main application has been under continuous development, evolving and gaining many features. Naturally, as time went by, our engineering team developed many frameworks and utilities that were needed for the app. For example — performance tracking, background worker system, analytics, storage... | ['Architecture', 'Software Development', 'Tech Culture', 'Design', 'Engineering'] |
This fascinating photo is of a suit called The Wildman. No one knows the purpose of this 18th Century suit of armor. It may have been used for bear hunting or worse — bear baiting. It could also be a costume for a festival or a piece of folk art.
As of today, it’s displayed in The Menil Collection in Texas, along with... | ['Culture', 'History', 'Creativity', 'Art', 'Productivity'] |
Rumi says that if a drop of the wine of vision could rinse our eyes, everywhere we looked, we would weep with wonder. Sadly, many of us are stuck in the confines of our culture and beliefs, and are unaware of the splendor that lies beyond what we know, beyond our perceptions and attachments.
“One way to expand our awa... | ['Storytelling', 'Short Story', 'Parable', 'Energy', 'Creativity'] |
When running code in Deno with external dependencies for the first time you might have noticed some downloading of packages taking place. Also if the file was a Typescript file you might have seen some indication of Typescript to Javascript compilation taking place. However the second time you ran the file none of that... | ['Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Typescript', 'Deno'] |
How The Indian Government Failed India in The Crises
#PMcares doesn’t mean the PM cares
Photo by Prashanth Pinha on Unsplash
‘जो जहाँ है वहीं रुक जाये, 21 दिन तक’, translating this to English it says “stop, wherever you are, just stop, for 21 days". These words were spoken by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Mr. ... | ['Coronavirus', 'World', 'Health', 'Politics', 'Leadership'] |
Bernie Sander’s Dreams Are a Movement, Not a Personality Cult
There is hope for the future.
I love Bernie Sander’s political ideas, and I hate that he did not win the nomination and go on to win the presidency. He is a caring, intelligent guy. He wants to serve. He eschews power. He really and truly wants a society w... | ['Politics', 'Society', 'Life', 'Future', 'Leadership'] |
Google Play Music Is Dead. Long Live Spotify And Apple Music
As another product bites the dust, Google now stands at the risk of killing its own music business
Images from Google, altered
We knew this was coming. Google had been planning to draw curtains over their decade-old music and podcast streaming service for ... | ['Business', 'Marketing', 'Google', 'Technology', 'Social Media'] |
What I Told My 9-Year-Old About Coronavirus
The virus will have a lasting impact on our children’s sense of safety
Photo: Tetra Images/Getty Images
“I heard 20% of kids are going to die of coronavirus,” my nine-year-old daughter told me matter-of-factly last week. She’d heard that rumor from another classmate, the d... | ['Parenting', 'Jessica Valenti', 'Family', 'Coronavirus', 'Health'] |
Now Burger king asking you to order from McDonald’s is akin to a Republican asking to vote for Biden. Or Coca Cola asking you to have Pepsi. It just doesn’t happen.
To get a little perspective, and to understand the intense rivalry among the two giants, let’s dig into some of the bizarre Burger King campaigns that hav... | ['Marketing', 'Creativity', 'McDonalds', 'Burger King', 'Advertising'] |
You’re Creating a New Programming Language — What Will the Syntax Look Like?
I asked a bunch of programmers about their favorite syntax — here’s what they said
A little while ago I decided to have a little fun and wrote an article titled “My Favorite Pieces of Syntax in 8 Different Programming Languages.”
I publishe... | ['JavaScript', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Python'] |
From the monumental Picasso sculpture in Chicago’s Daley Plaza, to Isamu Noguchi’s Red Cube in Lower Manhattan, SOM’s history of integrating iconic artworks into a wide variety of building sites is well documented. Perhaps less known, however, is the role that engineers have played in helping to realize various works o... | ['Design', 'Collaboration', 'Architecture', 'Art', 'Engineering'] |
‘Future Leaders’ is a series of blog posts by the Financial Times in which we interview our team members and ask them how they got into technology, what they are working on and what they want to do in the future. Everyone has a different perspective, story and experience to share. This series will feature colleagues wo... | ['Learning', 'Tech', 'Communication', 'AWS', 'Engineering'] |
Getting started with VueJS and AWS Amplify
The rising trends and love for VueJS is no surprise for many developers. With over 160k stars on Github, many developers and companies, including big and small, have been adopting it since the very beginning. With the ease of developing a responsive and impressive frontend ap... | ['Software Development', 'Vuejs', 'Authentication', 'Front End Development', 'AWS'] |
An opinionated list of technologies to assess for DevOps Engineers and SREs
Photo by NESA by Makers on Unsplash
Managing Cloud Services via Kubernetes CRDs
All three major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) now support a way to provision and manage cloud services from Kubernetes via custom resource definitions (CRDs). ... | ['Kubernetes', 'DevOps', 'Software Engineering', 'Software Development'] |
I recently wrote an article about how side projects will benefit you and your Design career. One of the most popular types of side projects is the unsolicited redesign. They’re all over Dribbble, Medium, and Design Twitter. In fact, they’re so popular they got their own website. That’s not to say the love for them is u... | ['Design', 'Creativity', 'UX', 'Side Project', 'Portfolio'] |
The Reality is
We take so much time and effort in bettering ourselves.
➰Mentally we look to meditate, do yoga, and be mindful.
➰Physically we exercise, take care of our skin and hair, and spend tons of time and money shopping to look good.
➰Financially we save and invest money to make more money.
➰Professionally w... | ['Environment', 'Illumination', 'Earth', 'Future', 'Climate Change'] |
Meet the Medium “Elevators”
Stephanie Georgopulos and Harris Sockel spend their days searching for great writing on Medium
Stephanie Georgopulos and Harris Sockel are editors at Medium who started out using the platform back in 2013, writing and publishing stories that explored the human condition. Now, they work to ... | ['Writing Tips', 'Writing', 'Medium', 'Partner Program', 'Creativity'] |
A Manifesto for the Online Writer Who’s Lost Their Love of Writing
Stop playing the viral slot machine
Photo: Alex/Unsplash
My kid was anxious to buy his book about animal kingdoms. He’s 5 and possesses the consumer certainty only a 5-year-old can have. I like this book. I want this book. Buy this book.
I, however,... | ['Creativity', 'Writing Tips', 'Self', 'Work', 'Writing'] |
Boosting a Fashion Retailer’s Sales Margins by 4.5 M Euro
See how an AI-based pricing engine improved sales margins for one of the top Norwegian textile companies. During one seasonal sale.
With global e-retail revenues projected to grow to 6.54 trillion US dollars in 2022, eCommerce sector was already booming. Now, ... | ['Development', 'AI', 'Retail', 'Business', 'Ecommerce'] |
The new Macs with M1 processors are making headlines in the technology press, and with good reason: Apple has surprised locals and strangers with the bet materialized in its new M1 chips, and among them, the most often talked about is MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Energy efficiency, mobility performance, battery … there... | ['Mac', 'SEO', 'Technology', 'Future', 'Apple'] |
Set up TensorFlow with Docker + GPU in Minutes
Along with Jupyter and OpenCV
Docker is the best platform to easily install Tensorflow with a GPU. This tutorial aims demonstrate this and test it on a real-time object recognition application.
Docker Image for Tensorflow with GPU
Docker is a tool which allows us to pu... | ['TensorFlow', 'Docker', 'Data Engineering', 'Computer Vision', 'Gpu'] |
2 — AWS Lambdas :
Before we start digging into using this service, let us first define it:
AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.
So what does this mean?
In simple words, it means whenever you have a ready-to-deploy machine learning model, AWS lambda will ac... | ['AI', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'AWS'] |
To most of us, our world is simply the place where we live: you’re born, get an education and/or learn a trade, perhaps start a family of your own, pass on some of the knowledge and wisdom you have gained to others, grow old and eventually die. It’s an oversimplification, but that is the common experience of a human on... | ['Science', 'Space', 'Environment', 'Earth', 'Climate Change'] |
13 Attributes of the Ultimate Writer (Part 1 of 4)
Soul, Creativity, and Intelligence
Graphic designed by author
In this series of articles, I’m going to step into my lab and assemble the ultimate writer according to 13 core attributes.
Investing in a Medium membership and joining the Partner Program has opened me ... | ['Soul', 'Blogging', 'Creativity', 'Intelligence', 'Writing'] |
These are the most important things you should know about a React Component and its lifecycle:
Props
Props are input of a component, so it is something you put into a component when you create it. Per definition props cannot change, but you can add a function to the props that do that for you (could be confusing).
S... | ['JavaScript', 'React', 'Software Development', 'React Native', 'Software Engineering'] |
By Rishon Blumberg, 10x Management Co-Founder
The business world is changing fast and finding a talented AI engineer can bring your company significant competitive advantages. While entrepreneurs have relied on their instincts and intuition to dictate the direction of their businesses for a long time, AI engineers are... | ['Machine Learning', 'AI', 'Technology', 'Computer Programming', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
What about our disagreements call for discord?
The year is 1770. The location, London, England. The setting, a memorial for Anglican clergyman and good friend to Benjamin Franklin, George Whitfield. Standing at the pulpit eulogizing his beloved friend is fellow clergyman, theologian and co-founder of the Methodist chu... | ['Society', 'People', 'Patriarchy', 'Culture', 'Celebrity'] |
Spaced Repetition Items and Construal Level Theory
Why you should prioritize from higher- to lower-level construals
Overview:
Interference Boolean algebra to counteract interference Construal level theory and Levels of Processing model Construal level theory and prioritization Construal level theory, prioritization,... | ['Technology', 'Inspiration', 'Education', 'Science', 'Creativity'] |
Google extends its horrible streak with a new set of icon designs
Everything is wrong with the redesigned Google workspace logos
Image Credits: Google
A logo is the face or identity of the company. It helps set them apart from their competitors. Through visual designs, every brand looks to leave a strong impression ... | ['Google', 'UI', 'Design', 'Business', 'UX'] |
1. Understanding Partitions
1.1 The Problem
Perhaps Spark’s most important feature for data processing is its DataFrame structures. These structures can be accessed in a similar manner to a Pandas Dataframe for example and support a Pyspark API interface that enables you to perform most of the same transformations an... | ['Getting Started', 'Databricks', 'Apache Spark', 'Big Data', 'Data Engineering'] |
Sunlight in Cafeteria, 1958, ©Edward Hopper, Fair Use
With my one-year anniversary as a writer for Medium coming up, I decided to edit and revise the very first piece of writing I uploaded last November. I had not a single fan then and this piece went virtually unnoticed until about six months later when one A. Maguir... | ['Creativity', 'Light', 'Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Literature'] |
4 Meditation Practices to Tap into Your Creative Potential
Creative flow comes also from being mindful of your thoughts
Photo by Kreated Media on Unsplash
When researchers studied yogis with the most hours of meditation, they discovered with surprise their ability to produce high-frequency gamma waves in their brain... | ['Mindfulness', 'Meditation', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Self Improvement'] |
Venn Diagrams
Let’s start with a simple and very familiar solution, Venn diagrams. I’ll use Matplotlib-Venn for this task.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib_venn import venn3, venn3_circles
from matplotlib_venn import venn2, venn2_circles
Now let’s load the da... | ['Data Visualization', 'Python', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Science', 'Editors Pick'] |
Why Deep Learning Isn’t Always the Best Option
And what to use instead.
Deep learning — a subset of machine learning where big data is used to train neural networks — can do incredible things.
Even amidst all the mayhem of 2020, deep learning brought astonishing breakthroughs in a variety of industries, including na... | ['Data Science', 'AI', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Analysis', 'Deep Learning'] |
Ternary Conditional Operators in Python
Mastering Efficient List and Dictionary Comprehension
Photo by Belinda Fewings on Unsplash
Python is versatile to use and its goal is to make development easier for the user. Compared to C# or Java which are notoriously cumbersome to master, Python is relatively easy to get go... | ['Coding', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Python'] |
Kevin Jing | Pinterest engineering manager, Visual Discovery
Discovery on Pinterest is all about finding things you love, even if you don’t know at first what you’re looking for. The Visual Discovery engineering team at Pinterest is tasked with building technology that will help people to continue to do just that, by ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Deep Learning', 'Engineering', 'Computer Vision'] |
Lyft Motion Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles: 2020
Lyft motion prediction challenge for self-driving cars
Problem Description
The challenge is to predict the movement of traffic agents around the AV, such as cars, cyclists, and pedestrians for 2020. At the same time, the 2019 competition focused on detecting the 3... | ['Self Driving Cars', 'Kaggle', 'Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'Computer Vision'] |
What is Deno?
Deno is a TypeScript runtime based on V8, the Google’s JavaScript runtime; if you are familiar with Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript ecosystem, you will understand that Deno is exactly the same. Except that it was designed with some improvements:
It is based on the modern functionality of the... | ['Typescript', 'Deno', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript', 'Javascript Development'] |
A children’s hospital in Chicago has apologized for performing cosmetic genital surgeries on intersex infants, vowing to put an end to the practice.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago released a statement last week apologizing for having previously performed such surgeries.
Signatories of the statem... | ['LGBTQ', 'Society', 'Health', 'Equality', 'Justice'] |
When you search “vaccine” on Facebook, one of the first search results includes a group called “Vaccine Injury Stories,” where users share posts featuring common hoaxes that blame vaccinations for infant sickness and death.
With a quick search, more than 150 groups appear on Facebook — some with thousands of members —... | ['Technology', 'Social Media', 'Science', 'Facebook', 'Vaccines'] |
The Vast Majority of Contact Tracing Takes Place on the Phone
You should immediately be suspicious of contact tracing outreach that takes place via email or text message. The vast majority of contact tracing efforts are done over the phone, and very few legitimate agencies use email or text messages for their initial ... | ['Privacy', 'Health', 'Cybersecurity', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
Introduction to Time Series
A time series is a sequence or series of numerical data points fixed at certain chronological time order. In most cases, a time series is a sequence taken at fixed interval points in time. This allows us to accurately predict or forecast the necessities.
Time series uses line charts to sho... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Startup', 'Data'] |
Once upon a time, Nike wasn’t the leader in the U.S. market for athletic footwear. In the 1980’s, Nike was trailing behind Reebok, with the latter being hailed as “the biggest brand-name phenomena of the decade.” In an effort to revamp its brand and capture new markets, Nike hired an ad agency, Wieden+Kennedy, which ul... | ['Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Small Business', 'Startup'] |
A core function of Civis Platform is allowing data scientists to deploy their workloads on-demand, without needing to worry about the infrastructure involved. About a year ago, Civis put Jupyter Notebooks on Kubernetes, then did the same for Shiny apps. These features allow users to perform computations and deploy apps... | ['Data Science', 'Cockroachdb', 'Engineering', 'Kubernetes', 'Database'] |
Radar Chart Basics with Python’s Matplotlib
One handy alternative for displaying multiple variables
In this article, I’ll go through the basics of building a Radar chart, a.k.a — Polar, Web, Spider, and Star charts.
The purpose of this visualization is to display in a single viewing, multiple quantitative variables.... | ['Python', 'Matplotlib', 'Radar Charts', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
“Picture is worth a thousand words”, the plots and graphs can be very effective to convey a clear description of the data to an audience or sharing the data with other peer data scientists. Data visualization is a way of showing complex data in a graphical form to make it understandable. When you are trying to explore ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Data Science', 'Matplotlib', 'Data Visualization'] |
Queue Implementation
We can create a Queue class as a wrapper and use the Python list to store the queue data. This class will have the implementation of the enqueue , dequeue , size , front , back , and is_empty methods.
The first step is to create a class definition and how we are gone store our items.
class Queue... | ['Python', 'Algorithms', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
Bombas secret towards becoming a 100 million dollar brand
As we look at the Bombas business model and branding strategies used by Bombas. Everything looks simple and easy to analyze. It’s prominent to say that, Bombas as a brand is heavily dependent on mission-based marketing strategy.
It means that their whole brand... | ['Branding', 'Marketing', 'Business', 'Business Strategy', 'Startup'] |
Bob Dylan’s Hurricane
“He ain’t no gentleman Jim”
Bob Dylan, Hurricane
That’s what Bob Dylan sings about the subject of his song, the boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. “Gentleman Jim” is a reference to the gentleman Jim Corbett, a white boxer in the 1800s known for his manners.
“Hurricane” Carter for sure ain’t no ge... | ['Music', 'Art', 'Mental Health', 'History', 'Self Improvment'] |
10 Best Programming Languages to Learn in 2021
A developer’s list of the programming languages you probably want to start learning in 2021
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
A couple of months ago, I was reading an interesting article on HackerNews, which argued that why you should learn numerous programming language... | ['JavaScript', 'Java', 'Programming', 'Python', 'Coding'] |
Introduction
Any data analysis project has two essential goals. First, to curate data in readily interpretable form, uncover hidden patterns, and identify key trends. Second, and perhaps more important, is to effectively communicate these findings to the readers through thoughtful data visualization. This is an introd... | ['Python', 'Charts', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Visualization', 'Plotly'] |
A High-Level Overview of Marketing Metrics and KPIs
To generalise, the Marketing team requires data to track the revenue cycle. They have Leading Indicators which include Lead Creation, Source of Leads, MQLs (Marketing Qualified Leads) inclusive of the sub-field Programs that are creating those MQLs, and Lead Velocity... | ['Metrics', 'Marketing', 'Data', 'Engineering', 'Saas Marketing'] |
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So this is part 2 of my previous article (Ensemble Modelling- How to perform in python). Checkout my previous article for better understanding of this one. Thank you 😊.
So, Lets start with this tutorial of visualizing different models and comparing their accuracies. Here we have tak... | ['Python', 'Data Science', 'Ensemble Learning', 'Data Visualization', 'Analysis'] |
So here’s the thing. Google updated its Google+ app, and it comes with a huge redesign exercise on it.
In case you don’t know him, Luke Wroblewski is a designer at Google. He’s been around for a while, commenting stuff about user experience and visual design. He wrote a lot about the Polar app — which I love by the wa... | ['Google', 'UX', 'Design'] |
Why You Know Better, but You Don’t Do Better
4 ways to narrow the gap between knowing and doing
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“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”
- Dale Carnegie
I’m lactose intolerant. I’ll spare you the details of what exactly happens when I consume dairy, but it isn’t pretty. Yet, l... | ['Neuroscience', 'Self', 'Behavior Change', 'Psychology', 'Self Improvement'] |
The Many Types of Models
Since a model might represent any aspect of reality, and be made from any number of materials, there are obviously very many kinds of them. Classifying them is a challenge, and the problem is compounded by the fact that some models are composites of many smaller sub-models, each with its own c... | ['Creativity', 'Art', 'Technology', 'Science', 'Modeling Instinct'] |
From a writing perspective, the work is unprecedented. It requires a deep, hands-on understanding of various media, particularly those steeped in dialogue and character development. Screenwriters and playwrights are well suited; tech writers and copywriters, not so much. To illustrate this unique and potentially burgeo... | ['AI', 'Voice Design', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Microsoft', 'Tech'] |
The title of my last artwork Seven Shards of Humanity is the result of my 9 years old son’s epiphany.
When my kids, watching me painting day after day, figure out what I’m trying to tell, I have achieved my goal.
I don’t want to please them with my brushes’ strokes: I want to create questions. The deeper the question... | ['Humanity', 'Artist', 'Environment', 'Art', 'Future'] |
In current world, we process a lot of data and the churn rate of it increases exponentially with passing time, where the data can belong to any of primary/inherited/captured/exhaust/structured/unstructured category(or intersection of them). We need to run multiple high performant data processing pipelines at a high fre... | ['Airflow', 'Data', 'Data Science', 'Big Data', 'Data Engineering'] |
Running a Node.js application can be as trivial as node index.js, but running it in production and keeping it running are completely different. Whenever the application crashes or the server reboots unexpectedly, we want the application to come back alive.
There are several ways we can properly run a Node.js applicati... | ['Software Engineering', 'AWS', 'Programming', 'Nodejs', 'JavaScript'] |
New Class Naming Rules in Ruby
There were 26 valid characters. Now there are 1,853!
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In Ruby 2.5 and prior:
It’s been a longstanding rule in Ru... | ['Ruby', 'Programming Languages', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Engineering'] |
Financial Times Data Platform: From zero to hero
An in-depth walkthrough of the evolution of our Data Platform
The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, has been around for more than 130 years and is famous for its quality journalism.
To stay at the top for this long, you have to b... | ['Financial Times', 'Analytics', 'Engineering', 'Big Data', 'Data'] |
Motivation
This tutorial will guide you through the creation of a linear regression model and a confidence interval from your predictor using some data science commonly used libraries such as Sklearn and Pandas. In our example case, the linear regression was used to determine how many charging cycles a battery can hol... | ['AI', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization', 'Python', 'Linear Regression'] |
You aren’t truly ready for a career in Big Data until you have everyone in the room cringing from the endless jargon you are throwing at them. Everyone in tech is always trying to out-impress one another with their impressive grasp of technical jargon.
However, tech jargon does exist for a reason: it summarizes comple... | ['Microservices', 'Co Op', 'Data', 'Big Data'] |
A Classic Computer Vision Project — How to Add an Image Behind Objects in a Video Prateek Joshi Follow Jun 14 · 7 min read
Introduction
I was thrown a challenge by one of my colleagues — build a computer vision model that could insert any image in a video without distorting the moving object. This turned out to be qu... | ['Data Science', 'Object Detection', 'Python', 'Opencv', 'Computer Vision'] |
Regular Expressions in JavaScript: An Introduction
How to use Regex in JavaScript to validate and format strings
Regex in JavaScript: Your strings won’t know what hit them
JavaScript’s implementation of Regex is useful for a range of string validation, formatting and iteration techniques. This article acts as an int... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Software Engineering', 'Development', 'Programming'] |
The Future Factor
Tarot, time, and the mind . . .
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Divination offers the promise of peering beyond our present illusions, perhaps into a timeless reality that is continually unfolding before us.
But the reasoning mind has many questions . . .
Does “the future” exist? In what se... | ['Meditation', 'Spirituality', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Tarot'] |
Read this short post if you want to be like Neo and know all about the Mel Spectrogram! (Ho maybe not all, but at least a little)
For the tl;dr and full code, go here.
A Real Conversation That Happened in My Head a Few Days Ago
Me: Hi Mel Spectrogram, may I call you Mel?
Mel: Sure.
Me: Thanks. So Mel, when we firs... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Music', 'Audio', 'Data Science'] |
Unchecked Exceptions
Let’s take an example use of streams: You are given a list of strings and you want to convert them all to integers. To achieve that, we can do something simple like this:
List<String> integers = Arrays.asList("44", "373", "145");
integers.forEach(str -> System.out.println(Integer.parseInt(str)))... | ['Software Development', 'Programming', 'Software Engineering', 'Java'] |
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