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In May, the Quadrant team has been growing, receiving industry recognition, and delivering on promises to our customers. Here are a few highlights of what’s been going behind the scenes at Quadrant since our last update.
New Team Members
Firstly, we’re delighted to welcome two new data engineers to the Quadrant famil... | ['Data Science', 'Technology', 'Singapore', 'Blockchain', 'Big Data'] |
In this article, we would like to provide an overview of what is OAuth 2.0 and the concepts like scopes, Grant Types we must aware of before proceeding with OAuth 2.0.
What is OAuth 2.0?
OAuth 2.0 is an authorization framework that allows users to grant a third-party website or application to access the user’s protec... | ['Oauth Grant Flows', 'Oidc', 'Oauth2', 'Microservices', 'Security Token'] |
Sundar Pichai and The Ethics Of Algorithms
Today The Country Is Mocking Politicians, They Should Also Be Criticizing Google’s CEO
Photo by Goran Ivos on Unsplash
The latest congressional technology hearing was as cringeworthy as you would expect.
There were politicians who thought Google was the same company as App... | ['Sundar Pichai', 'Ethics', 'Google', 'Ethics Of Algorithms', 'Algorithms'] |
Build a Bot to Communicate With Your Smart Home Over Telegram
The power of Raspberry Pi and Telegram
You’ve got your smart home fully set up. You regularly like to show off with your friends how cool it is to turn on light bulbs, play videos and movies with a hint to your voice assistant, make coffee, and adjust the ... | ['Python', 'Programming', 'Telegram', 'Home Automation', 'Raspberry Pi'] |
DATA ENGINEERING
JavaScript for Data Engineers
A brief introduction to JavaScript-based open-source SQL, orchestration and ETL tools for data engineers
The latest StackOverflow Developer survey deemed JavaScript as the most popular technology closely followed by SQL as the third most popular technology. The former w... | ['Data Science', 'Programming', 'Software Development', 'Data Engineering', 'JavaScript'] |
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The coronavirus pandemic, it is now commonly observed, has drawn into relief, and indeed exacerbated, the various layers of inequality already fragmenting culture and society in the United States.
At the same time, when it comes to class inequality in particular, Americans have tended to find wa... | ['Politics', 'Literature', 'Culture', 'Books', 'Work'] |
An Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
A simple guide to what CNNs are, how they work, and how to build one from scratch in Python.
There’s been a lot of buzz about Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) in the past few years, especially because of how they’ve revolutionized the field of Computer Vision. In thi... | ['Machine Learning', 'Python', 'Towards Data Science', 'Convolutional Network', 'Neural Networks'] |
Sets
They are just collection of distinct keys. There is no values associated; the keys themselves are values at the same time.
The operations are: add a key, ask if the set contains a key, or remove a key.
Implementation
Sets are commonly implemented in the same way as associative arrays, either using:
A self-bal... | ['Programming', 'Coding', 'Algorithms', 'Data Structures', 'Java'] |
Q1: Theme
The first step was to customize the theme, which is the better way to reflect a product’s brand.
It was released in version 4.7.0.
Colors
We updated the color palette and removed the custom image background to make the app less disturbing and improve user productivity.
To learn how to customize colors, c... | ['Android', 'Technology', 'Android App Development', 'Mobile Apps', 'Design'] |
React: Client-Side Routing
Using React Router to Implement Client-Side Routing
Photo by Joey Kyber on Unsplash
What is client-side routing
Client-side routing happens when the route is handled by the front end code (Javascript/JSX) that is loaded on the page. When a link is clicked, the route will be changed in the... | ['Software Development', 'JavaScript', 'React', 'Frontend'] |
I attended Devoxx Belgium — November 2019. The yearly gathering of over 3000 Java developers (numbers provided by Devoxx website). Maybe not all of them Java and perhaps some not even developers. But by and large … Java and software development are the core themes.
This conference has taken the place of JavaOne as the... | ['DevOps', 'Programming', 'Devoxx', 'Java', 'Graalvm'] |
It is such an exciting time to be a filmmaker.
I do not believe the notion that the cinema is dying or dead because it’s amazing what technology can do to the cinematic storytelling.
What’s great about film is it constantly reinvents itself. It started as a sheer novelty, those images moving on the screen.
Then it w... | ['Storytelling', 'Technology', 'Movies'] |
My own photo of my new office space
So I am very proud of myself having accomplished several things today!
I managed to switch hosts of my domain all by myself with just some advice from my friend Grayson. I paid for another year of my blog with my own money (from my part-time real job). Found and freed my heater fro... | ['Productivity', 'Work Life Balance', '100 Naked Words'] |
I am currently at the beginning of my career as a developer. I came in ‘through the back door’ so to speak. I’ve been a musician my whole life, and it was through my interest in building music tools that I got into software.
Going from music to code was a gradual transition. It took me some time to make the decision b... | ['Software Development', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Learning', 'Music'] |
The planning fallacy is a prediction phenomenon. It occurs that people underestimate the time it will take them to complete a task.
It’s all too familiar to many of us.
…and it continues despite knowing that previous tasks have taken longer than planned.
The planning fallacy was first proposed by Daniel Kahneman and... | ['Planning', 'Procrastination', 'Productivity', 'Time Management', 'Self Improvement'] |
Life-long learning has become a popular concept against unemployment and economic crises. But what are you supposed to learn? It is crucial to understand your strengths and cultivate them properly instead of leaning into your weaknesses.
Stop focusing on your shortcomings!
When it comes to being successful, there is ... | ['Work', 'Self-awareness', 'Careers', 'Professional Development', 'Self Improvement'] |
Since leaving the military, I’ve been surprised by the number of people I’ve encountered who want to show me their AR-15s (the civilian version of an M4 or M16). They show them off as if we suddenly have a bond because they bought a weapon I went to war with and can strip apart blindfolded.
I always ask the same quest... | ['Guns', 'Mental Health', 'Gun Control', 'Military', 'Life'] |
What should I keep in mind?
Focus on developing your skills, not your job title.
Your job will change in the future, so learn to adapt to new and emerging trends in the market. UX design was not a thing when I was at university, so don’t bet that it’s here to stay. The skills that I had acquired from when I was an au... | ['Design', 'Career Change', 'UX Design', 'Design Process', 'Careers'] |
This year the Sciforce team have travelled as far as to India to one of the most important events in speech processing community, the Interspeech conference. It is a truly scientific conference, where every speech, poster or demo is accompanied by a paper published in the ISCA journal. As usual, it covered most of the ... | ['Machine Learning', 'NLP', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Deep Learning', 'Speech'] |
expectation poisons
my vitality
be it positive or negative;
all I get is the pain of
excitement or nervousness
expectations
be it good or bad;
blocks my vision
and keeps me dulled
expectation prevents me
from being wholehearted
and keeps me stuck
in double-mindedness
negative expectations
sucks up all my ... | ['Expectations', 'Mental Health', 'Poetry', 'Spiritual Secrets', 'Anxiety'] |
Also, we segmented the task of booking a consultation and providing secondary information like age, sex and supporting documents to maximise the booking of consultations without the need for providing additional details. This forking of the task-flow allowed us to half the time in which a consultation is booked and to ... | ['User Research', 'Design', 'Healthcare', 'Product', 'A B Testing'] |
Fight for Your Destiny
A Sonnet to Inspire your Ambition
Photo by Juan Jose on Unsplash.
Say it with me: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
Now don’t think, just dive in and try your best.
I know, the water’s cold, the unknown’s scary,
But nothing great ever came from being wary.
You must strive and fight to cle... | ['Destiny', 'Ambition', 'Motivation', 'Poetry', 'Sonnet'] |
The Standard React Component Will Call the Render Function Every Time Its Parents Re-Render
Let’s have a look at this simple example. This is a simple counter app. Whenever the user clicks the “Up” button, the counter will increase by one and the app component gets re-rendered.
So the question is: “Does the child com... | ['Reactjs', 'React Performance', 'Programming', 'Rendering', 'React'] |
Ladies, Don’t Let Religion Stop You From Dating People You Like!
Why so many ladies back-pedal when they hear I’m religious?
“Hey Oren, I decided to be brave and send you a message when I saw your post.”
That message appeared in my message requests on Facebook today. I published I’m looking for my other half in a gr... | ['Self-awareness', 'Religion', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Judaism'] |
FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints. To learn more about FastAPI, you can visit the docs of FastAPI by clicking here.
FastAPI also provides Swagger UI by default in the {base_url}/docs for testing apis.
Installation
pip in... | ['Python', 'Fastapi', 'App Engine', 'Google Cloud Platform', 'Deployment'] |
In this article will go through two types of server-client codes.
One is over synchronous (multi process package) and the other is asynchronous (asyncore package), they do almost the same thing, the asynchronous one is more robust, and data does not get lost.
Try it out on your machine, play with settings a bit and s... | ['Python', 'Multiprocessing', 'Asynchronous', 'Client Server', 'Async'] |
Deploying a Machine Learning Model Using Flask and Heroku
She Code Africa Cohort 3 Final project
Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash
Cardiovascular diseases (which often leads to heart failures) are the number 1 cause of death globally, taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year, which accounts for 31% of g... | ['AI', 'Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Alex from HighTech3D gave me a great opportunity! He offered to do drop shipping with my blackout vinyl on his website. The deal is that he’d list the product on his website, and if he gets an order, he’ll send me a shipping label so that I can ship it.
Here’s the pricing breakdown for the goal price of $20:
$4 mater... | ['Startup'] |
With “exabytes” of digital storage space left unused, according to its founder, Juan Benet, Filecoin is building an end-to-end encrypted decentralized storage network and file hosting platform. The company hopes those with large amounts of unused storage will rent their space in exchange for its tokens.
Doing so would... | ['Cloud Computing', 'Cryptocurrency', 'ICO', 'Blockchain'] |
By Matt Carroll <@MattCData>
Nov. 17, 2018: Cool stuff about journalism, once a week. Get notified via email? Subscribe: 3toread (at) gmail. Originally published on 3toread.co
You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die: Fake news is about to get a lot faker. Improving technology means it is... | ['3 To Read', 'Journalism', 'Matt Carroll', 'Media', 'Media Criticism'] |
How to Follow Your Heart When Your Mind Won’t Listen
Start by paying attention to your persistent inner voice
We make choices every day.
Sometimes opportunities come knocking, enticing you with fancy bells and whistles. You’re intrigued because they’re offering a sweet deal. To add to the appeal, other people you kn... | ['Self-awareness', 'Personal Growth', 'Relationships', 'Life Lessons', 'Self Improvement'] |
You can predict the success of an upcoming event by analyzing the promotional campaign. It is extremely important to attract as many people from the target audience as possible. You should allocate enough time to learning the interests, needs, and preferences of your potential client. One of the most important steps of... | ['Flyers', 'Event Advertising', 'Design', 'Style', 'Online Creators'] |
The Power of Functions Returning Other Functions in JavaScript
Functions and composability
Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash
JavaScript is widely known for being extremely flexible by its nature. This article will show some examples of taking advantage of this by working with functions.
Since functions can be pa... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'React', 'Nodejs', 'Programming'] |
Most People Want Happiness but I Just Want Peace
My introduction to spirituality
Photo by Tj Holowaychuk
Lately, I’ve been having so much inner peace. I signed up for a spiritual coaching program about a month ago. I was terrified of what I would get out of this course. Even though the coach was too spiritual for me... | ['Self-awareness', 'Mindfulness', 'Self', 'Spirituality', 'Life'] |
The Switch
You can trade your life
Photo by Liv Cashman on Unsplash
After reading several psychological thrillers back to back, I wanted a break from murder, mayhem and madness. Beth O’Leary’s The Switch was exactly what I was looking for. It’s a fast, fun read about two women who decide to trade lives a la The Holi... | ['Books', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Love', 'Aging'] |
Introduction — Specialists vs Generalists — I had passed my Masters in Industrial Design from a premier institute in India and had been working in the automotive industry as a User Experience Designer/ Industrial Designer for about 3 years in the best automotive companies in India. In spite of all of the quality indust... | ['User Experience', 'Careers', 'Career Change', 'Design', 'UX'] |
A two-dimensional table like this one can be read two ways: horizontally (where the percentages add up to 100% across the rows); and vertically (where the percentages add up to 100% down the columns).
The horizontal view corresponds to the first headline. It’s the view of politicians and professionals, who are looking... | ['Storytelling', 'Data Science', 'Decision Making', 'Behavioral Economics', 'Covid 19'] |
Graph
Do you like graphs? I really like it because it looks like a real-world for me. Didn’t you? I hope you feel the same thing. Graphs can be anything, it can be protein, human, animal, molecule, machine, and anything you can imagine. In this post, we will learn some techniques based on graphs to visualize the data.... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Graph', 'Trees', 'Visualization'] |
PERFORMANCE
Lazy Loading Images Made Easy in JavaScript
Improve image loading in Angular, React, or Vue.js apps with 3 lines of code
Photo by Thong Vo on Unsplash
When building a web application, we are always looking for the best performance in order not to impact user experience.
Among all the techniques to impr... | ['Programming', 'Software Development', 'Nodejs', 'React', 'JavaScript'] |
First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.
Follow | ['Tuesday', 'Comics', 'Psychology', 'Drawing', 'Cartoon'] |
Photo by Tim Foster on Unsplash
If you are living on the 10th floor of a building, are you going to take the stairs or use the elevator?
The goal in both cases is the same: You want to go back to your apartment after a long day at work.
Of course, taking the stairs is better if you are a busy person who doesn’t have... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Technology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Programming'] |
The Google Marketing Platform team quietly made a huge update to Google Data Studio over the past week. Analysts now have the ability to choose “Extract Data” directly from the data source selection screen. Previously, this feature was part of the new Data Blending features that Google rolled out over the summer, but n... | ['Google Analytics', 'Analytics', 'Google', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
Cat Food and Crackers
Getting Through Life With a Little Humor
Photo by Ramiz Dedaković on Unsplash
After Grandma died, Aunt Sarah sank into a deep depression and hardly ever left her bedroom. That meant Uncle Joe, and I cooked or reheated leftovers.
I listened to a lot of music and watched TV that made me laugh. C... | ['Humor', 'Mental Health', 'Pets And Animals', 'Family', 'TV Shows'] |
I’m an infectious disease epidemiologist with a background in new and emerging infections, just like this new coronavirus which is currently sweeping the world.
Over the past few weeks I’ve watched as a lot of fear and misinformation has swirled round the internet, and it occurred to me that a lot of it is there becau... | ['Pandemic', 'Outbreak Response', 'Coronavirus', 'Epidemiology', 'Covid 19'] |
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” — Joseph Campbell
I am watching a single drop of water.
Lights bounce and dance off of dark corners while the musicians onstage pour their heart into their strings, their keys, their drums. The crowd moves as one, sinuous and fluid-like, to the beat of the music pou... | ['Mental Health', 'Spirituality', 'Psychedelics'] |
Creating beautiful, usable, and efficient UIs takes time, with many design revisions along the way.
Making those constant tweaks to produce something that your clients, users, and yourself are truly happy with. I know. I’ve been there many times before myself.
But what I’ve discovered over the years is that by making... | ['UI Design', 'UI', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'Product Design'] |
Quick Intro
The True Laboratory Is The mind, Where Behind Illusions We Uncover The Deeper Laws Of Truth
Breakthrough progress under a simmering sense of social pressure is quite difficult — a life of breakthrough achievement while facing down overt racism, is something else entirely. And yet to remain an empathic, hu... | ['History', 'Physics', 'Biography', 'Science', 'Innovation'] |
Within the graphs folder, I also create an additional sub-folder called guide10, to store the figures generated here. For details on how to organize your files, please see Guide 1.
In order to make the graphs exactly as they are shown here, several additional item are required:
Install the cleanplots theme for a clea... | ['Stata', 'Automation', 'Stream Graph', 'Visualization', 'Covid 19'] |
Image: The Lucky Freelancer
Hello! If you’re getting this email, it’s because you’re subscribed to The Lucky Freelancer’s Medium newsletter! Thanks for that, by the way. Because of supportive people like you, we’ve just surpassed 1.6 thousand followers! Not bad growth for a Pandemic year!
But back to the main objecti... | ['Freelancing', 'Freelance Writing', 'Solopreneur', 'Work From Home', 'Writing'] |
Source : Google — Thanks for existing Google.
What is Data Pre-Processing?
We know from my last blog that data preprocessing is a data mining technique that involves transforming raw data into an understandable format. Real-world data is often incomplete, inconsistent, and/or lacking in certain behaviors or trends, a... | ['Machine Learning', 'Data Science', 'Data Preprocessing', 'Python', 'Titanic Dataset'] |
This conversation with part of a weekly interview series by Balance the Grind, where we talk to people from all walks of life about work, life and balance.
From CEOs to musicians, startup founders to freelance journalists, marketing managers to creative directors, we talk to everyone about how they balance the grind.
... | ['Work', 'Day In The Life', 'Work Life Balance', 'CEO', 'Productivity'] |
“You shouldn’t blame them. It was all my fault. I knew what I was doing when I got in the car with them.”
“And you knew your mother was gone, and this was all up to me? Do you just hate me or something?”
“Anyway, I knew you’d find me.” | ['Family', 'Writing Prompts', 'Nonfiction', 'Dialogue', 'Pentina'] |
As we approach the winter holidays we have a final monthly deals recap market map for you. With a new year, and a light at the end of the tunnel (vaccine rollouts), we are looking forward to a better, brighter, and healthier 2021. Things are looking bright for New England, as capital floods into biotech, deeptech, and ... | ['Technology', 'Fundraising', 'Startup', 'New England', 'Venture Capital'] |
Downtown Austin, Texas
Anyone who has lived in Austin for more than a couple years can tell you that the real estate and rental markets here are, as we say, ¡muy caliente! (if you don’t speak Texas Spanish, that means, “really dang hot!”).
Just how hot are the Austin housing and rental markets though? And perhaps mor... | ['Data Science', 'Housing', 'Time Series Analysis', 'Austin', 'Exploratory Data Analysis'] |
✅ Today’s tip: Ease your return to work by writing your to-do list now for the first day back.
The first workday after a long holiday weekend is like a regular Monday turned all the way up to 11: You’re grumpy, you’re moving slowly, and it takes all the energy you have just to shock your vacation-sleepy brain back int... | ['Vacation', 'Self', 'Productivity', 'Advice', 'Work'] |
Joan Pujol Garcia was a Spanish spy working as a double agent for both the British and Nazis. He first contacted the British and the American intelligence services for work, but he was denied.
After the rejection, he decided to set up a fake identity so that he could approach the Nazis. Soon thereafter, Garcia was acc... | ['Politics', 'Short Story', 'Culture', 'Science', 'History'] |
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
In Jungian Analysis, there are two unconscious constructs known as the anima and the animus.
The anima is the unconscious feminine that is in every man and the animus the unconscious masculine that is in every woman. We learn of these constructs or archetypes as we interact with the... | ['Self', 'Relationships', 'Love', 'Psychology', 'Dating'] |
Photo by Chris Ried on Unsplash
The NumPy library is an important Python library for Data Scientists and it is one that you should be familiar with. Numpy arrays are like Python lists, but much better! It’s much easier manipulating a Numpy array than manipulating a Python list. You can use one Numpy array in place of ... | ['Data Science', 'Python', 'Python Programming', 'Numpy', 'Programming'] |
Fiction Series
Poppies- Chapter 28-
A Novel
Photo owned by Author
Numb Chad sat on the couch not speaking a word. His face drawn and grisly as Mara-Joy exclaimed with fever how much Chad and she were in love.
Alan sat still, breathing hard as he watched the scene unfold before him. Jobeth was just as stunned. Her ... | ['Fiction Writing', 'Fiction', 'Fiction Series', 'Novel', 'Writing'] |
Case Study: 4 Instagram Posts that Got Me 1,000+ Followers Each
And 4 things each post have in common
Photo by Tim Gouw from Pexels
I get most of my followers through posts that reach an audience beyond my own. The usual number is in the hundreds per post, but occasionally, I manage to get everything right with the ... | ['Instagram', 'Growth', 'Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Growth Hacking'] |
The Greater Purpose
There is a famous quote by John Woods:
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
To understand the sentiment behind the quote, people have to stop taking coding for granted, or doing it for the sake of career demands or to... | ['Engineering', 'Coding', 'Code Review', 'Programming', 'Software Development'] |
Data Analytics and Statistics are rapidly changing the way people used to run their business in the past. For data analytics not just helps drive performance for your business, but also gives you a competitive edge in your industry. Embracing data analytics in your business model helps create new opportunities for your... | ['Data Science', 'Data Analysis', 'Transformation', 'Business', 'Future'] |
The Depero Bolted Book - a facsimile
It's been way too long since I had something to post about, so when this arrived this week I was doubly happy. Some… | ['Futurism', 'Design'] |
Visibility of system status is one of Jakob Nielsen’s ten heuristics for user interface design. By communicating the current state of the system, you make users feel in control with the system, and this sense of control helps you build trust.
Here are four visual feedback methods you can use to communicate the system ... | ['User Experience', 'UI', 'Design', 'UX', 'Product Design'] |
Because I am not sure how to be great at being a human — humaning, I listen to people who say things with certainty.
“You need a morning routine,” they say with the greatest conviction, “because without it, you are lost.”
Not wanting to be lost, I perform scripted morning routines and pretend they are helpful until I... | ['Self', 'Mental Health', 'Derealization', 'Depersonalization', 'Life'] |
In previous blog we covered probability distribution and its types, now we proceed to Non-Probability distribution and its types.
Non-probability sampling is a sampling technique where the odds of any member being selected for a sample cannot be calculated.
Non-probability sampling is defined as a sampling technique ... | ['Machine Learning', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Statistics', 'Deep Learning', 'Probability'] |
Keep returning to your natural state of Joy
If your mind is fabricating these fears, then you can observe and let them unfold without needing to chase them away.
If these are your real emotions, then allow them to move through you. Let it go where it needs to go, let it move through the layers of your emotional onion... | ['Energy', 'Life', 'Mental Health', 'Advice', 'Life Lessons'] |
How artificial intelligence has influenced our daily lives in the past decade is something we can only ponder about. From spam filtering to news clustering, computer vision applications like fingerprint sensors to natural language processing problems like handwriting and speech recognition, it is very easy to undermine... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Data Science', 'Deep Learning'] |
The amount of engagement in the crypto investment space needs no introduction. With market caps, volumes, and public awareness on the rise, I thought I’d put together a simple Jupyter notebook to get a clearer and broader viewpoint into the investment activities within my own crypto portfolio.
TL;DR here’s the code ;)... | ['Python', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Investing', 'Data Scientist', 'Bitcoin'] |
Millennials crave stimulating work that supports their professional development. Many assume that a fast-paced environment will allow them to explore diverse aspects of work that will support their aims. But many end up disillusioned after trying out this type of workplace.
A favourite cliché in recruitment must be th... | ['Workplace', 'Management', 'Millennials', 'Motivation', 'Human Resources'] |
Marketing never sleeps.
At any given moment, marketers have multiple channels and campaigns open alongside the daily grind of deliverables they need to get done within a day. On top of all that, why does everyone else seem to want to sit around and discuss Schitt’s Creek?
But it isn’t just marketers who are always co... | ['Marketing', 'Social Media Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Customer Experience', 'Business Strategy'] |
IJ4EU awards €130,000 to support 14 cross-border investigations
The latest funding under the IJ4EU Publication Support Scheme will help journalists complete ongoing collaborative projects.
The IJ4EU fund has selected 14 additional projects under its Publication Support Scheme, allocating €130,000 to cross-border inve... | ['Journalism', 'Investigative Journalism', 'Journalists', 'Media', 'Updates'] |
In my previous essay, I started thinking about a more holistic view on design. I thought about how design is not just beauty, not just problem solving, but also problem finding, questioning. How design is all of that. The head, the heart and the hands. Today, I wanted to take this train of thought one step further. Tod... | ['Design Strategy', 'Design Leadership', 'Model', 'Design Model', 'Design'] |
This blog is written and maintained by students in the Professional Master’s Program in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University as part of their course credit. To learn more about this unique program, please visit {sfu.ca/computing/pmp}.
1. Motivation & Related Work
Financial markets investment dec... | ['Data Science', 'Chatbots', 'Stock Market', 'Big Data'] |
Experience feedback
The Chronicles of a 27 Year Old Developer in the Software Engineering World
What I’ve learned (so far) from working at big companies, and some principles that inspired me
“You know nothing Andreas”
I used to be someone that takes shortcuts and learns on the go, then whenever I need it, I read th... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Coding', 'Software Engineering', 'Programming'] |
5 Years of React Native: Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started
TL;DR: React Native is great and I intend to keep using it. However, terms and conditions apply
When I started with React Native back in 2016, I was quite skeptical. Frameworks such as PhoneGap and Cordova had already existed for a while, yet nobody se... | ['React Native', 'Android', 'Programming', 'iOS', 'React'] |
Dear supporters!
We are sure you will be excited after reading this news to the end. We develop our marketplace continuously adding more new functions and improving those which are already implemented; here we go — meet big platform updates! You are able to check most of them right now if you explore storiqa.com, but ... | ['Development', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Storiqa', 'Stqmarket', 'Updates'] |
Mindset
The most important part.
Your mindset ensures you have the skills to think correctly.
That includes attitude, resilience and capacity to be the person you need to be to achieve the goal you set your mind to.
You need to be able to command your ego and recognize the difference between your ego self and your ... | ['Resolutions', 'Life Lessons', 'Goals', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Life'] |
How to build a simple time series dashboard in Python with Panel, Altair and a Jupyter Notebook
Two filters + one interactive area chart in roughly 25 lines of code.
I’ve been using Altair for over a year now, and it has quickly become my go-to charting library in Python. I love the built-in interactivity of the plot... | ['Python', 'Data Analysis', 'Data Science', 'Data', 'Data Visualization'] |
photo credit: (mike912mueller- creative commons)
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
— Edgar Allan Poe, nineteenth-century American author and poet
Writing poetry is hard enough. Now add rules, impose structure, and leave off the page as much as you put on. That’s haiku. It’s been said haiku is the... | ['Haiku', 'Non Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Web Content', 'Writing'] |
NF realizes that what our society needs is not more little rap songs about Christianity, but more little rap songs by Christians—with their Christianity latent.
Photo by Yvette de Wit on Unsplash
Several weeks ago, hip-hop artist NF shocked the music world by shooting to the top of the Billboard Artist 100 charts tha... | ['Work', 'Mental Health', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity'] |
2018's leading mobile trends to look out for
As we look ahead to 2018, mobile trends and challenges are once again hot topics at the forefront of digital marketing.
Since working in the digital industry, I can’t recall a single year where mobile was not the frontrunner for trend of the following year — 2018 is no exc... | ['Mobile', 'Advertising', 'Marketing', 'Digital Marketing', 'Mobile Marketing'] |
Wasn’t this supposed to be easy?
You paid a glamorous agency to design your new website. You spent thousands of hours and a gazillion dollars laboring over every aspect of the design to get it just right. After rounds and rounds of meetings and reviews and arguments and sweat and tweaks and nudges… finally you have a ... | ['CMS', 'Development', 'Web Development'] |
The Newsletter Email With No Closing
These emails might include a brief message and are followed by links to resources, articles, or stories the newsletter is promoting.
Sometimes the email goes straight to a list of the articles recommended. I really like how The Good Men Project does this. The links are in a large ... | ['Newsletter', 'Email Marketing', 'Ideas', 'Email', 'Writing'] |
Cracking The JavaScript Coding Interview
Part 1: Strings
This is the first part of a series of articles that will help you to prepare for coding challenges. In this article, I will focus on the problems related to JavaScript strings.
Prerequisite: Before going forward, I am assuming you should have basic knowledge o... | ['JavaScript', 'Algorithms', 'Web Development', 'Coding', 'Software Engineering'] |
If you’re a frequent writer on Medium, you’ve likely already heard about News Break, the news app which is now catering to content creators.
Their incentives are attractive:
a guaranteed minimum monthly income,
ad revenue share,
referral bonuses for getting readers to download the News Break app and bringing on new... | ['Freelancing', 'Writing Tips', 'Blogging Tips', 'Blogging', 'Writing'] |
Create the Chrome Extension to Improve Productivity for bloggers and Release to the Market Sean HS Follow Nov 30 · 6 min read
Introduction
People who work as developers or bloggers usually open a lot of Chrome tabs to collect information or references and turn them into markdown syntax. This kind of job is so messy t... | ['JavaScript', 'Software Development', 'Google', 'Project Management', 'Chrome Extension'] |
VR Storytelling: A Guide for Marketers
By Heike Young
The internet is no longer flat. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences have become incredibly engaging, entertaining, and educational for consumers. But how will VR/AR change the game for marketers — especially those who don’t yet see the effe... | ['Marketing', 'Social Media Marketing'] |
In their classic work, The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience M.R. Bennet and P.M.S. Hacker (BH) gave the name mereological fallacy to the logical disorder at the heart of much neuroscientific thought at the time. Then, and sadly still to this day, neuroscientists commonly assigned various cognitive attributes t... | ['Artificial Intelligence', 'Philosophy', 'Technology', 'Machine Learning'] |
Within the past few years there hasn’t been any other app that has gone from being controversial, loved, to controversial again as much as TikTok has. In fact, it wasn’t always known as TikTok to begin with. Let’s look at how TikTok evolved from being a different app, becoming one of the most utilized apps, to grabbing... | ['Bytedance', 'Social Media', 'Marketing', 'Influencer Marketing', 'Tiktok App'] |
LGBTQ folks comprise a unique minority group. Unlike race or ethnicity, where one is born into a family that often teaches them their culture, native tongue, and history, LGBTQ people don’t usually have relatives to learn from. We have to search for this knowledge ourselves.
The internet and the subsequent information... | ['Kravitz M', 'Books', 'Queer', 'LGBTQ', 'History'] |
How to Conquer Cohort Analysis With a Powerful Clinical Research Tool
Why your doctor understands customer retention better than you do
In SaaS or consumer subscription settings, small changes in churn can radically impact revenue growth.
Product managers, growth hackers, marketers, data scientists, and investors al... | ['Technology', 'Data Science', 'Venture Capital', 'Startup', 'SaaS'] |
Coronavirus Is The Smokescreen For Trump’s Agenda
The President’s contradictory policies and statements suggest that, for Trump, this is all about winning the election.
The President is scared, no doubt about it.
Not like every other world leader — particularly Boris Johnson — who are scared of the threat of the cor... | ['Trump', 'Immigration', 'Covid 19', 'Politics', 'Coronavirus'] |
Why We Worry
Worrying is just like fear, curiosity, and our ability to form judgments. It’s hard-wired in us. Worrying makes us human. It played its role in helping mankind survive by contributing to our decision-making process.
Planning ahead allows us to recognize danger headed our way. Worrying then spurs us into ... | ['Mental Health', 'Self', 'Self Aware', 'Personal Growth', 'Emotional Intelligence'] |
I learned a few things from participating in the National Novel Writing Month, a challenge to write 50,000 words in November.
I first learned that the trick to writing 50,000 words in a month is to write your thoughts as they form without critiquing them. You do have to find time to do this, and you have to be willing... | ['52 Week Writing Challenge', 'NaNoWriMo', 'Writing'] |
Having my cake while feeding all of you
Solving for Publishing Dilemmas
Short-form Solution
Photo by Igor Rodrigues on Unsplash
I love KTHT; KTHT is my tabernacle and its denizens are my family. Yet our numbers are just enough for two companies and some of my battles require an army. Communication SNAFU’s abound an... | ['Life Lessons', 'Storytelling', 'Spirituality', 'Healing', 'Racism'] |
Written by
Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy. | ['Humor', 'Global Warming', 'Comics', 'Climate Change', 'Weather'] |
Hyperreal materials in packaging design
The fast evolution from local agriculture to food industry created a mismatch between the production behind most supermarket products and the food narratives embedded in western cultures. Accessibility to remote or non-seasonal products elonged the supplier chain up to a level w... | ['Materials', 'Hyperreality', 'Packaging Design', 'Design', 'Simulation'] |
New Beginnings
I just published my very first book!
Source: Moonlight Confessions
Dear Medium readers,
I am proud to announce that I am officially a published author! My book “Moonlight Confessions” is now available on Amazon.
Moonlight Confessions is a collection of heart wrenching poems that I have tirelessly be... | ['Book Recommendations', 'Books', 'Publishing', 'Books And Authors', 'Poetry'] |
clickOutside using useRef hooks
Hooks are a new addition in React 16.8. They let you use state and other React features without writing a class.
One of the hooks is useRef. We will look into the application of useRef, on how to detect a click outside in React.
Let’s create a new React application
npx create-react-a... | ['React', 'Hooks', 'Useref'] |
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