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Tutellus announces a new decentralized platform based on Blockchain
By: Miguel Caballero
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Ethereum, Edtech, Bitcoin

We had clear from the beginning we wanted to change the world, to change the way people teach and learn forever. We had to spend 4 years of hard work till the opportunity arrived. And there’s no going back.

Tutellus born as a collaborative educational platform. As Etsy, Uber, Udemy or Airbnb, we were a centralized platform matching Students with Teachers to create value. We started in 2013 and 4 years later we lead the latin ecosystem.

But we discovered, during 2017, that if we could decentralize our model (tokenizing our assets), the posibilites we had to create value in the Community would grow exponentially. And the guide was clear: we had to cross from a centralized infrastructure to a decentralized one, based on the NEM blockchain, with a 4 layers model:

We hold our actual APPs staff in a first layer, using those technologies; the APP layer connect with the API layer for everything, which at the same time is related with the Token layer, which works over the NEM blockchain layer.

We are not interested in creating “a few millionaires teachers”. We want to create millions of “thousanders”. We want to steem our market, to spread the richness in the Community, tokenizing it.

The TUT token.

The TUT token

So we started to do it. We designed during last summer a 100% utility token (the TUT), the transactional one, and a token being able to manage the user Relevance (the Smart TUT or STUT), creating a full Tokenomics workflow where we could launch a cryptoasset (TUT) with high interest for Students, Teachers and Companies. We designed a full Whitepaper, made interviews with all kind of users, and validating the value proposal.

The good point is that we have hundreds of thousands of users willing to use the tokens. We have the community alive.

The platform that pays you for learning.

A movement Ecosystem around users & tokens

We want to flag the biggest EdTech ICO in the world. We want to jump from leading the latin countries (holding 1 million users and 130.000 videocourses) to lead the EdTech world. And because of that, we become the first platform being able to pay for learning: the more you learn, the more money you get and the more relevance you become in the Community.

Teaching and learning will never be the same.

Keep update of our ICO in Tutellus.io and in our Telegram.

Let’s do it!
Michelle Obama Knows How to Dougie
By: Edith Zimmerman
Tags: Dancing, Exercise, Beyonce

The First Lady danced along with D.C. middle-schoolers yesterday to Beyoncé’s Let’s Move! Flash Workout version of the song “Move Your Body,” and she is … the greatest woman ever made? The greatest woman ever made. She can also do the Running Man. I think — I think — this is the foundation of their 2012 campaign.

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Crypto Market Snapshots: News of the Week
By: Kript Team
Tags: Cryptocurrency News, Blockchain News

⏳ What happened with the market in the last 7 days?

- BTC dominance: 51,8% (↑1,1%)

- 24h Vol: $14,7billion (↓40%)

- Market Cap: $128,8 billion (↓11,8%)

🔝Top 5 coins:

#1 Bitcoin: $3825,91 (↓9,9%)

#2 XRP: $0,36 (↓18,2%)

#3 Ethereum: $136,97 (↓7,6%)

#4 Bitcoin Cash: $160,4 (↓24%)

#5 EOS: $2,61 (↓14,7%)

🔝Top 5 tokens:

#1 Tether: $1,02 (stable coin)

#2 Binance Coin: $6,29 (↓3,7%)

#3 Maker: $462,1 (↓6,9%)

#4 USD Coin: $1,01 (stable coin)

#5 TrueUSD: $1,01 (stable coin)

📈 Gainers:

#1 e-Chat: $0,009846 (↑178%)

#2 XPA: $0,068411 (↑157%)

#3 StarChain: $0,002402 (↑125%)

📉 Losers:

#1 Tolar: $0,004562 (↓45%)

#2 QuadrantProtocol: $0,001274 (↓45%)

#3 VisionX: $0,000186 (↓44%)

👆TOP News

📍 Huobi Group is going to launch the first exchange dedicated to EOS in Q1 of 2019. Read more

📍 OKEx launched ETH perpetual swap and announced launching swaps for several other coins in the near future. Read more

📍 The Indian Government suggested cryptocurrency legalizing in the country. Read more

📍 Electrum wallet attack has possibly managed to steal around 245 bitcoins. Read more

📍 ICO startups have withdrawn over 440K ETH this month. Read more
Fantom Foundation Runway
By: Michael Chen
Tags: Crypto, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Consensus, Government

By Michael Kong

Due to the overall market conditions and the unprecedented situation around the world, many in the community have asked if Fantom has enough runway to achieve its aims and objectives.

When we last reported on our runway in April 2019, Fantom disclosed that it had funding for around two years.

At the time of writing this article, we are pleased to report that Fantom has a runway for approximately three and a half years.

Fantom was able to hedge by diversifying our assets, moving our Bitcoin and Ether into a number of different stablecoins.

Consequently, the treasury now has approximately USD$5.4million worth of crypto and non-crypto assets, of which approximately USD$4.85million are in stablecoins and fiat, with the remainder in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Fantom’s stablecoin holdings are earning interest in Ethereum’s various Decentralised Finance (“Defi”) platforms.

The total headcount for the Foundation is twenty-eight, of which fourteen are for research and development, thirteen for marketing and business development, and our legal counsel consists of Fred Pucci, a solicitor.

The total expenditure is approximately USD$133k per month.

If market conditions improve, the runway for the Foundation should increase.

Fantom remains committed to sustainable revenues going forward, thereby creating a long term, viable foundation that supports open source technologies and developments.
Running Unafraid
By: Breanna Lowman
Tags: Justice, Haiku, News, Politics, Racism

We all view the world through a unique lens. Politics is in literally everything from our churches to our social organizations to news events and crime to our governments. This is the place to share your view, regardless of your political leanings: all are welcome.

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Box 2 (a story-map about box 1)
By: Timothy Braun
Tags: Story Maps, GIS, Storytelling

By Daniel, Jane, Emma, and Stephen, Come Out and Play Festival, Family Day, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, September 30th, 2016

We had a unique situation occur with this story. This group waited for one hour in the chapel to play box 2, and ultimately chose to draw a map as their story. This was the first time any box had been played by more than two people, and the first time a map had been drawn.
Perspective Isn’t Homogeneous
Tags: Perspective, Personal Development, Imagination, Self, Life

One varies from zero to one

Two varies from one to zero

Three vary from one and two

The idea isn’t the same

The view isn’t the same

The angle isn’t identical

The side of one isn’t the same for two

Things on the plane aren’t the same for two

The two are not two for one and three

Life can be multi-dimensionally viewed/approached

And these words are the product of the word Perspective.
Love the Secure Wallet? Become an Affiliate Now!
Tags: Crypto, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Affiliate, Startup

We’ve moved our online store, sales are now live around the world, and you can earn for your referrals! The Secure Wallet is the most secure and easy-to-use cold storage wallet available. And with the capabilities to protect your cryptocurrency, digital collectibles, and other digital assets, it is the only storage device you’ll ever need!

Now, with the launch of our online store, we’re giving you the opportunity to become a Secure Wallet affiliate, and earn 15% of every sale you refer! Here’s everything you need to know to start earning today :)

1. Where is the Online Store?

To access information about the ECOMI Secure Wallet, or purchase your own, head to https://securewallet.shop/. Secure Wallet’s are now available for the reduced price of $99 USD. We also offer express worldwide shipping!

2. How Do I Become an Affiliate?

To become an ECOMI Affiliate, head to https://securewallet.refersion.com/

Then, fill out the application form (pictured below) to create an account. Here you can also see other important details, including:

30 days for cookies. This means that cookies will track your referral link for 30 days (per person), and you will earn a commission from anyone who purchases a Secure Wallet within this time frame.

Base commission = 15% of sale. With a $99 purchase price, this earns you almost $15USD per sale.

For more information, click this link.

3. Access Your Dashboard

Once you have created an account and verified your email address, you will be able to login to your refersion dashboard. Here you can access your personalised affiliate link (highlighted in yellow below), as well as keep track of:

Previous and current earnings

Payment history

Personal details

You can also change your personal details, including billing details and payment settings under the ‘settings’ tab.

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Commissions will be tallied at the end of each month and paid out by the 2nd week of the following month when your account reaches $200.

When a purchase is made (within 30 days of) using your referral link, you will earn 15% commission (of the NET sale amount, excluding VAT and shipping). You will be able to view and track these payments through your refersion dashboard.

That’s it! You are now officially an ECOMI Secure Wallet affiliate, and can begin earning straight away! We would like to thank you for your continued support of ECOMI and it’s products, and look forward to working together in the future.
The Paintbox of a Cook
By: Victor Sarkin
Tags: Writing, Poetry, Food, Creativity, Diet

The Paintbox of a Cook

The colours of culinary expression

Image by kawephoto on Shutterstock

This poem is the tenth poem I have published at BeingWriters, a wonderful publication that gave me my start on Medium. Thank you BeingWriters, and Raffaella Ferretti, for your ongoing support and encouragement.

Can you understand

How bountiful Earth

Is with edible vegetation?

Life is sustained by it.

Life is improved by it.

It’s the greatest gift of nature.

Of all that we eat,

None is more wholly

Imbued with the nourishment

Our body and soul require;

Nutrients and nurturing.

Roughage and vitamins,

Aesthetics beyond compare,

Plates of vibrant colour,

Inspiration and imagination.

New ideas and concepts

In the sketchbook of a cook.

Not as a side dish,

Or accompaniment,

Rather a meal

In itself.

© Victor Sarkin 2020.

My take on an acrostic poem, where typically, the first letter of each line spells out a word. In this case, each word spelled is connected to the theme of the poem. I have added another dimension where the first letter of each stanza also contributes another word, in the theme of the poem. A bi-dimensional acrostic poem, if you will.
My father
By: Jenny Lawton
Tags: Haiku, Mindfulness, Love, Parenting, Life

Through the good and bad

My first hero and true love

Always in my heart
Full-time Developer by day and Community Builder by night: How Gopikrishnan Juggles Roles while Solving Real-World Problems
By: Tinkerhub Foundation
Tags: Engineering, Developer, Community Building, Learning, Coding

TinkerHub Story #5

Full-time Developer by day and Community Builder by night: How Gopikrishnan Juggles Roles while Solving Real-World Problems

Settling for a safe job without exploring your options could be the worst you can do to yourself.

When life throws challenges at you, it’s easy to give up, sit back and mourn. But it takes some real courage and determination to fight back and win against all the odds. Do you know what’s more difficult? To keep taking on new challenges and continuously work on making them better.

Meet Gopikrishnan Sasikumar. Chapter Lead at TinkerHub RIT, full-time ML engineer at FullContact and Director of Campus Community Relations at TinkerHub Foundation.

So, how does he do it?

Hear it straight from one of the biggest community champions in Kerala and an ML powerhouse!

Hey! Gopi here :)

Presenting the fifth story in the series from TinkerHub about young achievers and their success stories that begin with a technology learning culture —

Read our previous story here:

Hi Gopi! Tell us all about yourself! :)

I like to describe myself as an engineer who believes that my life’s purpose is to solve the world’s problems with the skills I have and the knowledge I acquire.

I love sharing knowledge. I took 30+ workshops on Machine Learning and building the skills for the 21st century all across Kerala. This started during my college days, and I still show up for events. I also founded the RIT chapter of TinkerHub.

A Few months ago, I co-founded an initiative called KuttyCoders with people at TinkerHub for helping school students learn technology.

And now, this is how my life goes: During the day I work at FullContact.com solving machine learning problems. At night I work with TinkerHub team to nurture tech talent😅.
Lost
By: Ngang God'Swill N.
Tags: Humanity, Poetry, Advocacy, War, Life

Lost

Of war, kin, and regret.

Photo by Gabriel on Unsplash

I’d gotten lost,

like drowning in lust,

thick crims on gushing;

screams, bullets, death.

With mind-blowing ease,

another’s breath to seize;

no more beating heart.

‘It was me, or them’ you think.

Kin, an illusion, no more;

face-offs in pretences of valor,

promised more, home.

But we now know death, her peace.

It enriches the soil,

like sweet Koki’s oil;

their blood, the morrow.

The jewel we fought for.

This talking stick,

which of bullets reek

grows heavier every step;

the ease is gone.

The little ones we struck,

ran over like a truck;

trapped in my mind.

They visit every night.

Confusion is home,

my mind a battle zone;

to pull or not to pull.

Morality or authority.

I can’t find my voice,

my opinions to voice;

broken, structured, ordered.

I am lost.

Ngang God'swill N. 2020
Fractal VR Fruit-Cake
By: Jack Burt
Tags: Satire, Virtual Reality, Short Story, Poetry, Poem

Poetry

Photo by Author

A frightening paradise in which he lives

A virtual reality of virtual reality

Overflowing the creased membranes of Bill’s dome

He dreads the moment each morning

When he has to remove his outermost VR cap

He never goes naked of course

He always wears his background VR cap

Since June 2042, he’s been existing in

A tri-layered reality cake

But has grown vertically wary

Of taking off the base layer

The sensual experience scraped under the couch

The intuitional cloggage in his ghost sink

What if his base reality has gone to smoke

He wonders if he can dilate time in the second layer

Buy some more experience in the less dense dimensions

Forfeiting, for a while longer, being real for seeming real

He still believes himself to be the outer crust

That which is indivisible by add-on technology

But too many adventures in the non-physical

Have left rote scars on his fleshly motherboard

If only he had the cojones

To see how much has happened

On ground zero reality
Designing an encryption tool for novices is hard…
By: Hyun Seo
Tags: Security, Design

tl;dr: it’s damn hard and your novice users will be confused no matter. Oh and your power users will complain that not enough options are available. If you want to see my attempt at a text encryption app, visit https://www.magicpad.io

For the past two weeks, I’ve been working on MagicPad, my new GUI for the popular encryption method known as PGP. PGP utilizes asymmetric keys, meaning the user gets two keys — one public and one private. The public key is meant to be used only to encrypt messages and can be distributed, while private keys are meant to be kept…well, private, and used to decrypt received messages and sign outgoing messages (so the recipient can verify the identity of the sender).

Making the everyday person understand this concept is a little daunting. Creating a relatively user-friendly UI for this audience is also difficult. However, the hardest part is convincing people who know about encryption to use the same tool that was designed for beginners.
An Address to the Community regarding $MITx Circulation on CoinMarketCap
By: Morpheus Labs Team
Tags: Mitx, Morpheus Labs, Cryptocurrency, Community, Token

An Address to the Community regarding $MITx Circulation on CoinMarketCap

Dear Community,

We believe in timely updates and transparency here at Morpheus Labs.

It has come to our attention that the stated circulating and total, supply of $MITX tokens on CoinMarketCap (CMC) are not updated as requested, thus resulting in an inaccurate reflection of current $MITx supply.

We have addressed this issue with CMC, and we believe they are in the midst of this status update as advised. However, we would also like to take this opportunity to clarify that there is no increment in token supply. Future updates will only be a reflection of the circulating supply tokens.

Please be assured that having accurate figures reflected on key listing portals, such as CMC is our utmost priority. We thank the community who have brought this to our attention.

Meanwhile, kindly refer to this article which we had posted regarding the movement of the $MITx Token alongside with the Morpheus Labs key wallet addresses — where the numbers are updated.

Correct Numbers* (as of today’s date):

Total supply is 746,999,995 and, circulating Supply is 343,779,945

*Note: on Relating information about Token Burn and Tokenomics.

We seek your patience and understanding on this matter.

Regards,

Morpheus Labs Team
The Future Winter Olympic Cities: Who has the Best Weather Conditions?
By: Eneli Toodu
Tags: Olympics, Climate Change, Snow, Weather, Environment

Pyeongchang was a great Winter games host as it possesses ideal conditions for artificial snowmaking. But with global climate getting warmer, people are starting to wonder whether cities looking to make bids will be deterred, if they don’t have the ideal conditions for natural snow and artificial snowmaking.

We evaluated historical snow depth and air temperature conditions for the 2026 Winter Olympics’ reported bidding cities to see who may have the best probable weather conditions to play host. The Associated Press and its sports reporting team recently dove into our analysis and shared their thoughts to their global readership in the concluding days of the Pyeongchang games. You can check out the article here. The Associated Press story was picked up by news outlets around the world including The New York Times, The Daily Mail, and others.

For the analysis we used the Planet OS Datahub and API provided by Intertrust that enable fast and easy access to large-scale climate datasets. We also included the expected weather for Beijing that will host the next Winter games in 2022.

We crunched data for the following cities:

Beijing, China

Graz and Schladming, Austria

Erzurum, Turkey

Sion, Switzerland

Are and Stockholm, Sweden

Sapporo, Japan

Salt Lake City, United States

Calgary, Canada

Assessing the data from the past 39 years from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA-Interim reanalysis datasets, we found that Sapporo, Japan and Calgary, Canada are likely the best places to host the 2026 Winter games.

Here’s why:
The Top 10 File Handling Techniques in Python
By: Yong Cui
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Python, Technology, Data Science

8. Read Files

One of the most important file operations we do is certainly reading the data from the files. After all, the content within the file is probably the only reason that the file was created in the first place. To read a file, the most conventional way is to create a file object using the built-in open() function. By default, the function will open the file in the read mode and treat the data in the file as texts. Let’s see an example.

Read File

The above code shows you the most common ways to read the content of a file. If you know that your file doesn’t have too much data, you can simply read it all at once with the read() method. However, when the file is enormously large, you should consider using a generator that allows you to process the data row by row. Specifically, the file object works as a generator by rendering the data row by row, which saves memory by eliminating the need of loading all the data when we use the read() method. If you want to learn more about generators, you can refer to this article, which covers the use of generators in file reading.
Letting Go
By: Edie Tuck
Tags: Grief, Haiku, Writing Prompt Response, Love, Letting Go

Sign up for American Haiku Steamship To Writing History

By American Haiku

Writing takes practice. American Haiku is a great way to put your words from your fingers to your piece of paper. Don't quit, you can do it. Take a look
Articlex welcomes Dean Karakitsos as Advisor!
By: Articlex Project
Tags: Advisor, Announcements, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

After the announcement of Simon Cocking, today Articlex is proud to announce officially that we have a new advisor into our advisory board: Dean Karakitsos.

Dean is a visionary innovator in distruptive technology development and business manager with more than 20 years of experience bringing an industry-changing approach to designing and launching dynamic new technology products.

He is the founder of Bloqchain Science that builds secure decentralized systems using Blockchain technology for identity solutions, tokenization-of-things (ToT), on-chain/off-chain payment solutions, securety and audits of smart contracts.

In telecoms, he has signed more than 100 interconnection agreements with carriers around the globe and managed a streaming voice traffic of over a billion of voice minutes. He made it for 3 years in a row to be listed in INC 500 fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

Owns multiple patents on Market Data Visualization, patent owner of the vertical ticker, Voice over IP and Fixed Mobile Convergence while he developed with his team the openh323 gatekeeper protocol.

Dean is is avdising ICOs in multiple verticals and with his team, he is designing safety and smart contracts best practices.

It’s sure that Dean will help our project reach its targets, thanks to his great experience and his vision of the future.

_____________________________

Website: https://articlex.io

Telegram: https://t.me/ArticlexGroup

Twitter: https://twitter.com/realArticlex

Facebook: https://facebook.com/articlex
Te traemos el Behance Reviews a Buenos Aires
Tags: Behance

in Both Sides of the Table
Baby In A Blanket
By: Vee Goldman
Tags: Humanity, Compassion, Hope, Kindness, Family

Baby In A Blanket

A stitch in kind

Photo by Damir Spanic on Unsplash

A blanket crafted

By hands of kindness and love

Cheers an infant’s soul

I have such a blanket. Crocheted with love by a very dear family friend for my daughter. The blanket came before she fell to earth. Every stitch contains love and is treasured to this day. Blessings to those kind souls who make things ready for the babies as yet unborn.
Market Manipulation
Tags: Industry, Economy, Market Manipulation, Coins, Tecnology

Market manipulation: describes a deliberate attempt to interfere with the free and fair operation of the market and to create artificial, false or deceptive appearances with respect to the price of, or in the market of, securities, commodities or currencies.

What is market manipulation?

Market manipulation refers to the action of artificially inflating or deflating the price of a security or otherwise influencing market behavior for personal gain. Tampering is illegal in most cases, but can be difficult for regulators and other authorities to detect, as has been the case in many cases.

Manipulation is also difficult for manipulators as the size and number of market participants increases. For example, it is much easier to manipulate the price of a cryptocurrency when 90% is in the hands of 8% of the people.

Tampering is usually difficult to detect, but it is also difficult for the manipulator as the market size and number of participants increases.

Two common types of stock manipulation are the “pump and dumb” and the “poop and scoop.”

In the more regulated markets such as the securities and futures markets, manipulation is prohibited and prosecuted and can lead to legal consequences for manipulators..

Currency manipulation is the deliberate devaluation of a nation’s currency by a government.

Forms of currency manipulation

Currency manipulation is a slightly different kind of market manipulation, as only central banks and national governments can participate in it, and these are legal authorities themselves. Being the owner of a fiat (government backed) currency legitimizes many of the actions these governments take to suppress or inflate the value of their currency compared to its peers. Although currency manipulation is not illegal, a country that is manipulating its currency can be indicted by other nations or punished with sanctions approved by its trading partners.

In addition, international bodies such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been encouraged to play a more prominent role in addressing allegations of currency manipulation.

Currency manipulation example

On August 5, 2019, the People’s Bank of China set the daily benchmark rate of the yuan below 7 per dollar for the first time in more than a decade. This measure, in response to the new 10% tariffs on $ 300 billion in Chinese imports imposed by the Trump administration, took effect on September 1, 2019. World markets fell due to this measure, including in the United States, where the DJIA lost 2.9% on the worst day of 2019 to date. As a result, the Trump administration branded China a currency manipulator.

Another country that has had a history of currency manipulation is Japan. Because it is a country that depends on its exports, on some occasions when the yen has appreciated strongly against the dollar, the Bank of Japan has intervened in the foreign exchange market to reduce the value of its currency and make Japanese exports are more attractive.
Always stick to the plan
By: Joseph Emmi
Tags: Discipline, Journal, Personal Development, Self Improvement, Personal

Always stick to the plan

No matter what

This is my golden rule, no matter what, always “stick to the plan”.

I have no interest in tattoos, but I keep saying that, if the day comes and one day decided to go for one, I will ink those words on the inner side of my left forearm.

However, despite of keep saying it, repeating it and even preaching it, and passing it to others, from time to time there are days like today. Days in which for some reason I change my mind last minute thinking that the recently ideated outcome will be two things:

Better that the original plan. Will actually happen as intended.

And no matter what, time after time, everything goes wrong and none of those two points actually happen, leading to frustration, and in many cases, a consequential chaos.

It’s incredibly frustrating when this happens, because it ends up not only having an impact on that original plan, but also on everything around it. It’s a chain reaction, well, because that’s life, no action is fully isolated nor independent.
It Wasn’t All Roses
By: Galit Birk
Tags: Heartbreak, Relationships Love Dating, Poetry, Breakups, Relationships

When we grieve, we tend to remember only the good things, the good times, the things worth missing. As I wrap up this particular grief cycle and allow myself to set it aside, I honor my entire truth; it was not in fact all roses. In hindsight, we were not compatible, and I admit that at 45 years old, I have never considered compatibility. He held the hours of a night owl; up all night, sleep into mid-day. I, on the other end, am a morning person; bright and cheery and ready to maximize as much day as I possibly can, ready to take on the world. I feel deeply; his feelings are constrained. I want to travel the world and experience it through all of my senses; he prefers to read and write about it instead. As I wrap up my sadness, acknowledge it yet set it aside, and step into 2021, I acknowledge all that was and all that wasn’t, and I bring this awareness with me into the new year and into the rest of my life. I wish to see with eyes wide open the entirety of one’s being and not just the parts that fill in my empty cracks. I go into 2021 filling my own voids, making myself whole, and closing this chapter. Happy New Year!
Pseudo Facebook Data Analysis
By: Anirudhi Thanvi
Tags: Data Analysis, Matplotlib, Python, Pandas, Facebook

Performed Exploratory Data Analysis through Python and visualization concepts to give valuable insights of data.

Have ever thought what is Data Analysis and how these giant tech companies make use of it? Here we have taken a psuedo facebook data to perform data analysis and help facebook to take intelligent decision to identify its useful users and provide correct recommendations to them.

Let’s first know What is Data Analysis?

Data Analysis isn’t one finite set of arrangement of functions with a start and an end. It’s our perspective towards the world around. It is collection of data which involves the interpretation of data gathered through the use of analytical and logical reasoning to determine patterns, relationships or trends.

There are 4 kinds of data analysis :

1. Descriptive Analysis

2. Exploratory Analysis

3. Predictive Analysis

4. Inferential Analysis

Source: educba.com

Facebook has a huge amount of data that is available for you to explore. I took the pseudo data from the kaggle for exploratory data analysis.

Data Preparation and Cleaning

Gather the data required. Reading the CSV files with some more analytical and statistical analysis like head(), shape(), describe() etc. Cleaning the data i.e. removing the extra data and outliers, filling the missing values etc. Creating the final dataframe for the future analysis

Exploratory Analysis and Visualization

Analysing data through visuals and understand the pattern and trends between features using matplotlib and seaborn library for data visualization.

→ First looking upon the Age analysis, Exploring which age group uses more facebook comparatively and we clearly see teenagers are more using facebook comparatively to others.

→ This graph shows the like analysis which group of people give more likes male or female.

→ Correlational Data Analysis through heatmap

→ To do numerical data analysis, to note the highest and lowest number of likes per day through max and min function and then finding the output

→ Analysing the facebook app users and non-app users with the help of number of mobile likes and likes through the webapp.

→ To analyse the friend count in reference to age groups. Which age-group has more friends.

→ Analysing who has more friends male or female and differentiating through age-groups.

Inference and conclusion

The countplot helps in age analysis and showed relation between facebook users according to the age. Scatter plot gives a more enhanced way of differentiating between males and females. Maximum number of likes recorded was 25111. Their are equal amount of facebook web app user and mobile app user.

Future Work

Applying Machine learning and deep learning techniques to future predict the growth in coming years and developing an app of this model.

References

And so we are at the end of our facebook data analysis. Hope you like this article interesting to get the full code checkout my kaggle link.

You can find me on linkedIn :
UNICEF Launches Crypto Mining Site
By: Token News
Tags: Crypto, Blockchain, Charity, Cryptocurrency, Unicef

UNICEF Launches Crypto Mining Site

And it’s now saving lives around the world

UNICEF is the latest brand to get in on cryptocurrencies — but not how you’d think. They recently launched The Hopepage, a website that lets you mine crypto for charity by taking your computer’s spare processing power and using it to mine crypto. All of the proceeds then go straight to UNICEF so they can continue their work.

What we thought was so amazing about this project (apart from its charitable nature, of course) was how seamlessly UNICEF have integrated what is, in reality, incredibly complicated tech. For a charity to create a webpage that rivals many of the industry’s leading blockchain projects is no mean feat. Their website can have you mining on a couple of clicks — and already 22,835 people have taken part.

It works like this.

When you’re on the Hopepage, your web browser uses your computer’s processor to solve cryptocurrency algorithms. You can select how much processor power you want to donate to this task. The longer you stay on the page and the more processor power you donate, the more algorithms get solved, which earns cryptocurrency. Any crypto mined is altomatically donated to UNICEF through smart contracts and turned into real funds that are spent on life-saving supplies like safe water, therapeutic food and vaccines.

Pretty amazing, right?

UNICEF’s work covers aid, education and children’s rights in the developing world.

We’ll have to see how much they raise and if other charities follow suit. After all, even people who are unwilling to part with their cash may yet be willing to ‘donate’ their spare processing power.

You can check out the project here: thehopepage.org
DeMarcus Cousin Injured: What it Means
By: Tristan Kwok
Tags: Sports, Basketball, Injury, NBA, DeMarcus Cousins

DeMarcus Cousin Injured: What it Means

What could DeMarcus Cousins’ injury means for the New Orleans Pelicans potential playoff hopes?

DeMarcus Cousins(Right) together with All-Star Teammate Anthony Davis(Left) Via: (www.nola.com)

Cousins has been averaging 25.6 PPG, 12.9 RPG, 5.2 APG, 1.2 BPG, and 1.2 SPG, whilst also completing 2 triple-doubles in his last 3 games. On the court, Cousins plays a huge part on the offensive end for the Pelicans. During the season, their offensive rating is 108.3, ranking them #6 of all 30 teams. With him out for the rest of the season, guys like, Anthony Davis, Jrue Holiday, Rajon Rondo, and E’twaun Moore, will have to be generating the offence. While Anthony Davis is sure to receive more touches, his play alone isn’t enough to carry the current Pelicans roster. While DeMarcus Cousins has been a huge part in offence, his ability to grab rebounds on the defensive end may also prove to be irreplaceable for the Pelicans.

Cousins after his season ending injury. Via:(www.al.com)

This year, the Pelicans have been quite poor on the defensive end, with a defensive rating of 106.9, placing them at #22 of all 30 NBA teams. The lack of board coverage on the defensive end, and not to mention the 1.2 blocks and steals per game that Cousins provides will surely be missed.

In regards to all of this, the probability of New Orleans making the playoffs is a close call. And they surely won’t be as good of a team as they were before. Their fast style offence may need to be quicker, and Anthony Davis will have to play better than he already is. But as for now, with how the rest of the team is playing, the Pelicans need a miracle to secure atleast an 8th seed.
3 authors speak on Transgender Day of Remembrance
By: Peter Lang
Tags: Authors, LGBT Rights, Transgender, LGBT, New York

Every November 20, we pause to remember those who lost their lives as a result of transphobia. Transgender Day of Remembrance began in 1999, founded by Gwendolyn Ann Smith to honor the memory of Rita Hester, killed the year before.

Today is a day to pay one’s respects to transgender and gender non-conforming people who have lost their lives in the past year.

Three of our authors shared their messages of solidarity:

On this TDoR, please let us not forget about the transgender people who have lost their lives. However, as we remember, reflect, and revere the lost lives, let us also, as a humanitarian society and culture, make a proclamation to become change agents to help preserve the lives of transgender people.

William T. Hoston, Ph.D., author of Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston

Read Dr. Hoston’s call to action for Transgender Day of Remembrance

We all sometimes look at ourselves in a looking glass and marvel at the multiplicity of roles, characters and positions we have played in our lives. But how free are any of us to reveal all of this variety or find someone who will accept them all? The growth in transgender changes is part of a wider coming together and blurring of the boundaries between previously accepted simple categorisations of sex, gender and sexuality. Simplification may be easier to manage but may, however, hide a truth that includes much greater variety. Although many people see this as frightening it may mean greater freedom for all of us. I invite everyone to envision a fresh, organic, and more holistic lived experience, that can liberate everyone. Transgender people remind us of this infinite possibility.

The Rev Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE FRSA FHEA, editor of the series

Music and Spirituality, including Queering Freedom: Music, Identity and Spirituality

Having built my career as a teacher over the span of about 25 years, I reflect on the many days, months, and years, I have spent wondering if the “kids are all right?” If they knew how much I celebrated their courage and zeal; this is especially true for students who peppered bland days with life because they dared to be different or unique or curious or transparent — they dared to be seen, to me. I have wondered if they could forgive the mistakes of my silence on their behalf or the clumsiness of my speech as we grappled with what to say or how to stand as an ally with them on their journey. Some have come back to say hello, or write a letter or gone through the painstaking task of finding me on social media…so that we can continue the conversation about who I am/we are. Today I remember all the Ds, Ms, Cs, Hs who have changed my life. Known on this list as an initial because I don’t know where they are or if they are safe except when I see a rainbow in the sky. I celebrate the promise of a future where they can come out and be celebrated like a rainbow in the sky, after rain…

Joy Barnes-Johnson, co-editor of STEM21
Dramatic Direction of Role Play
By: Bev J Williams, Beverley Jordan
Tags: Portfolio, Roleplay, Beverley Jordan, Palliative Care, Nhs

NHS Palliative Care — role-play scenarios

I provide support for role-play development. Below, you will find two examples of (many) scenarios that were developed and filmed for the NHS training department. My role in this project was the dramatic direction and development of the role-play.

These roles were undertaken by students of mine and professional actors.

Scenario 1: Features Gordon Holmes, legendary boxing trainer and commentator and Libby O’Leary, Actress.

Scenario 2: Features Libby O’Leary and professional actor Earl Ling

Scenario 1:

Scenario 2:

TESTIMONIAL

“Bev has done a couple of great jobs for me in the last year or two, firstly building up some training scenarios with actors around the difficult subject of end of life care. The outcomes were great and were subsequently filmed for a training website to use. Now she has just carried out some successful development coaching/training of a staff-member’s presentation skills. Her great eye for detail also picked up some important things to help make the training more effective.” Tim — Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

For quotes or to discuss any requirements you may have, please contact me via my website

Originally published at beverleyjordan.com on January 5, 2016.
We’re Teaming Up with the Texas Hospital Association!
By: Nomad Health
Tags: Jobs, Doctors, Texas, Healthcare, Nursing

The Texas Hospital Association Endorses Nomad Health

Two months ago, we launched our marketplace for clinical jobs in Texas (yeehaw!). Since then, we’re happy to report that we’ve already been working with thousands of clinicians and dozens of healthcare facilities across the Lone Star State.

Now (October 23, 2017), we’re proud to share some more great news. The Texas Hospital Association (THA) has endorsed Nomad Health as a partner in helping local hospitals more efficiently and effectively fill temporary physician staffing positions.

The THA represents more than 85% of the state’s acute-care hospitals and healthcare systems, which collectively employ some 365,000 healthcare professionals statewide. Since 1930, the organization has been dedicated to improving accessibility, quality and cost-effectiveness of health care for all Texans.

Of the new relationship, Ted Shaw, President and CEO of THA, had this to say:

“Finding and hiring great talent is a constant and costly challenge for Texas healthcare organizations. There is a tremendous need for better tools for hiring. As soon as we saw Nomad Health’s innovative platform, we immediately recognized it is as a huge leap forward for the industry. We are confident that it will make staffing simpler, faster, and more impactful, and we look forward to helping our members get on board with this exciting technology.”

Healthcare staffing is a growing problem in Texas.

Eighty counties currently have five or fewer doctors, and 35 counties have none at all.

Nurses are similarly scarce — the Texas Nurses Association estimates that there is already a shortage of 17,000 nurses in the state. That the number is expected to quadruple in the next decade.

Says our founder, Alexi Nazem, MD:

“From the pioneering cardiac surgery contributions of Dr. DeBakey and Dr. Cooley to the invention of mammography at MD Anderson, to other advances too numerous to count, Nomad Health is thrilled to partner with the Texas Hospital Association to continue this tradition by solving critical challenges on behalf of Texan patients.”

We couldn’t be more excited to work together with THA to meaningfully speed up the introduction of our dynamic staffing solutions to medical employers across the state.
【新老師晤談室】01
By: Fog Chen
Tags: Students, Taipei, Bikes, Education, Life

in Both Sides of the Table
How to Handle Duplicate Nodes in Binary Search Tree
By: Halis Bilal Kara
Tags: Linked Lists, Software Engineering, Data Structures, Binary Search Tree, Algorithms

Photo by Benjamin Dada on Unsplash

Normally binary search trees don’t have duplicate nodes. But if we have to have duplicate nodes what should we do? I got a school project about binary search trees I created the movie categorizer with simple binary search tree. In this categorizer I place all films with their score. But I can have films with same score but binary search tree cant handle this. So I modify the add, search and delete method. In this article I will explain all of them. If we have duplicate nodes we cant just look for nodes with one condition we have to have at least 2 condition. This is a search method for binary search tree with duplicate nodes.

In this findNode method we have a while loop to look for nodes. Normally this while loop gets one condition and that is rate. But in this tree while has two conditions rate and node name simply this loop traverse tree according to the rate and then name gets important because if rate is false name can’t be true. When while find the node with our rate then name condition gets important if the rate and name equal to our node while loop stops and returns to that node. If rate is true and name false we look for the right child of that node because thats how I place duplicate nodes. This is searching. Now I want to explain how did I place the nodes.

This method for placing nodes. this method places nodes with their scores. Method works like normal binary search tree add method but when we have same score this method adds that node in the right subtree thats why we go to the right subtree in the findNode method.

In deletion method works as usual searches nodes like findNode method when locates the node deletes normally nothing unusual.

This is all thank you for reading if you want to take a look at the full project you can go to my github account from here: https://github.com/bllhlskr
When the Love of Your Life is Diagnosed With Terminal Cancer
By: Randye S Spina
Tags: Lovestory, Heartbreak, Cancer, Loss, Love

I called his cell very early the next morning and he said “they found a mass” on his pancreas. I froze in fear. I was speechless. How could this happen to the love of my life? At our later-in-life love story was the stuff of Hallmark movies. We were engaged and starting to plan a wonderful future together.

I couldn’t think or talk or eat. I just cried and cried.

After canceling my classes for the day, telling my students I had an emergency, I packed a bag and hopped on the train to get to the city to see him.

I gave myself a good talking to on the train and managed to arrive at the hospital in one piece and could form coherent sentences. He was smiling and happy and said he felt better because the doctors told him it was operable and all would be OK.

It wasn’t OK. Not even close.

To be honest, I’ve blocked out some of the ensuing horrors and I don’t remember how this transpired, but they released him. This was the worst mistake that could have happened. Once you’re released, legally the hospital is no longer obligated to treat you if you don’t have insurance.

He never went back to his own home after that. He came to live with me in my one-bedroom condo with the kitten we’d rescued together.

The next few months were beyond horrifying. The indignities we endured are a study in the worst of human and societal behavior. The US medical system is so broken, the bureaucracy is choking. Getting nowhere on our own, we contacted local politicians for help.

This was in 2011 and the Affordable Care Act had just passed. Finally, someone put us in touch with an insurance broker who handled this kind of health insurance.

By now, the cancer had spread and was no longer operable.

What followed was a long blur of medical appointments, dozens and dozens of phone calls with insurance companies and medical providers, lots of writing to document everything (making it so that the horrors were experienced twice), and him being stalked by medical bill collectors and bill collectors from his business.

Worse was that no one would deal with me because we weren’t related or married. But, I was all he had because he too was an only child whose parents had passed.

All we had was each other.

We were told if we got married I would lose everything because legally the financial burden of his medical debt would fall on me as his spouse.
Clothes make a statement
Tags: Sustainable Fashion, Fashion, Sustainability, Denim, Startup Marketing

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Every month I eat at an inspiring impact entrepreneur’s home. Here I share with you what I noticed about this pioneer.

This week: Tony Tonnaer — founder of sustainable denim brand Kings of Indigo (also know as K.O.I.). K.O.I. was founded in 2012 and voted #1 most sustainable brand in Europe.

Tony, this denim looks very good on you. I no longer notice the spacious house, with lots of light and a very large bookcase, because I’m breathlessly looking at this man wrapped in tough denim. He knows exactly what he wants.

Invest time in doing what you’re good at

First and foremost, he wants a stunning pair of jeans that are also comfortable. I agree, because I’ve been wearing their pants for years. Within K.O.I. Tony as a creative director is responsible for this. He mainly focuses on the design, not on the business side. “This way, I don’t have to be unnaturally tough. That’s not who I am.”
Season’s Greetings!
By: Tanya E. Denhere
Tags: Newsletter, Christmas

Image by Myriams-Fotos on Pixabay

Hello!

No matter how you’re celebrating Christmas this year — face-to-face or virtually — we hope that you’re able to connect with those close to you in a safe and meaningful way.

London went back into lockdown this week. Busy streets and roads have gone quiet again. It seems surreal. These are strange times indeed. But life goes on.

We’re grateful that we’ve been able to continue publishing great articles, despite the challenges 2020 has brought.

Thank you to our contributors for sharing your amazing stories and articles with our readers.

Thank you to our readers and followers for your unwavering support. We appreciate you.