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Freelance Writers Aren’t Content Machines
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Freelancing, Work, Media, Mental Health, Writing

I know it’s going to be a long day when walking up the steps to the galley makes me feel light-headed.

Ferry crossings are my favorite thing about living in the Pacific Northwest, and I always look forward to being on the boat, come rain or shine. But on only an hour’s sleep, the motion is making me feel distinctly unwell.

One table across, a young guy is making the most of the galley’s culinary offerings and enjoying a breakfast of cheeseburger dipped in clam chowder. The smell combination is so unexpected and nausea-inducing at this hour that I abscond to the deck to breathe, still unsteady on my feet.

I walk straight into an impromptu open air concert courtesy of a lone man playing his guitar and singing. I smile at him as I walk past while trying not to cry. Little does he know his talent is the gift that’ll keep me going all day, the unexpected burst of random human art I will cling to.

The long day in the city proceeds despite itself as I navigate appointments, run errands, and work from coffee shops where no matter how expertly brewed the coffee, it always tastes off because I’m so exhausted my senses aren’t working at they should.

To keep myself awake, I shun the bus, chomp my way through a pack of Canadian peppermint gum, and walk everywhere without realizing how dearly I’ll pay for my exertions the next day.

Today, my one goal is to avoid passing out until I can get a ride home and there are several near misses.

I break into a sweat in front of my laptop before uncontrollable shivers make me put my jacket back on almost immediately.

The minute I sit in the car over twelve hours after I left home, I fall asleep, still cradling the neck pillow I brought along. Upon arrival, I go stand under the shower for a very long time until I can feel myself regenerating.

It’s past midnight and whatever words I put together in the city are no good so I scrap them. This means work still needs to happen else I can’t support myself.

So instead of crawling into bed, I write and don’t let up until I’ve produced an essay about how dehumanizing America can be.
Israel/Palestine: Harbea of Nazareth
By: Zach Goodwin
Tags: Palestine, Travel, Travel Writing, Faith, Israel

Sunset at the Basilica of the Annunciation

December 28, 2019

In the city of Nazareth, Jesus’ hometown, faith is palpable.⁣

The central spire of the Basilica of the Annunciation punctures the skyline, joined by the minarets of mosques and the faded outline of distant peaks. Here, where the Basilica stands, the angel Gabriel traveled to Mary to tell her she would soon carry the child of God. Mary, full of grace, full of humility, full of faith, accepted her destiny. It’s here in Nazareth, too, that Jesus’ trek through the Levant is said to have begun, the path sneaking past the Basilica, up into the hillside neighborhoods, disappearing into the mountains.⁣

It was as two friends and I descended from one of these hillside neighborhoods, reverse-tracing Jesus’ path, that an elderly woman spotted us from her patio. She promptly invited us in for coffee, insisting that we escape the cold afternoon drizzle.⁣⁣

Her name was Harbea; her family was Palestinian, and her dad had been killed shortly after her birth, prompting her mother to christen her with a name derived from the Arabic word for “war.” She didn’t like that name much. She preferred to refer to herself as “Om,” mother, the role she played for eight children and thirty grandchildren. She spliced apples and oranges for us, boiled coffee and tea, chatting in Arabic about her late husband, her youth, her Quran, a supersized version of which balanced preciously on a stand behind her bed’s headboard.⁣⁣

The rain pattered on the stones outside, the sky slowly draining of light as hours melted away. As we talked, I got the impression of a woman coming to terms with a life nearing its final destination. She spoke a little wistfully, moved a little gingerly. “I love people,” she told us, collecting a small notebook from her desk, asking us to write our names on a fresh page, past sheets inked by previous visitors. “This is my son,” she said, her eyes beaming, nostalgic, as one of her kids dropped by during our meeting. ⁣

Traveling through Palestine and Israel, I have sought to reconnect with my faith and religiosity. I have struggled mightily, unable to wrap my head around the ambiguity of scripture, the hypocrisy of religious violence, the scourge of division that haunts this land. But this — this was a religiosity, a faith, that I understood. It was a belief in God that compelled one to model God’s image, to practice radical kindness, radical hospitality, radical acceptance. She seemed to be someone who had come to accept her own smallness within an unforgiving world, her own lack of control, choosing not to lash out in frustration but to embrace humanity. She was to spend her final years with others, family and strangers alike, finding unity in the universality of loss and love.⁣

Finally, we got up to leave. She walked us to the door. And Harbea, full of grace, full of humility, full of faith, bid us goodbye.
Economics of AI: Agriculture
By: Mahbubul Alam
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Economics, Machine Learning, Agriculture

The big picture

Agriculture worldwide is a US $5 trillion industry. And artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing this industry every step of the way — from preparing soils and sowing seeds to getting products to the kitchen table. AI-powered technologies are increasing productivity and reducing costs significantly throughout the production and supply chain.

The market value of global AI in the agricultural sector is currently estimated at $852.2 million. In the next decade alone this value is expected to grow more than 10 times, exceeding $8 billion annually. As of 2020, artificial intelligence is impacting about 70 million farmers globally. North America is a clear front runner in this technology race.

Increasing productivity and reducing costs

AI-powered information technology is boosting productivity from the industrial scale down to the individual farm level. Even small farmers are benefiting from advances in AI. As reported by a farmer in Japan, the productivity of his tomato farm has increased by as much as 15% due to the adoption of information technology that he uses to monitor all aspects of farm production.

Data analytics and the use of information technology is having a big impact in Africa as well. Maize production in Western Kenya is reported to have increased from an average of 6 to 9 bags (90 kg per bag) per farmer in just a single year.

Automation is increasing productivity and reducing the cost of production dramatically. Strawberry harvest is a classic example. A robot can pick strawberries as fast as 8 acres/day. The same amount of harvest takes 30 humans per day. This means a big saving in time and a significant reduction in labor costs.

Weeds are key enemies of agricultural commodities. On a global scale, the value of weed damage is estimated at $43 billion. In India alone, $11 billion worth of agricultural products is damaged by weeds every year. AI technologies such as robots are powered by computer vision algorithms and are trained to identify weeds and destroy them on the field. These robots use 90% less herbicide and are 30% cheaper compared to traditional weed treatments. So there is big financial savings there as well.

I gave just a few examples of how AI is impacting the agricultural industry by increasing productivity and reducing production costs. But that’s the tip of the iceberg. Research on the economics of AI in agriculture (or AI generally) is still in its infancy, more research is needed to catch up with the accelerating pace of AI adoption in the agricultural sector.

Stay in touch for more articles like this via Medium, or you can follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Welcome
By: Bill Stevens
Tags: Education

♥LD is a source of information and inspiration for learning professionals, creators with a purpose, and curious minds seeking to explore the modern teaching and learning landscape. The platform also acts as a learning Sandbox, featuring portfolios documenting action research in education, and professional and personal development pathways. So, buckle up, and let’s learn about the future of learning today, together.

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Bill Stevens is the founding editor of ♥LD. He designs experiences that help people learn and has a passion for making a difference to people’s lives and for the role of technology in education. He believes that learner-centred design and technology can empower great teaching and meaningful, lifelong learning. Bill is an experienced teacher and techie, with more than twenty years under his belt in the effective transfer of learning into performance results. His professional experiences and Master’s Degree studies in Educational Innovation have led him to get absurdly excited about things like the evolution of learning theories and how emerging technologies are altering how we learn.
Hotel
By: Sean Zhai
Tags: Mystery, Poetry, Conversations, Haiku, City Living

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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The magic recipe for success…
By: Dusty Holcomb
Tags: Motivation, Inspiration, Teamwork, Leadership, Quote Of The Day

“It’s not the X’s and the O’s, but the Jimmys and the Joes that make the difference.” Unknown

This quote has been used in college football for years. Finding the original author proved to be impossible. It has been attributed to Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson, and many others. Leaders who knew that no matter how brilliant their plays might look on the chalkboard, if they didn’t have the right talent on the field to execute it, the plays wouldn’t work.

I have been blessed in life to work for teams and players that could perform exceptionally well in almost any business. Frankly, they could be successful at any plan, product, or initiative. Having an opportunity to serve alongside players like this is incredibly motivating and humbling. They elevate the game of everyone around them. But it is more than just pure energy and commitment. The magic happens when the players fit the game plan AND the plan is the right one for the game being played.

Winning takes combining both great plays and great players. You have to have the right talent in the right place. You can’t ask a 6’4″, 220-pound wide receiver who runs a 4.35/40 to be your left tackle and expect to win. Nor can you ask your 6’5″ 312-pound offensive tackle to go run a post route down the field and expect him to beat the coverage.

As Jim Collins wrote in “Good to Great” (still one of my favorite books of all time). “First who, then what.” You have to have the right people. The bottom line is that if you don’t have the right talent you can’t win. Period. The joy of working with exceptional people is almost indescribable. Their will to win, their effort and intensity, their sheer energy that is exuded all the time. With the right people, you know that almost any game plan can work. With the wrong people, no matter how great the plan, it is doomed to failure or mediocrity at very best. Sustainable greatness comes from marrying the right talent to the right plan and then executing relentlessly.

So here’s the question. Do you have the magic mix of the right talent, in the right place, at the right time to win?
Netflix’s “Emily in Paris” Depicts the Very Worst of Social Media Marketing
By: Laura Nordberg
Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Startup, Business, Netflix

Social media marketers should steer clear of the troublesome practices that feature in Netflix’s latest hit show

Photo by Jeff Frenette on Unsplash

(Spoilers ahead!)

Netflix’s new series, “Emily in Paris,” is causing quite a stir, despite its innocuous premise. In a nutshell: Emily from Chicago (played by Lily Collins) jets off to Paris and takes up a social media role in a French advertising agency. In her free time, Emily befriends a champagne heiress, has lunch in chic cafes, and gets hit on by every guy she comes across.

Besides the “Sex and The City” inspired outfits and Pinterest-worthy scenes of Paris, what’s caught the attention of the internet (and the wrath of French viewers) is the barrage of negative stereotypes about French culture. Writing for The Guardian, one critic questioned what French people had done to deserve “Emily in Paris.”

The same could be said of social media marketers — who don’t come out looking so good, either. Throughout the series, Emily acts like a social media missionary, sent by the church of Instagram to preach the power of the hashtag. But in the process, she commits several social media faux-pas that paint the industry in a bad light.

Here’s a list of Emily’s worst social media offenses:
Article: Robert Shiller on Bubbles, Reflexivity, and Narrative Economics
Tags: Economics, Behavioral Economics, Articles, Moviq, Stock Market

Robert J. Shiller on Bubbles, Reflexivity, and Narrative Economics

Robert J. Shiller has shown remarkable prescience over the years. In Irrational Exuberance , he successfully called the…
6 Major Benefits Of The Logmate Digital Logbook
By: Ellen Quirke
Tags: Compliance, Transportation, Logmate, Logbook, Logistics

1. Minimise The Chance Of Error

All calculations of work-time balances are done automatically. This means no more having to add up shift work time balances and no more subtracting break times from your cumulative work-day to find out work time. The readability of handwriting also no longer matters with all entries being typed clearly for anyone to understand.

2. Driver, Transport Operator Connection

When a driver ends and locks each shift in the Logmate Digital Logbook the shift record will automatically be emailed to the TSL holders of any vehicles driven during the shift. A Transport Operator does not need to have an account with Logmate in order to enjoy the ease of receiving logbook copies from drivers. However, a Transport Operator Account is free and solves the issue of storage.

3. Paperless

We will even store all your logbook records for free indefinitely, even if you no longer have a paid Digital Logbook subscription!! We utilise secure cloud storage for all Logbook records made with Logmate. This means records will always be accessible to you from anywhere. So you no longer have to worry about where to store logbooks, making sure they are safe and you have access to them. You can do it all from your phone, tablet or computer.

4. Real-Time Feedback

As part of the Digital Logbook product, drivers receive real-time feedback on work time and rest time balances. This is done through push notifications, countdown timers and a traffic light colour scheme that shows if you are compliant or not at a glance.

5. Price and Flexibility

Logmate is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. This means we have a transparent pricing structure, no contracts, no minimum terms and no minimum spends. Every day we make sure our customers are happy and satisfied, knowing that if we don’t they are free to leave and find a better solution at any time.

6. Continual Improvements

Being a SaaS business also allows us to continue to improve our platform and develop more tools and functionality for our customers both current and future. Which means we are able to quickly act on feedback and make the tools that the community wants and needs. As of the writing of this post, we are currently working on a major redevelopment of the Logmate Platform that will totally transform and simplify all aspects of compliance for everyone in the Transportation Industry
Slam the Christmas Carols
By: Ana-Maria Schweitzer
Tags: Charles Bukowski, Poetry, Perspective, Written Tales, Awareness

Slam the Christmas Carols

Against Bukowski’s chest

Photo by Dark Rider on Unsplash

slam the Christmas carols

against Bukowski’s chest

throw the glittering stars

down the drain of sarcasm

we need to shatter screens

of happy ending stories

take a gulp of fish oil

no coating, no morphine

just bitterness on cells,

electrocuting senses

steel guitar strings

cutting through fingers

while the soul contorts

like a lighted match

heating for a second

the ash of other lives.
Google just published a report on how people are moving during the coronavirus outbreak.
By: Jair Ribeiro
Tags: Localization, Google, Covid 19, Google Maps, Coronavirus

Google just published a report on how people are moving during the coronavirus outbreak.

Google Maps data was analyzed and grouped into reports to show movements during the pandemic phase from COVID-19, and it can be used for studies and health policies.

DataSeries highlight:

Google has collected the data of its users of Google Maps and, after analyzing and anonymizing them, has made them available to health authorities, government, universities, but also individuals who want to study or exploit them to make decisions in the fight against coronavirus.

The report on the mobility of the communities during the pandemic is available for consultation for anyone curious about how the virus has affected the movement of people in this time of crisis. Using the same aggregated and anonymized data that Google Maps uses to provide information on the crowding of public transport or the peak times of a shop, Big G has created reports to show how thave changed over time and in the different geographical areas.

The data collected will provide information on the flow of people regarding a series of places gathered in general categories such as “ shops and recreational activities, “groceries and pharmacies, “parks, “public transport stations, “workplaces. “And” housing. “

A valuable World maps of people location history

At this moment, Google is showing reports from 131 countries around the world, given the urgent need for the information provided by these data, and probably they will add the remaining reports of the related countries that are missing from the report.

With this initiative, Google is providing a global database useful to health authorities to develop a winning defensive strategy against the virus.

All data have been collected, in respect of privacy, by users who have activated location history, a setting that on Google Maps is disabled by default. To further protect their privacy, Google will not make any personally identifiable information available such as a person’s location, contacts made, or travel.

The report will show trends over several weeks, with the most recent information referring to 48–72 hours before publication, and the increase or decrease in visits will appear in percentage points, while the absolute numbers of visits will not be shared.

The reports of data relating to the mobility of communities during the pandemic are in addition to those already used by researchers to plan urban infrastructures or to understand the movement of people concerning conflicts or natural disasters.

Why does it matter?

By analyzing the reports, it will be possible to obtain useful information to understand which are the ideal times for opening shops or which are the preferred time slots for home deliveries.

The same reports can also provide information on the influx of people on public transport lines. All this data will serve the authorities to study new strategies of social distancing or to design new guidelines to safeguard public health.
Ak Parti bizi kandırmanın çocuk oyuncağı olduğunu biliyor!
By: Hunili Yazılımcı
Tags: Quotes

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SFDX and some cool ways of automating your Developer workflows
By: Yuval Vardi
Tags: JavaScript, Cli Tool, Yeoman, Salesforce Productivity, Sfdx

I recently started playing with a tool called Yeoman — it excited me to see that I can automate certain tasks on my file system, but also integrate with other common CLI (Command Line Interface) web tools.

Being a fan of SFDX — Salesforce Developer Experience CLI tool for managing your salesforce project, I decided to automate a few of my repetitive tasks for any custom feature I would develop on the Salesforce Lightning platform.

My Goals were mainly to reduce some manual repetitive tasks between the different projects I’m working on. In addition, I wanted to have some extra configuration steps that would allow me to leverage the SFDX commands more than I was doing before and to add some more flavour to the process.

Maybe some readers are like me, but every time I needed to use an SFDX command, I found myself either typing —-help as part of my command or going first to the commands docs site.

sfdx --help : will show an example command usage, all available options, commands and related topics. sfdx force:doc:commands:display : will show all sfdx commands

sfdx — help flag with force commands

Once there, spending some time looking for the right command path and then starting to type flag by flag (options) based on my needs for every step and for every given project… it takes some time and some mistakes are made on this journey.

Configuring SFDX commands with optional flags

Ahhhh..🤦‍♂️ 🤧 … quickly ctrl c to abort !!

So later on.. I started to remember some of the basic commands with some pre-defined flags, but still some commands are pretty long and my memory kept on failing me.

I guess some creativity also comes from being a bit of a lazy developer and a freak of automation, but making things more efficient is also part of my day to day job so I was trying to find a better way.

This led me to explore a bit more of what I can achieve with some old school terminal tricks and maybe doing it in a much simpler and shorter routine or essentially to make this workflow a bit more efficient.
用 Istio 實現 API 認證機制（五）
By: Duan Li
Tags: Service Mesh, Istio, Kubernetes, Microservices, API

All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see, dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

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Cashback will never be the same.
By: Tom Bachar
Tags: Cashback, Shopping, Retail, Finance, Bitcoin

Small businesses were in big trouble… Until now.

The current model for digital marketing and cashback rewards is built to support big business.

Large companies with the money and infrastructure to work with banks and marketing people on a daily basis to maintain consistent revenue and cashflow.

But what about the small businesses? The local companies with limited resources who have no time, experience or manpower to manage marketing and rewards for their customers?

They get left in the dust and end up having to pool a larger part of their resources for marketing to compete.

What if I told you that Pei could change all that?

At Pei, we first set out to connect small businesses with their customers through seamless cashback rewards and loyalty. Users download our app, connect their card, and earn extra cashback on purchases at local businesses without ever having to think about it again.

Today, Pei provides cashback on thousands of transactions daily, with over 10,000 cities across the US at over 120,000 supported retailers. All thanks to the support of our users.

Now, we set out to solve a new problem. The problem of connecting small businesses to seamless marketing services that drive incremental revenue and provide granular insight from online to in-store.

Introducing AMP by Pei:

AMP is an automated marketing platform built to connect local businesses with powerful marketing tools and Pei’s seamless rewards program.

How it works:

Local merchants in Austin can sign up for our new Automated Marketing Platform.

We market their business online through all the main channels ( FB, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, Pei).

We track and provide insights — from an online impression to an in-store conversion, seamlessly.

Merchants become part of our rewards program, and customers get the benefit of cashback rewards. Over-time, this builds loyalty and trust between the merchant and the customer.

Merchant strategies are refined and re-targeted over time to provide incremental revenue, loyalty, and decrease marketing costs.

Interested in signing up as a merchant?

Click this link to get started

But wait, there’s more!

We just released an affiliate program that gives you $100 and 10% of revenue for each merchant you onboard in Austin.

So, if you are a Pei user located in Austin, TX — we would love to talk!

Find out more https://getpei.com/merchants/affiliates

For more updates, follow us on Twitter, clap for this, and share this blog.

Sincerely,

Tom Bachar, CEO
She Traveled the World, Faced Every Danger and Hardship. Now, She is Home and at Peace.
By: Yunghi Kim
Tags: Photojournalism, War Photographer, Phot, Women Photographers

She Traveled the World, Faced Every Danger and Hardship. Now, She is Home and at Peace.

For two decades the story of a young American, female photojournalist, etched in film, remained stored in my file cabinet. It was time for these images to see the light of day and to tell the story of Yola Monahkov.

Yola Monakhov was 26 years old when she caught a bullet while working in Israel. She would have died if not for the fast actions of her Associated Press colleagues, who rushed her to the Haddassah hospital where the doctors there put her back together. She was fortunate to have had a network of friends, fellow journalists, like Ed Gargan, Matthew McAllester, photojournalists Alan Chin, Thomas Dworzak, Katy Daigle (a college friend), and especially AP staff photographer Lefteris Pitarakis.

Yola’s dream of being a foreign correspondent, a photojournalist, and her great curiosity about the world is what put her in harm’s way on November 11, 2000, the day she almost died.

She was working as a stringer, a dedicated freelancer, for the AP in Bethlehem on that day. She was shot by an Israeli soldier at a common, barely newsworthy event; in Israel, it was small group of Palestinian kids throwing stones. She walked past the soldier who shot her only a few moments before and greeted them. The soldier’s bullet struck her in the pelvis, shattered it and tore up her stomach. Even in those days before instantaneous global communications, the shocking news ricocheted around the photojournalist community. It could have been any one of us. This news, even for those who didn’t know Yola, was personal.
Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears Corona
By: Douglas Howatt
Tags: Articles

Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears Corona

Maybe I need to go for a walk.

As a card carrying introvert, I am not particularly troubled by home confinement. I was already working from home three days a week and have figured out over the years how to stay fresh and productive. As a writer, I even sit at my desk during off-duty hours. Weeks piling upon weeks hasn’t been a burden. Projects rise and fall like the tides. Though some rise again and again and just won’t stop because people are basically idiots.

Maybe I need to go for a walk.

Wisps of thoughts and reactions swirl together like the bits and pieces in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A friend writes of missing the hubbub of her city — even missing the tech bros who plow the sidewalks striding four abreast. I do too. But I also enjoy the mutual awareness fostered by the 6-foot rule. Does he see me coming? I’m walking on the edge of the path already. Will he? Oh, he’s moved over. And a wave. Yes, good morning to you! Be well!

I often wonder how it will be after we can leave our homes. Will I ever shake someone’s hand? Ew. Will I wait in a crowd? Will hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes and a mask join my wallet and keys as my everyday kit? I have questions.

Writers on the internet keep telling us that Shakespeare wrote King Lear while housebound during a plague. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at 18 while housebound in Switzerland. But my daughter uses “gifted” as a verb and I can’t find a good synonym for “housebound.” Last week I read a two-day old newspaper, thinking it was the new one. I hate the idiots who say “these challenging times.”

Okay, time for another walk.

I live in a small town on the California coast with a 100-year-old main street lined with shops. Most of the shops are closed. The open shops offer to-go food or other “essential services.” I feel guilty going in for fear of catching or spreading the disease. I feel guilty NOT going in for fear of dooming the businesses themselves. I don’t go in anymore.

Some people think that keeping a distance doesn’t apply to them. Some governors think that keeping people off the streets doesn’t apply to them. I love applying the term “COVIDIOTS” but there isn’t a snappy term for the heroes. A doctor in Britain left retirement to help in a hospital and died of COVID-19.

Yep, taking a walk. From space, my footprints through the neighborhood must look like huge spirals circling my house.

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A version of this article first appeared in the Half Moon Bay Review on April 14, 2020.
Data Visualization in Pandas
By: C Kuan
Tags: Pandas, Data Visualization, Data Science, Data Analysis, Programming

Data Visualization in Pandas

Quick data visualization using only Pandas

Photo by Max Duzij on Unsplash

Introduction

In this article, I will demonstrate how to visualize data using only Pandas. It is not as flexible as Matplotlib or Seaborn, but it is very convenient for quick data exploration.

First, let’s import pandas and load Iris dataset as an example.

import pandas as pd import seaborn

df=seaborn.load_dataset('iris')

and check the dataframe

It contains 4 numerical columns and one categorical column.

line plot

Let’s start with the simple line plot.

It plots the numerical columns in different colors. The x-axis here is the index. You can also customize the plot, for example, if you only want to see sepal_length and sepal_width, you can do this:

You can also change the axis. For example, plot sepal_length against petal_length (does not make sense here to use line plot though)

scatter plot

The proper plot to show the relationship between sepal_length and petal_length should be a scatter plot.

You can plot for different columns by replacing x and y.

One trick to check the correlations for all the numerical columns is to plot the scatter plot matrix. You can do it by:

It shows a matrix of scatter plots of different columns against others and histograms of the columns.

histogram

The histogram is a useful plot to see the distribution of data, in Pandas you can quickly plot it using hist()

It shows the histograms of the numerical variables. You can also plot the columns you want.

box plot

Another useful plot the see the data distribution is the box plot. You can simply plot it by using df.plot.box()

bar chart

You might also want to compare different species, you can do this by combining pandas groupby() and plot.bar()

It shows the mean value of the columns against species.

pie chart

It is also possible to plot a bar chart. Simply call plot.pie() .

Please be noted that the plot() function in Pandas is built on top of Matplotlib, so you can always use matplotlib to modify the plot.

For example, you can change the location of legend and hide the ylabel.

That’s it. These plotting techniques in Pandas might not be as flexible and report-ready as matplotlib or seaborn, but they are still quite convenient in the early stage data exploration.

Thanks for reading.
The Afterlife Gets Way Too Much Attention
By: Leo Diaz
Tags: Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Spirituality, Relationships, Religion

Many fundamental religious folks live their entire lives fixated on life after death.

They adhere to certain “spiritual” practices simply to remain in the good graces of a fire-breathing God who they believe holds the keys to their version of the afterlife.

The driving force behind their belief is passage into “the world to come”

But what about the world that is?

I’m not in any way denouncing the existence of an afterlife. I believe there is one, though different than what we’ve been taught in Sunday school.

But true spiritual practice should largely be about life in the here and now — on finding our spiritual significance in our earthly, flesh and blood present reality.

The afterlife gets way too much attention.

Obsessing over it and believing in what we believe in for the sake of getting somewhere after we die only keeps us from doing what you and I were meant to do in the first place — making eternity a present experience.

How that’s done isn’t all that difficult.

It’s just a matter of learning to find God in our daily lives.

In our relationships.

In our interactions with nature.

In our creative and professional endeavors.

In the causes we stand up for.

In the heartbreak.

In the tragedies.

In the suffering.

In the pain of others.

In our differences.

One of the many things that I love about the life that Jesus lived was that he shows all of us that it’s okay to be human.

He proves that this whole thing is about sharing in the divine nature in this life and not in the one to come.

So, don’t think so much about tomorrow.

Celebrate your aliveness.

Finish up this post, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and be still in this moment.

Did you feel that?

That’s why you’re here.

Now go and share that.
Highest Trader Kaun: BCHABC/INR
By: Wazirx Bitcoin Exchange
Tags: Announcements, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Cryptocurrency News, Blockchain

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For the highest volume of trades: 1.3964 BCHABC (worth ₹25,000)

volume of trades: 1.3964 BCHABC (worth ₹25,000) For the 2nd highest volume of trades: 0.8937 BCHABC (worth ₹16,000)

volume of trades: 0.8937 BCHABC (worth ₹16,000) For the 3rd highest volume of trades: 0.6703 BCHABC (worth ₹12,000)

volume of trades: 0.6703 BCHABC (worth ₹12,000) For each of the next top 17 highest volume of trades: 0.0558 BCHABC (worth ₹1,000)

Total bounty for volume of trades is ₹70,000 worth BCHABC

For the number of trades:

For the highest number of trades: 0.5027 BCHABC (worth ₹9,000)

number of trades: 0.5027 BCHABC (worth ₹9,000) For the 2nd highest number of trades: 0.2792 BCHABC (worth ₹5,000)

number of trades: 0.2792 BCHABC (worth ₹5,000) For the 3rd highest number of trades: 0.1340 BCHABC (worth ₹2,400)

number of trades: 0.1340 BCHABC (worth ₹2,400) For each of the next top 17 highest number of trades: 0.0446 BCHABC (worth ₹800)

Total bounty for number of trades is ₹30,000 worth BCHABC

Note: You can qualify for only one category of bounty (volume or number) whichever has a higher value. For example, if you’re the 2nd highest trader in terms of number, and 2nd highest in terms of volume, then you’ll get bounty for the “volume”. Also, self-trading is not allowed.

Take advantage of the contest leaderboard, trade smartly and win!

Calling all you BCHABC traders. Both volume as well as number of trades matter, so bring on your A-game! 🚀

Prizes will be distributed within 4 days!
A New Approach for Your Office KPI Dashboard
Tags: Kpi, Analytics, Big Data, Dashboard, Business

The Databox Platform Overview

The basic idea behind the Datawall is to provide real-time information to the user on a big screen, but the real value is hidden in how Datawall is a part of a larger suite.

There are two use cases that emerge very naturally from this. The first one is going from a big screen to a smaller screen. If, for example, you have a Datawall set up in your office that tracks sales and you start noticing the number of closed sales going down, this might spark your curiosity. Understandably, not all sales metrics are available on your Datawall so you’d want to check out what’s going on in a bit more detail. Having the Databox mobile app on your smartphone will allow you to look at other metrics and try to find a meaningful explanation. At the same time, you can annotate this event and share this particular metric with the person that is responsible for it — right from the app.

The second example is the other way around, going from small screen to big screen. Receiving an alert in the mobile app or Apple Watch might prompt you to take a quick look at the Datawall in your office to see how your KPIs have changed recently. With a bit more information, you’re now able to start a live discussion with your colleagues and take appropriate action right away.
Connected
By: Ann Litts
Tags: Technology, Family, Self-awareness, Love, Grandmother

The gifts of The Glitter Storm

Photo by Mar Bustos on Unsplash

My granddaughters live in the next state over. It’s about 270 miles from my doorstep to theirs. Back in the day when planes flew — it was a thirty-nine-minute direct flight.

I would visit them every other month or so. There were always reasons. Holidays, birthdays, date nights for Mom and Dad, long weekends which demanded a retreat from my day-to-day, Thursday…it didn’t take much for me to hop a plane to their house.

Enter COVID. The day before I was due to go visit them. For a week.

To say we were all incredibly disappointed would be a severe understatement. But interestingly enough a new dynamic has formed in These Days while we wait out The Glitter Storm — as my daughter so gently explained viral transmission so that even the four-year-old knew the importance of a thorough hand-washing.

The Glitter Storm has provided us with an opportunity to connect daily via texts and more FaceTime. As all our worlds slowed to the pace of quarantine — we found ourselves reaching out to each other naturally. Daily.

Today I had texts from all three. This evening we had a FaceTime session to update each other on our afternoons and dinner experiences. All the while, joy was shared, hope was given, reassurances and love served out in heaping measures.

This steady contact is settling into a lovely routine for us. A touchstone that lets each of us know we are all ok. This is particularly important to The Magical Creatures.

But this isn’t just for little Humans. I also have realized my oldest sister has upped her texting game since COVID. Rarely a day goes by that I don’t hear from her as well.

Receiving these short, frequent, deliberate messages of love has become a vital part of my day. They have grounded me and connected me to the Humans I cherish.

The quiet of These Days have gifted me with meaningful conversations with Humans I love. It has given all of us a chance to share our day-to-day existence in real, if virtual, time. It has allowed us to lean on each other just enough.

May your silver lining be as precious. May love sustain you through whatever burdens you bear in These Days. May you and all those whom you cherish be safe.

Until at last, The Glitter Storm passes.

Namaste.
KuCoin Listing and the Platform Pre-launch!
Tags: Storiqa, Giveaway, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Stqtoken

CRYPTOSHOPPING IS REAL

Three… two… one… you are looking at the countdown timer with us. Here it is, the very awesome moment for all Storiqa lovers! It brings two great events: STQ listing on KuCoin exchange and the platform pre-launch!

Go to https://www.kucoin.com/ and trade STQ! Current pairs: STQ/BTC, STQ/ETH.

Great contest: Storiqa & KuCoin

That’s not all: we have prepared great prizes for the best traders: 6,000,000 STQ + 5 BTC! The competition will run from 2018/11/5 18:00:00 to 2018/11/13 23:59:59 (UTC+8). Top 500 accounts with the highest trading amount of STQ (buys + sells) on KuCoin will share 6,000,000 STQ + 5 BTC as rewards!

Platform Pre-Launch

After purchasing STQ we invite you to enjoy the first goods on beta.storiqa.com: there are items from such categories as clothes, accessories, and interior decor, including very special stuff by Storiqa Merch. We are sure that you will find goods for a unique look of your space!

All product lines are priced with STQ token, a measure of exchange on the platform. Later, shoppers will be able to pay for goods with fiat along with crypto.

Currently, all business processes will be tested in Singapore and later on in other APAC countries. We will be bringing cryptoshopping worldwide step by step :)

Celebrate a new step in eCommerce with us! We are waiting for your shares, likes, and comments!
Service mindset
By: Alok Tyagi
Tags: Service, Software Development, Organization Development

Thought it will be worthwhile revisiting it based on several discussions earlier this week.

Cloud/SaaS focus is more about the second ‘S’ in SaaS that stand for ‘Service’ over first ‘S’ — Software. It is the ‘Service’ aspect that differentiate SaaS with traditional Software product approaches — particularly in the enterprise space. There are various ways to architect and deliver Software across various different computing Platforms — traditional and/or Cloud.

So what define a ‘Service’ mindset. Here are some aspect that make a Service different from traditional product:

Know how customer are using the product automatically. Through software can you proactively advise customers for effective use of the solution addressing their problem

Continuously deliver new commercial value to customers that customers actually consume

Software is super easy to install, setup, update, upgrade and done without much human intervention.

All your customers are keeping current and on the same version of software (release/update)

Intuitive customer experience that delight users every time they use the software

End users get easily trained on new feature/functionalities as part of the new enhancement rollout

Deliver stellar quality of software that enable high SLA (six 9s) and software always on. Reliable, Redundant, Scalable and Secured

Just ask how your product/organization can achieve these — regardless of the underlying architecture or platform. It is more about what matter to customers over purity of computing platform or architecture. And we will find real issues can be solved various ways across different computing platform.
アピス（APIS）＆KVI MOU締結
By: Sophie Ha
Tags: Finance, Cryptocurrency, Notice, Jpn, Blockchain

APISplatform

Official publication for APIS, the world-first masternode…
Apache Airflowでエンドユーザーのための機械学習パイプラインを構築する Part0
Tags: Airflow, Machine Learning

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. Ellen Glasgow

Follow
High tide.
Tags: Relationships Love Dating, Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Literally Literary, Mental Health

Please don’t forget

How soft I am.

Even though

My mouth is more sailor than siren

And

We’ve gone over it so many times

That only a smooth, unbothered surface

Is left.

Because even the ocean

Can shrink into small places

If necessary.
A Beginners Guide to Digital Bulletin Boards
By: Eva T
Tags: Bulletin Board System, Novisign, Digital Signage, Digital Communication, Photography

A digital bulletin board is a TV that features your announcements and information.

Learn more:

https://www.novisign.com/blog/solutions/digital-bulletin-boards/

The flexibility that comes with a digital bulletin board is what separates it from a regular bulletin board. Aside from displaying primary forms of notifications, you can incorporate engaging videos, add scrolling tickers of text or news, weather updates, local areas traffic maps and social media feeds.
Nonetheless Dog!
By: Vaghawan Ojha
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Life, Art, Solitude

The winter fog had covered the whole sky, and the warmness coming from the light out of the houses was keeping everything alive. I passed through the small alley, a cold dog was walking ahead of me, with a hope of sun to warm his night.

The shiver was in his body, the fear of not finding the bone was in his mind, a rain was in his eyes,

A faith upon the night in his body,

I too was shivering from the cold, I too had fear of sins that I would carry along the way, I had borne the clouds and vapour in my eyes, and the same faith as of the dog that the night would at least take me anywhere.

There was that dog inside me, and I was inside the dog however transformed into silence was my barks and groans. His teeth and bites were long transformed into a sheer nonchalance inside me, we greeted each other at some point on the way.

I said, “Lonely you look.”

He replied, “Lonely you look.”

It happened, that night we reached everywhere that our walk was transformed into a purity.
Carta pública contra o posicionamento do DataCamp ao caso de assédio sexual
By: Pizza De Dados
Tags: Python, Rstats, Data Science, Metoo

Public letter against DataCamp stand on the sexual harassment case

On the last week (April 4th of 2019) DataCamp, one of the main platform in Data Science learning, published a blog post on the sexual harassment case involving an executive and an employee. The blog post clearly states that even though DataCamp condemns such actions, the executive didn’t get any strong punishment. Other than that, there aren’t mentions on what measures were taken to avoid this kind of thing from happening again or even what happened to the employee that denounced the harassment.

DataCamp also deliberately blocked the blog post from being indexed by search engines, this means that the official note can’t be found by someone that is searching for it. This fact was brought to the public attention by one of DataCamp’s instructors in another tweet that stated: this behavior isn’t the default in the rest of the posts on the company’s website.

At least two DataCamp’s instructors posted public letters asking people to refrain from using the website and to demand more drastic measures. Noam Ross’ and Julia Silge’s posts also tell that many conversations happened internally with DataCamp in search for a more “pacific” and definitive solution. Many communities also took a stand against DataCamp including Rstudio.

We from Pizza de Dados, the first Brazilian podcast about data science, reject any act of harassment and believe that this can not and should not go unpunished. The way that DataCamp chose to deal with this situation is weak, to say the least. We also believe that this matter should’ve been discussed in a more transparent way and that more effective measures against the aggressor should’ve taken place no matter their role.

We appreciate the position that many instructors had in openly asking their friends and students to boycott the platform risking their income in the process. We are taking part in supporting the movement against such actions by removing all links that direct to DataCamp courses from our official guide to data science materials in Portuguese and also removing links from the episodes postings from our podcast.