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Self Sabotage
By: Beth Frances
Tags: Mental Illness, Psychology, University, Productivity, Mental Health

When I wake up, there is an instinctual part of me that sets out everything I have to do that day to be successful. If I do not complete that list, I have failed myself that day. If I do not wake up when my alarm goes off, I have failed. If my assignment isn’t completed by 11pm, I have failed. If I didn’t have that hard conversation. I failed. I don’t allow myself any sense of accomplishment on these days. Any happiness is short-lived.

This is how I self-sabotage.

The list in my head may be achievable to some, but I know that it will be a hardship for me. I was a really great student, and I was advanced in many subjects for many years. But in my first year of university, I was burnt out. I have been living with anxiety for many years, and in 2020 I have realized how much worse it has gotten. Not to self-diagnose, but I also think there may be more. But I neglect myself every morning since I make a list. One that 11th grade me would be able to complete, but the burnt-out, mentally ill, 2nd-year uni student I cannot. This is something I am aware of but still refuse to accept.

I think I spent so many years being a stable person with a privileged life and good advice that I just cannot fathom who I am now. I continuously seek out the old me in friends while also trying to never be a burden on my friends, which often leaves me to detach from them. I just need someone to talk to but can never bring myself to ask. So instead, I say nothing at all.

This is how I self-sabotage.

Some days I am completely self-aware and tackle my tasks in attainable ways. These are my best days, where I allow myself to feel accomplishment since I did everything I said I would. But I do always feel like I could be doing more. These thoughts are intrusive and hard for me to ignore. I try my absolute best, though.

There are days where I have nothing on my list to do at all, so I do anything I want. I like to take long baths and write. I like watching movies I’ve already seen and making comfort food. These days help me restart and feel better, but I don’t think that the list is gone for a second. At the end of the day, my mind catalogues all the things I could have done. I could’ve cleaned my room, or got a head start on my essay or meal prepped or…

Every day I wake up and tell myself it’ll be different even when I do nothing to make it so.

This is how I self-sabotage.
6 weeks into university, 3am.
By: Millie Taylor
Tags: Freshman, Student Life, College, University, Drugs

6 weeks into university, 3am.

The faint smell of weed and tobacco is coming from outside my window. I can hear two people making out against my door and someone a few blocks down from me is loudly playing heavy metal. It’s a combination that’s beginning to feel like home. I’m the first person to admit I have led a pretty sheltered life but I’d be lying if I told you that my expectations of The Real World™️ would be quite like this.

The course is the easy part- studying history and Spanish follows a timetable and regulations not dissimilar to the ones practised in school- where the real challenge lies is with the people. And here I have found myself transformed into a master of disguise, a shape shifter in an attempt to make myself the most approachable in the hope of making friends. I know, it was a harsh reality, but the time came for me to save my teenage tantrums for just my parents and my boyfriend in name of friendship- and who would have guessed I’m a social butterfly! In my observations, I have discovered the true overriding power of alcohol- beyond its ability to make you regret every life decision you have made leading up to the morning after and past it’s formula that suddenly makes it taste like juice after two drinks. I have discovered the real, uncompromising, fiercely loyal friendship that can be formed from a £1 jäger bomb

I find myself adapting to things in strange ways when I don’t have a set of rules and structure. Suddenly I am unable to function pre 10 am and 2 am seems like a perfectly reasonable time to start laundry. I have developed selective superhuman powers in that I’m able to speed read whole books in seconds but am still unable to microwave pasta without burning myself. I can convince myself that I’m ace-ing this whole adulting business but if I’m honest there’s nothing I’d appreciate more than someone to help me cook, clean and compose myself, for I fear I have forgotten how the rest of society functions (with their normal timetables). Nonetheless, I have the comfort in my flatmates blaring TV from next door telling me that we stand in solidarity against social norms and (as long as there are jäger bombs) will continue to. (Thanks Ellie).
Online Learning — the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
By: Alexandra Severn
Tags: University, Law School, Online Learning, Life In Law School

The Good:

Online learning, while not my favorite, has its perks.

Recorded Lectures: I really love being able to listen to lectures more than once. This would have been really helpful for me in 1L, when I was trying to grapple with things like federalism in Constitutional Law and the depths of mens rea in Criminal Law.

Pets: I have a couple of pets and I loved being able to hang out with them all day. When I was frustrated or confused, I got to take a step back and decompress by taking a couple minutes with them.

Flexibility: This style of learning was so accommodating to life in general. If something came up and you could not attend a lecture, it was not stressful and you did not have to rely on the notes of your classmates. Additionally, if you were sick, it was okay! You could stay home and get better without having to worry about missing school — school was wherever you were. I could have watched lectures in bed with chicken noodle soup if I wanted to. Coming out of COVID, I think lectures should be live streamed and then posted online. Online learning has shown us that recording lectures is not technologically advanced. If you are paying tuition, the education should be accessible.

Less ‘Extra’ Costs: Learning from home eliminates the need to commute. It was nice to save money on gas, car maintenance, etc. I also saved money by not paying for parking, which is a substantial cost to most students. Grabbing lunch out was also less convenient, which means I was able to save quite a bit by not giving in to grabbing food on the go and just eating what I had at home.

Opportunity to Get Ahead: I found that most of my professors were more organized this semester than ever before. They posted recorded lectures before they were supposed to be watched. This allowed students to get ahead if they wanted.
Unique Facts About Nalanda University!!
Tags: University, Nalanda

Nalanda University is located within the city of Rajgir, within the Northern Indian Territory of Bihar. Nalanda could be a comprehensive research graduate global university base by taking a nation of interest from the East Asia Summit. The University appeared on November 25, 2010, by an administrative demonstration of the Indian Parliament. It has been assigned as a “foundation of public importance”.

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Nalanda is animated by school greatness and the worldview of her remarkable archetype. It seeks to meet and set world standards of greatness and instructive inquiry and empower the building of boundaries within and outside of higher learning regions. The University is endorsed by all the member states of the East Asia Summit. On the other hand, the Intergovernmental Memoranda of Understanding with this impact has been endorsed by 17 countries.

The celebrated tune, “O Mere Raja” from the film, “Johny Mera Nam” with Dev Anand and Hema Malini, took pictures of the remains of Nalanda Vishwavidyalaya and the Vishwa Shanti Stupa in Rajgir, Bihar.

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My bachelor of science in business information technology
By: Mark Benniman
Tags: University, UX, Work Life Balance, Life Lessons

I recently found an article that said that around the world about 5% of the public were very skilled in using a computer. I passed a bachelor of science degree in business information technology in 1997 which is nearly 25 years ago. I have kept abreast of many developments but I am really just a hobbyist now but I guess back then I would have been an expert and even by today’s standards it probably wouldn’t take me long to learn what was needed to be in that 5%.

I started by taking a degree foundation in technology which taught me amongst other things how to use a desktop computer, I then studied a higher national diploma in business information technology (94/96) I remember the computer labs were called 386 and 486 and one lab was running Windows 3.1 and the other was running Windows 95 and the internet wasn’t even on the syllabus. I wasn’t funded for my HND as I had already had one go at university but dropped out. In my second year of the HND I did a multimedia module and I remember the most powerful computer in the multimedia lab was a Pentium 66, how times have changed. Me and two colleagues on my course did a project for the local police constabulary making a program to help learner drivers and when it was completed the two police officers who we liaised with and ourselves appeared on local BBC radio and in the western daily press.

I went on to top up to the bachelor of science degree in business information technology (96/97) I was given funding for the top up by the local education authority in Devon as I had done so well in my HND. I remember that the degree was over 3,000 hours in total including the HND, I studied about ten level ones at 3,000 words each, ten level twos at 4,000 words each and four level threes at 5,000 words each for an ordinary bachelor of science without honours. My subjects included project management, systems analysis, IT law, ethics, IT and society, accounting, programming with packages, and I even did French 1 and European studies as electives. I should add that at the time about 4% of the adult population has a science degree in anything.

I think it was a good degree and worth feeling proud about, when I looked into entry requirements they were in the region of B, B, C in A levels which is pretty high, then you’ve got your three years of increasingly difficult learning on top of that.

Actually, I should also mention that I met my wife while studying my HND and I also worked for the college as a night porter for more than two years during my study.

This is my transcript:
All the World’s a Cage
By: Olivia Stine
Tags: University, Education, Poetry

Within these walls, we are clones

drained of the uniqueness

that makes us anything other than ordinary.

And within these walls, we are just that.

Ordinary.

Bodies of millions.

Brainwashed in biases.

Commanding what is right and what is not.

The ideologies that don’t fit the conventional?

Let us sow the bad notes on those.

That’s not the way to think.

And to only move on to regurgitate what has been “learned”

to others that withstood different commanders.

Let them know

That’s not the way to think.

And prepare for war.

Because these walls

demand a model.

And only the sick leave before their time is up.

And only the sick contradict.

My commander told me it was a glitch in their programming.

Because the sick don’t think like the rest.

But eventually,

the sick are heard.

And their models are cloned.

To provide new instructions

of thought.

of action.

of being.

All for the ones worth replicating.

But all mama ever told me was to think for myself.

So why did she send me here?

I guess that’s what makes this place so sick.
Learn Computer Science right at GitHub
By: Edgar P-Yan
Tags: Learning, Resources, University, Links

Algorithms, Large-Scale Systems, Distributed Databases and a lot more. These references will be helpful for any developer regardless of what programming language or sphere do you prefer.

So, here is just a couple of really cool references that I found by the time of being developer, but I bet you will find them really interesting.

1. Become a Software Engineer

This is my favorite one, because it includes learning resources about every aspect that a software engineer would ever need, including Algorithms, Programming Styles and Techniques, System Design, Scalability, Data Handling and etc.

2. F*cking algorithm

Yeah, you got it right. Here you can find resources to learn about a lot of (like a lot) algorithms. The original version was in chinese, but the link below is the english version. There is also a nice GitBook for comfortable reading.

3. System Design Primer

This one would be interesting to those of you, who are into architectural things like designing large-scale, high-available and highload systems.

4. Become a Master of RESTful API Design

Here I collected all the articles, books and other references that helped me to learn about RESTful API, about its pros and cons, pitfalls, tools and o lot more.

5. Build your own (insert technology here)

Ever wanted to build (insert technology here)? Well, you probably will find a step-by-step instruction for building your own (insert technology here). You may ask what that (insert technology here) could be? Well, maybe your own 3D Rendered, Git, Programming Language, Search Engine, or even your own OS.

6. Distributed Database and Distributed Systems

Ever wondered how those distributed databases work anyways? Me too. Well here you can find out about design, history and development of distributed databases and systems.
Start with “Despair.
Tags: University, Japanese, Daily Blog, Challenge

One day, my dreams were taken away from me.

No matter what I tried, it didn’t work out.

But it was different. I just wasn’t taking it seriously.

To be what I want to be again.

I' always thought that the coolest people are the ones who constantly challenge themselves.

I’ve been trying to be like that for last year.

And then I’ve been working really hard.

I was able to become the person I wanted to be.

However…

Lately, I’ve been doing everything half-heartedly.

Programming, drawing, and being passionate about living.

I want to get myself back to that day by updating this medium every day.

I’m not even aware of my surroundings,

I’m not bound by the past.

I remember the day when I lived every day seriously, even I made a lot of mistakes.

This is the story of how I made my dream come true.

Thanks for reading.

See you tomorrow!

My activities

1.Japanese note 【Updated daily】

2.Radio

3.Twitter

https://twitter.com/Ke07Ux

4.Drawing

https://www.instagram.com/yuusuke973/
Quickbooks University Training
Tags: Books, University, Training, Education

Quickbooks University Training

The Quick books University Training Videos are a great way to get up and running on QuickBooks. Learning QuickBooks is so much easier when you can watch someone actually perform the steps necessary to complete a transaction.”

Why Choose The QuickBooks University?

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This unique and powerful course was developed by Mat Hultquist, a practicing CPA in Greenville, SC. Mat has been self-employed in the field for nearly 20 years and works with businesses of all sizes each and every day to help them properly use QuickBooks so they can grow their business.

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Don’t Go To College If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur
By: Kevin Shan
Tags: College, University, Self, Entrepreneurship, Education

Don’t Go To College If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur

Photo by MORAN on Unsplash

I never wanted to go to university. I’ve always wanted to do my own things and live life my own way.

But because of our family “tradition” of everyone getting a degree, I have to go. I have to go to university, or else my parents will lose face and be embarrassed about their child.

If there’s one thing I’m going to do in life, it’s going to be dropping out of school. To save my parents some of their pride, however, I’ll drop out only after proving that I can be a successful entrepreneur without a degree.

But man, after this first semester, I think I’m going to drop out even if I’m not successful. In fact, I am already committed to dropping out by September 2021, and here’s why.
i need a hacker to change my university grades
Tags: University, Grades, I Need A Hacker, Hacking, Hire A Hacker

I need a hacker to change my grades @ anonynoushacker247@gmail.com

You are indeed lucky to have found this article. This article gives you a simple, reliable and practical solution on how to hire a hacker to change your University grades. It is the best and most informative article you will find online on this subject. For the right price, you can easily hire a hacker to help you do anything you want to do. Popular hacker for hire services include; Grade Change Fixing of

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procedure to follow in School Grades

When it comes to educational hacks, stories of exploits of hackers abound. Hackers have been known to penetrate educational portals both high schools and universities all over the world to change grade. There have been some quite popular cases of these attacks on academic bodies globally. One particular incident that happened at a university in one of the European countries recently. A hacker who happened to be a student of the same university hacked into a professor’s computer. He claimed he did it in to change his poor grades. Yet another university that was struck by hackers. This time they targeted one of the university key employees with admin access. It was another employee who uses the system who noticed something unusual upon logging in. The hackers gain access to the central student information system. Once they had logged in, they proceeded to makes changes to students’ marks.

Skill to hire a hacker for grade change

To hire a hacker to change university grades won’t be the final step. \What you have to consider is getting your grades up with easy tricks to increase your school GPA.

How to hire a hacker to change university grades is a step to the right direction if you are considering about detection.

You can hire a hacker to help you monitor steps to take.

Finally, Student hard to get your grades up.

Studying won’t make you relies on grade change from hackers.

When you student, You can change your score from F & A.

This is the effect when you student.

I need a hacker to change my grades.
Lisans Araştırmaları: Giriş Rehberi
By: Alperen Keleş
Tags: University, Research, Undergraduate Research, Academia, Projects

Computer Engineering Student at Middle East Technical University(ODTÜ), chess player, coder and your friendly neighborhood writer
The Positive and Negative Effects Covid-19 had on My First Semester at University.
By: Helena Caramel
Tags: University, Students, Change, Covid 19, Studying

This fall I started my first semester at the University. I was not only trying to figure out how to be a university student but also how to do it virtually.

Luckily the first few weeks of school the cases of Coronavirus were low in my country, therefore we started the semester by going to school. I believe those first weeks might have been the ones that saved our whole semester. We got to know each other quite a bit and formed bonds with our classmates that became useful later on when our studies went online. Then for example, if we had any trouble with our projects or lectures we could get help from another, as well as sharing our knowledge, tips, and tricks with each other. If it wasn’t for the first few weeks in school many of us would probably have no one to talk to or seek help from which would have made studying a lot more difficult.

The cons were first and foremost the social part of our education. The student association had planned events for every Friday until the holiday break but after two events the cases started rising in the country and all of the events got canceled. Another con was not getting to know our teachers better because we had many great teachers this year. I remember arriving at school one time (with my mask) to get an assignment back and seeing one of my teachers in person. It felt surreal because I had only seen him on Zoom, I didn’t really connect him with the real world. Suddenly we students even started missing the feeling of driving extremely early to school to attend lectures and studying together in school until we had to go home for dinner, something which we thought was a rather boring thing to do before Coronavirus. I don’t think I will take that for granted ever again.

The pros in my opinion were hard to find at first because I started this semester with a negative outlook on the virtual meetings and the tests we had to take at home due to Corona. All our virtual meetings were recorded so that we could watch them over and over again which was really helpful when taking notes for our tests. And because the tests were online and we took them at home the school allowed us to have our glossary, use our books and the internet. (We could basically use everything except talking to other students). This was very convenient not only when taking the tests but also while learning the subjects in general. The teachers made the tests in a way in which you had to know the material not just remember the terms. In my opinion, we learned even more this way because we had to gain a deeper knowledge of the material to get good grades on our tests.

I truly believe (and hope) that we students, teachers, and administrators learn from the experience and can adapt our school system to the pros and cons that we discovered this year due to Corona.
Online Forum Tips
By: David P. Carter
Tags: College, Online Teaching, Discussion Forum, University

Online forum discussions too often feel like busy work, resulting in little learning payoff for time and energy expended. This post offers some strategies, drawn from my observations and experiences as an instructor of online courses, that can help discussions feel more organic and promote tangible learning benefits.

#1 | Make short and focused comments. Concise discussion posts with a single idea, observation, or argument can often be more effective — not to mention easier and more enjoyable to read — than long posts with many ideas. 

#2 | Organize your discussion in threads. For example, in Canvas® discussions, “replying” to a discussion prompt starts a new discussion thread. People can either reply in the thread (by responding to the “reply”), or start their own threads (by “replying” to the forum initiator’s original discussion prompt). Treat threads as topical mini-discussions: start new threads with each new idea, topic, or argument, and reply to others’ comments in the appropriate established threads.

#3 | Provide new observations, ideas, or arguments. Discussion posts that simply support or restate the comments of another do little to further the conversation. In contrast, posts that raise new ideas, take a stand or state an argument, or pose interesting questions provoke others’ reactions and encourage dialogue.

#4 | Use multimedia content. A strength of online interactions is the ability to easily bring in other (digital) content. Strengthen your observation, comment, or claim — and make it more engaging at the same time — by embedding a relevant image or figure, video, or audio (e.g. podcast).

#5 | Participate early and (relatively) often. I get it — participating in online forums while also fulfilling other class activities can feel burdensome and quickly result in “discussion fatigue.” Nonetheless, the fewer people that participate, the less engaging discussion forums tend to be, and comments that come at the end of a discussion period are unlikely to be read and leave little time for discussion if they are. The way I approach discussions is to set aside 2–3 short blocks of time during the week exclusively for discussion participation. I enter these into my calendar, and set event reminders to make sure I don’t forget.

#6 | Finally — how you approach discussions is the biggest determining factor of the value you get out of them. If you approach discussions as busy work to be “ticked off” for a grade, you will likely see little return. If, in the other hand, you approach them as opportunities to engage the material, practice critical reasoning and communication, and test the ideas of your peers, they will likely be meaningful additions to your class experience.

Of course, every group has a different dynamic, and every individual a different method, however, practicing these strategies will help you get the most out of online discussion forums.
Meet the intern Zoe
By: Uwe Enterprise
Tags: Intern, Enterprise, University, Questions, New Start

Hello everyone! I am a first-year Business (Team Entrepreneurship) Student who joined the enterprise team in December 2020. Studying Team Entrepreneurship has allowed me to create my own startups, have knowledge of everything it takes to run a business and overall gain confidence. My role within the enterprise team is to help students gain knowledge in entrepreneurship and gain confidence in themselves. I hope to run some workshops and projects involving as many students as possible! I currently run my own business within the beauty industry, and I am always up for a chat if this is something you are interested in!

What did I want to be when I grew up?

A Paramedic

Favourite song to keep me motivated:

Mariah Carey- All I Want for Christmas

3 Things I would take to a desert island:

Sun cream, a book and sunglasses.

An unexpected fact about me:

When I was younger, I learnt how to play the flute and I can still play now! (however not quite as well)

You can come and chat with me about:

· Business start-ups and ventures.

· Time management.

· Running a business Via Social media.

· Gaining confidence

· Dealing with stress and anxiety

· Anything beauty related!
Üniversitem
By: Ceren Topbaş
Tags: Media And Communication, Life, University, Students, Communication

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The ULTIMATE GUIDE to University.
Tags: College, Harvard, University, Princeton University, Scholarships For Students

The ULTIMATE GUIDE to University.

Hi everyone,

I’m a student who will be going to college in a year. I know researching universities and compiling information about them can be stressful, especially when you have studies and extracurriculars.

I was browsing through college websites when I found gotouniversity.com

I didn’t think much of it until I opened it up, but when I did, I was shocked

It contained so much information about colleges, programs, university comparison tools and even offered free webinars

I want to share this website with you so that you too can utilize these resources.

The best part? It’s for FREE. While you can access 100’s of universities. I compiled the best 21 and the links for them are below:

Goodluck with your college prep. Thanks for reading :)

Brunel Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/brunel-university

University Canada West:https://www.gotouniversity.com/university/university-canada-west

Harvard Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/harvard-university

Kings College Londonhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/kings-college-london

Curtin University Dubaihttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/curtin-university-dubaiNew York Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/new-york-university

McGill Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/mcgill-university

Yonsei Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/yonsei-university

University College London https://www.gotouniversity.com/university/university-college-london

Seoul National University SNU https://www.gotouniversity.com/university/seoul-national-university-snu

University of Amsterdamhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/university-of-amsterdam

McMaster Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/mcmaster-university

Algonquin College Ottawahttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/algonquin-college-ottawa

Duke Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/duke-university

Boston Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/boston-university

Yale Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/yale-university

George Mason Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/george-mason-university

Columbia Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/columbia-university

Stanford Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/stanford-university

Princeton Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/princeton-university

Florida State Universityhttps://www.gotouniversity.com/university/florida-state-university
5 Clues You’re Succumbing to Death by Dashboard
By: Stefany Goradia
Tags: Data Visualization, Augmented Analytics, Tableau, Dashboard, Data

If you’re in this boat, don’t fret — I’m right there next to you. Dashboards have been the rage of the late 2010’s and spread like wildfire across just about every industry. As tools like Tableau and Power BI allowed any citizen business user or analyst to quickly start building them, we had fun dragging and dropping fields onto the canvas and seeing the lines and bar charts appear. Albeit, they are still in one of the cringe-worthy default color schemes, but hey, we can customize that at some point when we have time! We loved the fact that we could add many, many filters for users to “self-service” and filter to answer their own questions — even if we had to squeeze all of those filters into weird places and take up 110% of real estate typically available on a monitor screen.

We have certainly mastered the mechanics of how to quickly build dashboards for a multitude of use cases, but for these cheeky reasons and a host of others, they’re still falling short.

In 2021, an evolution is occurring as we now turn our attention to the art of creating dashboards that are usable, informative, pleasing, simple, well-planned, and appropriate. And shortly thereafter, we’ll need to focus on the science of new and automated tools that can identify and push relevant insights to our users beyond what dashboards can currently do. This is where Gartner’s #2 trend comes in.

Over future posts, we will explore ways to build towards the solution, even if — like me — you may have actually built some of the problems. Stay tuned!
Build Dashboards in Less Than 10 Lines of Code!
By: Kaustubh Gupta
Tags: Python, Dashboard, Data, Dash, Machine Learning

Machine Learning Dashboards are a great way to interpret models. These usually describe the inner working of the model and provides interactive plots to discover model performance, feature importances, or “what if” analysis! All this can is generated with a few lines of code plus if you want, you can customize all the elements of the Dashboard and disable the metrics or the tabs you don’t require. Want to know how? Let’s discover!

ExplainerDashBoard

As the name suggests, this Python package enables us to build up a web app or inline notebook based explainable dashboard. What this means is that the various components of the dashboard are self-explanatory and you need not explicitly define each of them. It presents all the interactive components with the help of Dash, for all the plots it uses Ploty and runs on a flask server as a web app. To install it simply use pip:

pip install explainerdashboard

I would suggest doing this in a separate virtual environment as this package has a lot of dependencies and any version conflict should be avoided. After installing this you are ready to generate cool dashboards!

Example DashBoard

To simplify the explanations, I would be using the code provided in the documentation of the explainer dashboard:

Code of the Simplest Dashboard

Let’s understand the code:

In the first line, we are simply importing the Scikit-learn machine learning models. For this example, the famous titanic dataset, the Random Forest classifier is chosen. Now comes the beast, the explainer dashboard. According to the documentation, any type of model is placed under the explainers category. You can import any of the four explainers: classifier, regressor, xgboost, or random forest. Here we are using the classifier explainer. This package comes with an example dataset and that is being imported in the third line. The titanic_survive returns the training and test data whereas the feature_description is a dictionary object with keys as the feature names and values describing what it is. The description is optional but if included will make the dashboard more informative. After that, a model is trained with 50 estimators and 10 max_depth of the trees. Now we need to create an explainer object that takes in the model, test data, and other optional parameters such as specifying categorical data will allow the dashboard to group them and use it to plot graphs following these columns. You can check the parameters in the documentation. The ExplainerDashboard API takes in the explainer created and the run function initiates the process.

See the end product generated by this code:
4 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting With Tableau Desktop
By: Sankalp Jain
Tags: Data Visualization, Tableau Desktop, Tableau, Tableau Training, Dashboard

Photo by Matt Duncan on Unsplash

Youtube

Find a short tutorial(40–50 mins) on Youtube to get a brief idea about Tableau Desktop. This will help you in understanding what the tool is capable of and how you are going to leverage it to steer your career.

Install the tool from here. ̶T̶a̶b̶l̶e̶a̶u̶ ̶L̶e̶a̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g Explore

Before you start with the official training program, it’s better to look at what the community is doing. By this, you will:

● Know and connect with the featured authors & active users.

● Discover various community challenges to aid your learning.

Also, don’t forget to check Twitter for the regular updates!! Tableau Learning

Once you have a basic idea, you are good to go ahead with various online courses available but I’d suggest you start with the official course by Tableau. It is detailed and well structured into different levels. Additionally, the practical implementation of concepts is quite helpful. After you’ve completed them, you can switch over to the learning paths to earn a digital Role Badge which can be added in your online profile. Community Challenges (read: “most important”)

There are lots of community challenges which can help you practice and implement the concepts on some real-world datasets. It not only broadens your knowledge but also helps you in building a good Tableau Public profile.

Here’s a list of few online community challenges:

● Makeover Monday

● Iron Quest

● Sports Viz Sunday

● Project Health Viz

● TheSDGVizProject

● Workout Wednesday

Don’t hesitate to share your work on social networks to seek feedback and improve your learning journey.

Lastly, summarizing with one of Ankur Warikoo tweet:

To start anything, start! Don’t expect any other answer. There isn’t!
Tiny graphics are perfect tools for non-designers
By: Marius Popescu
Tags: Data Visualization, Infographics, Dashboard, Graphics, Tiny

Clothes do not make the man! Why should we then add graphics in our articles and applications? Especially when we’re not designers!

Indeed, the purpose is not to attract a customer using a visual effect which is only good looking, without arguments and not based on data. This would not be professional and would give a superficial image of your enterprise. Instead, this is about presenting your content in another form.

We can process visual information 60,000 times faster than other content

How a non-designer can create graphics for their articles and applications

Synthesis

Dashboards are a typical example of a solution to summarize a mass of information. The goal is to be clear and to signal problems and actions.

To create dashboards which are useful and effective you need to have a strategy for your data analysis, for the studied problem, and for the proposed solutions and actions.

The most used visual elements are:

Chronological charts

Histograms

Comparison charts

If you already have a dashboard in place you can go forward by using multiple sparklines.

Context

What tool can show you the regions and countries where your product strategy begins to work?

The best example of a tool which helps you understand the context of a topic is a map. Excel, Google Charts and other such tools allow you creating data-based maps (even interactive ones) to visualise your sales data or functional coverage.

Once you have summarized and shown your topic’s context, you can move to the next level and study the details.

Depth

The possibilities are almost endless, as they depend on your product, domain, and context in which your product evolves.

Often the trap is to want to say it all in an article or a graphic. This is very difficult and risks leaving readers wanting for more details.

However, a better strategy is to divide your topic into 5, 10, or 15 sub-topics. Then, go a step further and divide them again into 10 sub-sub-topics. Even if you stop at this point, you will have between 50 and 150 detailed topics which will allow you to explore in detail your product, the problem it solves, or the domain, by using again synthesis and context.

Your turn now

What graphic you always wanted to create for your enterprise, without ever doing it?

Send your questions and ideas via the Tiny Graphics mailing list.

PS

I strongly believe in the right tool for the right job. Even more so, I prefer the tool you have at hand. This series of articles and graphics have been created using tools such as Excel, Powerpoint, Google Sheets and Balsamiq. However, the special mention goes to … Microsoft Paint!
White spaces help tiny graphics make a big impact
By: Marius Popescu
Tags: Data Visualization, Infographics, Dashboard, Graphics, Tiny

Why do we need to format our documents?

Instead of printing out our text documents by filling all the available space from left to right and top to bottom, we add white borders around it and use bigger characters for titles, spaces between paragraphs and so on. This is needed to make our articles readable and understandable.

The same way, to succeed with tiny graphics you need-besides data-based arguments-to remove all barriers between you and the reader.

This means first to simplify your visuals by removing most if not all gridlines and labels, and keeping just the essence. Then, use colours to get closer to your audience. Colours need to take a second role only to give touches to the picture and make the connection to your proposed solution.

Replace labels, axis, and gridlines using white and empty spaces around your graphs and text to make your graphics more readable (here a graphic created for ZentoShop)

Maximise the impact of your graphics by using white (or empty) spaces

The human eye is quickly attracted by colours and labels, but even more so by visuals. To increase the impact of your graphics, on top of using colours and limiting your visual elements, you need to use white and empty spaces.

Remove gridlines, but keep the space between data and your graphic’s margins

Replace labels and axis with white or empty borders

Sparsely use text and leave space between different visual components

Leave space so that your reader’s eyes look towards your graphics by removing all unnecessary obstacles.

Your turn now

Maximise white and empty spaces in your tiny graphics for a bigger impact.

Send your questions and ideas via the Tiny Graphics mailing list.

PS

Another example of content which deserves to be simplified are application screens made by developers, which you can easily find in internal tools. White space, colours and simplified grids and labels can greatly improve these interfaces, even when there is a limited audience.
What the Most Profitable Companies Make Per Second
Tags: Tableau, Dashboard

The dashboard above shows What the most profitable companies make per second in 2016 and to which industry these companies belonged to.

Due to the amount of information that was included in a single visual, the info-graphic included in this article, seems hard to be understood, there are too many long numbers that were placed in a circle shape which made it more stressing to read and to get the point.

In my Dashboard, I tried to make it clearer to see what each company has made without putting long numbers everywhere, and added filters in case the reader wanted to check the companies in certain industry or a certain company alone. In the same Dashboard you can see the most The Most Profitable Industries too, I defined the industries to what each company belong too with the same color.
Remove the non-essential elements of tiny graphics (axes, labels and gridlines)
By: Marius Popescu
Tags: Data Visualization, Infographics, Dashboard, Graphics, Tiny

How do you describe in 100 to 200 words the book’s main character and conflict?

I am fascinated by the short book descriptions that are traditionally included on the inside cover or on the back. You have to admit the process is very similar to describing a complex topic using a graphic.

Let’s see a practical example, from the healthcare domain.

Usually, growth charts fill up a full page (even as software) and show the child’s curve points on top of country-specific references (percentile or standard deviations). These pages feature other calculations, components, and labels for parents, puberty etc.

How could we simplify these pages, without losing the essence of this information?

Let’s focus on one value only, and remove all the decorations like grids, and title, or axis labels. You still need to have a graphic which can be easily understood in your application context.

Removing sometimes means replacing with more or less subtle alternatives.

To remove the age axis you need to show the whole birth to 18 years period in this tiny alternative chart. Or some other period which is obvious for the user from previous choices or from the dashboard screen.

To show the evolution of a measured value such as height or weight, you need to draw the curve not in centimetres or kilograms, but in percentiles or standard deviation scores for each point.

The same way, the country-specific references behind the curve become flat reference bands for the -2, -1, 0, 1, and 2 SD lines.

There you have it, a full-page growth chart reduce to its essence. This allows the chart to appear on dashboards, or even be included in tables and text-based documents, as part of the text.

Your application can show a group of such sparklines as small multiples, having the same colour codes and axis, and give a complete overview to your users.

Your turn now

What could you remove from your graphics without losing the essential?

Send your questions and ideas via the Tiny Graphics mailing list.

PS

One of my favourite authors is Haruki Murakami. While reading the three-volume series called 1Q84 I just had to draw a map for myself to understand all the intrigues. Wanna see the map?
How to add a call to action, even for tiny graphics
By: Marius Popescu
Tags: Data Visualization, Infographics, Dashboard, Graphics, Tiny

What is your Christmas tree’s call to action?

Is it the star on top of the tree, the most visible and eye-catching, or the space in front of the tree, prepared to receive the gifts?

Sometimes you work so hard to show all the data in a way that enables readers to understand all the aspects of it, that you may forget you also need to call for a specific action.

If you take the example of the sparkline charts, this call can be done by highlighting a point or a part of the line, usually towards the end, using a unique color (e.g. red).

Evolution of measurements such as children height visualized as z-scores on a sparkline chart 0–18 years and focused on the last visit (using GrowthXP)

For before/after comparison charts the call can be represented by a histogram bar coloured in red to show the reader where they need to focus next.

After an office location change, focus on people having more than 60 minutes daily commutes.

For timelines, the call can be embedded as a visual element representing a predicted trend for the next year, a new version arriving soon, or a parallel event requiring adjustments for your customers.

Comparison of our electricity costs in 2020 with previous years, focused on the current month and calling for action before costs go even more in the winter.

Your turn now

What is the Call-To-Action you would embed in a tiny graphic?

Send your questions and ideas via the Tiny Graphics mailing list.

PS

For me, the Christmas tree is a giant call to action in itself, as it calls for us to be generous and happy as children can be.
Why do you need to focus your graphics on the problem first
By: Marius Popescu
Tags: Data Visualization, Infographics, Dashboard, Graphics, Tiny

Gary Larson has a famous cartoon describing what a dog hears when we scold them:

Do you know what your customers hear when reading your website?

Another quick test you can do is to replace your company’s name with one of your competitors. Does your website work for them? Then you need to go over your content, make it about your customers, and bring your unique touch.

The easiest way to start with the problem is to include it in the title. Other options than using the title exist: bringing forward an element, a label, or the graphic’s legend. You can also use the caption or the text surrounding the graphic.

Start with the problem, and from your customer’s point of view

Talking about solutions and about your company is not interesting. People don’t adhere to a solution, not from the get-go, but they always recognize a problem they have.

When you built your product you had to take your customer’s point of view into account. You studied their problem and their environment, before putting a solution in their hands.

You need to do the same thing for your articles.

Your website is a solution to a problem. The same problem your product solves. So your pages should also speak your customer language and be helpful. Articles, white papers, live demo pages, they are all ways to help your customers in a smaller way. Show your empathy and understanding of the customer’s issues to builds trust.

Your turn now

Which is your customers’ biggest problem for which you can propose your help?

Send your questions and ideas via the Tiny Graphics mailing list.

PS

I hope you appreciated this Advent Calendar. Make sure to be on the list to receive the special gift in a couple of days.
Veriyi Görselleştirirken Kullanıcıyı Anlamak
Tags: Data Visualization, İş Zekası, Veri Bilimi, Dashboard, Kullanici Deneyimi

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