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Command Line in Windows
Command line on Windows (10+) nowadays doesn’t have to be only PuTTY to a remote Linux machine. In fact many Linux concepts were incorporated on Windows. Windows Subsystem for Linux First, activate WSL. Since I enjoy using Fedora, and not Ubuntu, this guide by Jonathan Bowman has helped me to set WSL exactly as I…
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Data Scientist × Data Analyst
Analysts inform, explain and visualize DATA THAT EXISTS in order to help business executives make strategic decisions. Thus, data analysts live in business meetings, talk to a lot of people and create data visualizations to help others understand what is going on. Tools: SQL, BI, spreadsheets, PowerPoint. Scientists infer and calculate INFORMATION THAT STILL DOESN’T…
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Upgrade to USB-C
22 years into 21st century but new products still feature connectors from previous century. Precisely 1996, when this very old USB connector was released. Product designers, please upgrade to USB-C, which is already 8 years old. It’s about time! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/avibrazil_22-years-into-21st-century-but-new-products-activity-6961733486432919552-RMr1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
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State of the Windows Laptop Market
The Windows-based laptop market is a bad joke of confusing, overlapping offerings. It operates almost like a scam to underskilled consumers because manufacturers try hard to increase their profit around a purely commodity product. The results are “creative” but quite useless features as detachable keyboards, pens and tablet PCs. If you have one of those,…
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Impressions about Open Data Science Conference Boston 2022
Open Data Science Conference 2022 has happened in Boston this week. Conference featured panels, workshops, presentations and a vendor expo. I attended the 3 days and here are some impressions.
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List of Hard Skills for Data Professionals
2020 list of desired hard skills for data professionals. From the most essential to the more difficult ones. Please remember this list has only hard skills. Ethics, domain and industry knowledge, communication are very important soft skills that won’t fit in this list. Generally speaking, beginning of the list is where Data Analysts are (up…
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Jupyter and Data Science on a Mac (without Anaconda)
macOS Catalina doesn’t ship with Python 3, only 2. But you can still get 3 from Apple, updated regularly through system’s official update methods. You don’t need to get the awful Anaconda on you Mac to play with Python. Python 3 is shipped by Xcode Command Line Tools. To get it installed (without the heavy…
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Playing with HEIC images in lossless mode
Analisys on the lossless compression rates of HEIF/HEIC image format along with advantages over old image types. This article studies how HEIC lossless compression performs in several situations.
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Jupyter Notebook on Fedora with official packages and SSL
Jupyter Notebooks are the elegant way that Data Scientists work and all software needed to run them are already pre-packaged on Fedora (and any other Linux distribution). It is encouraged to use your distribution’s packaging infrastructure to install Python packages.
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Active BitTorrent trackers
Here is a curated list of active, responsive and valid BitTorrent trackers. Add them to the list of trackers of your torrents to increase your chance of finding peers and improve download speed.