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Crypto is an emerging yet attractive asset class. It is a $1.25 trillion market globally. The India adoption story is no different with nearly 20 million unique users, over $6.6 billion in investments and more than a billion dollars in venture capital funding.India is already the second-largest in terms of crypto adoption globally.Crypto in India has come a long way but this is just the beginning -- Crypto is a billion people industry in the making.Govind Soni, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, CoinSwitch, India's…

Sorry, the old Terra can't come to the phone right now. Why? Oh, 'cause she's dead!Terra SquirmaThe dust hasn't even settled from the Terra stablecoin's meteoric crash, but the people behind it are already trying to make a new currency.Well, sort of. Yesterday, the official Terra account tweeted that "Terra 2.0 is coming" after a majority of investors voted to create a new blockchain that, confusingly, will use the exact same name.News of this new blockchain comes just over a week after the Terra stablecoin and its sister…

An introduction to a versatile data visualization library for Julia, especially for Pythonistas who miss Seaborn when coding in JuliaPhoto by Anne Nygård on UnsplashOne of the libraries I used a lot for drawing attractive and informative statistical graphics in Python was Seaborn. One of my favourite packages for data visualisation in Julia is Gadfly. It is based largely on Hadley Wickhams’s ggplot2 for R and Leland Wilkinson’s book The Grammar of Graphics.In this introduction to Gadfly we wil create 6 beautiful Seaborn…

Adding Census data to H3 Hexagons for Spatial AnalysisPhoto by Donny Jiang on UnsplashAll analysis techniques, opinions, and code are independently developed and my own work.Getting demographic data for a city or zip code is pretty straightforward — several APIs and data downloads exist to do so. But, for many reasons, these geographies have limitations (to name a few, zip codes are a function of USPS deliveries and city boundaries were established up to centuries ago — not exactly designed for data analysis).I’ve tested…

Tkinter vs Excel VBASearch easier with autocomplete (Photo by Markus Winkler)User-friendly search masks are almost indispensable in today’s flood of data. In this article we will see how to develop a responsive search for translation purposes using Tkinter and compare it with VBA.Responsive search form (image by author)Background:Our table consists of two columns. The first column contains English terms and the second column the corresponding German translations.An excerpt of the German-English financial terms (image by…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Although sport is often touted as a vehicle for positive experiences, many investigations into sporting cultures—particularly high performance sport—have highlighted how predatory or abusive behavior by coaches can emerge and be tolerated. …

Matterport Axis lets you use your smartphone to capture 360-degree images and then stitch them together to create 3D walkthroughs using the Matterport Capture app. Image: Cliff Joseph / ZDNet Mark Zuckerberg and other tech giants may be pouring billions into VR and the metaverse, but you don't need to be Facebook or Apple to use VR…