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Developments around the 2005 disappearance of high school teen Natalee Holloway, which led to a media frenzy captivating families across the globe, remained stagnant for more than a decade. Despite the family officially declaring the Alabama teen dead in 2012, her disappearance fueled the cultural canon with true-crime TV programming, a Lifetime movie, and more books on Amazon than you care to count.  But it wasn’t until Joran van der Sloot, the primary suspect in her death, was extradited from Peru on extortion…

Marga van der Vet is a a fabulous woman from the Netherlands in her 50s.  She makes her own hats, clothes, costumes, and corsets. Why? Because sewing makes her happy, creative, and unique!In addition to managing her professional portfolio, this energetic model also runs a website for aspiring dressmakers in Dutch and in English where she shares how to make Chanel-style clothes. And the best part: she shares her DIY projects and tutorials for free.More info: margastyle.com | flickr.com | youtube.com | behance.net …

Der Kleiber: Eurasian Nuthatch(Sitta europaea)… What’s the littlest thingYou can spin a poem out of … ?Michael Schmidt*Over here there are enough treesto make us feel sheltered.We hear it first, a loud song:the clear notes so sharp it makes us stop.But there is no fear we think, no pain.When we look up we see the bird:tiny, unlikely.You say it’s the only birdthat can descend trees headfirst.The bird hovers. I say it might fly away.This one has a blue-grey upper bodyAnd orange-peach underparts.We watch it climb higher and…

The problem is particularly acute in processors and memory chips, which perform calculations and store data in personal computers, tablets, smartphones and other devices.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday hailed the construction of a new factory by Germany's Infineon a milestone in mass chip production as Europe tries to capture a larger slice of the strategic industry. Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of Infineon's factory in the German city of Dresden, von der Leyen said it was a step…

Can you spot fake news? Here are the headlines of three recent stories that received wide coverage: “Putin issues international arrest warrant for George Soros”; “A baby born in California was named heart eyes emoji”; “Criminal farts so loudly he gives away his hiding place”. Did you recognise that only one of these stories was true – the third one?This is the type of test that Sander van der Linden, a professor of social psychology in society at Cambridge University, likes to use in experiments, as outlined in his…

Show the real-time locations of public transport vehicles in the Netherlands based on GTFS real-time dataMap of actual locations public transport vehicles in Utrecht (image by author)Public transport and open data is a combination with tremendous potential. Timetables, disruptions, routes, it is all there in the public domain, ready to be used for all kind of applications. This time we will look at the available real-time information in the Netherlands. The real-time data is available in GTFS Realtime format and available…

Manage model target environments safelyMLFlow is an opensource Databricks product that supports part of the Machine Learning model lifecycle. Its model registry allows model versions to be registered under model names to facilitate model deployment. We want to use one MLFlow instance and one Databricks workspace to support multiple deployment targets (acceptance, staging, production, etc), while providing security guarantees for production models. We extended the MLFlow client to manage multiple environments in one model…

How to find related articles with TF-IDF. Implementing a TF-IDF algorithm in Python.Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on UnsplashAs mentioned in my article about Summarizing text, I have a collection of news articles spanning the last decade. After summarizing these articles, the next challenge I faced was finding related articles. If I have one article, how do I find articles related to this article? Immediately resulting in the question what is a related article?After some initial research TF-IDF is chosen as algorithm.…

How to efficiently summarize a text with Python and NLTK and as a bonus the detection of the language of a textPhoto by Mel Poole on UnsplashIn the article ‘Summarize a text with Python’ of last month I showed how to create a summary for a given text. Since then, I have been using this code frequently and found some flaws in the usage of this code. The summarize method is replaces with a class performing this function, e.g. making it easier to use the same language and summary length. The previous article was very popular…

Eurostat is the main entry point for European statistics. This article helps you with the steep learning curve for using the data in Python.Photo by Luke Chesser on UnsplashEurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. Their mission is to provide statistics and data on Europe. All the data is available for browsing and download. You can browse their complete database here. The final code of this article is available on my GitHub as easy_eurostat package.DatasetsAll tables can be downloaded by their…