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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H3C3x7zKMANBC’s “The Sound of Music Live!” aired Thursday night and predictably sent social media snarking, followed by more tempered reviews from TV critics and theater lovers.Although the show might not have been one of everybody’s favorite things, NBC got big props for making the effort to stage a live three-hour, multi-set musical. Early ratings indications are that NBC has a hit.Reaction to individual performances was mixed, to be kind, but one common sentiment was that a high point…

PARIS—A McDonald’s on a buzzy boulevard here offers a glimpse of what the future of serving fast food could look like. The burger giant doesn’t like what it sees.For those dining in, french fries are served in durable red containers, soda is dispensed into clear washable glasses and chicken nuggets come in hard plastic white bowls. When customers are finished eating, they are asked to drop the containers into a bin to be washed, dried and reused.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

McDonald's Corp. is turning to Alphabet Inc.'s Google to build out an AI chatbot that will help its army of restaurant workers get quick answers to questions like how to clean an ice cream machine.Called “Ask Pickles,” the bot will be trained on everything from manuals to data generated by equipment at restaurants. It will give workers guidance on the spot, potentially boosting productivity in an industry where every second counts. The test is one of the initiatives McDonald's is implementing as it rolls out Google…

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AI chatbots have come for journalism, and now they are coming for our burgers. Wendy’s is reportedly gearing up to unveil a chatbot-powered drive-thru experience next month, with help from a partnership with Google.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIThe Wall Street Journal reported that the upcoming rollout will be relegated to a single Wendy’s restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. According to the outlet, software engineers at the fast food chain have been working with Google to build an AI on top…

Improve Your Polar Bar Chart Data Visualisations With a Few Simple TweaksPolar bar chart created with matplotlib and themed using mplcyberpunk. Image by the author.Polar bar charts provide a great alternative to traditional bar charts. Rather than the bars being arranged horizontally or vertically on Cartesian coordinates, these charts represent them using a polar grid.Plotting data this way can help visualise cyclical data and provide a more eye-catching and aesthetically pleasing data visualisation.Polar bar charts can…

Shoppers looking for price breaks on basics may have to wait. Consumers remained willing to pay more for burgers, soda, diapers and other everyday items in the beginning of the year, lifting sales of companies including McDonald ’s Corp., PepsiCo Inc., and Kimberly-Clark Corp. even as some executives warn that shoppers may be losing their appetite for price hikes.  Shoppers looking for price breaks on basics may have to wait. Consumers remained willing to pay more for…

Visualising geological data using Python’s most popular data visualisation libraryMatplotlib radar plot with cyberpunk theming. Image by the author.Radar plots (also known as spider plots or radar charts) are a popular data visualisation tool that allows us to compare datasets by displaying multiple variables simultaneously on a 2-dimensional plot.Each variable is represented by a spoke extending from the plot's centre to the edge, and the magnitude of that variable is represented by how far along the spoke it is. Lines…

Combining python-docx and Streamlit for Data Science Report AutomationReport image generated by the author using Midjourney Basic Plan.At the end of data-related projects, whether for petrophysics or data science, creating a report is a very common occurrence. The generated reports provide clients and end users with information on the key results and conclusions obtained during the study, as well as detailing the methodologies used.However, creating structured reports can be a tedious and time-consuming process,…

Improve Your Data Visualisations with These Easy-to-Use Matplotlib Style LibrariesExample line plot with gradient fill generated by the CyberPunk matplotlib theme. Image by the author.Matplotlib is a widely used data visualisation Python library, and is often come across early in the data science and python learning journey. However, over the years, it has gained a reputation for creating plain-looking figures, and it can be awkward to use, especially for newcomers.In my last few articles, I have shown how we can turn the…