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Why is this gap relevant and how to close it?Mind the gap (image by jigsawstocker on Freepik)Showing what’s happening in dashboards is informative, not insightful. It’s useful to know if a key business metric is going up or down, but it’s not actionable. Only the “why” behind these changes can drive recommendations and actions.However, I often hear how teams look at dashboards in weekly/monthly reviews and comment that metrics went up or down, without clear answers to root causes or actionable insights. This leads to…

Like dread, uncertainty and sourdough starters, delivery meal kits peaked in 2020. That’s when we threw our money at companies like Blue Apron and HelloFresh in a desperate attempt to relieve us of yet another night of summoning the energy to answer the question of what’s for dinner. Delivery meal kit companies were at the right place at the right time and, similar to Zoom and apps like DoorDash and Postmates, they cashed in on our homeboundness. But after skyrocketing in 2020, the delivery meal kit giants have been…

Last updated: September 15th, 2022 at 08:00 UTC+02:00 Apart from smartphones, the Android operating system also powers your tablet, smartwatch, and even television. The most common and official place to download apps on these devices is the Google Play Store. You can find a specific version of the app for different devices based on the form factor. However, this diversity also challenges the usefulness of app ratings, as the Play Store combines all ratings for all form factors. Well, that will change soon as Google…

OpinionJupyter Notebook is now the de facto lingua franca for data science. What happened to MATLAB?Photo by D koi on UnsplashThe last time I used MATLAB was late in the 90s. I was finishing up my Engineering degree and I simulated a sigma delta analog to digital converter. I remember using both MATLAB and Simulink at the university. That was just the last of the many times that I used MATLAB at the university.I shelved it until a few years ago when I rediscovered it again by following Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course…

There’s a line in The Summer Book by Tove Jansson where the narrator describes the fragility of moss. Residents of the tiny Finnish island where the novel is set are careful to avoid treading on the plant, and it is “only farmers and summer guests” who walk on it.This is because (“and it cannot be repeated too often”) moss is “terribly frail”. “Step on it once and it rises the next time it rains. The second time, it doesn’t rise back up. And the third time you step on moss, it dies.”50th anniversary edition of The Summer…

Image via DC Films Rob Liefeld has always been a very vocal and regularly contentious presence among comic book and film fans alike, but the Deadpool creator is poised to stir up a potential hornet’s nest among DC supporters after making some comments about Black Adam that could be interpreted as disparaging. The character made his first appearance on the printed page way, way, way back in December of 1945, and has been a mainstay of various DC publications for almost half a century, but it wouldn’t be too…

via Marvel Studios The Sokovia Accords were the driving force behind Captain America: Civil War, which split the Avengers in two and pitted splinter cells led by Tony Stark and Steve Rogers against each other, but the documents haven’t exactly been particularly relevant in the grand scheme of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since then. Obviously, that’s to be expected when a genocidal purple warlord from outer space wiped out half of all living creatures with a snap of his fingers, before the limitless…

"Dune" is a story about a man navigating a massive planetary conflict over the limited resources of an otherwise barren world. Based on that one sentence alone, it's easy to see how the story could have modern-day implications, starting with the story's protagonist — Paul Atreides. Herbert spoke of how the character could stand in for any number of leaders, but at the time the original book came out, there was one at the forefront of Frank Herbert's mind: "He gave the example of John F. Kennedy, who was a…

Image via FLIM It’s been forty years since John James Rambo, portrayed by Sylvester Stallone, wandered into the small town of Hope, Washington, setting off a chain of violence and retribution that changed the face of action films as we knew them and created a film franchise that would last for decades. Fans are celebrating the anniversary of the series’ original film but are also sadly pointing out that many of the issues it addressed are still concerns in 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAqLKlxY3Eo…

Iterating (also known as looping) is visiting every row in the DataFrame individually and performing some operation.Consider the DataFrame below:In Pandas, you can iterate in three different ways, using range(len(df)), iterrows() and itertuples().I discussed different methods of iterating over a DataFrame in detail in the following blog post:This question is intended to know about filtering a DataFrame based on a condition. To understand popular filtering methods, consider the DataFrame below:Some methods to filter a…