The openaq
api is an easy-to-use wrapper built around the OpenAQ
Api. Complete API documentation can be
found on their website.
There are no keys or rate limits (as of March 2017), so working with the
API is straight forward. If building a website or app, you may want to
just use the python wrapper and interact with the data in json format.
However, the rest of this tutorial will assume you are interested in
analyzing the data. To get more out of it, I recommend installing
seaborn
for manipulating the asthetics of plots, and working with
data as DataFrames using pandas
. For more information on these,
check out the installation section of this documentation.
From this point forward, I assume you have at least a basic knowledge of python and matplotlib. This documentation was built using the following versions of all packages:
import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import openaq
import warnings
warnings.simplefilter('ignore')
%matplotlib inline
# Set major seaborn asthetics
sns.set("notebook", style='ticks', font_scale=1.0)
# Increase the quality of inline plots
mpl.rcParams['figure.dpi']= 500
print ("pandas v{}".format(pd.__version__))
print ("matplotlib v{}".format(mpl.__version__))
print ("seaborn v{}".format(sns.__version__))
print ("openaq v{}".format(openaq.__version__))
pandas v0.21.0
matplotlib v2.1.0
seaborn v0.8.1
openaq v1.1.0
The OpenAQ APi has only eight endpoints that we are interested in:
For detailed documentation about each one in the context of this API wrapper, please check out the API documentation.
Real quick, let’s go ahead and initiate an instance of the
openaq.OpenAQ
class so we can begin looking at data:
api = openaq.OpenAQ()
The cities API endpoint lists the cities available within the platform. Results can be subselected by country and paginated to retrieve all results in the database. Let’s start by performing a basic query with an increased limit (so we can get all of them) and return it as a DataFrame:
resp = api.cities(df=True, limit=10000)
# display the first 10 rows
resp.info()
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 2020 entries, 0 to 2019
Data columns (total 4 columns):
city 2020 non-null object
count 2020 non-null int64
country 2020 non-null object
locations 2020 non-null int64
dtypes: int64(2), object(2)
memory usage: 63.2+ KB
So we retrieved 1400+ entries from the database. We can then take a look at them:
print (resp.head(10))
city count country locations
0 Escaldes-Engordany 13324 AD 2
1 unused 314 AD 1
2 Abu Dhabi 477 AE 1
3 Buenos Aires 14976 AR 4
4 Amt der K�rntner Landesregierung 104663 AT 16
5 Austria 121987 AT 174
6 Amt der Ober�sterreichischen Landesregierung 154329 AT 16
7 Amt der Burgenl�ndischen Landesregierung 35608 AT 3
8 Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung 94197 AT 12
9 Amt der Burgenländischen Landesregierung 471 AT 1
Let’s try to find out which ones are in India:
print (resp.query("country == 'IN'"))
city count country locations
841 Mumbai 309477 IN 3
842 Kota 23264 IN 2
843 Delhi 1140259 IN 35
844 Ghaziabad 99087 IN 2
845 Barddhaman 2470 IN 3
846 Asansol 1590 IN 2
847 Lucknow 271912 IN 5
848 Muzaffarpur 116841 IN 1
849 Hyderabad 465962 IN 15
850 Visakhapatnam 208237 IN 8
851 Amritsar 77849 IN 1
852 Bhiwadi 20846 IN 1
853 Kolkata 168542 IN 7
854 Bengaluru 371649 IN 8
855 Howrah 50263 IN 4
856 Navi Mumbai 7725 IN 1
857 Ahmedabad 57714 IN 2
858 Faridabad 113546 IN 2
859 Nashik 76217 IN 4
860 Haldia 115284 IN 2
861 Thiruvananthapuram 46124 IN 2
862 Rohtak 95050 IN 1
863 Medak 2671 IN 1
864 Pune 145450 IN 1
865 Tirupati 159117 IN 4
866 Ajmer 25266 IN 2
867 Vijayawara 34902 IN 1
868 Durgapur 78761 IN 2
869 Jorapokhar 35558 IN 1
870 NOIDA 12061 IN 1
.. ... ... ... ...
873 Gaya 76810 IN 1
874 Chandrapur 232244 IN 2
875 Chennai 290415 IN 4
876 Siliguri 30 IN 2
877 Thane 130025 IN 3
878 Nagpur 72328 IN 5
879 Mandideep 7847 IN 1
880 Patna 75338 IN 1
881 Dhanbad 3 IN 1
882 Aurangabad 113529 IN 1
883 Kanpur 159678 IN 2
884 Moradabad 24595 IN 1
885 Chittoor 2013 IN 1
886 Alwar 14017 IN 1
887 Vijayawada 11624 IN 2
888 Udaipur 25699 IN 1
889 Jaipur 190441 IN 6
890 Ludhiana 72308 IN 1
891 Varanasi 181673 IN 1
892 Pali 23627 IN 2
893 Ujjain 16924 IN 1
894 Singrauli 14636 IN 1
895 Jodhpur 151172 IN 1
896 Agra 84301 IN 1
897 Dewas 11671 IN 1
898 Amaravati 11432 IN 1
899 Mandi Gobindgarh 48579 IN 1
900 Solapur 253940 IN 1
901 Pithampur 12173 IN 1
902 Gurgaon 147910 IN 1
[62 rows x 4 columns]
Great! For the rest of the tutorial, we are going to focus on Delhi, India. Why? Well..because there are over 500,000 data points and my personal research is primarily in India. We will also take a look at some \(SO_2\) data from Hawai’i later on (another great research locale).
Similar to the cities
endpoint, the countries
endpoint lists the
countries available. The only parameters we have to play with are the
limit and page number. If we want to grab them all, we can just up the
limit to the maximum (10000).
res = api.countries(limit=10000, df=True)
print (res.head())
cities code count locations name
0 2 AD 13638 3 Andorra
1 1 AR 14976 4 Argentina
2 18 AU 3248142 99 Australia
3 16 AT 1521351 306 Austria
4 1 BH 13820 1 Bahrain
If you are interested in getting information pertaining to the
individual data fetch operations, go ahead and use this endpoint. Most
people won’t need to use this. This API method does not allow the df
parameter; if you would like it to be added, drop me a message.
Otherwise, here is how you can access the json-formatted data:
status, resp = api.fetches(limit=1)
# Print out the meta info
resp['meta']
{'found': 92506,
'license': 'CC BY 4.0',
'limit': 1,
'name': 'openaq-api',
'page': 1,
'pages': 92506,
'website': 'https://docs.openaq.org/'}
The parameters
endpoint will provide a listing off all the
parameters available:
res = api.parameters(df=True)
print (res)
description id name 0 Black Carbon bc BC 1 Carbon Monoxide co CO 2 Nitrogen Dioxide no2 NO2 3 Ozone o3 O3 4 Particulate matter less than 10 micrometers in... pm10 PM10 5 Particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers i... pm25 PM2.5 6 Sulfur Dioxide so2 SO2 preferredUnit 0 µg/m³ 1 ppm 2 ppm 3 ppm 4 µg/m³ 5 µg/m³ 6 ppm
The sources
endpoint will provide a list of the sources where the
raw data came from.
res = api.sources(df=True)
# Print out the first one
res.ix[0]
active True
adapter arpalazio
city NaN
contacts<EMAIL_ADDRESS>country IT
description Air quality data from Lazio region, Italy
location NaN
name ARPALAZIO
organization NaN
region Lazio
resolution NaN
sourceURL http://www.arpalazio.net/
timezone NaN
url http://www.arpalazio.net/main/aria/sci/annoinc...
Name: 0, dtype: object
The locations
endpoint will return the list of measurement locations
and their meta data. We can do quite a bit of querying with this one:
Let’s see what the data looks like:
res = api.locations(df=True)
res.info()
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 100 entries, 0 to 99
Data columns (total 11 columns):
city 100 non-null object
coordinates.latitude 100 non-null float64
coordinates.longitude 100 non-null float64
count 100 non-null int64
country 100 non-null object
firstUpdated 100 non-null datetime64[ns]
lastUpdated 100 non-null datetime64[ns]
location 100 non-null object
parameters 100 non-null object
sourceName 100 non-null object
sourceNames 100 non-null object
dtypes: datetime64[ns](2), float64(2), int64(1), object(6)
memory usage: 8.7+ KB
# print out the first one
res.ix[0]
city Ulaanbaatar
coordinates.latitude 47.9329
coordinates.longitude 106.921
count 294682
country MN
firstUpdated 2015-09-01 00:00:00
lastUpdated 2018-01-24 13:15:00
location 100 ail
parameters [pm10, no2, so2, o3, co]
sourceName Agaar.mn
sourceNames [Agaar.mn]
Name: 0, dtype: object
What if we just want to grab the locations in Delhi?
res = api.locations(city='Delhi', df=True)
res.ix[0]
city Delhi
coordinates.latitude 28.6508
coordinates.longitude 77.3152
count 102326
country IN
distance 6.32199e+06
firstUpdated 2015-06-29 14:30:00
lastUpdated 2017-11-28 10:15:00
location Anand Vihar
parameters [pm10, pm25, so2, o3, co, no2]
sourceName CPCB
sourceNames [Anand Vihar, CPCB]
Name: 0, dtype: object
What about just figuring out which locations in Delhi have \(PM_{2.5}\) data?
res = api.locations(city='Delhi', parameter='pm25', df=True)
res.ix[0]
city Delhi
coordinates.latitude 28.6508
coordinates.longitude 77.3152
count 23891
country IN
firstUpdated 2015-06-29 14:30:00
lastUpdated 2017-11-28 10:15:00
location Anand Vihar
parameters [pm25]
sourceName CPCB
sourceNames [CPCB, Anand Vihar]
Name: 0, dtype: object
Grab the latest data from a location or locations.
What was the most recent \(PM_{2.5}\) data in Delhi?
res = api.latest(city='Delhi', parameter='pm25', df=True)
res.head()
| averagingPeriod.unit | averagingPeriod.value | city | country | location | parameter | sourceName | unit | value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lastUpdated | |||||||||
| 2017-11-28 10:15:00 | hours | 0.25 | Delhi | IN | Anand Vihar | pm25 | CPCB | b'\xc2\xb5g/m\xc2\xb3' | 70.00 |
| 2018-01-24 09:45:00 | hours | 0.25 | Delhi | IN | Anand Vihar, Delhi - DPCC | pm25 | CPCB | b'\xc2\xb5g/m\xc2\xb3' | 160.00 |
| 2018-01-24 01:15:00 | hours | 0.25 | Delhi | IN | Aya Nagar, Delhi - IMD | pm25 | CPCB | b'\xc2\xb5g/m\xc2\xb3' | 192.84 |
| 2018-01-24 01:15:00 | hours | 0.25 | Delhi | IN | Burari Crossing, Delhi - IMD | pm25 | CPCB | b'\xc2\xb5g/m\xc2\xb3' | 53.45 |
| 2018-01-24 01:15:00 | hours | 0.25 | Delhi | IN | CRRI Mathura Road, Delhi - IMD | pm25 | CPCB | b'\xc2\xb5g/m\xc2\xb3' | 185.60 |
What about the most recent \(SO_2\) data in Hawii?
res = api.latest(city='Hilo', parameter='so2', df=True)
res
| averagingPeriod.unit | averagingPeriod.value | city | country | location | parameter | sourceName | unit | value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lastUpdated | |||||||||
| 2018-01-24 06:00:00 | hours | 1 | Hilo | US | Hawaii Volcanoes NP | so2 | AirNow | ppm | 0.000 |
| 2018-01-24 06:00:00 | hours | 1 | Hilo | US | Hilo | so2 | AirNow | ppm | 0.001 |
| 2018-01-24 06:00:00 | hours | 1 | Hilo | US | Kona | so2 | AirNow | ppm | 0.003 |
| 2018-01-24 06:00:00 | hours | 1 | Hilo | US | Ocean View | so2 | AirNow | ppm | 0.002 |
| 2018-01-24 06:00:00 | hours | 1 | Hilo | US | Pahala | so2 | AirNow | ppm | 0.021 |
| 2017-01-26 17:00:00 | hours | 1 | Hilo | US | Puna E Station | so2 | AirNow | ppm | 0.002 |
Finally, the endpoint we’ve all been waiting for! Measurements allows you to grab all of the dataz! You can query on a whole bunhc of parameters listed in the API documentation. Let’s dive in:
Let’s grab the past 10000 data points for \(PM_{2.5}\) in Delhi:
res = api.measurements(city='Delhi', parameter='pm25', limit=10000, df=True)
# Print out the statistics on a per-location basiss
res.groupby(['location'])['value'].describe()
| count | mean | std | min | 25% | 50% | 75% | max | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| location | ||||||||
| Anand Vihar, Delhi - DPCC | 430.0 | 259.625581 | 147.207770 | 49.00 | 127.0000 | 217.000 | 345.0000 | 644.00 |
| Aya Nagar, Delhi - IMD | 372.0 | 149.792312 | 63.647824 | 3.00 | 106.8725 | 133.675 | 185.5775 | 362.89 |
| Burari Crossing, Delhi - IMD | 363.0 | 130.473774 | 54.497222 | 41.82 | 92.0150 | 119.260 | 157.5000 | 333.67 |
| CRRI Mathura Road, Delhi - IMD | 361.0 | 154.678227 | 106.200845 | 2.22 | 80.3300 | 141.950 | 200.2300 | 842.68 |
| Delhi Technological University, Delhi - CPCB | 1095.0 | 297.557991 | 154.132360 | 59.00 | 167.5000 | 286.000 | 401.0000 | 764.00 |
| IGI Airport Terminal-3, Delhi - IMD | 361.0 | 151.609806 | 73.086274 | 5.62 | 95.0700 | 143.700 | 200.3100 | 375.96 |
| IHBAS, Delhi - CPCB | 922.0 | 122.903471 | 45.207670 | 0.00 | 88.9000 | 118.400 | 147.4000 | 308.30 |
| Income Tax Office, Delhi - CPCB | 1095.0 | 210.021918 | 94.767962 | 0.00 | 141.5000 | 190.000 | 277.5000 | 477.00 |
| Lodhi Road, Delhi - IMD | 339.0 | 160.147699 | 72.395593 | 9.69 | 107.4550 | 151.380 | 208.2750 | 383.10 |
| Mandir Marg, Delhi - DPCC | 264.0 | 198.306818 | 87.983323 | 42.00 | 132.0000 | 186.000 | 254.0000 | 443.00 |
| NSIT Dwarka, Delhi - CPCB | 1030.0 | 217.039612 | 82.230388 | 0.00 | 155.9250 | 197.600 | 262.2000 | 527.10 |
| North Campus, Delhi - IMD | 368.0 | 212.198560 | 112.838311 | 0.41 | 123.1100 | 190.870 | 275.0175 | 633.12 |
| Punjabi Bagh, Delhi - DPCC | 318.0 | 227.411950 | 116.249854 | 47.00 | 125.0000 | 208.500 | 314.0000 | 559.00 |
| Pusa, Delhi - IMD | 382.0 | 125.018351 | 58.187861 | 28.51 | 77.6475 | 114.430 | 163.2325 | 320.82 |
| R K Puram, Delhi - DPCC | 400.0 | 208.190000 | 98.169711 | 64.00 | 139.0000 | 188.000 | 245.7500 | 593.00 |
| Shadipur, Delhi - CPCB | 1055.0 | 165.118104 | 104.136933 | 0.20 | 94.5000 | 139.000 | 214.8500 | 798.70 |
| Sirifort, Delhi - CPCB | 439.0 | 213.398633 | 98.462672 | 0.00 | 145.5000 | 195.000 | 277.5000 | 979.00 |
| US Diplomatic Post: New Delhi | 406.0 | 213.339901 | 139.081139 | -999.00 | 144.0000 | 202.000 | 269.7500 | 1985.00 |
Clearly, we should be doing some serious data cleaning ;) Why don’t we go ahead and plot all of these locations on a figure.
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, figsize=(10, 6))
for group, df in res.groupby('location'):
# Query the data to only get positive values and resample to hourly
_df = df.query("value >= 0.0").resample('1h').mean()
_df.value.plot(ax=ax, label=group)
ax.legend(loc='best')
ax.set_ylabel("$PM_{2.5}$ [$\mu g m^{-3}$]", fontsize=20)
ax.set_xlabel("")
sns.despine(offset=5)
plt.legend(bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 1), loc=2, borderaxespad=0.)
plt.show()
Don’t worry too much about how ugly and uninteresting the plot above is…we’ll take care of that in the next tutorial! Let’s go ahead and look at the distribution of \(PM_{2.5}\) values seen in Delhi by various sensors. This is the same data as above, but viewed in a different way.
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, figsize=(14,7))
ax = sns.boxplot(
x='location',
y='value',
data=res.query("value >= 0.0"),
fliersize=0,
palette='deep',
ax=ax)
ax.set_ylim([0, 750])
ax.set_ylabel("$PM_{2.5}\;[\mu gm^{-3}]$", fontsize=18)
ax.set_xlabel("")
sns.despine(offset=10)
plt.xticks(rotation=90)
plt.show()
If we remember from above, there was at least one location where many parameters were measured. Let’s go ahead and look at that location and see if there is any correlation among parameters!
res = api.measurements(city='Delhi', location='Anand Vihar', limit=1000, df=True)
# Which params do we have?
res.parameter.unique()
array(['o3', 'no2', 'so2', 'pm10', 'pm25'], dtype=object)
df = pd.DataFrame()
for u in res.parameter.unique():
_df = res[res['parameter'] == u][['value']]
_df.columns = [u]
# Merge the dataframes together
df = pd.merge(df, _df, left_index=True, right_index=True, how='outer')
# Get rid of rows where not all exist
df.dropna(how='any', inplace=True)
g = sns.PairGrid(df, diag_sharey=False)
g.map_lower(sns.kdeplot, cmap='Blues_d')
g.map_upper(plt.scatter)
g.map_diag(sns.kdeplot, lw=3)
plt.show()
For kicks, let’s go ahead and look at a timeseries of \(SO_2\) data in Hawai’i. Quiz: What do you expect? Did you know that Hawai’i has a huge \(SO_2\) problem?
res = api.measurements(city='Hilo', parameter='so2', limit=10000, df=True)
# Print out the statistics on a per-location basiss
res.groupby(['location'])['value'].describe()
| count | mean | std | min | 25% | 50% | 75% | max | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| location | ||||||||
| Hawaii Volcanoes NP | 355.0 | 0.007392 | 0.035338 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.408 |
| Hilo | 438.0 | 0.002486 | 0.004487 | 0.000 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.050 |
| Kona | 450.0 | 0.003273 | 0.004264 | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.002 | 0.004 | 0.039 |
| Ocean View | 455.0 | 0.011490 | 0.021762 | 0.000 | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.011 | 0.182 |
| Pahala | 422.0 | 0.039166 | 0.070299 | 0.000 | 0.004 | 0.010 | 0.040 | 0.554 |
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, figsize=(10, 5))
for group, df in res.groupby('location'):
# Query the data to only get positive values and resample to hourly
_df = df.query("value >= 0.0").resample('6h').mean()
# Convert from ppm to ppb
_df['value'] *= 1e3
# Multiply the value by 1000 to get from ppm to ppb
_df.value.plot(ax=ax, label=group)
ax.legend(loc='best')
ax.set_ylabel("$SO_2 \; [ppb]$", fontsize=18)
ax.set_xlabel("")
sns.despine(offset=5)
plt.show()
NOTE: These values are for 6h means. The local readings can actually get much, much higher (>5 ppm!) when looking at 1min data.


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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 "Can a man be useful to God?
Can a wise man be useful to him?
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous?
Is it gain to him if you make your ways perfect?
4 Is it because of your reverence for him that he rebukes you
and takes you to judgment?
5 Is not your wickedness great?
Is there no end to your iniquities?
6 For you have exacted security from your brother for no reason;
you have stripped someone naked of their clothing.
7 You have not given water to weary people to drink;
you have withheld bread from hungry people
8 although you, a mighty man, possessed the earth,
although you, an honored man, lived in it.
9 You have sent widows away empty;
the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Therefore, snares are all around you,
and sudden fear troubles you.
11 There is darkness, so that you cannot see;
an abundance of waters covers you.
12 Is not God in the heights of heaven?
Look at the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 You say, 'What does God know?


 This also includes being afraid to do something because you know you'd fall under a certain stereotype that made you feel uncomfortable. Acclaimed social psychologist, Dr. Claude Steele, concludes that this is one of the major barriers holding back the achievement of women and other underrepresented groups.
As I progressed from High School to College, I realized stereotype threat was more prevalent amongst women around me, than the men I interacted with. In my University, a class of 50 students in my engineering classes comprised of about 4 women, 5 if we're feeling hopeful. More girls are interested in math and science at a young age than engineering classes reflect in universities. I kept thinking, "Where did all the women go? I swear there was a decent amount of diversity in all of my math and science classes before this." Stereotype threat and imposter syndrome hit the nail on the head.
I realized most of the women I spoke to, whether friends or colleagues, all felt like engineering was just "too difficult", "boring", or as a programmer they didn't want to be that "person developing all alone in their room all day". The majority thought engineering was just not their cup of tea. This can definitely be attributed to imposter syndrome as well, since these women were pursuing challenging degrees but didn't believe they could become engineers. In an earlier post on "Getting Women Into Tech", I reference some causes of this thinking. It was clear that their decisions and ideas of what an engineering degree meant, was the result of clouded judgement with an overcast of sterotype threat.
There were definitely times in my undergraduate career when I doubted myself and thought twice about whether I was doing what I wanted to do, and whether it was an attainable goal. The guys in my classes would always group up together, assuming the women would either be too much of a hassle to work with or wouldn't be able to contribute as effectively as their male friends.  Knowing that there were so few women in the Technology Industry pushed me to succeed and persevere even more. Attempting to patch the cracks and gaps in diversity in the workplace today, I try to encourage women in my personal life to pursue technical degrees or interests. They need to believe that they have the same ability as anyone else, and the life of an engineer is not as bland as stereotypes have them believe.


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We analyzed the response time data to verify if the result meets our hypothesis that by using a smart lamp it will be less time consuming and more accessible than using a standard lamp.
From our findings at short distances (test 1) the lamps are similar in time to use, with the normal lamp on average 4.48 seconds compared to the smart lamp at 4.73 seconds. This trend is also reflected with test 2 with yet again the normal lamp being faster by a larger margin. Looking into the final test, test 3 which the distance was greatly increased to 3 metres from 1. The uses of the smart lamp starts to show as on average is two seconds faster than the normal lamp.
Regarding smart lamps, it can be identified that there is no relation with the distance or position this makes sense as it is all about using an application on the phone and no physical movement beyond the screen is necessary.
This explains the reason that controlling a smart lamp take slightly more time than that of a normal lamp in Test 1 and 2 (when the participant is sitting or standing 1 meter away from the lamps) but it is about 67% faster in Test 3 (when the participant is standing 3 meters away from the lamps). The result matches our hypothesis to some extent that the smart lamp is more advantageous in terms of time consuming when the person is not around the lamp.
Comparing the data to the Hypothesis put forward before the tests, it would prove correct in longer distances or possibly environments which are tricky to navigate across. While in short distances the normal lamp is a quicker option. This could change over time as technology advances and become faster and more user friendly.
On the second portion of the Hypothesis the application / smart lamp did become faster than the normal lamp and would be able to be completed in much fewer steps, with less time spent than the normal lamp.
We also found some other facts in terms of smart lamp impression from subjects, outliers that might have affected results and suggestions to improve the app.
Figure 4 shows that half of subjects find the turn on and off the smart-lamp and well as changing the brightness with the app feel extremely easy while the other half find it medium to difficult to use. This group of data might be related to the fact that 50% of the participants had never used the smart-light technology before. However, despite the above fact that half of the participants do not consider the app effortless, it can be seen in Figure 6 that 83.3% of the subjects are considering buying a smart-lamp while the remaining last subject is undecided instead of rejecting to use it. The majority of subjects show interest in having their own smart lamps.
There are a few outliers that have affected the results the most noticeable would be during test 1 of the smart lamp participant 3 took 7.25 seconds affecting the average by added about 0.5 of a second. Another noticeable outlier would be during test 2 of the smart lamps which participant took 8.03 seconds to complete the task having around another 0.5 seconds to the average. If this participants result is considered as an exception and the data is removed then the new average is calculated the new result would be 4.73 Seconds instead of the original average of 5.32 Seconds. This is a more accurate estimation as it is around the same data as the other tests smart lamp trial.
From what we could tell this noticeable outliers only affect the smart lamp tests, which could reflect trouble with the application. Such as starting, freezing or just the phone being slow. Having a larger participant pool would help further prove if these are just generic outliers or a common occurrence between the user and the application.
In terms of UX design, from Figure 5, two out of three suggestions we received are related to the app designing - “change the brightness and colour temperature adjusting settings” and “make the user instruction more beginner friendly such as showing the step-by-step instruction in bigger layouts”
Last but not the least, Figure 3 indicates that the nearly 1.8 times the price of a normal lamp can be one factor influencing consumer’s decision to buy a smart lamp as one of the subjects consider the price unfair.


An Information Theoretic Intuition
For this view, we are trying to minimise the following objective:
which is the standard VAE loss to minimise.
Karol Gregor explains this lecture. At the timestamp, he talks about an information-theoretic interpretation of the VAE loss. From this perspective, the KL-divergence term is viewed as an information bottleneck: The objective is to reconstruct the input while transmitting as little information as possible from the encoder to the decoder.
Thinking of the KL-divergence term as a regulariser allows us to relate it back to things like sparse autoencoders or contractive autoencoders. The reconstruction term is balanced with a regularisation term on the hidden representation. In a standard autoencoder, the encoder maps $\x$ to the hidden representation deterministically, with no constraints. The decoder then maps this representation back to the original input. In VAEs, the KL-divergence term regularises this representation $\z$ so that in aggregate, they form a Gaussian distribution. See Figure \ref{fig:ae_vs_vae}. This then allows you to sample from the prior $\prob{p}{}{\z}$ which is a Gaussian to generate images similar to your data.
However, one misunderstanding about the KL-divergence term is that it should be close to 0 for a good model. What this interpretation tells us that this shouldn’t be the case: a KL-divergence term close to 0 means no information is being transmitted by the encoder to the decoder. In our running example about salaries, knowing someone’s salary should narrow down which group he belongs to, giving us some information about $\z$.
The great thing about looking at it this way is that you can think of the term as a measurement of information flow that you can monitor during training. As we will see later, in some circumstances where we have a powerful decoder, the KL-divergence does go to 0. We’ll talk about several ways we can overcome such issues.
This view has been covered in (Higgins et al., 2016) and (Alemi et al., 2017) in much more detail.
What's next?
References
- Higgins, I., Matthey, L., Pal, A., Burgess, C., Glorot, X., Botvinick, M., … Lerchner, A. (2016). beta-vae: Learning basic visual concepts with a constrained variational framework.
- Alemi, A. A., Poole, B., Fischer, I., Dillon, J. V., Saurous, R. A., & Murphy, K. (2017). An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Deep Latent-Variable Models. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:1711.00464.


Still alive here. Emergency happened - EDIT: New stuff 10/14
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:36 pm
Just posting to let everybody know I haven't left the project or anything... the attic of my house caught on fire and all of the electricity was shut off... this all happened on the 1st. It should be fixed sometime soon, I'm using a friend's computer.
Will be back soon hopefully.
P.S. Nobody was hurt.
EDIT:
I may not be able to get on for a while again... people are coming in to clean up the mess and redo the walls and carpet of the house, we're all being forced out of the house for up to about 3 weeks... I'm probably still going to have some computer access, though it may not be my computer.
Welp, gotta go pack up, gotta have us out by 8 AM tomorrow.
Will be back soon hopefully.
P.S. Nobody was hurt.
EDIT:
I may not be able to get on for a while again... people are coming in to clean up the mess and redo the walls and carpet of the house, we're all being forced out of the house for up to about 3 weeks... I'm probably still going to have some computer access, though it may not be my computer.
Welp, gotta go pack up, gotta have us out by 8 AM tomorrow.


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If you see this, the boilerplate is working! Have fun building something!


Steem Developer Portal
Using jussi as a Multiplexer
Optimize your local applications with jussi
By the end of this recipe you should know how to install jussi
on your local subnet to take advantage of its features.
This recipe will take you through the process of setting up jussi
for a small infrastructure like a home network.
Intro
What is a Multiplexer? In this context, a multiplexer an appliance that accepts API requests from multiple applications running on the same subnet and passes them to an upstream node. This means, for example, if you have two applications that request the same block from API, your local jussi
instance will make a single upstream request for the block and return it to both applications.
Deploying jussi
on your own local subnet will help improve efficiency because your local applications won’t require SSL and jussi
can take care of gzipping requests that go out over the Internet.
Steps
- Setting Up Docker In order to run
jussi
,docker
is recommended - Install
jussi
Clonejussi
from the repository and build - Configure Your Apps Point all of your applications to this node
1. Setting Up Docker
Although it’s possible to set up jussi
to run natively without virtualization, docker
is recommended. Setting up docker
depends on your operating system:
2. Install jussi
git clone https://github.com/steemit/jussi.git
cd jussi
Edit the file DEV_config.json
and change all:
https://steemd.steemitdev.com
… to …
https://api.steemit.com
Also consider adding the retries
element to your DEV_config.json
.
 Configure Your Apps
Now, you can use your new jussi
node as if it’s a full node running locally. For example:
curl -s --data '{"jsonrpc":"2.0", "method":"condenser_api.get_block", "params":[8675309], "id":1}' http://localhost:9000
In this case, http://localhost:9000
will act like a full node. In reality, it’s passing all of its request to its upstream, https://api.steemit.com
.
Once you’ve implemented your own jussi
node in this manner, you should notice an improvement in bandwidth utilization. If you’re internet provider implements packet shaping strategies, this will have a positive impact because you are no longer streaming the entire blockchain once for each application.
Troubleshooting / Updating
Error: invalid argument "/jussi:master" for t=/jussi:master: invalid reference format
Solution:
You’re probably trying to run on a raspberry pi. Just replace $USER
in the command with the current user.
If you would like to update jussi
to the latest version, here’s a quick way:
git stash && git pull && git stash pop
If there are git
errors due to structural changes to DEV_config.json
, just start over from step 2 and reclone jussi
to a fresh location. Otherwise, you should be able to rebuild and run.


The Number object contains only the default methods that are part of every object's definition.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| constructor() | Returns the function that created this object's instance. By default this is the Number object. |
| toExponential() | Forces a number to display in exponential notation, even if the number is in the range in which JavaScript normally uses standard notation. |
| toFixed() | Formats a number with a specific number of digits to the right of the decimal. |
| toLocaleString() | Returns a string value version of the current number in a format that may vary according to a browser's locale settings. |
| toPrecision() | Defines how many total digits (including digits to the left and right of the decimal) to display of a number. |
| toString() | Returns the string representation of the number's value. |
| valueOf() | Returns the number's value. |
Here is a list of each method and its description.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| toSource() | Returns a string containing the source of the Boolean object; you can use this string to create an equivalent object. |
| toString() | Returns a string of either "true" or "false" depending upon the value of the object. |
| valueOf() | Returns the primitive value of the Boolean object. |
Here is a list of each method and its description.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| charAt() | Returns the character at the specified index. |
| charCodeAt() | Returns a number indicating the Unicode value of the character at the given index. |
| concat() | Combines the text of two strings and returns a new string. |
| indexOf() | Returns the index within the calling String object of the first occurrence of the specified value, or -1 if not found. |
| lastIndexOf() | Returns the index within the calling String object of the last occurrence of the specified value, or -1 if not found. |
| localeCompare() | Returns a number indicating whether a reference string comes before or after or is the same as the given string in sort order. |
| length() | Returns the length of the string. |
| match() | Used to match a regular expression against a string. |
| replace() | Used to find a match between a regular expression and a string, and to replace the matched substring with a new substring. |
| search() | Executes the search for a match between a regular expression and a specified string. |
| slice() | Extracts a section of a string and returns a new string. |
| split() | Splits a String object into an array of strings by separating the string into substrings. |
| substr() | Returns the characters in a string beginning at the specified location through the specified number of characters. |
| substring() | Returns the characters in a string between two indexes into the string. |
| toLocaleLowerCase() | The characters within a string are converted to lower case while respecting the current locale. |
| toLocaleUpperCase() | The characters within a string are converted to upper case while respecting the current locale. |
| toLowerCase() | Returns the calling string value converted to lower case. |
| toString() | Returns a string representing the specified object. |
| toUpperCase() | Returns the calling string value converted to uppercase. |
| valueOf() | Returns the primitive value of the specified object. |
Here is a list of each method which returns a copy of the string wrapped inside the appropriate HTML tag.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| anchor() | Creates an HTML anchor that is used as a hypertext target. |
| big() | Creates a string to be displayed in a big font as if it were in a <big> tag. |
| blink() | Creates a string to blink as if it were in a <blink> tag. |
| bold() | Creates a string to be displayed as bold as if it were in a  tag. |
| fixed() | Causes a string to be displayed in fixed-pitch font as if it were in a <tt> tag |
| fontcolor() | Causes a string to be displayed in the specified color as if it were in a  tag. |
| fontsize() | Causes a string to be displayed in the specified font size as if it were in a  tag. |
| italics() | Causes a string to be italic, as if it were in an  tag. |
| link() | Creates an HTML hypertext link that requests another URL. |
| small() | Causes a string to be displayed in a small font, as if it were in a  tag. |
| strike() | Causes a string to be displayed as struck-out text, as if it were in a  tag. |
| sub() | Causes a string to be displayed as a subscript, as if it were in a  tag |
| sup() | Causes a string to be displayed as a superscript, as if it were in a  tag |
Here is a list of each method and its description.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| concat() | Returns a new array comprised of this array joined with other array(s) and/or value(s). |
| every() | Returns true if every element in this array satisfies the provided testing function. |
| filter() | Creates a new array with all of the elements of this array for which the provided filtering function returns true. |
| forEach() | Calls a function for each element in the array. |
| indexOf() | Returns the first (least) index of an element within the array equal to the specified value, or -1 if none is found. |
| join() | Joins all elements of an array into a string. |
| lastIndexOf() | Returns the last (greatest) index of an element within the array equal to the specified value, or -1 if none is found. |
| map() | Creates a new array with the results of calling a provided function on every element in this array. |
| pop() | Removes the last element from an array and returns that element. |
| push() | Adds one or more elements to the end of an array and returns the new length of the array. |
| reduce() | Apply a function simultaneously against two values of the array (from left-to-right) as to reduce it to a single value. |
| reduceRight() | Apply a function simultaneously against two values of the array (from right-to-left) as to reduce it to a single value. |
| reverse() | Reverses the order of the elements of an array -- the first becomes the last, and the last becomes the first. |
| shift() | Removes the first element from an array and returns that element. |
| slice() | Extracts a section of an array and returns a new array. |
| some() | Returns true if at least one element in this array satisfies the provided testing function. |
| toSource() | Represents the source code of an object |
| sort() | Sorts the elements of an array. |
| splice() | Adds and/or removes elements from an array. |
| toString() | Returns a string representing the array and its elements. |
| unshift() | Adds one or more elements to the front of an array and returns the new length of the array. |
Here is a list of each method and its description.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| Date() | Returns today's date and time |
| getDate() | Returns the day of the month for the specified date according to local time. |
| getDay() | Returns the day of the week for the specified date according to local time. |
| getFullYear() | Returns the year of the specified date according to local time. |
| getHours() | Returns the hour in the specified date according to local time. |
| getMilliseconds() | Returns the milliseconds in the specified date according to local time. |
| getMinutes() | Returns the minutes in the specified date according to local time. |
| getMonth() | Returns the month in the specified date according to local time. |
| getSeconds() | Returns the seconds in the specified date according to local time. |
| getTime() | Returns the numeric value of the specified date as the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC. |
| getTimezoneOffset() | Returns the time-zone offset in minutes for the current locale. |
| getUTCDate() | Returns the day (date) of the month in the specified date according to universal time. |
| getUTCDay() | Returns the day of the week in the specified date according to universal time. |
| getUTCFullYear() | Returns the year in the specified date according to universal time. |
| getUTCHours() | Returns the hours in the specified date according to universal time. |
| getUTCMilliseconds() | Returns the milliseconds in the specified date according to universal time. |
| getUTCMinutes() | Returns the minutes in the specified date according to universal time. |
| getUTCMonth() | Returns the month in the specified date according to universal time. |
| getUTCSeconds() | Returns the seconds in the specified date according to universal time. |
| getYear() | Deprecated - Returns the year in the specified date according to local time. Use getFullYear instead. |
| setDate() | Sets the day of the month for a specified date according to local time. |
| setFullYear() | Sets the full year for a specified date according to local time. |
| setHours() | Sets the hours for a specified date according to local time. |
| setMilliseconds() | Sets the milliseconds for a specified date according to local time. |
| setMinutes() | Sets the minutes for a specified date according to local time. |
| setMonth() | Sets the month for a specified date according to local time. |
| setSeconds() | Sets the seconds for a specified date according to local time. |
| setTime() | Sets the Date object to the time represented by a number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC. |
| setUTCDate() | Sets the day of the month for a specified date according to universal time. |
| setUTCFullYear() | Sets the full year for a specified date according to universal time. |
| setUTCHours() | Sets the hour for a specified date according to universal time. |
| setUTCMilliseconds() | Sets the milliseconds for a specified date according to universal time. |
| setUTCMinutes() | Sets the minutes for a specified date according to universal time. |
| setUTCMonth() | Sets the month for a specified date according to universal time. |
| setUTCSeconds() | Sets the seconds for a specified date according to universal time. |
| setYear() | Deprecated - Sets the year for a specified date according to local time. Use setFullYear instead. |
| toDateString() | Returns the "date" portion of the Date as a human-readable string. |
| toGMTString() | Deprecated - Converts a date to a string, using the Internet GMT conventions. Use toUTCString instead. |
| toLocaleDateString() | Returns the "date" portion of the Date as a string, using the current locale's conventions. |
| toLocaleFormat() | Converts a date to a string, using a format string. |
| toLocaleString() | Converts a date to a string, using the current locale's conventions. |
| toLocaleTimeString() | Returns the "time" portion of the Date as a string, using the current locale's conventions. |
| toSource() | Returns a string representing the source for an equivalent Date object; you can use this value to create a new object. |
| toString() | Returns a string representing the specified Date object. |
| toTimeString() | Returns the "time" portion of the Date as a human-readable string. |
| toUTCString() | Converts a date to a string, using the universal time convention. |
| valueOf() | Returns the primitive value of a Date object. |
In addition to the many instance methods listed previously, the Date object also defines two static methods. These methods are invoked through the Date( ) constructor itself:
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| Date.parse( ) | Parses a string representation of a date and time and returns the internal millisecond representation of that date. |
| Date.UTC( ) | Returns the millisecond representation of the specified UTC date and time. |
Here is a list of each method and its description.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| abs() | Returns the absolute value of a number. |
| acos() | Returns the arccosine (in radians) of a number. |
| asin() | Returns the arcsine (in radians) of a number. |
| atan() | Returns the arctangent (in radians) of a number. |
| atan2() | Returns the arctangent of the quotient of its arguments. |
| ceil() | Returns the smallest integer greater than or equal to a number. |
| cos() | Returns the cosine of a number. |
| exp() | Returns EN, where N is the argument, and E is Euler's constant, the base of the natural logarithm. |
| floor() | Returns the largest integer less than or equal to a number. |
| log() | Returns the natural logarithm (base E) of a number. |
| max() | Returns the largest of zero or more numbers. |
| min() | Returns the smallest of zero or more numbers. |
| pow() | Returns base to the exponent power, that is, base exponent. |
| random() | Returns a pseudo-random number between 0 and 1. |
| round() | Returns the value of a number rounded to the nearest integer. |
| sin() | Returns the sine of a number. |
| sqrt() | Returns the square root of a number. |
| tan() | Returns the tangent of a number. |
| toSource() | Returns the string "Math". |
Here is a list of each method and its description.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| exec() | Executes a search for a match in its string parameter. |
| test() | Tests for a match in its string parameter. |
| toSource() | Returns an object literal representing the specified object; you can use this value to create a new object. |
| toString() | Returns a string representing the specified object. |


new Channel()
The Channel class represent a voice or text only channel in a Curse server. On Curse side, Conversations and Channels are exactly the same thing, but on the lib side, the text part of the channel is handled by the Conversation Class and the channel informations itself by the Channel class.
Properties:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
ID |
string | Curse UUID of the specified Channel. This ID is shared with the corresponding conversation. |
client |
Client | |
name |
string | The name of the current Channel. |
description |
string | The description of the current Channel. |
server |
Server | The Server where the current channel is located. |
isVoiceChannel |
boolean | False when the channel is a text only channel. |
conversation |
Conversation | Corresponding Conversation object of the Channel. |
displayOrder |
number | Position of the channel in the channel list |
displayCategoryID |
string | Curse UUID of the display category |
displayCategory |
string | Name of the display category |
displayCategoryRank |
number | Position of the display Category in channel list |
isDefaultChannel |
boolean | True if it's the default channel of the server |
isPublic |
boolean | True if anyone can access it |
urlPath |
string | Url path of the channel |
- Source:


Before Change
if filename is None:
filename = ""
filepath = os.path.join(path, filename)
np.savez_compressed(filepath+"X_norm", X_train[::3].astype("float32"))
np.savez_compressed(filepath+"X_test", X_test.astype("float32"))
// np.savez_compressed(filepath+"Y_train", Y_train.astype("float32"))
np.savez_compressed(filepath+"Y_test", Y_test.astype("float32"))
After Change
testflow = datagen.flow(X_test, Y_test, batch_size=len(X_test))
X_test, Y_test = testflow.next()
normflow = datagen.flow(X_train, Y_train, batch_size=int(len(X_train)/3))
X_norm, Y_norm = normflow.next()
if flat:
X_norm = X_norm.reshape(X_norm.shape[0], np.prod(X_norm.shape[1:]))


Strong citizen-state bond ensures stronger countries, Erdoğan says
by DAILY SABAHCountries unable to establish strong ties with their citizens are more vulnerable to domestic and foreign interference. It is not possible to bring down a country embraced by the people, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday.


Documents vs eMails
With a public sector customer I had an interesting discussion on non-repudiation, messaging and regulatory control. We were discussing how to ensure awareness of information that has behavioural or legal consequences. While " I didn't know" is hardly a viable defence, relying on the other party to keep themselves updated is just asking for trouble. In a collaborative environment, where a regulator sees itself primarily as the facilitator of orderly conduct and only as policing the conduct as secondary mission, this is inefficient.
An efficient way is a closed loop system of information dissemination and acknowledgement. The closed loop requirement isn't just for regulators, but anybody that shares information resulting in specific behaviour. Just look at the communication pattern of a pilot with air traffic control (paraphrased): Tower: " Flight ABC23 turn to runway 270, descend to 12 thousand feet" - Pilot: " Roger that, turning to 270, descent to 12 thousand"
When we look at eMail, the standard mechanism that seems to get close to this pattern are Return Receipts:
Using RFC3798 - Message Disposition Notification - MDN (commonly referred to as Return Receipt) to capture the "state of acknowledgement", is a folly.
Using documents that have a better context a closed loop system can be designed. When I say "document" I don't mean: propriety binary or text format file sitting in a file system, but entity (most likely in a database) that has content and meta information. The interesting part is the meta information:
Messaging is only used for notification of the intended audience. Acknowledgement is not an automatic, but a conscious act of clicking a link and confirming the content. The confirmation would take a copy of original text and sign it, so it becomes clear who acknowledged what. An ideal candidate would be XML Signature, but there isn't a model how to sign that from a browser. There is an emerging w3C standard for browser based Crypto, that has various level of adoption: Once you have dedicated records who has acknowledged a document, you can start chasing, reliable and automated, the missing participants and, if you are a regulator, take punitive actions when chasing fails. It also opens the possibility to run statistics how fast what type of documents get adopted.
The big BUT usually is: I don't want to deploy additional 2 servers for document storage and web access. The solution for that is, you might have guessed it, is Domino. One server can provide all 3 roles easily:
As usual YMMV
An efficient way is a closed loop system of information dissemination and acknowledgement. The closed loop requirement isn't just for regulators, but anybody that shares information resulting in specific behaviour. Just look at the communication pattern of a pilot with air traffic control (paraphrased): Tower: " Flight ABC23 turn to runway 270, descend to 12 thousand feet" - Pilot: " Roger that, turning to 270, descent to 12 thousand"
When we look at eMail, the standard mechanism that seems to get close to this pattern are Return Receipts:
Using RFC3798 - Message Disposition Notification - MDN (commonly referred to as Return Receipt) to capture the "state of acknowledgement", is a folly.
- the RFC is completely optional and a messages system can have it switched off (or delete it from the outbox), so it isn't suitable as guarantee
- MDN only indicates that a message has been opened. It does not indicate: was it read, was it understood, were the actions understood, was the content accepted (the later one might not be relevant in a regulatory situation). It also doesn't - which is the biggest flaw - indicate what content was opened. If the transmission was incomplete, damaged or intercepted a return receipt wouldn't care.
Using documents that have a better context a closed loop system can be designed. When I say "document" I don't mean: propriety binary or text format file sitting in a file system, but entity (most likely in a database) that has content and meta information. The interesting part is the meta information:
- Document hierarchy: where does it fit in. For a car manufacturer recalling cars that could be: model, make, year. For a legislator the act and provisions it belongs in
- Validity: when does it come into effect (so one can browse by enactment date), when does (or did) it expire
- History: which document(s) did it supersede, which document(s) superseded it
- Audience: who needs to acknowledge it and how fast. Level of acknowledgement needed (simple confirmation or some questionnaire)
- Pointer to discussion, FAQ and comments
- Tags
Messaging is only used for notification of the intended audience. Acknowledgement is not an automatic, but a conscious act of clicking a link and confirming the content. The confirmation would take a copy of original text and sign it, so it becomes clear who acknowledged what. An ideal candidate would be XML Signature, but there isn't a model how to sign that from a browser. There is an emerging w3C standard for browser based Crypto, that has various level of adoption: Once you have dedicated records who has acknowledged a document, you can start chasing, reliable and automated, the missing participants and, if you are a regulator, take punitive actions when chasing fails. It also opens the possibility to run statistics how fast what type of documents get adopted.
The big BUT usually is: I don't want to deploy additional 2 servers for document storage and web access. The solution for that is, you might have guessed it, is Domino. One server can provide all 3 roles easily:
As usual YMMV
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To add machine-readable data with JSON-LD to a webpage, the first step is defining what data to send. We will now create a JSON file that can be embedded in a page.
To be able to read the definitions of all the terms it is necessary to provide context. Providing context in JSON-LD is done with the @context
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The next part is defining the type of the data. In our case we will set a parking site. Following our vocabulary this is defined as dtx:ParkingSite
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Nam Tae Hyun announces the end of his label 'The South' + states that South Club has signed to a label
by sl278South Club's Nam Tae Hyun surprised fans with an announcement today.
The message was posted on his Instagram and reads as follows:
"Hello. This is South Club's Nam Tae Hyun.
First, I apologize for the delay of our 5 song EP.
Our band found a label and the label I was running called 'The South' has been dissolved. Although 3 years is a short time, I learned a lot about running a company and sometimes I struggled due to some systems. However, I am glad that a new family has formed and that a systematic way and employees will be helping us focus on our music, which makes me happy.
The 5 songs that were planned to be released is postponed after a long discussion with the label. We will be greeting the public with brighter songs and a single album first. We will continue to prune ourselves and find you with good songs. I wanted to let you know first before another announcement was made. Thank you for trusting and waiting for my lacking self and thank you for loving me.
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Occasionally, organizations will need to address performance issues when running reports. Power BI provides the Performance Analyzer tool to help fix problems and streamline the process.
Consider the scenario where you are building reports for the Sales team in your organization. You’ve imported your data, which is in several tables within the Sales team’s SQL database, by creating a data connection to the database through DirectQuery. When you create preliminary visuals and filters, you notice that some tables are queried faster than others, and some filters are taking longer to process compared to others.
The performance in Power Query depends on the performance at the data source level. The variety of data sources that Power Query offers is very wide, and the performance tuning techniques for each source are equally wide. For instance, if you extract data from a Microsoft SQL Server, you should follow the performance tuning guidelines for the product. Good SQL Server performance tuning techniques includes index creation, hardware upgrades, execution plan tuning, and data compression. These topics are beyond the scope here, and are covered only as an example to build familiarity with your data source and reap the benefits when using Power BI and Power Query.
Power Query takes advantage of good performance at the data source through a technique called Query Folding.
The query folding within Power Query Editor helps you increase the performance of your Power BI reports. Query folding is the process by which the transformations and edits that you make in Power Query Editor are simultaneously tracked as native queries, or simple Select SQL statements, while you are actively making transformations. The reason for implementing this process is to ensure that these transformations can take place in the original data source server and do not overwhelm Power BI computing resources.
You can use Power Query to load data into Power BI. Using Power Query Editor you can then make further transformations to your data, such as renaming or deleting columns, appending, parsing, filtering, or grouping your data.
Consider a scenario where you’ve renamed a few columns in the Sales data and merged a city and state column together in the “city state” format. Meanwhile, the query folding feature tracks those changes in native queries. Then, when you load your data, the transformations take place independently in the original source, this ensures that performance is optimized in Power BI.
The benefits to query folding include:
More efficiency in data refreshes and incremental refreshes. When you import data tables by using query folding, Power BI is better able to allocate resources and refresh the data faster because Power BI does not have to run through each transformation locally.
Automatic compatibility with DirectQuery and Dual storage modes. All DirectQuery and Dual storage mode data sources must have the back-end server processing abilities to create a direct connection, which means that query folding is an automatic capability that you can use. If all transformations can be reduced to a single Select statement, then query folding can occur.
The following scenario shows query folding in action. In this scenario, you apply a set of queries to multiple tables. After you add a new data source by using Power Query, and you are directed to the Power Query Editor, you go to the Query Settings pane and right-click the last applied step, as shown in the following figure.
If the View Native Query option is not available (not displayed in bold type), that query folding is not possible for this step, and you will have to work backward in the Applied Steps area until you reach the step in which View Native Query is available (displays in bold type). This process will reveal the native query that is used to transform the dataset.
Native queries are not possible for the following transformations:
A good guideline to remember is that if you can translate a transformation into a Select SQL statement, which includes operators and clauses such as GROUP BY, SORT BY, WHERE, UNION ALL, and JOIN, you can use query folding.
While query folding is one option to optimize performance when retrieving, importing, and preparing data, another option is query diagnostics.
Another tool that you can use to study query performance is query diagnostics. This feature allows you to determine what bottlenecks (if any) exist while loading and transforming your data, refreshing your data in Power Query, running SQL statements in Query Editor, and so on.
To access query diagnostics in Power Query Editor, go to Tools in the Home ribbon. When you are ready to begin transforming your data or making other edits in Power Query Editor, select Start Diagnostics on the Session Diagnostics tab. When you are finished, make sure that you select Stop Diagnostics.
Selecting Diagnose Step shows you the length of time that it takes to run that step, as shown in the following image. This selection can tell you if a step takes longer to complete than others, which then serves as a starting point for further investigation.
This tool is useful when you want to analyze performance on the Power Query side for tasks such as loading datasets, running data refreshes, or running other transformative tasks.
Other ways to optimize query performance in Power BI include:
Process as much data as possible in the original data source. Power Query and Power Query Editor allow you to process the data; however, the processing power that is required to complete this task might lower performance in other areas of your reports. Generally, a good practice is to process, as much as possible, in the native data source.
Use native SQL queries. When using DirectQuery for SQL databases, such as the case for our scenario, make sure that you are not pulling data from stored procedures or common table expressions (CTEs).
Separate date and time, if bound together. If any of your tables have columns that combine date and time, make sure that you separate them into distinct columns before importing them into Power BI. This approach will increase compression abilities.
For more information, refer to Query Folding Guidance and Query Folding.


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Venezuela opposition rallies to revive stalled effort to oust Maduro
Opposition leader Juan Guaido kick-started a groundswell protest movement in January by invoking the constitution to assume an interim presidency after declaring Maduro's 2018 re-election a fraud.
The Venezuelan opposition will hold nationwide protests on Saturday in the hope of reviving a stalled movement to oust President Nicolas Maduro, who has held on to power despite an economic crisis and aggressive US sanctions.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido kick-started a groundswell protest movement in January by invoking the constitution to assume an interim presidency after declaring Maduro's 2018 re-election a fraud.
But the energy has waned and frustration is mounting as Maduro remains in control and the economic meltdown continues to push Venezuelan migrants across the country's borders.
"The dictatorship has underestimated the Venezuelan people. They have not been able to make us grow accustomed to living in misery," Guaido tweeted on Friday night.
Masked men on Friday forced their way into the offices of opposition party Popular Will, to which Guaido belongs. Opposition leaders called the incident an intimidation effort in the run-up to the demonstrations.
The opposition has been inspired by the resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales, a Maduro ally who was accused of manipulating the results of an election in October but later resigned after the violent street protest.
But the change in Venezuela continues to hinge on a shift in the allegiance of the armed forces, which remain loyal to Maduro and the ruling Socialist Party. That contrasts with Bolivia's military leaders, who urged Morales to step down.
Demonstrators in cities around the country plan to stage rallies during the morning and are expected to hold marches in the afternoon.
The Caracas metro, the capital's principal form of public transport, said it was closing a group of stations in the area of the protests for maintenance. Critics said it was an attempt to weaken the demonstrations.
The Socialist party has called a separate rally in Caracas in support of Bolivia's Morales.
Venezuela has for years suffered under hyperinflation and a collapsing economy, spurring an exodus of more than 4 million seeking better access to food and medicine.
More than 50 countries have recognized Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate president and the United States has implemented a sanctions program that has crippled Venezuela's oil exports.
Maduro dismisses Guaido as a puppet of the United States, and blames the economic problems on U.S. sanctions.


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ecryptfs-setup-swap(1) eCryptfs ecryptfs-setup-swap(1) NAME ecryptfs-stat - Present statistics on encrypted eCryptfs file attributes SYNOPSIS ecryptfs-stat filename DESCRIPTION This program will present statistics on encrypted eCryptfs file and its attributes. http://ecryptfs.org/ AUTHOR This manpage was written by Dustin Kirkland<EMAIL_ADDRESS>for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. ecryptfs-utils 2009-08-17 ecryptfs-setup-swap(1)


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Education
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Kalyani Government Engineering College
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M. P. Birla Foundation Higher Secondary School
- Science with Computer Applications
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Backend Development
Web Designing
Discord.js
Java
C/C++
Python
JavaScript
Golang
NodeJS
HTML CSS
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
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Winter'20
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Spring'20
- Rest API and Web Services
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Winter'19
- Basic Data Structures
- Started with Web Development
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Fall'19
- Started with Problem Solving
- Java
Interests
Being abstract is something profoundly different from being vague… The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
-Edsger Dijkstra
I love problem solving and algorithmic challenges. My broad interests lie in applied mathematics and logic which dwell beyond the traditional areas of mathematical logic. Innovative tech projects and software based solutions to real world problems have always fascinated me and I look forward to create or contribute to a project that is helpful for others.
Hobbies
- Volunteering: I'm now a part of the DSC KGEC team!
- Reading & Book Collecting
- Exploring open source project codes on GitHub
- Strategic Gaming
Projects
Faster Mailing portal 🔗
Utilizing Golang's speed and the G-Mail service to provide with a quicker medium to send emails.


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Processes and activities proposed to move the National Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) agenda forward in Australia, using an ambitious Planetary Health approach
Follow-up meeting jointly led by the Departments of Health and Agriculture and Water Resources, involving academia, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Political advocacy to improve awareness, create a sense of urgency and ensure cross-ministerial support.
Establish a national EID expert committee, including leaders from recently established Centres of Research Excellence in EIDs, Communicable Disease Network, Australia, OzFoodNet (
Convene an expert panel to draft a Road Map for a national response to the threat of Emerging Infectious Diseases (including human, animal and plant diseases of major consequence)—coordinated nationally and led by the Departments of Health and Agriculture and Water Resources.
Develop a National Strategy* that links closely with the ‘Responding to the threat of antimicrobial resistance’ strategy 2015–2019.
Develop and monitor national EID surveillance, preparedness and response plans.
Develop frameworks for the optimal and ethical application of new technologies, such as social network surveillance and advanced pathogen genomics.
Strengthen linkages with and support of regional WHO offices (Western Pacific and Southeast Asia), especially the ‘Health Security and Emergencies’ and ‘communicable diseases’ sections and other regional mechanisms and forums, including the South Pacific Commission, the East Asia Summit and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, as well as global initiatives such as Global Health Security Agenda and the Development Banks.
Scope country-level implementation of IHR-2005.
Encourage adequate funding of DFAT’s Regional Health Security strategy.
Link with One/Eco/Planetary health communities in other countries, encourage a ‘united front’ and support international efforts
*This was recently completed, 51 but many of the core elements remain to be executed.


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Differences between Relative, Absolute, & Fixed Positioning?
I picked this topic because this is was once confusing for me. I hope to get better at CSS styling by tackling all the topics I am unfamiliar of.
Relative:
Think of it this way: this element is static, and then you move it relative to this static position. For example: left: 10px will move the element 10px relative to the position it was originally in. Another factor that this style introduces is z-index. You will be able to set and adjust what appears on top of what element.
Take note though that absolute positioned elements inside a relative positioned container, will only be able to move according to the container it is currently in.
Absolute:
Absolute is the most powerful positioning style available. It will position any element relative to it's container (or the body). This removes any flow from the element though, so be careful when using this.
Fixed:
Fixed means it is positioned relative to the current viewport or browser window itself.


Hello everyone! I'm Chad Howard and I'm super excited to be a part of DBC! I can't wait to meet everyone!
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