create Create a NAS Icon in Just 30 Minutes Using Adobe Illustrator By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:00:01 +0000 Welcome back to another Illustrator tutorial from our retro hardware series! In this how-to, we’re going to learn to create a NAS Icon (or a Network-Attached Storage icon) using some simple geometric shapes and tools. So, get your software up and running let’s jump straight into it! Tutorial Details: How to Create a NAS Icon Program: Adobe […] The post Create a NAS Icon in Just 30 Minutes Using Adobe Illustrator appeared first on Vectips. Full Article Tips and Tricks adobe adobe illustrator design icon illustration illustrator line line art line icon nas network network attached storage retro hardware series storage storage media storage unit
create 7 Steps to Create Hand-drawn Vector Patterns By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 14:00:00 +0000 Get in on the hand-drawn vector illustration trend without leaving the digital realm with this fun and tropical pattern tutorial. Tutorial Details: 7 Steps for Easy Flat Work Hand-Drawn Vector Design Program: Adobe Illustrator CS6 – CC Difficulty: Intermediate Topics Covered: Design Theory, Drawing Skills, Tracing Panel Estimated Completion Time: 15 Minutes Final Image: Hand-drawn Vector […] The post 7 Steps to Create Hand-drawn Vector Patterns appeared first on Vectips. Full Article Tutorials foliage hand drawn leaves pattern vector
create Capture that Precious Moment: How to Create a Calm Mood for the Infant By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:30:35 +0000 Babies capture everyone’s heart, and this is the time to cherish in the form of a series of photographs that will remind you of how idyllic your child looked at the newborn stage. Photographing children, especially babies, poses a problem for the image taker, as you cannot simply ask for a pose, rather you have to engineer it. Here is some information to help make the session go smoothly, and get the perfect shots. The Right Age The ideal age to have photos taken of your baby is between 5 and 12 days old, as they tend to sleep most of the time and it is much easier to find the ideal pose and position. Of course, you can wait a little longer, but to be honest, you have lost that newborn look, which is what everyone wants to capture. If you happen to be in Western Australia, and are ... Read more The post Capture that Precious Moment: How to Create a Calm Mood for the Infant appeared first on Digital Photography Tutorials. Full Article Tips and Tricks How to Create a Calm Mood for the Infant
create How to Create Spotify Colorizer Effects With CSS Blend Modes By webdesignerwall.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:03:27 +0000 When Spotify launched their colorful new brand identity, featuring hip duo-toned imagery, it went hand-in-hand with a new Colorizer tool that allows artists to apply a variety of filters to images. This solved a problem in which Spotify needed a way to present the thousands of images uploaded, all with a different look and feel, […] The post How to Create Spotify Colorizer Effects With CSS Blend Modes appeared first on Web Designer Wall. Full Article Featured Tutorials CSS
create Photography Tips: How To Create An Amazing Floating Image By icanbecreative.com Published On :: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:21:35 PST You can do everything today. There are certainly no limits to what the mind can achieve, and that includes floating. With simply manipulating layers using Photoshop, a floating image has never been... Full Article Learning
create How To Create A Trustworthy Brand By icanbecreative.com Published On :: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:04:44 PDT The variables that determine business success are continually evolving. More than ever, customers want to be able to trust businesses with which they are transacting business. This involves building... Full Article Business
create TrailBuddy: Using AI to Create a Predictive Trail Conditions App By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:00:00 -0400 Viget is full of outdoor enthusiasts and, of course, technologists. For this year's Pointless Weekend, we brought these passions together to build TrailBuddy. This app aims to solve that eternal question: Is my favorite trail dry so I can go hike/run/ride? While getting muddy might rekindle fond childhood memories for some, exposing your gear to the elements isn’t great – it’s bad for your equipment and can cause long-term, and potentially expensive, damage to the trail. There are some trail apps out there but we wanted one that would focus on current conditions. Currently, our favorites trail apps, like mtbproject.com, trailrunproject.com, and hikingproject.com -- all owned by REI, rely on user-reported conditions. While this can be effective, the reports are frequently unreliable, as condition reports can become outdated in just a few days. Our goal was to solve this problem by building an app that brought together location, soil type, and weather history data to create on-demand condition predictions for any trail in the US. We built an initial version of TrailBuddy by tapping into several readily-available APIs, then running the combined data through a machine learning algorithm. (Oh, and also by bringing together a bunch of smart and motivated people and combining them with pizza and some of the magic that is our Pointless Weekends. We'll share the other Pointless Project, Scurry, with you soon.) Learn More We're hiring Front-End Developers in our Boulder, Chattanooga, Durham, Falls Church and Remote (U.S. Only) offices. Learn more and introduce yourself. The quest for data. We knew from the start this app would require data from a number of sources. As previously mentioned, we used REI’s APIs (i.e. https://www.hikingproject.com/data) as the source for basic trail information. We used the trails’ latitude and longitude coordinates as well as its elevation to query weather and soil type. We also found data points such as a trail’s total distance to be relevant to our app users and decided to include that on the front-end, too. Since we wanted to go beyond relying solely on user-reported metrics, which is how REI’s current MTB project works, we came up with a list of factors that could affect the trail for that day. First on that list was weather. We not only considered the impacts of the current forecast, but we also looked at the previous day’s forecast. For example, it’s safe to assume that if it’s currently raining or had been raining over the last several days, it would likely lead to muddy and unfavorable conditions for that trail. We utilized the DarkSky API (https://darksky.net/dev) to get the weather forecasts for that day, as well as the records for previous days. This included expected information, like temperature and precipitation chance. It also included some interesting data points that we realized may be factors, like precipitation intensity, cloud cover, and UV index. But weather alone can’t predict how muddy or dry a trail will be. To determine that for sure, we also wanted to use soil data to help predict how well a trail’s unique soil composition recovers after precipitation. Similar amounts of rain on trails of very different soil types could lead to vastly different trail conditions. A more clay-based soil would hold water much longer, and therefore be much more unfavorable, than loamy soil. Finding a reliable source for soil type and soil drainage proved incredibly difficult. After many hours, we finally found a source through the USDA that we could use. As a side note—the USDA keeps track of lots of data points on soil information that’s actually pretty interesting! We can’t say we’re soil experts but, we felt like we got pretty close. We used Whimsical to build our initial wireframes. Putting our design hats on. From the very first pitch for this app, TrailBuddy’s main differentiator to peer trail resources is its ability to surface real-time information, reliably, and simply. For as complicated as the technology needed to collect and interpret information, the front-end app design needed to be clean and unencumbered. We thought about how users would naturally look for information when setting out to find a trail and what factors they’d think about when doing so. We posed questions like: How easy or difficult of a trail are they looking for?How long is this trail?What does the trail look like?How far away is the trail in relation to my location?For what activity am I needing a trail for? Is this a trail I’d want to come back to in the future? By putting ourselves in our users’ shoes we quickly identified key features TrailBuddy needed to have to be relevant and useful. First, we needed filtering, so users could filter between difficulty and distance to narrow down their results to fit the activity level. Next, we needed a way to look up trails by activity type—mountain biking, hiking, and running are all types of activities REI’s MTB API tracks already so those made sense as a starting point. And lastly, we needed a way for the app to find trails based on your location; or at the very least the ability to find a trail within a certain distance of your current location. We used Figma to design, prototype, and gather feedback on TrailBuddy. Using machine learning to predict trail conditions. As stated earlier, none of us are actual soil or data scientists. So, in order to achieve the real-time conditions reporting TrailBuddy promised, we’d decided to leverage machine learning to make predictions for us. Digging into the utility of machine learning was a first for all of us on this team. Luckily, there was an excellent tutorial that laid out the basics of building an ML model in Python. Provided a CSV file with inputs in the left columns, and the desired output on the right, the script we generated was able to test out multiple different model strategies, and output the effectiveness of each in predicting results, shown below. We assembled all of the historical weather and soil data we could find for a given latitude/longitude coordinate, compiled a 1000 * 100 sized CSV, ran it through the Python evaluator, and found that the CART and SVM models consistently outranked the others in terms of predicting trail status. In other words, we found a working model for which to run our data through and get (hopefully) reliable predictions from. The next step was to figure out which data fields were actually critical in predicting the trail status. The more we could refine our data set, the faster and smarter our predictive model could become. We pulled in some Ruby code to take the original (and quite massive) CSV, and output smaller versions to test with. Now again, we’re no data scientists here but, we were able to cull out a good majority of the data and still get a model that performed at 95% accuracy. With our trained model in hand, we could serialize that to into a model.pkl file (pkl stands for “pickle”, as in we’ve “pickled” the model), move that file into our Rails app along with it a python script to deserialize it, pass in a dynamic set of data, and generate real-time predictions. At the end of the day, our model has a propensity to predict fantastic trail conditions (about 99% of the time in fact…). Just one of those optimistic machine learning models we guess. Where we go from here. It was clear that after two days, our team still wanted to do more. As a first refinement, we’d love to work more with our data set and ML model. Something that was quite surprising during the weekend was that we found we could remove all but two days worth of weather data, and all of the soil data we worked so hard to dig up, and still hit 95% accuracy. Which … doesn’t make a ton of sense. Perhaps the data we chose to predict trail conditions just isn’t a great empirical predictor of trail status. While these are questions too big to solve in just a single weekend, we'd love to spend more time digging into this in a future iteration. Full Article News & Culture
create Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an iPhone Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:57:20 +0000 Welcome back to another Adobe Illustrator based tutorial, in which we're going to take a close look behind the process of creating a simple iPhone icon, using nothing more than some basic geometric shapes that we're going to adjust here and there. 1. Set Up a New Project File As with any new project, we’re […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an iPhone Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe contacts dialer Featured icon iphone icon line icon phone phone icon UI
create Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Simple Computer Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 14:50:36 +0000 In today’s tutorial, we're going to take a close look behind the process of creating a simple computer icon, and see how easy it is to build one of our one using nothing more than some basic geometric shapes. 1. Set Up a New Project File As with any new project, we’re going to kick […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Simple Computer Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator adobe illustrator computer icon Featured flat icon icon Vector vector icon
create Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Folder Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 02 May 2019 02:04:36 +0000 In today’s tutorial, we’re going to take an in-depth look behind the process of creating a folder icon, and see how easy it is to build one from scratch using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes, which we’re going to adjust here and there. So, assuming you already have Illustrator up and […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Folder Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Design Feature Featured folder folder icon icon Icon Design Vector
create 5 Essentials To Create Your Own Website Presence By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 15 May 2019 18:45:21 +0000 Only a website that has a well-established presence can stand out on the internet. Business owners and individuals hire web designers like yourself to create website presences for them. In order to prove yourself, you need to establish your own presence online first. Get to the point where you can showcase your own website during […] The post 5 Essentials To Create Your Own Website Presence appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article Culture
create Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Watch Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:02:39 +0000 Welcome back to another Illustrator based tutorial, in which we’re going to learn how to create a simple watch icon, using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes and tools. So, assuming you already have the software running in the background, bring it up and let’s jump straight into it! 1. Set Up […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Watch Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Feature Featured Icon Design vector icon watch watch icon
create Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an Icognito Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:04:04 +0000 Welcome back to another Illustrator based tutorial, in which we’re going to take a close look behind the process of creating an incognito icon, using nothing more than a couple of simple shapes and tools. So, assuming you already have the software running in the background, bring it up and let’s jump straight into it! […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an Icognito Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Featured icon incognito incognito icon line art line icon Vector vector icon
create Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an Ice Cream icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 04:49:23 +0000 In today’s tutorial, we’re going to take a quick look at the process of creating an Ice Cream icon, and learn how easy it is to build one from scratch using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes that we’re going to adjust here and there. So, assuming you already have the software […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an Ice Cream icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Featured ice cream icon icon Icon Design Vector vector icon
create Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Notification Bell Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:42:01 +0000 n today’s tutorial, we’re going to take a quick look behind the process of creating a notification bell icon, and see how easy it is to do so using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes and tools. So, assuming you already have the software up and running, let’s jump straight into it! […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Notification Bell Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Featured flat flat icon icon Icon Design Vector vector art
create Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Recycle Bin Notification Icon By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 03:56:08 +0000 Welcome back to another Illustrator based tutorial, in which we’re going to learn how to create a recycle bin notification icon, using nothing more than a couple of basic geometric shapes that we’re going to adjust here and there. So, assuming you already have the software running in the background, bring it up and let’s […] The post Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Recycle Bin Notification Icon appeared first on Bittbox. Full Article How To Illustrator Adobe adobe illustrator Art Feature Featured flat icon icon Icon Design Vector vector icon
create 15 Digital Products That Web Designers Can Create and Sell By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 04:56:52 +0000 There are a number of different ways to make money as a web designer aside from simply creating websites for clients. Many freelancers choose to supplement their income from client work by doing some... Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. Full Article Business Design Featured
create How pottering about in the garden creates a time warp By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:09:42 +0000 By Harriet Gross Courtesy of Aeon What’s not to like about gardening? It’s a great way to get outdoors, away from everyday routines, and to exercise your creativity. It’s good for your health, whatever your age, and gardeners tend to be … Continue reading → Full Article Into Action eco-psychology gardening psychology
create How to Create a Full-Screen Welcome Mat Optin Form in WordPress By www.isitwp.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 07:27:00 +0000 Want to create a full-screen optin form in WordPress? Love it or hate it… using a welcome mat is one of the easiest ways to capture your users’ attention. Even big brands like Forbes use a welcome mat to promote their campaigns. In this article, we’ll show you how to properly create a welcome mat […] The post How to Create a Full-Screen Welcome Mat Optin Form in WordPress appeared first on IsItWP - Free WordPress Theme Detector. Full Article WordPress Tutorials create a welcome mat create a welcome mat in wordpress optinmonster welcome mat for users welcome mat in wordpress
create How to Create a “Google Forms Style” Form in WordPress By www.isitwp.com Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:06:16 +0000 Want to create “Google Forms style” forms for your WordPress website? A lot of publishers choose Google Forms to create a survey because it provides a distraction-free landing page dedicated to the form. If you want to create a distraction-free landing page specifically for your form, but don’t want to use a third-party app, like […] The post How to Create a “Google Forms Style” Form in WordPress appeared first on IsItWP - Free WordPress Theme Detector. Full Article WordPress Tutorials google forms styledform for wp how to create google forms styled form for wordpress using form page addon to create google form styled forms using wpforms to create google form styled forms
create How to Properly Create a Wholesale Order Form in WordPress By www.isitwp.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:01:01 +0000 Want to create a wholesale order form in WordPress? If you’re a wholesaler looking to get online, but don’t want to manage a full-fledged eCommerce store, then you might want to consider adding a simple wholesale order form to your WordPress site. In this article, we’ll show you how to properly create a simple wholesale […] The post How to Properly Create a Wholesale Order Form in WordPress appeared first on IsItWP - Free WordPress Theme Detector. Full Article WordPress Tutorials create a wholesale order form create a wholesale order form in WordPress wholesale order form wholesale order form in WordPress wordpress forms
create How to Create an Amazon Affiliate Store (Step by Step) By www.isitwp.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 08:40:24 +0000 Do you want to add an Amazon affiliate store with WordPress? Amazon is the world’s largest online store that helps thousands of merchants to sell products online across the world. They have an official affiliate system that allows affiliate marketers like you to recommend Amazon products to your website’s audience and earn an affiliate commission. […] The post How to Create an Amazon Affiliate Store (Step by Step) appeared first on IsItWP - Free WordPress Theme Detector. Full Article WordPress Tutorials amazon affiliate store amazon affiliate store with wordpress create an amazon affiliate store create an amazon affiliate store with wordpress how to create an amazon affiliate store
create Create your own bulk actions By wpengineer.com Published On :: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 09:00:45 +0000 Including version 4.6 it was quite difficult to add custom bulk actions to the WordPress admin pages. In version 4.7 […] Full Article WordPress Tutorials backend Tutorials
create How pottering about in the garden creates a time warp By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:09:42 +0000 By Harriet Gross Courtesy of Aeon What’s not to like about gardening? It’s a great way to get outdoors, away from everyday routines, and to exercise your creativity. It’s good for your health, whatever your age, and gardeners tend to be … Continue reading → Full Article Into Action eco-psychology gardening psychology
create Create the Change You Seek with Jonah Berger By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 13:15:57 +0000 Jonah Berger is a marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and internationally bestselling author of Contagious, Invisible Influence, and The Catalyst. Dr. Berger is a world-renowned expert on change, word of mouth, influence, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on. He has published over 50 articles in top‐tier academic journals, teaches Wharton’s highest rated online course, and popular outlets like The New York Times and Harvard Business Review often cover his work. He’s keynoted hundred of events, and often consults for organizations like Google, Apple, Nike, and the Gates Foundation. Enjoy! FOLLOW JONAH: instagram | twitter | website Listen to the Podcast Subscribe Watch the Episode This podcast is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world’s largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker, money/life and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts — Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times. The post Create the Change You Seek with Jonah Berger appeared first on Chase Jarvis Photography. Full Article chasejarvisLIVE Podcast
create TrailBuddy: Using AI to Create a Predictive Trail Conditions App By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:00:00 -0400 Viget is full of outdoor enthusiasts and, of course, technologists. For this year's Pointless Weekend, we brought these passions together to build TrailBuddy. This app aims to solve that eternal question: Is my favorite trail dry so I can go hike/run/ride? While getting muddy might rekindle fond childhood memories for some, exposing your gear to the elements isn’t great – it’s bad for your equipment and can cause long-term, and potentially expensive, damage to the trail. There are some trail apps out there but we wanted one that would focus on current conditions. Currently, our favorites trail apps, like mtbproject.com, trailrunproject.com, and hikingproject.com -- all owned by REI, rely on user-reported conditions. While this can be effective, the reports are frequently unreliable, as condition reports can become outdated in just a few days. Our goal was to solve this problem by building an app that brought together location, soil type, and weather history data to create on-demand condition predictions for any trail in the US. We built an initial version of TrailBuddy by tapping into several readily-available APIs, then running the combined data through a machine learning algorithm. (Oh, and also by bringing together a bunch of smart and motivated people and combining them with pizza and some of the magic that is our Pointless Weekends. We'll share the other Pointless Project, Scurry, with you soon.) Learn More We're hiring Front-End Developers in our Boulder, Chattanooga, Durham, Falls Church and Remote (U.S. Only) offices. Learn more and introduce yourself. The quest for data. We knew from the start this app would require data from a number of sources. As previously mentioned, we used REI’s APIs (i.e. https://www.hikingproject.com/data) as the source for basic trail information. We used the trails’ latitude and longitude coordinates as well as its elevation to query weather and soil type. We also found data points such as a trail’s total distance to be relevant to our app users and decided to include that on the front-end, too. Since we wanted to go beyond relying solely on user-reported metrics, which is how REI’s current MTB project works, we came up with a list of factors that could affect the trail for that day. First on that list was weather. We not only considered the impacts of the current forecast, but we also looked at the previous day’s forecast. For example, it’s safe to assume that if it’s currently raining or had been raining over the last several days, it would likely lead to muddy and unfavorable conditions for that trail. We utilized the DarkSky API (https://darksky.net/dev) to get the weather forecasts for that day, as well as the records for previous days. This included expected information, like temperature and precipitation chance. It also included some interesting data points that we realized may be factors, like precipitation intensity, cloud cover, and UV index. But weather alone can’t predict how muddy or dry a trail will be. To determine that for sure, we also wanted to use soil data to help predict how well a trail’s unique soil composition recovers after precipitation. Similar amounts of rain on trails of very different soil types could lead to vastly different trail conditions. A more clay-based soil would hold water much longer, and therefore be much more unfavorable, than loamy soil. Finding a reliable source for soil type and soil drainage proved incredibly difficult. After many hours, we finally found a source through the USDA that we could use. As a side note—the USDA keeps track of lots of data points on soil information that’s actually pretty interesting! We can’t say we’re soil experts but, we felt like we got pretty close. We used Whimsical to build our initial wireframes. Putting our design hats on. From the very first pitch for this app, TrailBuddy’s main differentiator to peer trail resources is its ability to surface real-time information, reliably, and simply. For as complicated as the technology needed to collect and interpret information, the front-end app design needed to be clean and unencumbered. We thought about how users would naturally look for information when setting out to find a trail and what factors they’d think about when doing so. We posed questions like: How easy or difficult of a trail are they looking for?How long is this trail?What does the trail look like?How far away is the trail in relation to my location?For what activity am I needing a trail for? Is this a trail I’d want to come back to in the future? By putting ourselves in our users’ shoes we quickly identified key features TrailBuddy needed to have to be relevant and useful. First, we needed filtering, so users could filter between difficulty and distance to narrow down their results to fit the activity level. Next, we needed a way to look up trails by activity type—mountain biking, hiking, and running are all types of activities REI’s MTB API tracks already so those made sense as a starting point. And lastly, we needed a way for the app to find trails based on your location; or at the very least the ability to find a trail within a certain distance of your current location. We used Figma to design, prototype, and gather feedback on TrailBuddy. Using machine learning to predict trail conditions. As stated earlier, none of us are actual soil or data scientists. So, in order to achieve the real-time conditions reporting TrailBuddy promised, we’d decided to leverage machine learning to make predictions for us. Digging into the utility of machine learning was a first for all of us on this team. Luckily, there was an excellent tutorial that laid out the basics of building an ML model in Python. Provided a CSV file with inputs in the left columns, and the desired output on the right, the script we generated was able to test out multiple different model strategies, and output the effectiveness of each in predicting results, shown below. We assembled all of the historical weather and soil data we could find for a given latitude/longitude coordinate, compiled a 1000 * 100 sized CSV, ran it through the Python evaluator, and found that the CART and SVM models consistently outranked the others in terms of predicting trail status. In other words, we found a working model for which to run our data through and get (hopefully) reliable predictions from. The next step was to figure out which data fields were actually critical in predicting the trail status. The more we could refine our data set, the faster and smarter our predictive model could become. We pulled in some Ruby code to take the original (and quite massive) CSV, and output smaller versions to test with. Now again, we’re no data scientists here but, we were able to cull out a good majority of the data and still get a model that performed at 95% accuracy. With our trained model in hand, we could serialize that to into a model.pkl file (pkl stands for “pickle”, as in we’ve “pickled” the model), move that file into our Rails app along with it a python script to deserialize it, pass in a dynamic set of data, and generate real-time predictions. At the end of the day, our model has a propensity to predict fantastic trail conditions (about 99% of the time in fact…). Just one of those optimistic machine learning models we guess. Where we go from here. It was clear that after two days, our team still wanted to do more. As a first refinement, we’d love to work more with our data set and ML model. Something that was quite surprising during the weekend was that we found we could remove all but two days worth of weather data, and all of the soil data we worked so hard to dig up, and still hit 95% accuracy. Which … doesn’t make a ton of sense. Perhaps the data we chose to predict trail conditions just isn’t a great empirical predictor of trail status. While these are questions too big to solve in just a single weekend, we'd love to spend more time digging into this in a future iteration. Full Article News & Culture
create Spokane groups create fund to help undocumented families during pandemic By www.inlander.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 15:04:10 -0700 A coalition of immigrant-focused organizations has created the Spokane Relief Fund for Undocumented Immigrants, in order to help families who are unable to access federal aid during the coronavirus shutdowns. The partners sponsoring the work include the Spokane Immigrant Rights Coalition (SIRC), the Hispanic Business and Professional Association, Latinos en Spokane, Mujeres in Action and Raiz.… Full Article News/Local News
create Methods and apparatus to create process control graphics based on process control information By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:00:00 EDT Methods and apparatus to automatically link process control graphics to process control algorithm information are described. An example method involves displaying a first process control image including process control algorithm information and displaying adjacent to the first process control image a second process control image to include process control graphics. The method automatically links at least some of the process control algorithm information to a graphic in the second process control image in response to user inputs associated with the first and second process control images. Full Article
create Multistep UV process to create surface modified contact lenses By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:00:00 EDT Medical devices having a wettable, biocompatible surface are described herein. Processes for producing such devices are also described. Full Article
create Apparatus to create bends in composite panels By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:00:00 EDT An apparatus for forming a bend in a composite panel is provided. An angle and a radius bend are identified for a bend. A location of the bend in the composite panel is identified. A slot is cut having a curved flange in the composite panel at the identified location in a single pass through the composite panel with a tool, wherein the curved flange has a shape with a bend allowance width and a bend slot width. The bend allowance width is BA=2π*A/360, wherein BA is the bend allowance width, R is a corner radius, and A is a bend angle. The bend slot width is BS=BA−2K(R−T), wherein K is Tan(A/2) and T is a thickness of the composite panel. Full Article
create Apparatus including an asymmetrical wedge-like member for controlling deflection in small diameter rolls of an open width stabilizer so as to create a straight line nip with uniform pressure across the nip By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST An improved apparatus for correcting deflection in small diameter feed and retard rolls of an open width stabilizer so as to create a straight line nip with uniform pressure across the nip. The improved apparatus provides apparatus for adjusting deflection of the rolls to thereby maintain a desired size to a passageway between them so as to optimize compaction of a fabric web material. A wedge-like member is disposed between, and in moving relationship to, feed and retard roller bearings. The wedge-like member is asymmetrical, has feed and retard sides that engage the feed and retard roller bearings, respectively, and exerts reaction forces against each of the respective bearings. Improvement resides in the reaction forces causing the rolls the rolls to not deflect downwardly. Full Article
create METHOD FOR USING A FLOW OF AIR TO CREATE A PROTECTED FIELD By www.freepatentsonline.com Published On :: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:00:00 EDT In one embodiment, a method of creating a protected field is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes directing a first flow of air around a target space, drawing the first flow of air in through a primary air intake vent to create a first flow field envelope. In one embodiment, a second flow of air is directed within the first flow field envelope. Full Article
create Is a Beautiful Soul Necessary to Create Beautiful Art? By www.eastbayexpress.com Published On :: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:00:00 -0800 The provocative A Human Ounce at Central Works asks whether the creator can be separate from the creation. Central Works opens its 30th anniversary season with A Human Ounce, a new play by Nicole Parizeau that poses provocative questions. What is the value of great art, literature, music, commerce, scientific discovery — even Peet's coffee — when scandalous information about its creators or owners comes to light?… Full Article Arts Feature
create Create your own period drama at Chawton House By www.dailyecho.co.uk Published On :: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:14:49 +0000 There are few who aren’t familiar with the classic works of Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, the list goes on. Full Article
create How to Create and Use VoiceOver Activity Profiles on iOS By www.applevis.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:21:32 -0300 In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and explores how in iOS 13 users have the capability to create custom VoiceOver configurations for different tasks. For example, having a Different VoiceOver voice, speaking rate, and verbosity level for when using a specific app. Full Article iOS New Users Walk-through
create City Of Ypsilanti Creates Housing Assistance Fund By www.wemu.org Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 19:37:58 +0000 The City of Ypsilanti has created a housing expenditure program for residents who need financial assistance during the COVID-19 crisis. Full Article
create Faith Leaders Using Creative Ways To Create Fellowship During Social Distancing By www.wcbe.org Published On :: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 12:42:14 +0000 This month is a special one for people of many faiths, and not being able to gather has been a concern for those who find fellowship to be comforting, and even necessary in tough times. So faith leaders are finding unique ways to reach out to their congregations. Full Article
create Create NSW COVID-19 support for the small-medium arts and screen sector By www.australianmusiccentre.com.au Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +1000 To support independent artists and small to medium arts, screen and cultural organisations impacted by COVID-19, Create NSW is implementing a number of measures. This includes accommodation assistance, new support for creatives to engage with online platforms, and a suite of initiatives that provide employment and development opportunities, and audience engagement and skill-sharing for arts, screen and cultural organisations and individuals across the State. > More detail (Create NSW) Full Article
create Charities unite to create job opportunities By thebirminghampress.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:13:15 +0000 New prospects for young Birmingham jobseekers. Full Article Charities Community Eating out Employment Training Aquarius Birmingham Museums Trust Blakesley Hall Evolve
create Winnebago County Musicians Invited To Create 'Stay Home Songs' By www.northernpublicradio.org Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:33:16 +0000 The Rockford Area Convention and Visitor's Bureau (RACVB) wants you to stay home and write songs. "Stay Home Songs" is a community song writing contest that is open to all ages and all types of musicians. There is no fee to enter and all genres of music are welcome. Musicians who live in Winnebago County and may enter one original song that is less than three minutes long. Nick Povalitis is the vice president of marketing and sports development for the RACVB. He believes this contest creates an engaging way for people to stay together during Governor J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order. "We want to do our part to tell stories and connect people," Povalitis said. "Musicians are some of our best creators and there are a lot of talented musicians within Winnebago County and the Rockford region." This includes the contest judges. Jodi Beach, Vince Chiarelli, Duntai Mathews, Miles Nielsen, and Antonio Ramirez will select the winning songwriter. The winner will receive a $200 gift card to a Full Article
create Coronavirus: Glasgow gym owner creates online community to keep people fit and healthy By www.glasgowtimes.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0100 Shops are closing. Newspaper sales are falling. But we’ve chosen to keep our online journalism free because it’s so important that the people of Glasgow stay informed during this crisis. Full Article
create Distance Learning Creates Barriers For Some Special Ed Students By www.iowapublicradio.org Published On :: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:42:31 +0000 Educators, parents and students are all struggling to find their way through distance learning, but the challenges can be even greater for special education students. Full Article
create How to Create Succulent Art By feeds.thisoldhouse.com Published On :: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:00:00 EDT Ask This Old House landscape designer Jenn Nawada explains how to create a piece of artwork out of succulent plants Full Article How-to Video
create MeFi: Create your own 1980s police sketch, online via virtual Mac By www.metafilter.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 04:42:13 GMT MeFite odinsdream recently came across some old abandoned police sketch software for Macintosh systems from the 1980s, then wrapped it up in a web-based emulator, and now you can play with it in your browser! Make your own face sketches. [via mefi projects] Full Article
create Create your own 1980s police sketch By projects.metafilter.com Published On :: Sun, 03 May 2020 14:21:08 GMT I recently came across some old abandoned police sketch software for Macintosh systems from the 1980s. I've wrapped it up in a web-based emulator and now you can play with it in your browser. Make your own face sketches.[Link] Full Article
create Bay Area Artist Journee Premieres “Options” on All Streaming Platforms and Creates the #OptionsChallenge By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 09:16:34 PDT Bay Area Artist Journee Premieres "Options" on All Streaming Platforms and Creates the #OptionsChallenge. Biography Journee is a 21 year old singer, songwriter, and model from San Jose, CA and is one of 5 brothers and sisters. She’s currently in college at UC Riverside and has immersed herself onto the LA music scene, perfecting her craft, and frequently collaborating with creatives making her one of the most exciting new acts from the region. Her single “This and That” was recently added to the Emerging R&B Playlist on Sound Cloud where out of 55 records she has the 6th most streams overall trailing only major artists. Often being compared to Aaliyah as a vocalist her lyrics are edgy but her voice is smooth and leaves any listener wanting more. The post Bay Area Artist Journee Premieres “Options” on All Streaming Platforms and Creates the #OptionsChallenge appeared first on Singersroom.com. Full Article Music R&B Music R&B Music Videos R&B News R&B Videos
create Jessica Cantlin proves you don’t have to work forever to create a scent-filled garden full of simple highlights By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 07:00:00 -0700 SOME GARDENERS ARE always fussing with their landscape, never quite satisfied, consistently digging up or adding in plants. Not so for Jessica Cantlin, who purchased her Denny-Blaine neighborhood home with her husband, Alan, and their two children, in 2012. Her yard, she feels, is now full and done. Cantlin grew up in this neighborhood, and […] Full Article Garden Life Lifestyle Pacific NW Magazine
create A new home in Madison Park creates 3 levels of elevated living without towering over its neighbors By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 07:00:58 -0700 KEVIN AND KAREN had lots to look at when they were moving to Seattle from Bellevue. They looked in Madrona. They looked on Queen Anne. But Madison Park looked different. “We were drawn first and foremost to the neighborhood,” Kevin says. “Specifically, the Canterbury neighborhood. It’s really close to the lake, and has longtime residents. […] Full Article Home & Decor Life Lifestyle Pacific NW Magazine
create A new home in Madison Park creates 3 levels of elevated living without towering over its neighbors By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Sat, 02 May 2020 07:00:58 -0700 KEVIN AND KAREN had lots to look at when they were moving to Seattle from Bellevue. They looked in Madrona. They looked on Queen Anne. But Madison Park looked different. “We were drawn first and foremost to the neighborhood,” Kevin says. “Specifically, the Canterbury neighborhood. It’s really close to the lake, and has longtime residents. […] Full Article Home & Decor Life Lifestyle Pacific NW Magazine
create Colombian company creates bed that can double as coffin By www.seattletimes.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:18:42 -0700 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them. ABC Displays has created a cardboard bed with metal railings that designers say can double as a casket if a patient dies. Company manager Rodolfo Gómez said […] Full Article Oddities