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Data Attack - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Star Wars' BB-8

Here is everything you ever wanted to know about Star Wars' latest beloved droid. BB-8 goes to LAX to greet his very own BB-8 ANA Jet. ANA Star Wars plane: http://ana-sw.com/




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Data Attack - Pets Who Have Won The Internet

Looking at cat videos increases your happiness by 28% and decreases anxiety by 33%. Goats and chickens are more viral in Uganda than dogs and cats. Find out all you wanted to know about viral pets on the Internet.




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Data Attack - How the 3-Pointer Is Changing The NBA

The NBA is undergoing a radical shift based on the Moreyball approach and an obsession with Points Per Possession. We take a deeper look at the trend with actual cut-up construction paper.




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Alliance Data Drop Off

A video rendering of an electric autonomous shuttle dropping Buckeyes off at work.




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DC vs. Marvel: Box Office Battle | Data Attack

Data Attack reveals the history of DC and Marvel films and how they’ve created Hollywood’s biggest franchises. Animation by Eric Power




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Data Reveals the American Dream Is Alive and Well—in Canada

At the White House Frontiers Conference, Raj Chetty, an economist at Stanford University described where the 'American dream' is thriving the most and seems like it's across US the border.




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How to Make Your Browsing Data More Private than a Thousand Incognito Windows

Thanks to an assist from Congress, your cable company has the legal right to sell your web-browsing data without your consent. This is how to protect your data from preying eyes.




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How to Control What Alexa and Google Assistant Do With Your Voice Data

Virtual assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa can be amazing but what are they doing with all of your questions? Here's how to control all of that data.




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WIRED25: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki & Stanford's Stephen Quake on Big Data and Health Care

23andMe Cofounder Anne Wojcicki and Stanford Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics Stephen Quake spoke with WIRED’s Cofounder Jane Metcalfe as part of WIRED25, WIRED’s 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.




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Dr. Robin Berzin is Using Tech and Data to Fix Healthcare

BRANDED CONTENT | Produced by WIRED with American Express | Robin Berzin founded Parsley Health to bring functional medicine, advanced testing, and data together — for the most comprehensive primary care of its kind. She tells WIRED how she built her tech-infused healthcare company.




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Isaac Newton's scientific method : turning data into evidence about gravity and cosmology / William L. Harper

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Winning on HR analytics [electronic resource] : leveraging data for competitive advantage / Ramesh Soundararajan, Kuldeep Singh

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Hands-on geospatial analysis with R and QGIS : a beginner's guide to manipulating, managing, and analyzing spatial data using R and QGIS 3.2.2 / Shammunul Islam

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Data visualization : a practical introduction / Kieran Healy

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Analyzing qualitative data / Graham R. Gibbs

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Haunted data : affect, transmedia, weird science / Lisa Blackman

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An introduction to data analysis : quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods / Tiffany Bergin

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Basic seismic refraction survey and data interpretation techniques / Rosli Saad

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Satellite remote sensing in hydrological data assimilation Mehdi Khaki

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Data analytics for drilling engineering: theory, algorithms, experiments, software / Qilong Xue

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Understanding downhole microseismic data analysis: with applications in hydraulic fracture monitoring / Jubran Akram

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Groundwater recharge and flow: approaches and challenges for monitoring and modeling using remotely sensed data ; proceedings of a workshop / Lauren Everett, rapporteur ; Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, the National

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Multiring-induced multicolour emission: hyperbranched polysiloxane with silicon bridge for data encryption

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1375-1382
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00075B, Research Article
Yuanbo Feng, Hongxia Yan, Fan Ding, Tian Bai, Yufeng Nie, Yan Zhao, Weixu Feng, Ben Zhong Tang
The presented work shows an impressive multicolour luminescence hyperbranched polysiloxane attributed to the multiring through-space conjugation named “multiring induced multicolor emission” (MIE), as well as its application in data encryption.
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Qualitative Methods: The Added Value of Non-Numerical Data

Researchers from EDI Group and Mathematica discuss the added value of qualitative methods and spotlight how a mixed-method approach is providing important insights about how well reading and community engagement programs are serving young children and their parents in Nicaragua.




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To Address the Social Determinants of Health, Start with the Data

Social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—have gained increasing interest among policymakers and practitioners as they struggle to improve the value and quality of U.S. health care.




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Siloed, Incomplete, and Neglected: The Trouble with State Administrative Data and What to Do About It

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Mathematica’s Beth Weigensberg talks about an article she co-authored describing findings from a 2013 needs assessment on the challenges state agencies faced in using their data to inform their programs.




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Lost in Translation: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health Data from the Patient Perspective

In order to improve patients’ overall health and well-being, we need better information about their social determinants of health – the social, behavioral, and environmental factors – which influence the health and well-being of individuals and communities.




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The Power of a Data-Informed Partnership: Working with Community-Based Organizations to Address Social Determinants of Health

With their multi-faceted understanding of the communities in which they operate, community-based organizations bring a valuable lens that could help health systems learn how certain social services received in the community affect health, and how other factors may dampen an intervention’s effect.




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Prescribing Social Services: Leveraging Data to Diagnose and Treat the Social Determinants That Affect Health

This post describes how health care systems and providers have been—and can be—critical partners in collecting and acting on social determinants of health data.




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The Journey to Becoming Data Driven

Too many conversations about the promise of using data to drive decisions lead with new steps, new requirements, new resource needs, and new expectations that are simply out of reach for too many. It doesn’t have to be that way.




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Helping Connect Youth to Jobs, Apprenticeships, and Internships with More Timely and Detailed Data

Each day, millions of people between the ages of 16 and 24 don’t attend school or head to work. Instead, these young people—often called opportunity youth—face greater risk of social exclusion, poverty, and falling behind without the skills to improve their lives.




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[ASAP] A Two-Ended Data-Driven Accelerated Sampling Method for Exploring the Transition Pathways between Two Known States of Protein

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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Iso-Compass: new freeware software for isotopic data reduction of LA-MC-ICP-MS

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00084A, Technical Note
Wen Zhang, Zhaochu Hu, Yongsheng Liu
New freeware, Iso-Compass, is developed specifically to process the isotope data from LA-MC-ICP-MS and MC-ICP-MS.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) spectra interpretation and characterization using parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC): a new procedure for data and spectral interference processing fostering the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00026D, Paper
Jeyne Pricylla Castro, Edenir Rodrigues Pereira-Filho, Rasmus Bro
For the first time, PARAFAC was used to interpret and characterize LIBS spectra, providing the pure spectra, the signal profile and relative concentration of base and noble elements present on a printed circuit board from the hard disk.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
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Useful SQL Queries To Clean Up Your WordPress Database

After years of usage, your WordPress database can contain weird characters, be filled with data you don’t need anymore, and so on. In this article, you will learn about SQL queries to clean up your WordPress database. Two things to note: First, any of these queries should be preceded by a backup of your whole …

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Web Tools #353 - Vue Tools, Databases, Mobile Tools

Web Tools Weekly

Issue #353 • April 23, 2020

The following intro is a paid product review for AnnounceKit, a hosted changelog or product update service that provides a communication channel between your product and end-users.

What's the best way to inform your users that your product has been updated? This is important especially with web apps that are able to update behind the scenes and users are often left in the dark on what's new.

Of course, if a user wants to know what's new, they can check GitHub or look for the product's social media channels. But how much better if your product's updates are integrated into the web app itself. That's where AnnounceKit comes in.

 
AnnounceKit: A product updates and changelog service


AnnounceKit allows you to add posts that are hosted at a location like "changelog.example.com". That location holds a series of updates that itemize your product's changes, and they're searchable and filterable by category, as shown in the following single post example:

 
A single product update, categorized and filterable
 

Posts can be created using a WYSIWYG editor that includes ability to add styles, embed video, and an option to label your post according to some predefined categories:

 
AnnounceKit's WYSIWYG editor for posts
 

You can integrate different types of widgets within your app to notify users of changes and updates. The widgets point to your posts, as shown above. One of the widgets offered is the animated Count Badge Widget that triggers a dropdown on click:

 
AnnounceKit's Count Badge Widget


There's also a Sidebar Widget that opens when the user clicks something like a "What's New" link:

 
AnnounceKit's Sidebar Widget
 

In addition, there's a widget you can embed directly into a page (like the sidebar or footer of your app), displaying product updates in blog list format:

 
AnnounceKit's Embed Widget
 

AnnounceKit also gives you the ability to integrate with popular apps you already use like GitHub, Slack, Twitter, and lots more. These integrations allow you to quickly and easily push out product announcements and changes.

 
AnnounceKit integrates with apps you already use
 

Other features available in AnnounceKit include the ability to:
 

  • Collect user feedback about updates
  • Enable users to sign up for email notifications on changes
  • Send different updates to different users via Segmentation
  • Publish in multiple languages
  • And lots more

Because I write this newsletter, I deal with a lot of tool websites. And I can tell you from experience that it's often difficult to find out when a product was last updated and what those updates were added. A service like AnnounceKit removes that hurdle so everyone is up to date and the updates are easy to find and integrated into your application.

AnnounceKit offers a 30-day trial for the highest tier as well as a free-forever version that's useful for trying out the basics, or if you don't need any of the advanced features.

As a promotion for this issue, AnnounceKit is offering 20% off their "Startup" plan. Just use discount code WEBTOOLSWEEKLY. So check out AnnounceKit if you're in the market for an easy-to-integrate changelog for your product or service.
 

Now on to this week's tools!
 

Vue Tools

vue-agile
A carousel component for Vue inspired by the Slick carousel. Simple, touch-friendly, and no other dependencies.

Vue Dynamic Forms
An easy way to dynamically create reactive forms in Vue based on varying business and regulatory requirements of your site or app.

vue-mention
A @mention and #hashtag component for inputs and textareas.

Pdfvuer
Now at version 1.5. A PDF viewer for Vue using Mozilla's PDF.js.

Vue I18n
An internationalization plugin for Vue with a simple API and includes support for translation and localization (e.g. pluralization, number, date/time, etc).

@xstate/vue
Vue version of XState, a library for creating, interpreting, and executing finite state machines and statecharts.

swrv
Stale-while-revalidate data fetching for Vue.

vue-lazy-hydration
A renderless Vue.js component to improve estimated input latency and time to interactive of server-side rendered Vue applications.

vue-adaptive-utils
Inspired by react-adaptive-hooks, a collection of Vue 3.0 composition API functions and utilities to allow your apps to adapt your user's Network conditions,  battery status, etc.

Vue Formulate
The easiest way to build forms using Vue. Field validation, file uploads, form generation, help text, error messages, placeholders and more.

JSON, Databases, GraphQL, etc.

Advanced React & GraphQL by Wes Bos is 50% Off!
The master package includes 68 HD videos, part of 10 modules – and updates to the course are free forever.   promoted 

Falcon
A free, open-source SQL editor with inline data visualization. Supports connecting to RedShift, MySQL, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Impala, MS SQL, Oracle, SQLite, and more.

jsonbox.io
Now at version 2+. Free HTTP-based JSON storage.

Verify JSON
Library to verify JSON structure easily using a lightweight JSON schema syntax.

TerminusDB
A database built for data people. A model-driven graph database designed specifically for the web.

IndexedDB with Usability
Now at version 5+. A tiny library that mostly mirrors the IndexedDB API, but with small improvements that make a big difference to usability.

graphql-api-starter
A starter kit for projects using TypeScript, Express.js, and Apollo GraphQL.

Vendure
A modern, headless GraphQL-based e-commerce framework built with TypeScript and Node.

gqless
A GraphQL client without queries. Auto-generates GraphQL queries based on the data your application consumes.

heliosRX
A front-end Object-Relational Mapping layer for reactive real-time web applications using Firebase Realtime Database.

Mobile Tools and React Native

ES6 for Everyone by Wes Bos is 50% Off!
The master package includes 77 HD videos, part of 21 modules – and updates to the course are free forever.   promoted 

hamburger-react
Animated hamburger menu icons for React. CSS-driven transitions, created to be as elegant and performant as possible.

react-native-design-system
A set of design rules and component library that lets you prototype faster with easy to use cross-platform components.

Draftbit
Early access. Build your app, visually. Create, customize, and launch mobile apps all from your browser. Source code included.

react-native-mmkv-storage
An efficient, small and encrypted mobile key-value storage framework for React Native.

Pep
Turn your website into a fast, installable Progressive Web App (PWA) instantly.

StorePreviewer
Preview what your mobile app will look like in the iOS App Store. Just type the details and see the live preview.

React Native Web Template
Template project for creating iOS, Android, and Web apps with React Native.

Hyperview
A new hypermedia format and React Native client for developing server-driven mobile apps.

Bravo Studio
Turn Figma prototypes into native iOS and Android apps instantly with no code.

React Native Material UI
Highly customizable Material Design components for React Native.

A Tweet for Thought

Here's a good thread from Fran Swaine on how to avoid burnout while freelancing.
 

Send Me Your Tools!

Made something? Send links via Direct Message on Twitter @WebToolsWeekly (details here). No tutorials or articles, please. If you have any suggestions for improvement or corrections, feel free to reply to this email.
 

Before I Go...

Phuoc Nguyen, who I featured a few issues back with his great project called HTML DOM, has built another great project called 1loc – a categorized list of vanilla JavaScript one-liners.

Thanks to everyone for subscribing and reading!

Keep tooling,
Louis
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@WebToolsWeekly
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Data activism and social change / Miren Gutiérrez

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Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men / Caroline Criado Perez

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Probability theory and statistical inference: empirical modelling with observational data / Aris Spanos

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Probability and statistics for data science: math + R + data / Norman Matloff

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The 3-D global spatial data model: principles and applications / Earl F. Burkholder

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Clustering methodology for symbolic data / Lynne Billard (University of Georgia), Edwin Diday (Universite de Paris IX--Dauphine)

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Random fields for spatial data modeling: a primer for scientists and engineers / Dionissios T. Hristopulos

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Data management, analytics and innovation: proceedings of ICDMAI 2019. / Neha Sharma, Amlan Chakrabarti, Valentina Emilia Balas, editors

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Statistical inference for engineers and data scientists / Pierre Moulin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Venugopal V. Veeravalli (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

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Data analysis for Omic sciences: methods and applications / edited by Joaquim Jaumot, Carmen Bedia, Romà Tauler

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Big data-enabled internet of things / edited by Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan, Samee U. Khan and Albert Y. Zomaya

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April jobs data to show epic losses and soaring unemployment

The economic catastrophe caused by the viral outbreak likely sent the US unemployment rate in April to its highest level since the Great Depression and caused a record-shattering loss of jobs. The unemployment rate likely jumped to at least 16% — from just 4.4% in March — and employers cut a stunning 21 million or more jobs in April.




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Spatial big data science: classification techniques for Earth observation imagery / Zhe Jiang, Shashi Shekhar

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Spatio-temporal graph data analytics / Venkata M. V. Gunturi, Shashi Shekhar

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