#data science meaning

[reasonsforhope]

If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

[kikodora]

UnionBank techs up youth, professionals for the future of work with its Data Science Program

UnionBank techs up youth, professionals for the future of work with its Data Science Program

Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), through its Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Center of Excellence (AI & Innovation CoE), co-created a Data Science Development Program with the goal of educating students and young professionals on data science, in line with the Bank’s “Tech-up Pilipinas” advocacy that promotes improved literacy among Filipinos when it comes to technology. The…

[chubbychiquita]

bitter that life is not a wg fic and i have to participate in society and fulfill obligations

[edsbacktattoo]

I have Gathered some Data

@skysofrey and I recently got into a discussion about names in OFMD. Specifically, how many times does Ed actually call Stede by his name in the show? We could only think of a few examples each and that didn't seem right. And because I'm insane, I decided to rewatch and note down every time a name was used, who used it, and who was being spoken to. Here are my findings!

Before you proceed, please know that this is strictly for fun and because I was curious. There are likely errors in the data (I'm sure I missed some things, I'm just one person.) but! I still think that what's been gathered is very interesting.

Here are some other fun/important/miserable things that I found in my travels:

There is one more time where Stede calls Ed “Edward,” and the only time it isn’t said to him directly. This is when Stede is addressing the petrified orange.

Of the five times that Stede is called “The Gentleman Pirate,” two of them are from Ed.

Ed calls Stede by his name only twelve times in the series. Only two of these instances are spoken to someone else. There are two others when Ed is looking for him at the pier, and therefore spoken to no one.

There are only ten instances of other characters calling Ed something other than his name or “Blackbeard.” Two of these are from Izzy, during the scene in Spanish Jackie’s bar, where he’s informing Stede that Ed would like to meet with him. During this scene, he only uses “my captain” and “my boss.” This is one of the very few times he doesn’t refer to Ed to other people as “Blackbeard” and it’s at the time that is arguably the most important. (He’s an idiot.)

Out of the twenty times that Ed refers to himself, fourteen of those are as “Blackbeard/The Kraken.” He refers to himself with names other than “Ed/Edward” 70% of the time. 50% of the times he refers to himself by his name are during the beach scene in episode nine, and there is only one instance where he uses his name that is not in Stede’s company. ("Actually, I do want to be called 'Ed' from now on.")

Izzy only refers to Ed as "Edward" to other people four times in the show. Two of those times are when he's marooning Stede's crew, and each time he uses his name in that scene, he takes on a mocking tone. Meaning that 50% of every instance he's referred to Ed as "Edward" to other people, he's been mocking his name.

Ed calls Stede "mate" as often as he calls him by his name, but he only calls him "mate" directly.

Stede calls Ed by his name only once more than Izzy does.

80% of the times Ed refers to himself by name happen in episode nine.

[why-bless-your-heart]

Throwing a temper tantrum because it makes sense for cellphone equivalents to exist in sci-fi but I hate them.

[thiefnessman]

i have been learning a lot about code lately

[aro-culture-is]

quick note - this blog is gonna be sparse again for at least this week. trying new medications and tbh initial side effects are not super pleasant + actual effects build up. as a result: currently as if unmedicated for mental health, with anxiety+ side effect, extra fatigue, dizziness, and fatigue. it's uh, sure something.

totally recognize that most of y'all know we're absent at times due to health things, just wanted to give a heads up that this one is at least anticipated.

[triflesandparsnips]

meanwhile--

have you heard (read) the good word (my pirate data science meta from 20-fuckin'-22) about how

STEDE

is WEIRD

about TOUCH

-> Part 1: Stede wants to be touched, but is afraid of it.

-> Part 2: Stede will avoid touch to protect himself.

-> Part 3: Stede has found/developed “safe” ways to physically interact with people.

-> Part 4: The top three people who touch Stede, or who Stede touches, are Ed, Mary, and Izzy.

[m1lfsh4ke]

Me, a nineteen year old who goes to Tulane Uni and wanting to major in communications law is trying to balance out her worry with the scholarship only lasting three years, or wondering if she should put all her requests aside to write the most unhinged smut with an incorrect use of Marilyn’s gun

[fisheito]

OH HO!

also assigned anxiety at nu🦀

[hismercytomyjustice]

You know what’s super fun?

Doing data analysis on your WIP For Science™!

Good news, word count between Astarion POV and Gale POV is almost even.

Bad news, some of these chapters have gotten out of control.

Dunno if I’ll be able to iron out some of the discrepancies in the editing process or not. I’m getting to the point where I am just desperate to be done with it for fear of losing steam and abandoning it all together.

I am trying very hard not to just post it as is when I’m done. orz

YES, I AM VERY FUN AT PARTIES, OKAY???

[himejoshibutch]

guys... i want some honest opinions from yall

what are your thoughts on bsc vfx, animation and bsc data science. because i wanna quit engineering, not because it's too tough for me.. i just dont really wanna be an engineer

[anthonycrowley]

people on my graph post: good work on this op 👍

me: yeah i fucking hope so

[1o1percentmilk]

hm i might consider dropping out

[kuiinncedes]

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[theguardianace]

im so bored in this lab its not even funny