Adventures in Plotly: Cohort Charts
Convert your Salesforce data to retention insightsPhoto by Campaign Creators on UnsplashThe first four articles I published focused on the basic charts at your disposal that make up the vast majority of data viz use cases:PieHistogramScatterBarFor this article, I’d like to introduce a more complex visualization, the cohort chart. A cohort chart
Read moreWhy Good Engineers Leave Good Companies
How to retain your engineering MVPsGenerated by DALL-E 2Companies incur substantial costs to attract and vet engineering talent, and engineers expend great effort preparing for the interview process when looking for a new job. Given the pain of the matchmaking process between employer and employee, why would good engineers ever leave
Read more5 Ways To Flatten an Array in NumPy
How to process an n-dimensional array as if it was a vectorContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreBuilding a Static Website Integrating GitHub Pages and Google Slides
Exploring ways to make Google Slides available easily over the web with guaranteed real-time updatesContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreReliance’s JioCinema breaks world record with free cricket streaming
India’s JioCinema broke the global record for the most concurrent views to a live streamed event on Monday, eclipsing a long-standing milestone set by Disney’s Hotstar, as the Asian tycoon Mukesh Ambani spares no expense in expanding his digital empire. The Indian streaming app, whose partner includes James Murdoch’s Bodhi
Read moreSolana’s co-founder sees potential for its blockchain to be the ‘Apple of crypto’
As some crypto companies gain mainstream adoption through partnerships, alliances or deals with big brand names, others are operating by the beat of their own drum and not worrying about whether a big label is with them. Solana, a layer-1 blockchain that launched in 2020, is one of the biggest
Read moreChris’ Corner: Signals
I wonder if reactivity is useful line to draw in JavaScript land. In the past, the great jQuery-and-friends era, we didn’t have it. If you needed to change something in the DOM with jQuery, you reached your grubby little paws in there and did it. You couldn’t just update some
Read moreTechCrunch+’s holiday reading list
It’s Memorial Day here in the United States, which means that the flow of tech news is slower than normal. This might leave you feeling bereft, adrift without the usual 3,239 individual items that happen daily in startup land. But have no fear, for TechCrunch+ is here with a quick
Read moreMore on our AI future: building course recommendations and a new data platform
In April, we shared how Stack Overflow is approaching the future of AI/ML and our products. But you might not realize that we’ve already used AI/ML to build or improve Stack Overflow’s products and features. Every day Stack Overflow helps all types of developers learn new skills by answering their
Read moreAmbani’s JioCinema secures NBCUniversal titles, escalates Netflix and Disney rivalry
JioCinema, the affordable on-demand video streaming service rival to Netflix and Disney’s Hotstar in India, will soon be the home for “The Office” and other NBCUniversal titles. The Viacom18 streaming service said on Monday it has signed a “multi-year” partnership with NBCUniversal to bring “thousands of hours” of NBCU movies
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