How to build interactive data visualizations using Plotly and Python

How to build interactive data visualizations using Plotly and Python Installing dependencies Before we build anything, let’s install dependencies. I like to usepipenvbut the same applies to anaconda or other package managers. Here’s the list of dependencies we need: Here are the commands to install them: Getting started To get started we need to start our jupyter notebook and create a new document: Once we’re there we can start adding some code....

4 min · 845 words · Mary Carpenter

How to build tech for good — and turn a profit

Christian Erfurt, the CEO and co-founder of Be My Eyes, who was interviewed for this article, is speaking atTNW2021this year! You can get tickets for the eventhere. As if it isn’t enough of a challenge to build a business that makes money, Christian Erfurt took on a more difficult proposition six years ago. He co-founded a company with a view to assist people with vision impairment, while also developing services for enterprises to adopt into their customer care and accessibility programs....

4 min · 649 words · Warren Cortez

How to build your own meme generator with machine learning

In this article, I’ll show you how I built a system called AI-Memer that generates memes using the latest AI models. I start with a high-level description of the system components before getting into the background of memes and details of the components. I’ll then show you how to generate your own memes using the Google Colab,here. After a brief discussion of results and next steps, you can see some sample memes in the appendix....

10 min · 2065 words · Gavin Thomas

How to change your default search engine in Google Chrome

This morning, Union Square Ventures’ principal and prolific bloggerFred Wilson postedthat he’s decided to makeDuckDuckGohis default search engine for the next month to see if he missed Google. Wilson became curious after reading a post by DuckDuckGo’s founderGabriel Weinbergonhow he got DuckDuckGo into Time’s top websites of 2011. For a little background: Weinberg has been sitting in his basement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the past 3 years, building DuckDuckGo, which uses online crowd-sourcing to augment traditional search engine results, hoping to “clean up the clutter” and improve relevancy....

3 min · 523 words · Teresa Hernandez

How to change your safe browsing settings on Chrome

Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Google has been offering safe browsing protection in its browsers for a while. This essentially means that you’re protected from harmful URLs, or dangerous events that might result in data-stealing There are multiple levels of security provided by Google under this protection feature. Here’s how you can check yours:...

2 min · 231 words · Amy Mendoza
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