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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

Fast Company Tech

The width of a human hair, for comparison, ranges from 20 to 200 micrometers. Many plastic polymers have similar structures, so two different polymers can have similar spectra. Using this analysis, it adds other plausible identities to the algorithms single output on a particular particles spectrum.

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Nonprofit Accountant vs. Fractional CFO: The Key Differences

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Plus, different professionals bring unique perspectives and experience to the table so your nonprofit can make the best possible financial decisions. Previous experience working with nonprofit finances is also a plus, since nonprofit accounting requires different priorities and associated duties than its for-profit counterpart.

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Is Your Nonprofit Half Way to Your 2020 Fundraising Goal$?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you raised 15% more in January 2019 compared to January 2020, take a look at the difference in your fundraising strategies between these two time periods. Did you mail out an appeal at a different time? Did you use a different subject line in an email appeal? this year for major donors. What’s Your Projected Income?

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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

In comparison, our Foundation 1000 data set is limited to grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a set of 1,000 of the largest U.S. Why we use the Foundation 1000 sets for trends analysis As illustrated in the chart above, the Foundation 1000s’ grantmaking is much more stable over time compared to the broader grant data set.

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Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise

TechCrunch

For comparison, MongoDB, which trades on Nasdaq, raised $311 million in total (according to Crunchbase) before its IPO. CEO and co-founder Emil Eifrem said that Neo4j, which was founded back in 2007, has hit its growth stride in recent years given the rising popularity of graph-based analysis. “We

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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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The Power of Geospatial Intelligence and Similarity Analysis for Data Mapping

Towards Data Science

Your program might get confused too when records come in with different names even though it means the same thing. As we are pulling data with discrepancies together from different operational systems, the data ingestion process can be more time-consuming than originally thought!

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