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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. So, an identification method for polymers should provide a measure of uncertainty in its output. Unfortunately, current methods dont usually provide an uncertainty measure. Most scientific studies focus on microplastics in water.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. As BoardSource points out, even measuring your ROI is more than just money in vs. money out. This Year Vs. Last Year.

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it.

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The Power of Geospatial Intelligence and Similarity Analysis for Data Mapping

Towards Data Science

[link] [link] Fuzzy Wuzzy Fuzzywuzzy is another Python library that is designed to facilitate fuzzy string matching, by providing a set of tools for comparing and measuring the similarity between strings. A confidence score will be populated for each address comparison, which is a numerical value between 0 and 100.

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Detecting novel systemic biomarkers in external eye photos

Google Research AI blog

The comparison with a clinicodemographic baseline is useful because risk for some diseases could also be assessed using a simple questionnaire , and we seek to understand if the model interpreting images is doing better. due to the multiple comparisons problem ). due to the multiple comparisons problem ). blood pressure).

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

The new report, based on both quantitative and qualitative research, is the most comprehensive analysis of institutional philanthropy to HBCUs. Even by this comparison, HBCUs were underfunded: The average HBCU received about two-thirds of what philanthropy paid out to similarly situated institutions.