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Google Maps is getting a lot more detail

The Verge

The new map design (right) does a better job at distinguishing between Iceland’s ice caps and greenery. Google Maps is being redesigned to make it easier to distinguish between natural features in the environment, whether they’re mountainous ice caps, deserts, beaches, or dense forests. Image: Google.

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Scientists just looked inside a truly sci-fi planet

Mashable Tech

Because each layer in the planet's atmosphere hosts unique winds carrying different elements, the researchers could map an unprecedented 3D structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere. Even the strongest hurricanes in the Solar System seem calm in comparison," Seidel said.

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The Power of Geospatial Intelligence and Similarity Analysis for Data Mapping

Towards Data Science

Strategically enhancing address mapping during data integration using geocoding and string matching Many individuals in the big data industry may encounter the following scenario: Is the acronym “TIL” equivalent to the phrase “Today I learned” when extracting these two entries from distinct systems? 1: Capitalization (eg.

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Life after Common Ground: Part 6 – Apsona

Judi Sohn

Both applications are generously donated by their developers to non-profit organizations, so there’s no comparison on price. Copy/paste in from your spreadsheet, map the columns and go. Even better, if it’s a field that would normally require an ID, such as Record Type or Owner ID, you can map to the name instead!

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Mobile data cost rankings: the U.S. is one of the most expensive countries, Israel has the cheapest data plans

TechSpot

The information comes from an interactive map published by British price comparison site Cable.co.uk, which gathered information about 5,603 mobile data plans from 237 countries this year to arrive at its conclusion. Per the report, Zimbabwe was the most expensive place in the world to buy mobile data, with one. Read Entire Article

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Pic2Word: Mapping pictures to words for zero-shot composed image retrieval

Google Research AI blog

To address these challenges, in “ Pic2Word: Mapping Pictures to Words for Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval ”, we propose a task called zero-shot CIR (ZS-CIR). To that end, we use a lightweight mapping sub-module in CLIP that is designed to map an input picture (e.g., cat”) in the textual input space.

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