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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. We use a machine learning technique called conformal prediction.

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Spreadsheet Aerobics: Actionable Measurement for Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin.

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Is 2013 the Year of Video for Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While techniques and equipment are important, it is also useful to have some benchmarks and best practices in the nonprofit sector to inform your strategy and measurement plan. Tactics will only go so far. The results will provide a comparison as to where to you stand among your peers and the nonprofit sector as a whole. •

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How Do I Say It With Charts?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The vertical is used to label and measure different items. Time Series Comparisons. Step 4: Directly Label.

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How Nonprofits Can Tell Powerful Stories Through Data Visualization 

Allegiance Group

AARP helps policymakers by providing a digital scorecard that measures how states nationwide perform across different categories, such as nursing home costs or long-term care insurance. Remember, different types of data require different visualization techniques bar charts for comparisons or line charts for trends.

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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Algorithmic advances

Google Research AI blog

We proposed a 2-hop spanner technique , called STAR , as an efficient and distributed graph building strategy, and showed how it significantly decreases the number of similarity computations in theory and practice, building much sparser graphs while producing high-quality graph learning or clustering outputs.

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The Power of Geospatial Intelligence and Similarity Analysis for Data Mapping

Towards Data Science

123 Forest Hill and 123 Frst Hl) could be challenging to tackle using manual mapping approach, which more advanced mapping technique should be introduced. A confidence score will be populated for each address comparison, which is a numerical value between 0 and 100. 123 Mian St and 123 Main St) and shortened addresses (eg.

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