A Guide to Better Meetings
“Meetings are useless” Do you also hear that all the time? But stepping back, that’s like saying “screwdrivers are bad”. Meetings are a tool, and they are indispensable for effective, transparent communication.
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“Meetings are useless” Do you also hear that all the time? But stepping back, that’s like saying “screwdrivers are bad”. Meetings are a tool, and they are indispensable for effective, transparent communication.
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Amazon already leads the cloud infrastructure market, and now it's expanding its cloud product lineup with a tool for people who don't code. The Honeycode service will compete with offerings from cloud challengers Google and Microsoft.
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Study after study after study into remote work has made one thing clear: Remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts. What’s not entirely clear is why.
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Companies protect a lot of things, yet many of them are guilty of one glaring omission. Too often, there’s something they leave wide open and vulnerable: their employees’ time.
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Over the last few years we have been collecting productivity tips, tutorials, and a lot more into a central, video-oriented resource, and now we are ready to introduce you to our brand new PyCharm Guide!
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Python offers multiple great graphing libraries that come packed with lots of different features. No matter if you want to create interactive, live or highly customized plots python has an excellent library for you.
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The Junk Charts Trifecta Checkup is a general framework for data visualization criticism. (...) Opinion pieces on specific data graphics frequently come across as stream of conscience. Proclaiming a chart "mind-blowing" or "worst of the century" isn't worth much if the author cannot articulate why.
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Radical Candor is a simple tool to ensure people receive the right kind of guidance. Honest but also human. This post is an intro guide to Radical Candor: what is, what is not, why it matters, how to get started, and key watch-outs.
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Referring to any of the testing skill sets, mindsets, and approaches as “manual” spectacularly misses the mark, and suggests that we’re confused about the key body part for testing: it’s the brain, rather than the hands.
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Today I want to talk about this mental leap from ideas about social reality to measures of social reality, and back again to ideas. Whenever I begin to talk about this subject, people say something like, “So you mean how to lie with statistics?” Yes and No. (...) I will argue, instead, that statistics aren’t born with honest meanings that people later corrupt with deceptive packaging. Numbers are figments of our imagination, fictions really, no more true than poems or drawings. In this sense, all statistics are lies.
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The efficiency and multidimensionality of the visual medium arise from a set of conventions and rules, which regularises the communications between producers of data visualisation and its consumers. These conventions and rules are often unspoken: it’s the visual equivalent of saying ’it goes without saying’.
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