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By Robin Sharma on “A Method To x100 Your Productivity”.

Great video on how to improve your productivity by hundred fold. Mind map provided below for the busy folks.

Cheers!

Today’s inspirational quote:
	Tamil: கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கட்காதது உலகளவு. English Pronounciation: Katrathu Kaiman Alavu Kallathathu Ulagalavu English Translation: Known is a drop, unknown is an ocean. – Avvaiyar

brew install ffmpeg

# After installation, you can traverse into the directory where you have the .mov file and run the following

ffmpeg -i input-file-name.mov output-file-name.mp4

Not sure what Brew is? It’s the missing package package manager for Mac OS X.
Use the following link to learn more:

https://brew.sh/

Cheers!

We now exist an interesting interstitial moment, one defined by big corporations producing much of the innovation and some of the world’s richest companies – Apple, Amazon, Uber, Facebook – trying to solve big hairy problems. These are the problems that startups would have once solved but because they are so expensive – I’m talking about commercial VR, self-driving trucks, gene editing, and the like – there are no startups capitalized to tackle them.

This means…

1. The startup trend will slow down.
2. Big companies will tackle big problems.

…the companies with the most promise for solving the big problems – AI, VR, self-driving vehicles – are avoiding the economical and societal issues associated with these inventions.

Ultimately the future of innovation is the future of human endeavor and to ensure innovation we must reduce inequality.

Read more at the link below:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/04/techs-give-back-moment/amp/

Story telling using great visualizations.

Thus article goes into the details of creating great visuals leveraging D3 JavaScript library. It introduces the user into concepts provided by the D3 library.

Some of the steps includes:

1. Refreshing previous concepts of D3.js
2. A glance at advanced concepts: Scales, Axes and Reading data from external sources
3. Building basic charts and code reusability
   1. Line Chart
   2. Area Chart
   3. Chart as a modular structure
   4. Case Study
4. Visualizing Game of Thrones Social Network  – Force Directed Graph in action!
5. Case Studies – Some interesting charts built using D3.js
6. Introduction to Dimple.js – D3 made easy!

Definitely a great read if you are trying to learn the D3.js library or if you’re trying to learn some basics on creating stunning visuals speaking volumes on numbers.

Check out the link at:
https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2017/08/visualizations-with-d3-js/

Interested in the D3 Library then see this link:
https://d3js.org/

If you’re exclusively interested in Charts then a framework that leverages the D3 library will be of interest to you:
http://c3js.org/

Cheers!

YouTube has a new look and, for the first time, a new logo (repost)

You get to see how Google works from a UI perspective

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16216868/new-youtube-logo-redesign-font-color-app-design

Create versatile visualizations with D3 and Angular

Learn how to combine the D3 data visualization tool and the Angular cross-platform application development platform to create interactive visualizations.

https://opensource.com/article/17/8/d3-angular

Monitoring Linux performance with Grafana

https://opensource.com/article/17/8/linux-grafana

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/ibm-costco-walmart-and-others-team-up-to-improve-food-safety-with-blockchains/amp/

On their journey through space, the Earth and the Moon cast 3 different shadows causing different types of solar and lunar eclipses. Why are there 3 shadows?

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/shadows.html