5 interesting things (13/08/2018)

JQ cook book – I find myself using JQ quite often and sometimes to more complex things than just filtering fields.

https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/Cookbook

Bonus point – list of text-based file formats and command line tools for manipulating each – https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools

Missingno – Missing data visualization module for Python. This package offers a variety of visualization to understand the missing data in your data set and the correlations between the absent of different properties.

https://github.com/ResidentMario/missingno

Add time order in Recommendation system – the meaning of time order in this context is item x should be followed by item y. E.g for tv series – chapter 1 should be viewed before chapter 2. I don’t know if it is state of the art work in this domain but it is nice and should be relatively easy to implement when the prerequisite graph is unknown.

https://medium.com/@jujukala/how-to-use-time-order-in-machine-learning-recommendations-for-education-97091d2ab138

Cognitive bias are everywhere – and this time who they affect you management performance. Referring to the last 2 points in the summary – “Establish trust and openness with your peers and reports” – I’m a big believer in 1:1s, I found this resource bundle here. “Understand motivational theory, especially intrinsic motivation” – maybe the most important thing I learned being a scout leader is that every person have different motivation, you cannot lead others by what motivate you. Understanding this made a big change on how I view the world.

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/cognitive-bias-and-why-performance-management-is-so-hard-8852a1b874cd

Want to Improve Your Productivity at Work? Take a Cooking Class – on general I really like when interdisciplinary ideas mix and this is an interesting thought about the topic. The point that was most interesting for me was “Set your mise-en-place”. I see it a bit different \ wider from the writer – as a manager you should sometimes prepare the “mise-en-place” for your team. If they need to integrate with external service – take care of the NDA, API documentation, etc. Requirements and design can also sometimes viewed as “mise-en-place” for developers.

https://medium.com/forbes/want-to-improve-your-productivity-at-work-take-a-cooking-class-37ac08bf2f26

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