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The internet is a sea of servers, data and people. Some of said people have managed to scrape out a living doing data analysis on just about anything they can get their hands on. Data scientists are being hired left right and center to try and improve performance and experience of users. By looking at trends they can determine things like what students in a university course are likely to fail based on their current test scores in the class. This would allow teachers to then help the students before it is too late and they fail courses. The possibilities of data analysis are nearly endless. It could be loading data into neural networks for AIs to analyze, it could be optimizing website layout to increase user visit duration or anything else you can imagine.  With large amounts of data there comes many different ways to process it. You could try it in Excel (and die before you can fill everything in) or you could look to more powerful tools. In my experience with data pr...

Last week Canonical released another beautiful OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Zesty Zapus. Sporting Unity 7, Zapus has one of the smoothest user interfaces I have used on an Ubuntu release. Though Unity and the hopes of Ubuntu smartphones and tablets has disappeared this release is still a great user experience. Here are a few things that I have been enjoying and would strongly recommend to other users.  If you are new to linux, take a look  here  to learn how to install Ubuntu on your computer! 1. Update and Upgrade One of the first things to do for both security and performance improvement will be upgrade your operating system. This will ensure that things will continue to work smoothly. Updating can be done by opening your launcher and typing in and launching the "Software Updater". Alternatively this can be done through the terminal by clicking CTRL + ALT + T and typing in the following: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade 2. ...