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downloading folders from google drive.

I wanted to download some course material on RL shared by the author via Google drive using the command line.  I got a bunch of stuff using wget a folder in google drive was a challenge. I looked it up in SO which gave me a hint but no solution. I installed gdown using pip and then used: gdown --folder --continue https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V9jAShWpccLvByv5S1DuOzo6GVvzd4LV if there are more than 50 files you need to use --remaining-ok and only get the first 50. In such a case its best to download using the folder using the UI and decompress locally. Decompressing from the command line created errors related to unicode but using the mac UI I decompressed without a glitch.

Business Analytics for Managers - Review

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Wolfgang Jank's text  "Business Analytics for Managers" is part of the Use R! series published in 2011 by Springer. It stand out as easy introduction for using R for exploratory data analytic and data modeling at an introductory level. While R and statistics are skill not easily acquired  working with the book makes for an easy learning curve by focusing on the business side of the work while omitting much of the platform specific implementation details. This makes some sense if the manager will want to ask someone else to work with R to get him the results. The text explains how to work with different type of data and how a manager would  analyse the different data-sets. It explains the benefits of using a large cross section of R's visualization techniques for assessing unfamiliar data for global or cross sectional patterns. It then goes on to explain the essentials of of data handling techniques such as creation of dummy variable interaction variables, v

Wikisym 2012

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Due to a kind grant by the WMF foundation I was able to attend Wikisym 2012 in  Linz  Austria what follows is my report on the event. Background English: The renovated Ars Electronica Center at Linz, seen from the bridge across the Danube at night (Photo credit:  Wikipedia ) I am a Wikipedian based in Budapest Hungary. I have been active for the last year with WM.HU and participated in a number of the local  chapter's events ever since being introduced to them at Wikimania 2012 in Haifa. During such a meeting I, Bence Damkos, and other chapter luminaries got to discussing many apparent cultural paradoxes taking place in the virtual community. Since I was studying the theory of games at the time I began to notice that some of the situations were very similar to a classic game such as the prisoner's dilemma and the battle of the sexes while others resembled second-price sealed actions and bargaining games. I was intrigued and I started publ

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