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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.
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When one size can't fit all - UI/UX breakpoints

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What are UI/UX breakpoints? Breakpoints in a user experience of user interface design are the width specifications at which layouts change to accommodate larger screens with different layouts on various devices and orientation. Breakpoints are used with column based design drawn from a grid system. In the real world, for example, Android devices highly fragmented screen sizes implies that a single  design's functionality will be challenged to conform with so many different sizes. Breakpoints essentially simplify the work by grouping many devices together. Within each bucket, a design will have to scale to adjust. But between breakpoints, there may be more radical changes in the interface's functionality. Infographic for breakpoint from Google's material design site One best practice of design involves the use of grids. A notable reference is Josef Müller-Brockmann's  book " Grid Systems in Graphic Design ". This has found itself into web design th...
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Organizational challenges for the cult(ure) of analytics

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All things data 2015 Last month I had the fortune to attend "All thing data 2015" Conference in Tel-Aviv. The turnout was impressive and despite a stiff entrance fee, almost a thousand people come to learn from a lineup of local and international "experts" on Web Analytics. The crowd was a mix of consultants, sophisticated digital media buyers, analytics instructors and numerous web analysts from newly established startups and from more established companies all unified by an appreciation of their vested interest in monitoring their web presence. Organizational challenges While structural variation are not uncommon the ability derive decisions from data remains a major challenge of firms. One of the first talks was given by Mr. Zvika Jerbi who is a consultant working for SWC. Coming from an academic background he lectured the audience on the organizational challenges of implementing a culture of analytics in more traditional business setting...
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Google Analytics Plugins and Tasks APIs

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The Google developer's documentation says that to reduce the size and loading times of the analytics.js library, it is constructed using a modular architecture. Different plugins need to be loaded to add support a number of features. Some interesting aspects of this architecture is that analytics has to collect timing information as well as reporting of data as it is loading. In the background analytics uses a bit bucket algorithm to regulate  reporting impact to both the producer (browser) and consumer (their cloud). These plugins are introduced using the require directive. Some examples of plugins are e-commerce plugin - ' ecommerce '  enhanced e-commerce plugin - ' ec ' enhanced link attribution plugin - ' linkid ' cross domain auto link plugin - ' linker ' display features plugin - ' displayfeatures '  Recently Google introduced the plugin api in which it introduced documentation on how to extend analytics using your...
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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.
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