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React Router Tutorial: Redirect Like a Pro

Naive React routing increases risk and maintenance. This tutorial provides a full exploration of routing approaches, achieving an elegant solution that seamlessly fits into any React code base.

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Nathan Babcock

Nathan Babcock

Nathan is a front-end and full-stack developer, and an expert in streamlining UI/UX with React. As the lead design engineer at Motorola Solutions, he marshaled an internal product that included React, Angular, Svelte, and native web components from prototype to corporatewide deployment—garnering more than 100,000 downloads.

Strategic Listening: A Guide to Python Social Media Analysis

Listening is everything—especially when it comes to effective marketing and product design. Gain key market insights from social media data using sentiment analysis and topic modeling in Python.

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Federico Albanese

Federico Albanese

Federico is an expert Python developer and data scientist who has worked at Facebook, implementing deep learning models. He is a university lecturer, and his PhD research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning.

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Mining for Data Clusters: Social Network Analysis With R and Gephi

Explore X (formerly Twitter) data clusters to uncover user behaviors (e.g., repost and reply patterns) within online communities. This guide focuses on a politically charged data set to illustrate the process of visualizing and analyzing social data.

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Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

Juan is a developer, data scientist, and doctoral researcher at the University of Buenos Aires where he studies social networks, AI, and NLP. Juan has more than a decade of data science experience and has published papers at ML conferences, including SPIRE and ICCS.

Supply Chain Optimization Using Python and Mathematical Modeling

Improving supply chains is a top priority worldwide. Discover how mathematical optimization and Python coding can help keep a complex supply chain competitive.

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Michael Hopf

Michael Hopf

Michael is a developer, data science consultant, and expert in supply chain optimization for heavy industry clients in rail, vessels, and mining. He has a PhD in mathematical optimization and was a consultant in the analytics practice of McKinsey & Company’s QuantumBlack for four years.

Unit Testing in Flutter: From Workflow Essentials to Complex Scenarios

Incorporate comprehensive unit testing into your Flutter project to ensure best practices and reduce bugs before—not after—the app’s release.

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Dacian Florea

Dacian Florea

Dacian is a senior full-stack mobile applications developer, a Flutter expert, and a contributor to the Flutter framework. He helps companies around the world design and implement quality software solutions and deliver excellent user experiences.

How to Hire Angular Developers: Key Skills and Knowledge to Look For

Many developers looking for their next gig claim to have experience with Google’s popular front-end framework. Here, international Angular coach Bo Vandersteene tells hiring managers how to separate the best from the rest.

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Bo Vandersteene

Bo Vandersteene

Bo is a front-end developer with extensive expertise in Angular. She has served as a senior software engineer and Angular coach on teams across many European companies and presented at AgentConf, Devoxx, AngularConnect and more.

Identifying the Unknown With Clustering Metrics

Clustering in machine learning has a variety of applications, but how do you know which algorithm is best suited to your data? Here’s how to amplify your data insights with comparison metrics, including the F-measure.

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Surbhi Gupta

Surbhi Gupta

Surbhi is a data scientist and developer with expertise in machine learning and robotics. A former senior data science engineer at Utopia Global, her experience ranges across ML fields including NLP, computer vision, and OCR. She has a master’s degree in mechatronics, and has published research in the field of robotics and optimization.

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Gabriel Courtemanche

Gabriel is a highly efficient and reliable professional who possesses a broad skill set for web application development. He's been working on a range of products and clients—from working on scalability problems in production engineering teams at Shopify and Autodesk to launching new applications for startups. Most of his work consists of leading technical teams, by creating an easy development environment, fixing technical debts, providing best practices code examples, and mentoring devs.
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