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dplyr arrange(): Sort/Reorder by One or More Variables
dplyr, R package part of tidyverse suite of packages, provides a great set of tools to manipulate datasets in the tabular form. dplyr has a set of core functions for “data munging”,including select(),mutate(), filter(), summarise(), and arrange().
And in this tidyverse tutorial, we will learn how to use dplyr’s arrange() function to sort a data frame in multiple ways. First we will start with how to sort a dataframe by values of a single variable, And then we will learn how to sort a dataframe by more than one variable in the dataframe. By default, dplyr’s arrange() sorts in ascending order, we will also learn to sort in descending order.
Let us get started by loading tidyverse, suite of R packges from RStudio.
library("tidyverse")
We will use the fantastic Penguins dataset to illustrate the three ways to see data in a dataframe. Let us load the data from cmdlinetips.com’ github page.
path2data <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmdlinetips/data/master/palmer_penguins.csv" penguins<- readr::read_csv(path2data)
## Parsed with column specification: ## cols( ## species = col_character(), ## island = col_character(), ## bill_length_mm = col_double(), ## bill_depth_mm = col_double(), ## flipper_length_mm = col_double(), ## body_mass_g = col_double(), ## sex = col_character() ## )
head(penguins) ## # A tibble: 6 x 7 ## species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_… body_mass_g sex ## <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> ## 1 Adelie Torge… 39.1 18.7 181 3750 male ## 2 Adelie Torge… 39.5 17.4 186 3800 fema… ## 3 Adelie Torge… 40.3 18 195 3250 fema… ## 4 Adelie Torge… NA NA NA NA <NA> ## 5 Adelie Torge… 36.7 19.3 193 3450 fema… ## 6 Adelie Torge… 39.3 20.6 190 3650 male
How To Sort a Dataframe by a single Variable with dplyr’s arrange()?
We can use dplyr’s arrange() function to sort a dataframe by one or more variables. Let us say we want to sort Penguins dataframe by its body mass to quickly learn about smallest weighing penguin and its relations to other variables.
We will use pipe operator “%>%” to feed the data to the dplyr function arrange(). We need to specify name of the variable that we want to sort dataframe. In this example, we are sorting by variable “body_mass_g”.
penguins %>% arrange(body_mass_g)
dplyr’s arrange() sorts the dataframe by the variable and outputs a new dataframe (as a tibble). You can notice that the resulting dataframe is different from the original dataframe. We can see that body_mass_g column arranged from smallest to largest values.
## # A tibble: 344 x 7 ## species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_… body_mass_g ## <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> ## 1 Chinst… Dream 46.9 16.6 192 2700 ## 2 Adelie Biscoe 36.5 16.6 181 2850 ## 3 Adelie Biscoe 36.4 17.1 184 2850 ## 4 Adelie Biscoe 34.5 18.1 187 2900 ## 5 Adelie Dream 33.1 16.1 178 2900 ## 6 Adelie Torge… 38.6 17 188 2900 ## 7 Chinst… Dream 43.2 16.6 187 2900 ## 8 Adelie Biscoe 37.9 18.6 193 2925 ## 9 Adelie Dream 37.5 18.9 179 2975 ## 10 Adelie Dream 37 16.9 185 3000 ## # … with 334 more rows, and 1 more variable: sex <chr>
How To Sort or Reorder Rows in Descending Order with dplyr’s arrange()?
By default, dplyr’s arrange() sorts in ascending order. We can sort by a variable in descending order using desc() function on the variable we want to sort by. For example, to sort the dataframe by body_mass_g in descending order we use
penguins %>% arrange(desc(body_mass_g)) ## # A tibble: 344 x 7 ## species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_… body_mass_g ## <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> ## 1 Gentoo Biscoe 49.2 15.2 221 6300 ## 2 Gentoo Biscoe 59.6 17 230 6050 ## 3 Gentoo Biscoe 51.1 16.3 220 6000 ## 4 Gentoo Biscoe 48.8 16.2 222 6000 ## 5 Gentoo Biscoe 45.2 16.4 223 5950 ## 6 Gentoo Biscoe 49.8 15.9 229 5950 ## 7 Gentoo Biscoe 48.4 14.6 213 5850 ## 8 Gentoo Biscoe 49.3 15.7 217 5850 ## 9 Gentoo Biscoe 55.1 16 230 5850 ## 10 Gentoo Biscoe 49.5 16.2 229 5800 ## # … with 334 more rows, and 1 more variable: sex <chr>
How To Sort a Dataframe by Two Variables?
With dplyr’s arrange() function we can sort by more than one variable. To sort or arrange by two variables, we specify the names of two variables as arguments to arrange() function as shown below. Note that the order matters here.
penguins %>% arrange(body_mass_g,flipper_length_mm)
In this example here, we have body_mass_g first and flipper_length_mm second. dplyr’s arrange() sorts by these two variables such that for each value the first variable, dplyr under the good subsets the data and sorts by second variable.
For example, we can see that starting from second row body_mass_g has the same values and the flipper_length is sorted in ascending order.
## # A tibble: 344 x 7 ## species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_… body_mass_g ## <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> ## 1 Chinst… Dream 46.9 16.6 192 2700 ## 2 Adelie Biscoe 36.5 16.6 181 2850 ## 3 Adelie Biscoe 36.4 17.1 184 2850 ## 4 Adelie Dream 33.1 16.1 178 2900 ## 5 Adelie Biscoe 34.5 18.1 187 2900 ## 6 Chinst… Dream 43.2 16.6 187 2900 ## 7 Adelie Torge… 38.6 17 188 2900 ## 8 Adelie Biscoe 37.9 18.6 193 2925 ## 9 Adelie Dream 37.5 18.9 179 2975 ## 10 Adelie Dream 37 16.9 185 3000 ## # … with 334 more rows, and 1 more variable: sex <chr>
Notice the difference in results we get by changing the order of two variables we want to sort by. In the example below we have flipper_length first and body_mass next.
penguins %>% arrange(flipper_length_mm,body_mass_g)
Now our dataframe is first sorted by flipper_length and then by body_mass.
## # A tibble: 344 x 7 ## species island bill_length_mm bill_depth_mm flipper_length_… body_mass_g ## <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> ## 1 Adelie Biscoe 37.9 18.6 172 3150 ## 2 Adelie Biscoe 37.8 18.3 174 3400 ## 3 Adelie Torge… 40.2 17 176 3450 ## 4 Adelie Dream 33.1 16.1 178 2900 ## 5 Adelie Dream 39.5 16.7 178 3250 ## 6 Chinst… Dream 46.1 18.2 178 3250 ## 7 Adelie Dream 37.2 18.1 178 3900 ## 8 Adelie Dream 37.5 18.9 179 2975 ## 9 Adelie Dream 42.2 18.5 180 3550 ## 10 Adelie Biscoe 37.7 18.7 180 3600 ## # … with 334 more rows, and 1 more variable: sex <chr>
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Fisk president named in restraining order filed by alleged ex-lover
Fisk President Dr. Kevin Rome Sr. is accused of harassment
The president of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee has just been placed under a restraining order after claims of harassing an alleged ex-lover.
Dr. Kevin Rome, Sr. is being accused of harassing the man to the point he longer felt safe, News 4 reports. According to the unidentified man, he and Rome spent the night together after meeting on the dating app Grindr.
Rome became Fisk’s 16th president in 2017, previously serving as president of Lincoln University from 2013-2017. He is married to Stephanie Rome and they share two children.
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The restraining order claims that Rome gave the man the drug GHB which rendered him unconscious when they hooked up in May. Afterward, Rome “invited other people over to have sex” with the man while he was drugged.
The anonymous man further told police that after his sexual encounter with Rome, whom he knew as “Rob,” he was sent messages to “Stay away from his people.”
He was also warned that he’d be killed if he “continued to date Black men.” He allegedly received the threats on August 6 after a man who was at the May encounter recognized him.
The man is also claiming that his apartment was broken into on June 14 and 15 and that Rome and an accomplice were responsible. He alleges that homophobic slurs were written on the wall and that the plumbing was tampered with so that sewage destroyed his apartment.
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The petitioner is now living in a hotel due to the damage and the threats he believes are motivated by jealousy because he’s dating Rome’s alleged ex.
“I have learned that my boyfriend that I was dating at the time of this incident is “Rob’s” ex, and I was afraid that “Rob” did all of this out of jealousy,” the victim wrote in his complaint.
“I am now terrified to leave my house because of the threat on my life. I am very fearful that “Rob” may follow through on the threat to kill me and I want him to stay away from me and not contact me.”
A judge granted the restraining order but Rome has denied the allegations in their entirety.
“I’m just as shocked as you, I have no idea who this person is and I can’t even respond to it because I don’t even know who they are,” Rome told Scoop Nashville in a phone call.
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Jay Steed, who is representing Rome, said that Rome intended to fight the case in court to clear his good name, and thanked his supporters.
“It is important to note that these are merely civil accusations. Dr. Rome has not been charged with any crime. Dr. Rome is most concerned for his family, friends, and the community at Fisk University for any harm they are experiencing as a result of these spurious charges.
“He expresses his deepest thanks to all those who have reached out to him over the past few days expressing their support,” Steed said in a statement to News 4.
The university has yet to comment on these allegations.
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Will Smith to produce dramatic reboot of ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’
Morgan Cooper’s trailer for a new version of the ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ gets the green light
It’s happening.
When filmmaker and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air superfan Morgan Cooper set out to do a trailer for a dramatic reboot of the show he likely wasn’t thinking it would actually happen. Maybe he figured showing off his filmmaking skills might net him some interest to further his career.
As it turns out, via the power of social media, the 3:57 trailer found its way to Will Smith who loved the rethinking of the show that helped make him an international superstar.
Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Cooper has signed on as co-writer, co-director and co-executive producer for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot.
Original producers Smith, Benny Medina and Quincy Jones along with show creators Susan and Andy Borowitz are onboard and are shopping the newly imagined series to streamers including Netflix, HBO Max, Peacock. The show will be co-produced by Smith’s Westbrook Studio and Universal TV.
Cooper will be working with showrunner Chris Collins whose resume includes The Wire, Crash and Sons of Anarchy. The reboot is being billed as a one-hour series that will be a dramatic retelling of the classic sitcom, taking a deeper and more serious dive into the issues of being a Black man in America in the contemporary landscape.
Smith, along with the late James Avery, Janet Hubert Whitten (and then Daphne Maxwell Reid), Alfonso Ribeiro, Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell and Smith’s rap partner DJ Jazzy Jeff in a recurring role, starred on the NBC sitcom that ran from 1990-1996. Along the way, it sent Smith, already a rap star, into a new stratosphere. The show became one of the network’s most popular and beloved sitcoms.
Cooper did the trailer in March 2019. By April, Smith had met Cooper and interviewed him for his YouTube channel.
“That’s an idea that is brilliant,” Smith told Cooper about the trailer in their interview. He asked the filmmaker what made him come up with it.
“I grew up watching the show since I was 5,” Cooper told Smith. “I remember seeing what you did onscreen so it’s always been a part of me. I remember driving down 71 in Kansas City and I was just thinking about the show. I remember driving under this overpass and when I came out, I had the idea. It hit me like a ton of bricks and I knew I had to tell the story.”
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Activist’s arrest in Portland galvanizes Black Lives Matter
Authorities say the prominent activist, Demetria Hester, won’t be charged following her predawn Monday arrest
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The arrest during a Portland, Oregon protest of a Black woman who became a leading activist in the racial justice movement after she was assaulted by a white supremacist three years ago has galvanized local and national Black Lives Matter groups.
Demonstrators took to the streets again Monday night and police broke up a protest outside a police precinct substation after they said protesters shined strobe lights at officers and hurled eggs and water bottles at them.
Nine people were arrested when clashes broke out at the protest that lasted into early Tuesday morning, with some protesters throwing rocks and golf balls in the mayhem. One officer suffered an arm injury in a scuffle for which she was treated and released from a hospital, Portland police said in a statement.
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Portland has endured more than two months of often violent, nightly protests since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, including weeks of clashes between protesters and federal agents dispatched to the city by President Donald Trump in to protect a federal courthouse that was a focus of the demonstrators.
Authorities said the prominent activist, Demetria Hester, won’t be charged following her predawn Monday arrest after a protest that started Sunday night and turned violent outside the union headquarters for Portland’s police.
Hester, 46, had been booked on suspicion of disorderly conduct and interfering with a police officer during the protest. Hester’s arrest drew a sharp rebuke from national Black Lives Matter activists, who are increasingly focusing on demonstrations in Oregon’s largest city.
After her release, Hester told reporters that she would keep protesting and joined others in announcing plans for a fundraiser to send Black mothers to Washington, D.C.
“I was born and bred to do this. This is a dream come true,” Hester said. “This is a revolution and we’re getting reparations.”
Hester and 15 other people were arrested during Portland’s 73rd consecutive nights of protest, when a group of about 200 demonstrators gathered at a park and then marched to the union headquarters building, where some people set fires outside the building and launched fireworks at officers.
Two officers were injured, including one who was burned on the neck when a firework exploded, police said. Police declared that the event was a riot shortly after 10 p.m. and began arresting people, including Hester.
Trump again seized on the protests in the city where he has harshly criticized local Democratic officials and said on Twitter that Portland was “out of control.” He urged Democratic Gov. Kate Brown to bring in the Oregon National Guard.
Civil rights groups in Portland and members of the international Black Lives Matter organization, who traveled to Portland, decried Hester’s arrest and said the city was at the center of the racial justice protest movement.
“The struggle here in Portland has become almost ground zero because what we’ve seen under this administration is the kind of flexing that we haven’t really seen in our generation, ever,” said Janaya Khan, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto. “People only protest when politicians and policies and police have failed to protect them. ”
Hester gained prominence in 2017 when she was assaulted by a white supremacist while riding a light-rail train. The man who attacked Hester, Jeremy Christian, stabbed two men to death the following night and critically injured a third man when they came to the defense of two Black women — one of them wearing a Muslim head-covering — who were being harassed by Christian.
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Hester gave emotional testimony this spring at Christian’s murder trial. Christian was convicted and given two life sentences without possibility of parole.
Hester has reappeared in public this summer as one of the main organizers of a group of mostly white parents who have been protesting nightly. She leads marches each night, using a bullhorn to chant in a voice cracking with fatigue.
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U.S COVID-19 Cases In Children Spike 90% As Schools Begin To Reopen, Report Says
COVID-19 continues to keep the country in quarantine and practicing social distancing to prevent the spread of the virus. With the dawn of a new school season, many schools have started to reopen in different states despite concerns from parents and warnings from various experts. This week, a new report shows that within the last four weeks, young children have seen a 90% increase in overall new cases as a result.
According to a report by The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, over 380,000 children have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic started and represented 9.1% of all cases across the country. The new data also showed that between July and August there has been a 90% spike in COVID-19 cases in children. States like Illinois, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arizona, and California have reported high increases in new COVID-19 among school-aged children. The new report counters President Trump’s previous statements saying children were nearly immune to the virus.
Other states like New York have opted to provide more remote learning options for parents to protect kids without disrupting their learning. According to ABC7 News, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this week that over 700,000 students will be participating in a blended in-person and online curriculum with 26% of students opting for digital-only remote learning.
“Our numbers reflect the work of everyone in this state, and the number of ICU patients and hospitalizations have reached new lows again,” Gov.Andrew Cuomo told ABC7 News. “That is extraordinary given where we were just a few months ago. We are fighting on two fronts to protect our progress: We are fighting against the rise of cases across the nation, and we are fighting against lack of compliance within our own state.
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Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro goes viral reciting lyrics to ‘WAP’
Cardi B catches wind of his skit and says, ‘I can’t believe conservatives soo mad’ her hit song
The ‘WAP’ song continues to cause controversy throughout the nation.
This time, right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro took to his show and read the lyrics, dispelling the notion that this is a song that has feminist overtones.
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“This is deep guys. This is what feminists fought for. This is what the feminist movement was all about,” Shapiro said to his viewers. “It’s not really about women being treated as independent, full, rounded human beings. It’s about wet ass p-word. And if you say anything differently you’re a misogynist.”
Shapiro is the co-founder and editor of the conservative website The Daily Wire.
Listening to Shapiro’s reading of the lyrics is truly cringe-worthy. Writer Jason Campbell, who is a frequent critic of Shapiro, shared the clip with only the caption, “Ben Shapiro reads ‘WAP’ lyrics.”
Cardi B responded tweeting, “I can’t believe conservatives soo mad about WAP.”
She also shared a fan-created video of Shapiro reading the lyrics while juxtaposed over the official video of the song with laughing emojis.
Fans also criticized Shapiro’s shaming of the song. One fan retweeted a 2012 tweet by the pundit which said, “Fact: Rap isn’t music. And if you think it is, you’re stupid.”
James P. Bradley, a conservative who is currently running from congress, said that he “accidentally” heard the song. He said it made him “want to pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!”
Cardi has been playfully defending her single, and the controversy around it. She recently retweeted Dictionary.com who said that searches for “WAP” are up over 9,000%.
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The song has also sparked a debate about the sexual content of male rappers versus that of female rappers, the agency of women’s sexuality, and more. With celebrities like former NFL player, Larry Johnson and rapper CeeLo Green chiming in to condemn the single.
Despite the criticism, “WAP” is the number one single on iTunes, Apple Music, and Spotify.
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A Homeless Crisis Looms Over America As More Than 30 Million Face Eviction
The coronavirus pandemic has made the U.S. economy spiral out of control, now, the potential eviction of 30 million Americans may put the country into another pandemic.
Last weekend, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that required administration officials to “take all lawful measures to prevent residential evictions and foreclosures resulting from financial hardships caused by COVID-19.”
Trump also required cabinet officials to identify funds that could be used to aid distressed renters. According to NPR, none of Trump’s orders neither bans evictions outright nor provides rental assistance because both actions must be approved by Congress. Additionally, housing activists say it will do little to avoid the situation.
When the coronavirus pandemic began in March, many states paused evictions in order to protect the millions of suddenly unemployed workers from losing their homes. Those eviction bans are expiring at the same time the $600 federal unemployment benefit has expired. The benefit allowed many Americans without a job to put food on the table while paying bills, including rent.
“Now you’re in a moment where you still haven’t gone back to work, most government benefits have stopped, and the rent is still due,” says the Aspen Institute’s Zach Neumann, who founded the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project.
Neumann estimates of the 110 million Americans who live in rental housing, at least 30 million are at risk of eviction by the end of September.
“There’s tremendous urgency,” adds Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. “There are millions of renters who can’t sleep at night because they don’t know what they’re going to do if they become homeless.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Wednesday to extend the state’s protections for tenants who have faced financial hardships related to COVID-19 until Sept. 4. The state’s new Tenant Safe Harbor Act also prevents a court from issuing an eviction warrant against those tenants.
However, even when bans are in place, tenants can have trouble understanding whether they’re protected or not. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis extended an eviction ban for another month but the extension only allows renters who can prove they’ve been hurt by COVID-19 to appeal for more time to pay what they owe. The ban technically doesn’t stop evictions according to Jamos Mobley, an attorney in Orlando.
“A lot of folks hear that we’ve had an extension, and they’re going to assume they’re protected. And that’s just not the case. Evictions are moving forward. They’re being filed. They’re being served,” says Mobley, who also works for the Legal Aid Society in Central Florida. “I think our next pandemic, if nothing is done, is going to be a homeless pandemic,” he says.
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Denver police investigating arson house fire that killed Senegalese family of 5
The community responds overwhelmingly and raises almost $200K to send the family’s remains back to Africa
A house fire killed three adults and two children who were Senegalese immigrants and it is being investigated as a homicide. Authorities have determined that fire was intentionally set by someone who fled the area.
Djibril and Adja Diol and their 3-year-old daughter, Kadidia, died along with Hassan Diol and her infant daughter, Hawa Beye. Djibril Diol was an engineer and the brother of Hassan Diol.
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According to a local news station KMOV4, Joe Montoya, division chief for investigations at the Denver Police Department, said the fire was deliberately set but would not discuss details.
“I cannot get into the details right now. We are relying on the expertise of the Denver Fire arson investigators, the ATF, and some of the evidence collected at the scene,” Montoya said.
He also said that the investigators are being “very open-minded” and looking “at every possible angle.”
The Colorado chapter of the Council of American Islamic Relations is calling for an investigation into the idea of racial bias.
“Because the family members who perished in this tragedy are members of minority and immigrant communities, it would only be prudent to investigate the possibility of a bias motive,” said Krista Cole, acting board chair for CAIR-Colorado.
Montoya said that “if at some point we determine it was hate-motivated or bias-motivated, then we will definitely share that with the community.”
Denver mayor, Michael Hancock, expressed his condolences to the family and encouraged the community to contribute to a GoFundMe for the family to help send their remains to their homeland.
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“We are saddened by the loss of a loving Dad, a nurturing husband, and a caring brother to all of us,” the GoFundMe reads, “Please help the family with the cost of sending the bodies back home for a proper burial.”
At the time of publishing, the community has raised over $178,000, more than the initial goal of $150,000.
The family lived on the lower level of a two-family home. All five perished, while the family upstairs jumped to safety.
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‘Get Out’ star LaKeith Stanfield causes concern after cryptic posts
Friends and fans go to social media to ask for someone to check-in on the actor during a presumed moment of crisis
LaKeith Stanfield, star of the Academy Award-winning film Get Out and the hit FX series Atlanta, scared some fans yesterday after a series of cryptic Instagram posts.
Stanfield posted a video of himself pouring liquor into an empty pill bottle. Underneath the post, he wrote, “I like to be by myself because I can hurt myself and no one tells me to stop or fakes like they care.”
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In a separate post, he wrote, “Reality is boring and moves too slow and no one is trustworthy.” He also wrote that he’d like to be “inside” because “outside is crazy.”
The posts, which were posted with the comments disabled, were later deleted. In fact, all of his posts were deleted.
However, supporters were able to capture the images and ask for someone to help the actor on Twitter.
Stanfield’s posts, just a day before the actor’s 29th birthday, were alarming enough that fans and some celebrities began calling for people to reach out to him.
Comedian Patton Oswalt expressed his concern and later shared that through a mutual friend that “just got confirmation that LaKeith is okay. Sorry if I overreacted.” He encouraged people to reach out to someone they hadn’t spoken to in a while and check in on them.
Stanfield went on to later post, “I’m ok everyone! I appreciate everyone checking in on me but I’m good. I’m not harming myself. Much love.” The post ended with a red rose emoji. It is the only post on his Instagram page.
His publicists, Platform PR, also posted that he is “well.” While saying that the “love you all have is appreciated.”
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The actor will soon be reuniting with his Get Out co-star, Daniel Kaluuya for the civil rights movie, Judas and The Black Messiah, based on the life and death of Black Panther Party leader, Fred Hampton.
The film is produced by Ryan Coogler and the trailer is getting good early reviews.
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Pathfinder is home to 100+ use cases across more than ten industries. Our data scientists have curated the use cases on Pathfinder to ensure that they are not only relevant but also representative of their industries. DataRobot does not share customer data, personal data, or sensitive use cases on Pathfinder.
You can benefit from Pathfinder by discovering use cases which your organization may not have considered before. You can filter the use cases based on their business and technical parameters. This includes the ability to filter by industry, problem type (i.e., regression, classification, time series), and value driver, which helps you find use cases that align with high-level business objectives, such as increasing revenue, decreasing costs, and improving customer experience.
The tabs displaying each use case are designed for you to intuitively explore and identify relevant use cases, which can be sorted based on their popularity, impact, and complexity. While these are broad generalizations that need to be followed up by a deeper analysis of your organization’s unique position, they can give you a quick, high-level overview of which use cases may fit with your organization’s current data science maturity. For instance, organizations only beginning to implement AI should select low-hanging fruits, such as use cases that are high in impact but low in complexity.
Understand Use Cases
Pathfinder’s use cases are currently segmented by Executive Summary and End-to-End. While Executive Summary only offers high-level overviews of a use case, End-to-End provides detailed guides on how a use case can be implemented from both technical and business perspectives. Pathfinder has more than 30 End-to-End use cases, and more are being released on a regular basis.
With Pathfinder’s End-to-End guides, you can understand how to build models for specific use cases and deploy their predictions into your decision environments.
On the technical side, Pathfinder helps you frame use cases into data science problems and reveals the features you will need to train your models. The tool also shows step-by-step tutorials on how to interpret and evaluate models using the DataRobot AI platform.
On the business side, decision environments are the methods by which predictions will ultimately be used for business decision-making. Pathfinder will guide you towards understanding which stakeholders should consume the predictions, how they will consume the predictions, and what actionable decisions they can make to impact real-world business processes.
Share Use Cases
Once you have explored Pathfinder and identified use cases relevant to your organization, you can shortlist these use cases by bookmarking them. These bookmarks will appear on your personal AI roadmap and be saved for future viewing. You can easily share your roadmap with colleagues, who can then curate your list and select specific use cases to add to their own roadmap.
Find Your Path to AI Success Today
Pathfinder is available for free to the general public. Whether you are just starting your journey or are years into deploying use cases, Pathfinder will help you uncover new opportunities to expand your AI footprint. We are thrilled to be a small part of your efforts to generate greater value for your organization through automation and optimization.
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BROWN GIRL Jane Partners SheaMoisture For New $250,000 Fund For Black Beauty Brands
The new conversations centered around racial injustice have caused a revolution in many industries, demanding corporations to diversify everything from their workforce to the products being sold to consumers. This week, Brown Girl Jane, a plant-based beauty and wellness company, announced its new initiative and partnership with SheaMoisture to amplify Black entrepreneurs within the beauty industry.
#BrownGirlSwap is an initiative designed to amplify and support Black-owned independent beauty and wellness brands in the industry. The initial idea started as a pledge to swap out your beauty products with Black-owned companies which developed into a more intensive program. “This year has been such a whirlwind [for us] with so many things happening. [We conceived the idea in] early June at the time as a lot of the social justice movements [with] a new focus [around and economic empowerment],” said Malaika Jones Kebede, CEO of Brown Girl Jane in an interview with BLACK ENTERPRISE.
“My team and I really wanted to start something that was simple and doable but that would potentially have a ripple effect and so we came up with the idea of the brown crosswalk, which really is a simple idea asking consumers to pledge to just swap outside of their everyday beauty and wellness products for those made and by Black women founders and owners.”
The grant will help cover a new entrepreneurship program offering business-to-business mentorship with seasoned executives from SheaMoisture and beauty conglomerate, Unilever in addition to a virtual summit presented by both brands centering around Black beauty creators in September called The Black To Business Summit.
“It’s important for us to create and partner on opportunities and spaces that encourage the growth of women of color in business. Our Community Commerce purpose-driven business model enables us to invest in Black female entrepreneurs around the world. As a brand, we have always invested in the underserved, by providing access to opportunities and resources which help to create lasting value for entrepreneurs and their communities,” said Cara Sabin, CEO of SheaMoisture, in a statement to BLACK ENTERPRISE.
“We were so inspired by BROWN GIRL Jane’s three dynamic founders, and the ability of other Black beauty founders to build dynamic businesses. Our brands connected even further over the shared mission to support and uplift these businesses as we continue SheaMoisture’s long history of meeting Black women’s unique needs in personal care.”
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Russia becomes first nation to clear coronavirus vaccine
Scientists are sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before Phase 3 trials could backfire.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Tuesday became the first country to clear a coronavirus vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. President Vladimir Putin said that one of his daughters has already been inoculated.
Putin emphasized that the vaccine underwent the necessary tests and has proven efficient, offering a lasting immunity from the coronavirus. However, scientists at home and abroad have been sounding the alarm that the rush to start using the vaccine before Phase 3 trials — which normally last for months and involve thousands of people — could backfire.
Speaking at a government meeting Tuesday, Putin said that the vaccine has undergone proper testing and is safe.
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“I know it has proven efficient and forms a stable immunity, and I would like to repeat that it has passed all the necessary tests,” he said. “We must be grateful to those who made that first step very important for our country and the entire world.”
The Russian leader added that one of his two adult daughters has received two shots of the vaccine. “She has taken part in the experiment,” Putin said.
Putin said that his daughter had a temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) on the day of the first vaccine injection, and then it dropped to just over 37 degrees (98.6 Fahrenheit) on the following day. After the second shot she again had a slight increase in temperature, but then it was all over.
“She’s feeling well and has high number of antibodies,” Putin added. He didn’t specify which of his two daughters — Maria or Katerina — received the vaccine.
The Health Ministry said in Tuesday’s statement that the vaccine is expected to provide immunity from the coronavirus for up to two years.
Putin emphasized that vaccination will be voluntary,
Russian authorities have said that medical workers, teachers and other risk groups will be the first to be inoculated. Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that the vaccination of doctors could start as early as this month.
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Professor Alexander Gintsburg, head of the Gamaleya Institute that developed the vaccine, said that vaccination will start while the Phase 3 trials continue. He said that initially there will be only enough doses to conduct vaccination in 10-15 of Russia’s 85 regions, according to the Interfax news agency.
Russian officials have said that large-scale production of the vaccine will start in September, and mass vaccination may begin as early as October.
Russia has registered 897,599 coronavirus cases, including 15,131 deaths.
When the pandemic struck Russia, Putin ordered state officials to shorten the time of clinical trials for potential coronavirus vaccines.
Becoming the first country in the world to develop a vaccine was a matter of national prestige for the Kremlin as it tries to assert the image of Russia as a global power. State television stations and other media have praised scientists working on it and presented the work as the envy of other nations.
Gintsburg raised eyebrows in May when he said that he and other researchers tried the vaccine on themselves.
Human studies started June 17 among 76 volunteers. Half were injected with a vaccine in liquid form and the other half with a vaccine that came as soluble powder. Some in the first half were recruited from the military, which raised concerns that servicemen may have been pressured to participate.
Read More: UK coronavirus vaccine prompts immune response in early test
Amid Russia’s rush to become the first to create a vaccine, the U.S., Britain and Canada last month accused Russia of using hackers to steal vaccine research from Western labs.
As the trials were declared completed, questions arose about the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. Some experts scoffed at Russian authorities’ assurances that the vaccine drug produced the desired immune response and caused no significant side effects, pointing out that such claims need to be backed by published scientific data.
The World Health Organization said all vaccine candidates should go through full stages of testing before being rolled out. Experts have warned that vaccines that are not properly tested can cause harm in many ways — from a negative impact on health to creating a false sense of security or undermining trust in vaccinations.
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