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'Pothole Vigilantes' Are Fixing Oakland's Terrible Road Conditions

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Two unidentified men have been fixing Oakland's numerous potholes and hailed by frustrated residents as heroes.Sam Saunders/FlickrA study by a transportation research group showed that Oakland residents pay on average an extra thousand dollars in car maintenance a year because of poor road conditions. It’s late at night on the streets of Oakland. Two shadowy figures appear looming over a giant hole in the middle of the street — one of an unknown multitude that cover the city’s streets. Read More...

Altair: How to color when there are more categories than colors available

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Here is the code taken from the Altair documentation on color schemes. alt.Chart(iris).mark_point().encode( x='petalWidth', y='petalLength', color=alt.Color('species', scale=alt.Scale(scheme='dark2')) ) Here, to color based on species, they used the dark2 color scheme. There are 8 colors in the dark2 vega scheme. I have noticed that when there more categories than colors available, it appears that the colors are recycled again, which means some categories have the same color. In this example, suppose species had more than 8 categories. Read More...

Banana Bread Recipe

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This easy banana bread recipe is the BEST way to use ripe bananas! It's moist, delicious, and packed with banana flavor. You're going to love it! Jump to recipe This banana bread recipe is the best way to use overripe bananas. Now that we have a little one in the house, we’ve been buying a LOT more bananas than we used to. Sometimes (ok, often), we don’t get to all of them before they ripen, and I end up with a heap of dark brown, spotty bananas on my counter. Read More...