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Creating clear and effective charts is a crucial skill for presenting data visually. Here's a list of chart types - Arc Diagram Area Graph Arrow Chart: Displays the range and direction of change between two values. Bar Chart: A standard chart for comparisons, rankings Box & Whisker Plot Brainstorm Bubble Chart: Compares a value against a target and ranges using a "bar-in-a-bar" design. Bubble Map Bullet Graph Calendar Candlestick Chart Chord Diagram Choropleth Map Circle Packing Column chart: The vertical version of a bar chart. Connection Map Density Plot Donut Chart: Similar to a pie chart, but with a central space for additional information. Dot Map Dot Matrix Chart Error Bars Flow Chart Flow Map Gantt Chart Gauge Chart Grouped Bar/Column Chart (Clustered Bar/Column Chart): Bars or columns from the same category are placed together in a group. Heatmap: Shows data variations using colour, hue, or intensity. Histogram Icon Chart: Compares variables using different ic

Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. While individual actions & awareness are important, addressing climate change requires a unified and concerted effort from local communities, cities, and nations working collaboratively to tackle its challenges. The first climate COP meeting was held in Berlin, Germany in March, 1995. The Paris Agreement, adopted at COP21 in 2015, is a landmark international agreement on climate change.  Its main goal is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.    In the 2023 COP28 summit in  petrostate   Dubai, all that participating countries could do was commit to "contribute" to "transitioning away from fossil fuels". At a time when fossil fuels should have been significantly reduc

Gartner defines strategic cloud platform services (SCPS) as standardized, automated, public cloud offerings integrating infrastructure services (e.g., computing, network and storage), platform services (e.g., application, data and value-added services such as AI/ML) and transformation services (resources to help customers adopt cloud-oriented IT delivery models). Image - Gartner Insights I found interesting from the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services report: The eight SCPS providers & global hyperscalers featured in this Magic Quadrant control over 97% of the total CIPS market. While AWS has maintained profitability and a leading global infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) market share of over 42%, its growth rate relative to its key competitors slowed in 2023. Azure public cloud market share is 26%. GCP's overall market share stands at 11.5%. Oracle's strategy of positioning OCI as the top cloud for Oracle software i