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Condor Tips and Tricks

Here is a collection of "HowTo" documents, helping over some hurdles when installing Condor on Mac and Windows, courtesy of Ken Riopelle (thanks a lot, Ken!) Condor and Java 9 and Java 8 Tips Condor 3 How to obtain a Google CSE Key_Updated_07162017 Condor 3 How to obtain the four Twitter API Keys Updated July 16 2017 How to install Java JRE 8 update 121 on a Windows 10 PC How to install MySQL 5.7.17  on a Windows 10 PC How to install MySQL Workbench 6.3.7 on a Widnows 10 PC How to start Condor on a Windows 10 PC updated July 15 2017 How to install Java JDK 8 update 131 on a Mac as of July 13 2017 How to install MySQL and Workbench on a Mac updated July 13 2017 How to start Condor on a Mac Sierra updated July 13 2017

What Is the Influence of Your Tweets?

What is the real-world impact of Twitter? It seems that one well-placed tweet can #makeAmericaGreatAgain – at least it got Donald Trump elected as US President, or did it?  One year after his election, even the Russian press says Trump did not “Make America Great Again” . In this post I would like to explore if Twitter really can help an aspiring leader to change the world, promote a cause, or further his or her own career. I will start by looking at the Twitter behavior of the World’s most famous people, and then identify some characteristics of the most active or prominent twitterers. In a project with GDI Switzerland we have used prominence in Wikipedia to identify the most influential people in the (English speaking) world. Wikipedia’s notability criteria are a robust mechanism to filter out the most notable 800,000 people. We have then constructed the network among these 800,000 people by linking two people, if their Wikipedia pages are mutually linked. (We call this a bi-dir