Alright, the last 4-way presidential polls still put Clinton slightly ahead. Crossing the fingers. The lead will hold. Yesterday the FBI director sent a letter clarifying there was nothing new in the emails from last week, so I hope the voters in the US will be able to compare the flaws of the Democratic nominee against the real sexist, racist, protectionist, and xenophobic positions of the Republican nominee.

I haven't checked the Mobile OS market share in a while. According to net market share, Android has 68.5% and IOS has 25.8% in the last month. I'm curious how this will be affected by the whole Note 7 issue. Still, it's impressive the growth compared with just 2 years ago.

The Halloween query data from Google Search Trends shows some interesting points. The countries most interested in this tradition, which originated from Celtic harvest festivals, are the US, Canada, and Ireland.

On the other hand, the search queries for Halloween always spiked a week before the actual celebration (Looking for costumes).

Yesterday I saw the excellent documentary "Hate Rising" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOsRktPBNhI), a film where the journalist Jorge Ramos explores how the current US election has empowered white nationalist groups, leading to a rise in hate in that country, including attacks on minority communities. This documentary brought memories back of my mother because I'm sure she would be extremely disappointed. Before she got sick and passed away, she worked with the Girl Scouts of the USA, setting up programs to make the Latino girls proud of their heritage and to help all the girls to feel equal and part of one nation.

"The most important task in my job is to make one world. It's important for the Latinos and it's important for the American people.", my mom used to say. I have been following the US presidential elections closely, not only because I have many relatives and friends living in that country, but also because I truly believe its outcome will have important repercussions around the world.

If you don't want to live in a country where hate is normalized, where sexist and misogynist views come from the top of the leadership and where your liberties and rights get curtailed under the "law and order" sophism, please vote on this binary election! As a European, I followed the Brexit vote closely because I still think the European Union project has brought a lot of stability and peace to this continent and I thought it would be bad for my adoptive Irish nation. As you know, the yes camp won mainly on “immigration control” grounds and unfortunately the attacks against immigrant communities increased immediately after the vote. The future of this nation looks gloomy, since most of the promises of the yes camp were not attainable.

On the other hand, as a Colombian, I was extremely hopeful about the referendum to accept the peace agreements signed in Cuba to put an end to the oldest civil conflict in the Latin American continent. For the first time during the civil war, the two sides were serious about ending the conflict and didn’t use the talks as a strategy of war. It pained my heart to see how a disinformation campaign orchestrated by the opposition helped the No camp to obtain victory. Now, this conflict, affecting mainly the minority populations living in the most remote and poorest parts of the country, is in a very dangerous stalemated situation.

As an immigrant on the other side of the Atlantic, I'm really hoping the people appearing in Jorge’s documentary are a minority and that they don't reflect the United States population overall. And I really hope the outcome of the US presidential election will reflect this statement.

So please don't fall into the fear trap and go out and vote to make a stand against the people attacking the diversity that’s so needed in this world.

I have been using Python for many years and I recognize how powerful it is with libraries like Pandas and Scikit-Learn for Data Science. In a previous role, I had the opportunity to use R, but I haven't touched it in a while. I was curious to see what the interest is in R vs Python in the Google Search Trends. You can see the graph above plotted with this data source.

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