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 ## Quantifying the Commons: The end of an era
 
 Dear gentle reader,
@@ -20,17 +21,17 @@ It is the end of an era yet the beginning of my bloom as a young aspiring data
 professional on a global stage. It feels so surreal to be at the end of this
 amazing journey with my mentors and to see the quantifying commons become a
 mature project in the creative commons open source community. Quantifying the
-commons is also blooming so stay tuned to experience its impact in
-different teams at Creative Commons.
+commons is also blooming so stay tuned to experience its impact in different
+teams at Creative Commons.
 
 Looking back, I was quite nervous on my first meeting with Timid Robot and
 Sara. I did not quite understand the automation part of the project, how long
-the scripts ran? Why? I was fascinated by the whole process of the system, after
-further explanation by Timid Robot I was really impressed by the design thinking. A
-lot of details and critical thinking were put into implementing the system. Big
-kudos to the project lead and previous contributors, I am in love with the
-foundation being put in place prior to my contribution. It is a firm one and it
-made my work easier and worthwhile.
+the scripts ran? Why? I was fascinated by the whole process of the system,
+after further explanation by Timid Robot I was really impressed by the design
+thinking. A lot of details and critical thinking were put into implementing the
+system. Big kudos to the project lead and previous contributors, I am in love
+with the foundation being put in place prior to my contribution. It is a firm
+one and it made my work easier and worthwhile.
 
 
 ## Day 1 was amazing, Day 90 is growth!
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 ### Automating the Smithsonian quarterly report
 
 Smithsonian is one of the largest public institutions in the United States. It
-has a total of 38 units/data sources like museums, zoos and libraries as of when
-I worked on it. We derived insights on the usage of CC0 license across the media
-records and records without media. This urged me to add the horizontal stacked
-barplot to the collection of visualization in the report system. From this, we
-could get the distribution of the records with CC0 licenses at a glance. Also,
-we explored the top 10 distribution of units and lowest 10 distribution of
-units. This meaningfully tells us how common the CC0 license is used in these
-institutions. After testing the whole workflow a couple of times, I detected
-that the unit code seems to be updated frequently whether added or removed. I
-developed a function that keeps track of these changes and gives a warning about
-changes in the next automation process. This was the best way possible at the
-moment to handle the sudden unit code, so that our data is quite predictable and
-updated.
+has a total of 38 units/data sources like museums, zoos and libraries as of
+when I worked on it. We derived insights on the usage of CC0 license across the
+media records and records without media. This urged me to add the horizontal
+stacked barplot to the collection of visualization in the report system. From
+this, we could get the distribution of the records with CC0 licenses at a
+glance. Also, we explored the top 10 distribution of units and lowest 10
+distribution of units. This meaningfully tells us how common the CC0 license is
+used in these institutions. After testing the whole workflow a couple of times,
+I detected that the unit code seems to be updated frequently whether added or
+removed. I developed a function that keeps track of these changes and gives a
+warning about changes in the next automation process. This was the best way
+possible at the moment to handle the sudden unit code, so that our data is
+quite predictable and updated.
+
 
 ### Automating the arXiv quarterly report
 
-Arxiv is a curated research-sharing platform with 5 million monthly active users
-and hosts 2.6 million research papers. We derived quite interesting insights
-from this data source. Then expanded the visualization collection in plot.py by
-adding the function for line plot and vertical stacked barplot. The insights
-include the count of legal tools on a yearly basis and various comparative
-analysis of the tools over the years. We also explored the breakdown of these
-tools usage in different categories.  
+Arxiv is a curated research-sharing platform with 5 million monthly active
+users and hosts 2.6 million research papers. We derived quite interesting
+insights from this data source. Then expanded the visualization collection in
+plot.py by adding the function for line plot and vertical stacked barplot. The
+insights include the count of legal tools on a yearly basis and various
+comparative analysis of the tools over the years. We also explored the
+breakdown of these tools usage in different categories.  
+
 
 ## Lessons learned
+
 I learnt so much about creating a structure when solving a problem. It is quite
 easier to debug and it presents a detailed workflow for future contributors to
 understand what has been done previously. It literally boils down to how you
-name your variable or how you use it in a function. I also learnt the importance
-of asking why. Timid Robot encouraged me to always question assumptions and understand
-the reasoning behind decisions. This was the best thing to do because it made
-the whole internship fun and puzzling. Things became naturally logical and I
-could connect the dots quite easily.
+name your variable or how you use it in a function. I also learnt the
+importance of asking why. Timid Robot encouraged me to always question
+assumptions and understand the reasoning behind decisions. This was the best
+thing to do because it made the whole internship fun and puzzling. Things
+became naturally logical and I could connect the dots quite easily.
+
 
 ## What Next!
+
 I hope to continue volunteering my time on the project going forward. I am also
 eager to explore other open-source projects involving research, big data, and
 automation, and to further align these skill sets with my background in
 actuarial science.
 
+
 ## Goodbye for now
+
 I really enjoyed working with my mentors, I will miss our little chit chats
 about the holidays, the weather and even vacation trips. I look forward to
 catching up again in the future.