Having spent more time than I’d like to recall in rooms with economists, political scientists,...
Kevin Kelly thinks Computational Legal Studies is Cool
Thanks to Sam Arbesman yesterday for pointing out that Kevin Kelly thinks the blog Dan and I run, Co...
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Christoph Gohlke’s Windows Python Packages
Last night, I spent a few hours configuring a new OCZ Vertex 2 on my M4500, m...
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Archiving Tweets with Python
Last week, I posted some R code that downloads the user and timestamp of tweets tha...
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Dataset: Wisconsin Union Protester Tweets #wiunion
I’ve been playing with Twitter data over the last week, archiving Algerian, Egyptian, Ira...
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RescueTime: Really Cool Time Tracking
I created my RescueTime account in October 2009, installed the client, got confused, and promptly ig...
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Plotting 3D Graphs with Python, igraph, and Cairo: #cn220 Example
Out of all the visuals I’ve produced, I think the "coolest" is the three...
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Snowmageddon II: February 21, 2011
Remember that last Snowmageddon? This one was pretty good too....
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Tracking the Frequency of Twitter Hashtags with R
I’ve posted three examples of Twitter hashtags datasets in the last week: one on China, ...
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Dataset: Tweets from the Chinese Protests #cn220
Earlier this week, I posted a ~100k tweet dataset on the #25bahman protests in Iran. The corre...
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