Summary of community detection algorithms in igraph 0.6
Based on Launchpad traffic and mailing list responses, Gabor and Tamas will soon be releasing igraph 0.6. In celebration, I’ll be
Building Python pandas from development source
I first heard about Python pandas from a friend at RenTech or AQR in the early summer of last year. At
OTM in the Cloud: Hosting Architectures, Part 2 – 1+RDS
In our last post on cloud architectures, I covered a simple one-node Oracle Transportation Management instance on Amazon Web Services using
Installing AWS Cloud Search Command Line Tools
In case you're too lazy to dig into the full CloudSearch developer guide, here's a quick summary of how
Updated Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL) XML
Last August, I released an XML copy of the Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL). As an example of what could
Statistics on the length and linguistic complexity of bills
Where would you go to find out what the longest bill of the 112th Congress was by number of
Hash collision attacks hose Oracle Transportation Management
Ars had a great write-up a few weeks ago about the huge hash resource starvation attack that was uncovered awhile back
A quick look at #march11 / #saudi tweets
Well, so much for that #march11 #Saudi day of rage. Whether it was really the "tempest in a teacup" that Prince Al-Waleed suggested on CNBC (video
Marginal Revolution on ideological economist blindspots
Having spent more time than I'd like to recall in rooms with economists, political scientists, and law professors of various stripes and names, this Marginal
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, Compuational Legal Studies, is a "signpost of
Christoph Gohlke’s Windows Python Packages
Last night, I spent a few hours configuring a new OCZ Vertex 2 on my M4500, my primary workstation. It turns out the drive was a
Archiving Tweets with Python
Last week, I posted some R code that downloads the user and timestamp of tweets that contain a given hashtag going back as far as Twitter search
Dataset: Wisconsin Union Protester Tweets #wiunion
I've been playing with Twitter data over the last week, archiving Algerian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Chinese tweets. I thought I'd bring the story a