 This term, I’m teaching Complex Systems 530 – Computer Modeling for Complex Systems a...
Advanced approximate sentence matching in Python
In our last post, we went over a range of options to perform approximate sentence matching in Python...
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Fuzzy match sentences in Python
Let’s imagine you have a sentence of interest. Â You’d like to find all occurrences of t...
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Isotonic Regressions in scikit-learn
Isotonic regression is a great tool to keep in your repertoire; it’s like weighted least-squ...
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Is the Tax Code the longest Title?
  Last week, I shared that Dan Katz and I had finally published a draft of our paper, Measuring t...
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Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code
 Four years ago, Dan Katz and I began working on a project to measure the complexity of the law. Â...
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Revisiting text processing with R and Python
 Back in 2011, I covered the relative performance difference of the most popular libraries for tex...
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Generating SSH config from AWS hosts using boto
 As a consultant and advisor to many firms running on or investigating AWS, I find SSH host and ke...
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Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics
 After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source f...
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Summary of community detection algorithms in igraph 0.6
 Based on Launchpad traffic and mailing list responses, Gabor and Tamas will soon be releasing igr...
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