Chris F. Waigl http://lascribe.net Aggregated stuff. Links to various more substantial projects are below. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:02:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en links for 2010-08-23 http://lascribe.net/2010/08/24/207/ http://lascribe.net/2010/08/24/207/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:02:31 +0000 chris daily_links http://lascribe.net/2010/08/24/207/
  • Maybe useful.
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  • Javascript graphing library - I think the result needs polish, but there are a lot of good resources on the page for treemap graphing algorithms.
  • In R, you can make a Treemap visualization in 4 lines of code.
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  • The master hoard of locale data.
  • Python wrapper for the ICU i18n library. Documentation is a bit scant.
  • ICU, by IBM, seems to be THE thing to use for serious i18n. There are Python bindings for it, but they're not very well documented.
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  • Bayesian estimation, particularly using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). For modelling.
  • Bruno Renié's talk about Python and IMAP.
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  • Useful web-based tool ("DNS Health Check"), very gentle display of results. They also have ping/traceroute tools and a general web page test.
  • Smart fellows.
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  • Another free icon set, similar to Famfamfam.
  • Perl module Text-Unaccent on CPAN. For when you need to normalize éêëè… to e, and so forth.
  • Really excellent. Five lectures, the first one being purely a history of computing.
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  • John Rauser from Amazon speaks at Velocity 2010 about network latency and web performance.
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  • This article is lagging in quality behind the classic Unicode intros by Tim Bray and Joel Spolsky, and contains a few annoying errors. However, I could see it being of use for non-techies who find Bray and Spolsky too technical.
  • Excellent! Richard Ishida's multi-converter.
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  • Javascript datetime library. Localized into a bunch of languages.
  • Excellent manual on map projections.
  • Excellent, comprehensive Git tutorial.
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  • Data from the various EU member states' transparency sites regarding CAP payments, collected by farmsubsidy.org. Most are zipped Excel files, ugh.
    (tags: data CAP Europe EU)
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