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by stuarto 3y ago
course repo with code and assignments is at: https://github.com/sourcery-ai-bot/MIT_OpenCourseWare-Perfor...
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by stuarto 10y ago
My read is that they aren't (yet) proposing defunding the data, "just the maps" e.g. visualizations that make it accessible. Nothing (yet) stopping a public-interest project from hosting the same information on an open plat
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by stuarto 10y ago
The language in Sec 3 is specifically "database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing". It is true that disparities may arise from either discrimination or oth
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by stuarto 10y ago
Thanks for the guidance, I changed the title to comply. I'm looking forward to a bill that would dismantle support for federally maintaining climate data visualizations -- likely to be titled the "Climate Monitoring Protection Act
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by stuarto 10y ago
https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/4868/affh-raw-data/ A lot of it is just plain census data, with some additional housing details filled in! Adding maps makes it more accessible :)
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by stuarto 10y ago
House and Senate bills (H.R.482 and S.103) have been introduced to ban further federal funding or use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) that disseminate data on racial discrimination in housing and other community issues. The govern
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H.R.482 - Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017(congress.gov)
70 points by stuarto 10y ago|36 comments
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by stuarto 10y ago
Scala -- great online learning resources (Coursera series), good integration with Eclipse, unique and convenient "worksheet" interface and repl, and significant benefits when working developing big data applications with Spark.