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by tuckermi 11y ago
The metrocosm post links to this page on the Economist: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/04/daily-c... , but unfortunately I am now hitting the paywall and don't have my subscription
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by tuckermi 11y ago
Given the pain that would be associated with rolling your own, why not make the case that a new method be added to the String interface that provides the old behavior? Legacy applications still need to change, but it would be a relatively s
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by tuckermi 11y ago
My team has been rolling our own conda packages for (frequent) internal software releases to local servers and have been pretty happy overall pulling down code from a locally managed conda package repo. With that said, Conda is not a perfec
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by tuckermi 11y ago
The original post from Metrocosm is here: http://metrocosm.com/the-housing-value-of-every-county-in-th... . It provides a link to the source data from the Economist for the county-level data.
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by tuckermi 11y ago
From the standpoint of at least one "user", I would have gotten a lot more value out of the animation if I could control it (e.g. with a slider). The pulsing back and forth makes it more difficult for me to pinpoint something of i
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by tuckermi 11y ago
Very cool! I would be interested in seeing more detail on Full Fact's implementation. Is there a technical implementation of the Decision Tree that is shown in the diagram? If so, it would be cool to learn a bit more about how it was e
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by tuckermi 11y ago
Past keynotes have been posted on youtube[1], so I suspect you will be able to watch it soon! [1] Rob Pike's opening keynote from last year is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoS7DsT1rdM
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by tuckermi 11y ago
Sounds like a similar problem to the birthday paradox - only instead of looking at the likelihood of any two people in room having the same birthday, we are asking what is the likelihood of two major companies having the same major, visible
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by tuckermi 11y ago
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen TelegraphCQ previously. Following the trail, I also came across a couple other similar research projects relating to Stream-oriented DBs. Specifically, STREAM from Stanford and Cougar from Cornell, th
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by tuckermi 11y ago
How does the PipelineDB differ or build on the ideas from Aurora/Borealis/StreamBase? At least at a high level, something like LiveView[1] seems to provide similar functionality to PipelineDB's concept of a Continuous View. I