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Visualizing the U.S. Senate Social Graph, 1991 - 2009 [Part 1]

Arlen Specter's party switch was big news, but a quick visualization technique shows it was a long time coming. What other surprises might lurk in the Senate Social graph?

Four short links: 29 Apr 2009

Moot Wins, Time Inc. Loses -- summary of how the 4chan group Anonymous rigged the voting in Time's 100 Most Influential poll to not just put their man at the top, but also spell an in-joke with the initial letters of the first 21 people. Time tried weakly to prevent the vote-rigging, and ReCAPTCHA gave the Internet scalliwags their...

PyMOTW: multiprocessing, part 2

Communication and synchronization techniques using multiprocessing in Python.

PyMOTW: multiprocessing, part 1

The multiprocessing module includes a relatively simple API for dividing work up between multiple processes based on the API for the threading module.

Simplify business research with Google Ajax Search API

Business research usually starts with a list -- brands, competitors, people, products, whatever. This post describes a quick Python script that uses the Google Search API to automate the routine parts of the task, giving you more time to analyze and understand the results.

The App Engine Birds of a Feather at Pycon 2009

This was my second Pycon - since the last two have been in Chicago and on a weekend it has been an easy drive for me to attend coming from Michigan. Since last year was my first time at Pycon...

PyMOTW: pipes

The pipes module implements a class to create arbitrarily complex Unix command pipelines. Inputs and outputs of the commands can be chained together as with the shell | operator, even if the individual commands need to write to or read from files instead of stdin/stdout.

Four short links: 2 Apr 2009

Predictions, PDF, source code control, and recommendation engines: Wrong Tomorrow -- track pundits predictions and see how accurate they really are. From the ever-awesome Maciej Ceglowski. PDFMiner -- Unlike other PDF-related tools, it allows to obtain the exact location of texts in a page, as well as other layout information such as font size or font name, which could be...

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