Monthly Archives: June 2012

Wordcloud of the Healthcare/ACA (NFIB v. Sebelius) Opinion

Here’s a wordcloud of the NFIB et al. v. Sebelius et al. opinion.  Very interesting coalitions formation.   If you’re interested in the R and Java code for generating these wordclouds, please see my post on Arizona et al. v.

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Wordcloud of the Arizona et al. v. United States opinion

Here’s one purely for fun – a wordcloud built from the Supreme Court’s opinion on Arizona et al. v United States.  Word clouds, though certainly not the most scientific of visualization techniques, are often engaging and “fun” ways to lead

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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 igraph 0.6.  In celebration, I’ll be publishing a number of helpful lists and tables I’ve put together to organize information about igraph.   In

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Building Python pandas from development source

  I first heard about Python pandas from a friend at RenTech or AQR in the early summer of last year.  At the time, the project was little more than a documentation page and a few wrapper methods around numpy.

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