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Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics

  After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source for my Congressional Bill Statistics data.   You can find the source at this Github repository.  I haven’t taken the time to review

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Posted in Law, Programming, Research

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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Grexit stage left: visualizing the online discussion around Greece’s possible Euro exit

  While Tsipras and his Syriza coalition have been busy in Greek parliament, the Internet has been a-buzz with speculation that their platform will result in a Greek exit from the Euro currency.  This prospect, affectionately dubbed “Grexit” by Citi

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Posted in Company News, Consulting, Research

Visualizing the #nonato Twitter hashtag – time series and top users

  The NATO summit is currently being held in Chicago, and, as is typical for NATO or G# summits, the streets and tweets are full of dissent.  In the spirit of my past investigations of online dissent (#jan25, #25bahman, #12fev,

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