Great essay. I should teach this in my internet research class in the future.
Looks like a pretty seamless way to extract the text of news documents. Looks very simple and pretty easy.
I'm a little disappointed in this article. It's a little incoherent and doesn't do a great job of talking about what it means by statistics. It's something about the political power of data collection?
Preface to Jake VanderPlas's new book. This looks awesome.
Myria is a distributed, shared-nothing Big Data management system and Cloud service from the University of Washington. We derive requirements from real users and complex workflows, especially in science.
Looks interesting although I'm not sure I quite understand the problem it is actually solving.
"hind-cite is a set of tools & data for analyzing the time-based performance of Hacker News posts."
