yanofsky

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit

rizalp

function sieveOfAtkin(limit){
   var limitSqrt = Math.sqrt(limit);
   var sieve = [];
   var n;

   //prime start from 2, and 3
   sieve[2] = true;
   sieve[3] = true;

   for (var x = 1; x <= limitSqrt; x++) {

scotthmurray

Where to Post your Data Journalism Jobs

Update: This has moved. An updated and maintained version is here: http://alignedleft.com/resources/data-vis-jobs

I posed this question on Twitter:

If you wanted to hire a “data journalist” to support an existing reporting team with data parsing + vis, how would you find that person?

I've documented the responses here. Basically, there seems to be only one job site specifically for data journalists (so far!), and several others, depending on which audience you want to reach (e.g., more focused on development, data vis, or journalism).

taupecat

/**
 * Formulae and mixins to create any kind of evenly-spaced flexible grid
 * you can possibly imagine.
 */


/**
 * Our grid settings.  Change as desired for your project
 */
$columns: 12;  		// Desired number of columns

yurivictor

{
	"bold_folder_labels": true,
	"caret_style": "phase",
	"close_windows_when_empty": true,
	"color_scheme": "Packages/Theme - Flatland/Flatland Dark.tmTheme",
	"draw_indent_guides": true,
	"draw_white_space": "selection",
	"file_exclude_patterns":
	[
		".DS_Store",

abelsonlive

from selenium import webdriver
from random import choice
import time

b = webdriver.Firefox()
b.get("http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/02/sports/tennis/tennis-grunts-soundboard.html")
grunt_div = b.find_element_by_id('nytmm')
face_divs = grunt_div.find_elements_by_tag_name('div')

interval = [float(s)/100 for s in range(50,151,1)]

vaguity

Hacks/Hackers NYC: Encryption and Operational Security for Journalists (2013-09-16)

Jennifer Valentino, Wall Street Journal (@jenvalentino)

These notes come straight from Jennifer's presentation; slides at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2HGtAJEbG8PdzVPdHcwekI2V2M/edit

Background

• NSA covers 75% of internet traffic; not all is collected or sifted
• Big issues with suveillance are not the NSA but leak investigations, subpoenas, accidental disclosure and chilling effects on sources

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

Stanback

#
# CORS header support
#
# One way to use this is by placing it into a file called "cors_support"
# under your Nginx configuration directory and placing the following
# statement inside your **location** block(s):
#
#   include cors_support;
#
# As of Nginx 1.7.5, add_header supports an "always" parameter which

celoyd

This is my default career advice for people starting out in geo/GIS, especially remote sensing, adapted from a response to a letter in 2013.

I'm currently about to start a Geography degree at the University of [Redacted] at [Redacted] with a focus in GIS, and I've been finding that I have an interest in working with imagery. Obviously I should take Remote Sensing and other similar classes, but I'm the type of person who likes to self learn as well. So my question is this: What recommendations would you give to a student who is interested in working with imagery? Are there any self study paths that you could recommend?

I learned on my own and on the job, and there are a lot of important topics in GIS that I don’t know anything about, so I can’t give comprehensive advice. I haven’t arrived anywhere; I’m just ten minutes ahead in the convoy we’re both in. Take these recommendations critically.

Find interesting people. You’ll learn a lot more from a great professor (or mentor, or friend, or conference) o