dannguyen

Using mdbtools to extract CSV data from the FAA Wildlife Strike database (.accdb, Microsoft Access)

These instructions are specifically for OSX and *.nix users who have access to Bash. If you're on Windows...you should probably just use Microsoft Access...

For a more convoluted example of how to use mdbtools to automate the conversion of an Access database, you can see this example I posted with the Florida prisons database (not recommended for Bash novices)

To just get the data as CSV, you can download it from here:

http://stash.compjour.org/samples/faa-wildlife-strikes.zip

ax3l

Overview: http://matplotlib.org/faq/usage_faq.html#usage

Multiple, manual Axes: https://python4mpia.github.io/plotting/advanced.html

Another intro article http://pbpython.com/effective-matplotlib.html

Great Foo

Potherca

Ever had the need to create a branch in a repo on Github without wanting (or being able) to access a local repo?

With the aid of [the Github API][1] and any online request app this is a piece of cake!

Just follow these steps:

1. Open an online request app (like apirequest.io, hurl.it pipedream.com, reqbin.com, or webhook.site)
2. Find the revision you want to branch from. Either on Github itself or by doing a GET request from Hurl: https://api.github.com/repos/<AUTHOR>/<REPO>/git/refs/heads
3. Copy the revision hash
4. Do a POST request from Hurl to https://api.github.com/repos/<AUTHOR>/<REPO>/git/refs with the following as the POST body :

mshafrir

{
    "AL": "Alabama",
    "AK": "Alaska",
    "AS": "American Samoa",
    "AZ": "Arizona",
    "AR": "Arkansas",
    "CA": "California",
    "CO": "Colorado",
    "CT": "Connecticut",
    "DE": "Delaware",