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yanofsky / amount_of_black.py
Created December 14, 2012 15:58
The way I calculated the amount of printing, and number of lines, on every Form 1040 ever
import glob
from PIL import Image
import json
def calculate_black_stats():
data = {}
files = glob.glob("png/*.png")
for f in files:
year = f.split(".pdf")[0].split("__")[1]
page = int(f.split("-")[1].split(".png")[0])
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yanofsky / quartzwebcam.sh
Created December 18, 2012 00:51
Quartz's Fiscal Cliff Webcam bash script
#!/bin/bash
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yanofsky / BAA results dump
Created April 15, 2013 20:02
This is a dump of the 2013 Boston Marathon results as scraped at 3:50pm Eastern
This file has been truncated, but you can view the full file.
Place Overall Place Gender Place Division Name Bib Half Finish Net Finish Gun url
3284 3012 520 Aaberg, Thomas (USA) 6337 01:31:31 03:07:34 03:11:44 http://boston-iframe.r.mikatiming.de/2013/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=999999117A73260000086958&lang=EN&event=R
Aaker, Aaron (USA) 2018 http://boston-iframe.r.mikatiming.de/2013/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=999999117A732600000889BD&lang=EN&event=R
4067 3686 686 Aalholm, Christopher (NOR) 6400 01:31:32 03:11:45 03:15:53 http://boston-iframe.r.mikatiming.de/2013/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=999999117A73260000089E91&lang=EN&event=R
9887 2607 1948 Aanonsen, Jacqueline (USA) 21345 01:39:14 03:35:11 03:38:16 http://boston-iframe.r.mikatiming.de/2013/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=999999117A7326000008981C&lang=EN&event=R
11119 3283 2330 Abanero, Jennifer (USA) 16758 01:47:03 03:39:28 03:44:41 http://boston-iframe.r.mikatiming.de/2013/?content=detail&fpid=search&pid=search&idp=999999117A73260000089E58&lang
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yanofsky / LICENSE
Last active October 17, 2024 22:49
A script to download all of a user's tweets into a csv
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
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yanofsky / track_changes_anon.sh
Created August 25, 2013 21:28
A script to anonymize a Word document's track changes.
#change the working directory to the Desktop
cd ~/Desktop
#unzip the word doc into a new directory called anonDocument
unzip myDocument.docx -d anonDocument/
#search all of the files in the word doc package and replace any comment or track changes author with anonymous edit
grep -rl "w:author" ./anonDocument | xargs sed -i '' 's/w:author="[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*"/w:author="anonymous edit"/g'
#change the working directory to the anonDocument directory
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yanofsky / index.html
Created September 19, 2013 02:38
BBox @font-face issue
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Text bbox issue</title>
</head>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cutive);
svg text {
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yanofsky / perfectSP500.py
Created December 16, 2013 23:20
This is the code I used for the calculations in this story http://qz.com/157404/how-you-could-have-turned-1000-into-billions-of-dollars-by-perfectly-trading-the-sp-500-this-year/
#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
import sys
import os
import csv
import datetime
#define market holidays
marketHolidays = ["2013-01-21","2013-02-18","2013-03-29","2013-05-27","2013-07-04","2013-09-02","2013-11-28","2013-12-25"]
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yanofsky / index.html
Last active January 1, 2016 20:49
<html>
<head>
<title>Perfect sp 500 graphic</title>
<script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="http://www.datejs.com/build/date.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
</head>
<body>
<style type="text/css">
@font-face {
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yanofsky / jobsday_static_charts.sh
Created April 4, 2014 13:09
QZ Two simple charts script
#download the data and save it as json for the overview via a python script
cd overview
python overview_scraper.py
cd ../sector
#download the data and save it as json for the sector info via python script
python sector_scraper.py
cd ..
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yanofsky / gif_maker.sh
Created March 7, 2015 21:56
How to Make a gif from a folder of images
# requirement! install imagemagick
# brew install imagemagick
# or build from source here http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php
#navigate to folder of the images
cd folderofmyimages/
# take every jpg in the folder and smash into a gif with a frame rate of 0.5 sec
convert -delay 50 *.jpg gif_of_my_images.gif