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Sparkline Information Graphics

netbros — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:25:24 -0800

Speaking of Edward Tufte (see below), sparklines are a type of information graphics characterized by their small size and data density named by Tufte. Sparklines were used by sites reporting the 2008 election and were first introduced on MeFi in 2005. There are now several ways to put sparklines on your own web site including: a simple jQuery plugin, a downloadable PHP library, a dynamic generator using a Python CGI program, and even a library for Ruby on Rails.

Corect Seplling Mayd Eesy

alms — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:45:10 -0800

How to write a spelling corrector in twenty lines of Python.

Python Challange

Mach5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:44:49 -0800

Looking to learn that awesome programming language but lack the drive? Take the challange!

ed — Fri, 31 May 2002 11:20:16 -0800

The Dark Side of Google? Google's first annual programming contest was a shrewd way to encourage Java and Python programmers. But this may be shrewder than the programmers who entered the contest realized. David Egnor may have nabbed a cool $10,000 as the contest winner, but for all the other entries, Google nabbed "worldwide, perpetual, fully paid-up, nonexclusive" rights.