I had a strange but minor problem with Python and iPython on my system. I have a source directory for each of my projects. Whenever I used the Terminal to launch iPython or Python from that directory I received this error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Applications/Canopy.app/appdata/canopy-1.4.1.1975.macosx-x86_64/Canopy.app/Contents/lib/python2.7/site.py”, line 75, in <module> …
As part of my consulting assignment I need to download geopolitical event data from the GDELT Project. This data is available as a public dataset on Google’s BigQuery. There are APIs for BigQuery in Python and R. Google provides a tutorial for BigQuery using Python or Java. Hadley Wickham has written an R API that …
I use the ggplot2 package in R for graphics in the analysis I perform for my clients. In my current project I am analyzing the performance of 3 systems as compared to a base rate model. Some of the charts include the base rate and a ground truth series, some exclude the base rate and …
About a month ago the W3C issued a candidate recommendation for a Data Cube Vocabulary. The idea is to provide a semantic description for data and summary statistics for the facilitation of linked science. The notion of a Data Cube is described in the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange initiative. A data frame in R provides …
