Python
- wikitables – Import tables from any Wikipedia article as a dataset in Python
- Basic Interactive Geospatial Analysis in Python
- Would You Survive the Titanic? A Guide to Machine Learning in Python
- Python Memoization Decorator
R
- dplyr do: Some Tips for Using and Programming
- Text Mining with R on Vikings episode scripts
- eRum 2016: First European conference for the programming language R
- A look at AirBnB demographics (uses Microsoft Face API)
- Introduction to the RMS Package
- The history of R’s predecessor, S, from co-creator Rick Becker
Other
Interesting articles, projects and news
- When Should Hacking Be Legal?
[…] a group of academic researchers and journalists is suing the government, challenging the constitutionality of part of CFAA. With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, they’re targeting the portion of the law that makes it illegal to break private companies’ terms of service […]
[…] although [those terms] are an individual’s agreement with a company, CFAA makes violating them a federal crime. […]
The four professors bringing the lawsuit are conducting research into racial and other discriminatory biases in online services.
[…] they’re creating an army of fake profiles and tweaking them to look like they belong to a diverse set of people. But using that tactic—one that’s very popular among researchers—could make the professors felons: The terms of most online services, including the largest employment and housing-search websites, prohibit creating multiple profiles, falsifying profile information, and scraping publicly available information with automated scripts. - Fatal Force – US Police Shootings 2016
- UK Police Accessed Civilian Data for Fun and Profit, New Report Says
- Spies in the Skies
> America is being watched from above. Government surveillance planes routinely circle over most major cities — but usually take the weekends off.
> BuzzFeed News has assembled an unprecedented picture of the operation’s scale and sweep by analyzing aircraft location data collected by the flight-tracking website Flightradar24 from mid-August to the end of December last year, identifying about 200 federal aircraft. Day after day, dozens of these planes circled above cities across the nation. - New Service Sends Summaries of Your Social Media to Landlords, Employers to ‘Assess’ You
- Google’s Revolving Door Explorer (US)
- IBM’s Watson fed images to estimate water use efficiency in California — California water districts using new data service to estimate water efficiency
- Hirnforschung: Fehlerhafte MRT-Software schürt Zweifel an Zehntausenden Studien
- Beneath the Cloud — Exploring what the Internet is made of
- These Maps Show What the Dark Web Looks Like
- Proteste in Simbabwe: Regierung blockiert offenbar WhatsApp
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