R
- readxl 1.0.0 – readxl makes it easy to bring tabular data out of Excel and into R, for modern .xlsx files and the legacy .xls format. readxl does not have any tricky external dependencies, such as Java or Perl
- ggparliament – Simple parliament plots using ggplot2
- Release ‘open’ data from their PDF prisons using tabulizer
- Gender Roles with Text Mining and N-grams
Python
- Graph Databases: Talking about your Data Relationships with Python
- Release of IPython 6.0
- Best practice with retries with requests
- Modern NLP in Python
Interesting articles, projects and news
- The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis
- “March for Science”: Woher kommt der Hass auf Forscher?
- Steve Ballmer’s new gov’t data project assumes that facts change minds
- Black Duck: Open Source ist allgegenwärtig – und gefährlich
- Sicherheitsrisiko Smart City: Experten warnen vor Angriffen auf smarte Städte
- Princeton researchers discover why AI become racist and sexist
- Facebook wants you to stare even more at the real world through your phone camera
- Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them
- US-Studie: Facebook-Nutzung macht unglĂĽcklicher
- Geheimbericht: Bundestagsnetze sollen “zahlreiche SicherheitslĂĽcken” haben
- Facebook highlights its fight against “Fake News” in print
- IT in der Schule: Sorgloser Umgang mit SchĂĽlerdaten