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LATINNO Database online

June 30, 2017 11:07 am ,

This week the LATINNO project has published its comprehensive database on democratic innovations in South and Latin America on its official website. 2,400 cases of these innovations have been collected, coded and reviewed and are now publicly available. They can be browsed with the online search tool. Several interactive visualizations have been created to sum up the data.

As reported before, this project on which I have also been working on in the last months was created with the Django framework using the hvad extension for multilingual support. The visualizations were implemented with d3.js.

LATINNO is an ongoing project and more cases of innovations are expected to be added to the database in the next months.

Posted in: d3.js, Django, Visualization, Web Development

Linkdump #46

June 30, 2017 10:51 am ,
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Linkdump #45

June 23, 2017 10:05 am ,
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Speeding up NLTK with parallel processing

June 19, 2017 5:24 pm ,

When doing text processing with NLTK on large corpora, you often need a lot of patience since even simple methods like word tokenization take quite some time when you’re processing a large amount of text data. This is because NLTK does not often harness the power of modern multicore computers — the code will only run on a single core even if you have four processing cores in your machine. You will need to add parallel processing of your documents yourself. Fortunately this is quite straight forward to implement with Python’s multiprocessing module and I will show how to do this in this small post.

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Posted in: NLP & Text Analysis, Parallel computing, Python

Linkdump #44

June 16, 2017 1:25 pm ,
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Linkdump #43

June 9, 2017 1:12 pm ,
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Linkdump #42

June 7, 2017 12:44 pm ,
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