Posted August 23rd, 2009 by Nick
Just found a new data set that I couldn’t help running some stats on. OpenSecrets.org published this table which lists all of the members of the house, the number of earmarks they requested, and the total dollar amounts.
The columns of the data are:
Representative Name
State
Number of Earmarks
Total Cost
Solo Earmarks
Solo Cost
The solo columns are for earmarks where [...]
Posted April 17th, 2009 by Nick
In the Biomedical Informatics department here at Stanford we do a lot of coding and scripting. Since our emphasis is on usefulness and implementation speed we rely heavily on high level programming languages.
The “old-school” informaticists have relied on Perl (yes, Perl) to develop these scripts. But in the modern ages where languages like Python and [...]
Posted April 5th, 2009 by Nick
As you all may or may not know, I am plotting to take over the world. While up until now I have had about as much success as a cheese sandwich, I think this latest attempt is sure to succeed.
You see, what better way to take over the world than to make all peoples [...]