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19 April 2012

Norwich City FC Angry at Fan For Leaking New Kit

I just read an article on BBC News. All quotes are taken directly from that article. The link is at the bottom of this post. Norwich City kit published on internet by boy ahead of launch When I read this I imagined the boy in question had illegally obtained pictures of the new kit, and […]

15 April 2012

Whisky Web

I’ve just been to Whisky Web, a language-agnostic web conference in Edinburgh organised by a group of local tech guys. It’s the first one they’ve run and it just came from the idea they had to get a bunch of web folk together forĀ a fun conference and social gathering. Held in the heart of the […]

7 April 2012

Hack To The Future

The BBC wrote about Hack To The Future on their Research & Development blog, including a short video featuring their coverage of me explaining my nontransitive dice session! Also some screen time with Sam of Manchester Girl Geeks (who gave a brilliant keynote); Tom Crick (Cardiff Metropolitan University); and of course, organiser Alan O’Donahoe. I […]

1 April 2012

ASCII Bar Charts for Quick & Easy Visualisation

So you have some data. Let’s say it’s a record of the number of instances of some things. Let’s say it’s the number of movies you own, grouped by the year they were released. Let’s say you have those data in the form of a dictionary in Python, like so: The following loop will print […]