Archive: 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...

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: years = {2000: 2, 2001: 9, 2002: 10, 2003:...