Links tagged “data”
30 links, newest first.
sf.isopolis.city
An interactive map of San Francisco neighbourhoods drawn from OpenStreetMap and DataSF boundaries.
agate.readthedocs.io
Python data analysis library optimised for readability rather than speed, offered as an alternative to numpy and pandas for everyday data work.
metabase.com
Open-source business intelligence tool that lets people query databases, build dashboards and explore data through a visual query builder rather than SQL.
duckduckgo.com
Documentation for querying DuckDuckGo's search from an application.
oreilly.com
Sets out the vocabulary of unbounded data processing — event time versus processing time, windowing, correctness — and argues streaming can subsume batch.
oreilly.com
Second part, working through windowing, watermarks, triggers and accumulation modes on concrete examples of out-of-order stream processing.
blog.timescale.com
Argues that NoSQL's fragmented query languages pushed developers back to SQL, which is becoming the universal interface for data analysis — the "narrow waist" of the data stack.
callingbullshit.org
Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West's course on spotting and refuting bullshit, with syllabus, videos and case studies centred on misleading data and statistics.
datausa.io
Public US government data assembled into automated visual profiles of places, industries, occupations, universities, degrees and products.
nifi.apache.org
Home page of Apache NiFi, an open-source system for automating the flow of data between systems, designed and monitored from a browser-based interface.
en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia article on record linkage — matching records that refer to the same entity across separate data sources, and the deterministic and probabilistic methods used to do it.
cerberus.readthedocs.org
An extensible Python library that validates dictionaries against a declarative schema, with custom rules and no hard dependencies.
godan.info
GODAN, a global network working to make agricultural and nutritional data open, accessible and usable, with datasets, platforms and youth-led programmes.
