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Ben Corcoran
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Jun 2, 2019

Scraping Wikipedia for Orders of Magnitude

Fork the notebook here Pint is an awesome python package that allows for the easy conversion between units. As it stands it covers nearly all scientific SI units and most imperial ones. This means I can easily convert between fathoms and meters. Pint also makes it really easy to extend…

Natural Language

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Scraping Wikipedia for Orders of Magnitude
Scraping Wikipedia for Orders of Magnitude
Natural Language

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May 26, 2019

Understanding the SAS log: Time and Switches

If you’ve worked with SAS before, you’ve seen the SAS log. It’s a beast, an unwieldy and at times unhelpful beast. But we can tame it. Well, maybe not, but we can be hit with a stick long enough that it becomes docile around tourists. Let’s use the great work…

Block Input Operations

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Understanding the SAS log: Time and Switches
Understanding the SAS log: Time and Switches
Block Input Operations

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May 19, 2019

Consistency: templating charts with Plotly

Exploiting plotly’s template attribute to create consistent charts. — Great publications have great charts. The Economist and the New York Times to name but two examples. The reason these stand out to me is consistency. When you look at an Economist chart, you know it’s an Economist chart. The best thing about consistency is that your charts don’t even…

Chart

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Consistency: templating charts with Plotly
Consistency: templating charts with Plotly
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May 12, 2019

SAS Program Timer

SAS is great. Well SAS is okay. Eh, 70% of the time SAS is fine. The issue with SAS, or rather one of the issues, is it’s continued and almost dogged choice to refuse to see the wood for the trees. …

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SAS Program Timer
SAS Program Timer
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