Two interesting data sources have emerged in the past few weeks concerning the Russian impact on the 2016 US elections. FiveThirtyEight published nearly 3 million tweets from accounts associated with the Russian “Internet Research Agency” — see my article and searchable tweet archive here. Separately, the House Intelligence Committee Minority…

Keeping documentation synchronized with an evolving codebase is difficult. Without extreme discipline, it’s easy for documentation to get out-of-date as new features are added. One thing that can help is keeping the documentation for a project in the same repository as the code itself. This allows you to construct the…