Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and
Statistics
A book by Nathan Yau who writes for FlowingData, Visualize This is a
practical guide on visualization and how to approach real-world data.
The book is published by Wiley and is available for pre-order on
Amazon a
A fascinating thing for me is that the amount of surprise (i.e.
information) is like the creating of a *knowledge gradient* that
compares in an interesting way to energy gradients within
thermodynamics. And one might suggest that *observation* can
counter-act the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics by trans
Yes, but that firecracker -- as data not information -- needs to be
understood in some context of space/time. A firecracker in my backyard on a
4th of July afternoon is quite different than a firecracker of equal size
throw at cops during a riot.
Could it be that what you call a "observational/in
Just looking at Python 2.x vs 3.x, its not at all 3.x is better. But then I'm
not a python hacker.
Any expert suggestion on whether 2.x or 3.x is best for most new programs? ..
and why?
Thanks,
-- Owen
FRIAM Applied Complexity
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> Yes, but that firecracker -- as data not information -- needs to be
> understood in some context of space/time. A firecracker in my backyard on a
> 4th of July afternoon is quite different than a firecracker of equal size
> throw at cops durin
(Perhaps someone can copy this to the discuss group if appropriate, to
which I'm not subscribed.)
3.x is indeed "better" than 2.x. The main point of 3.x was to make
Python cleaner in various ways, especially by eliminating stuff that
had been long deprecated. I advise new users of Python to start
