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Cambridge city geospatial statistics

Using the Cambridge (Massachusetts) GIS data, we can compute some interesting geospatial statistics. Subway stations Using the address points (20844 points) and the subway stations data files, we can find out how many Cambridge addresses are in a certain radius of a Cambridge subway station. More particularly, we want to find the percentage of Cambridge... » read more

Python, Twitter statistics and the 2012 French presidential election

This post describes how Pytolab was designed to process Tweets related to the 2012 French presidential election in real-time. This post also goes over some of the statistics computed over a period of nine months. Note: I presented this project at EuroSciPy 2012: abstract. ArchitectureStatistics Architecture The posts are received from the Twitter streaming API... » read more