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Friday, December 17 2004

Tufte would be Proud

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released an SVG-based "animated population pyramid" that very nicely visualises the change in that country's population over time.

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Wednesday, December 15 2004

text/python?

I’m thinking about whether it would be a good idea to have a media type for Python source files, call it “text/python.” The main benefit that I see to...

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Monday, December 6 2004

Sparta.py 0.6: RDF (and RSS!) Made Easy

Based on feedback (thanks, John), it's now mapped to an object that implements a subset of the interface of sets.Set, and produces a full sets.Set when you call the copy() method. rdf:Seq is mapped to a list, joining rdf:List; this allows Sparta to work with RSS 1.0, along with other formats that use Seq. The factory takes an optional schema_store argument, so you can store schema hints for Spara separately, if you wish.

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