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Data Is PluralS2E5: CrosswordsThis episode’s guests are George Ho and Saul Pwanson, whose crossword datasets were featured in the Data Is Plural newsletter in 2021 and 2016, respectively. Saul and George explain the difference between American-style and cryptic crosswords, how they collected their datasets, and what they learned along the way.Relevant and mentioned links:Saul’s xd archive, grid comparison, and .xd file formatFiveThirtyEight’s coverage of the plagiarism scandal Saul’s analysis unearthed and Saul’s csv,conf talk, “How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal”George’s dataset of cryptic crossword cluesGeorge’s datasheet for the datasetTimnit...
2023-12-2016 min
Exposing the InvisibleSaul Pwanson - It's not hoarding if it's organisedSaul Pwanson became an accidental investigator when his attempts to digitise crossword puzzles uncovered a plagiarism scandal in the crossword community.“I think that it's really important that we have more independent investigators, or you call them ‘citizen investigators’, people who have the time and the space, like I did. I was willing to put months into something that any actual journalist, who's being paid, there's no way that their editor would approve them to be paid for months to do this kind of work.”
2021-12-0827 min
The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceVisiData is like duct tape for your data (Interview)Saul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, Saul joins Jerod for a wide-ranging discussion on crossword puzzles, biographs, and Saul’s open source gift to the world. Thanks to AJ for the suggestion!
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2020-05-1257 minChangelog InterviewsVisiData is like duct tape for your dataSaul Pwanson is the creator and maintainer of VisiData, a terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data. On this Maintainer Spotlight episode, Saul joins Jerod for a wide-ranging discussion on crossword puzzles, biographs, and Saul’s open source gift to the world. Thanks to AJ for the suggestion!
Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Tidelift – Tidelift is the first managed open source subscription that pays the maintainers of the exact open source projects you depend on w...
2020-05-1257 min
The Python Podcast.__init__Exploratory Data Analysis Made Easy At The Command LineSummary
There are countless tools and libraries in Python for data scientists to perform powerful analyses, but they often have a setup cost that acts as a barrier to ad-hoc exploration of data. Visidata is a command line application that eliminates the friction involved with starting the discovery process. In this episode Saul Pwanson explains his motivation for creating it, why a terminal environment is a useful place for this work, and how you can use Visidata for your own work. If you have ever avoided looking at a data set because you couldn’t be bothered wi...
2019-09-2352 min
Linux LadsSeason 1 - Episode 3: There's cocaine in it
News & Discussion
film making and photography on Linux (Blender, kdenlive, Shotcut, darktable, digiKam. Blender as a video editor)
Deepin has a new release and it looks good as ever. It purports to use less RAM than Ubuntu.
not letting Google own the whole of your digital life
Jeremy Corbyn would like a publicly funded Facebook alternative. Would the Irish government please step up? We need public digital infrastructure and it needs to be done right.
Adobe Air, the technology of choice of governments everywhere
Google Makes it...
2018-09-1055 min