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Canada Post and USPS postage rate quick reference card
Written by Jim DeLaHunt   
Thursday, 11 March 2010
This handy sheet gives the current Canada Post and USPS postage rates for basic letters between the USA and Canada. I've exported the spreadsheet as an easily printable PDF file. Print it out for a handy quick reference card, which you can keep next to your stamps or your postage scale. You can also modify the source spreadsheet. Both source and PDF edition are licensed CC-BY-SA.
Last Updated ( Friday, 12 March 2010 )
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The real disproportionality story in Canada’s stimulus money
Written by Jim DeLaHunt   
Monday, 26 October 2009
... a data analysis by two non-partisan software engineers from Vancouver. 
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The media are, as of October 2009, running stories like, “Stimulus program favours Tory ridings” (Globe&Mail), “Liberal, NDP ridings getting more than fair share…: analysis” (National Post). We’re engineers; we’re non-partisan; we wanted to see the data. The Government of Canada has a stimulus program website with some reports and an API. We wrote come code, called the API, captured the data including latigude and longitude for each of 6,424 projects. We used Ducky’s maps.webfoot.com’s geoinformatics tools to identify which riding contained the lat/long for each project. We made a big spreadsheet, and cross-tabluated by MP’s party and by province.
 
There are two chapters to this tale.   First, we think the news reports are missing the real disproportionality story in Canada’s stimulus money allocations, at least as revealed in this data. Second, this is a wonderful example of how open government data can empower citizens. More on both below.
Last Updated ( Monday, 26 October 2009 )
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Twanguages: a language census of Twitter (IUC33)
Written by Jim DeLaHunt   
Friday, 16 October 2009

I presented a paper,  "Twanguages: a language census of Twitter", to the 33rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference on October 16, 2009.  This page has links to my paper and my handouts.

This was my abstract, from the Unicode conference program for my talk:

What "twanguage" do you "tweet"?  Twitter, the buzzing conversation of brief web and SMS messsages, exploded into wide use in 2009. But just how wide?  To how many countries has it spread?  And into which languages?  We aimed to find out. Our "Twanguages" project is a language census on a sample of Twitter's global traffic. Come hear our findings. Which are the top languages? Are #hashtags localised? How does language correlate with location?  And which Unicode character is the most rarely used? Accessible to everyone, this talk is especially interesting to students of social media and of quantative language analysis.

Last Updated ( Friday, 16 October 2009 )
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