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The real disproportionality story in Canada’s stimulus money |
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Written by Jim DeLaHunt
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Monday, 26 October 2009 |
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... a data analysis by two non-partisan software engineers from Vancouver. by Jim DeLaHunt < http://jdlh.com>,
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, @jdlh; and Kaitlin Duck Sherwood < http://maps.webfoot.com>,
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. 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. |
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Twanguages: a language census of Twitter (IUC33) |
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Written by Jim DeLaHunt
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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.
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IUC33 International and multilingual Drupal and Joomla! sites tutorial |
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Written by Jim DeLaHunt
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
I gave a tutorial, "International and multilingual Drupal and Joomla! sites", to the 33rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference on October 14, 2009. This page has links to my slides and handouts. |
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