The most-read post of all time on our blog is Which country is the best? Dealing with ranking data. The data took on a new look with bump charts.
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These days when you can find a package for every problem you encounter, learning about algorithms and data structures seems to be a waste of time. But finding the right package or knowing the best data structure to handle your problem most efficiently cannot be achieved without knowing about data structures. Jeremy Kubica’s Data Structures the Fun Way is a fun intro to the topic for self-taught programmers and data scientists.
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We are collaborating with the Marketing and Management Department of Széchenyi University on using NLP methods to analyze open-ended questions in surveys. The first results of this collaboration were presented at the HEAd 22 conference, and now the associated paper is available online.
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We are living in the age of algorithms. Information seeking, loan application, finding a route between your home and holiday destination – all activities are mediated by technology that uses a special algorithm. What is an algorithm in simple terms? John MacCormick introduces nine notable algorithms that we use every day.
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No matter your level of software development skills, this book is a great source to learn about the basic principles of clean code and best practices to get better at coding. Christian Mayer distills a vast amount of knowledge for you in his book on the subtle art of developing software.
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It’s been officially announced that the Koffair project has been selected for the GNI Challenge. We are very excited about working with Tilos Rádió, Civil Rádió, Nyelv és Tudomány, and the developer team.
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PDF has often been used for publishing valuable data. Sometimes it is a piece of cake to extract the human-readable data and convert it into csv, excel or put it into a database. Sometimes PDF is used to publish data in a hard-to-process format, i.e. using embedded images. The open-source ecosystem provides fantastic tools to get data out of PDF files.
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