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Applying Benford's Law to CAR
Posted Sunday, September 28th, 2008
In which I explain the advantages of using a popular fraud-detection tool in reporting.
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Point-in-poly using MySQL and Python
Posted Monday, March 17th, 2008
In which I describe how to use MySQL's spatial functions and Python to do point-in-polygon detection.
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Yes, I'm still alive
Posted Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Some tidbits I've collected over the last month and a half.
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Simple database backups with S3
Posted Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Backing up your databases is easy with S3, boto and mysqldump.
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Django deployment lessons learned
Posted Monday, April 30th, 2007
In which I plead with you to learn from our deployment mistakes.
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Open source GIS with MapServer, part two: Installation
Posted Sunday, April 29th, 2007
In which I explain how to install MapServer on a CentOS/Red Hat machine.
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Open source GIS with MapServer, part one
Posted Friday, April 6th, 2007
In which I begin to explain the benefits of MapServer, an open source alternative to ArcIMS.
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Tag clouds 2: Word stemming for speeches
Posted Sunday, February 11th, 2007
In which I outline one technique to apply tag cloud generation to speeches.
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Log-based tag clouds in Python
Posted Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
In which I demonstrate an implementation of logarithm-based tag clouds in Python.
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And we're back ...
Posted Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
An announcement of the car-chase.net relaunch, with an update on what I've been up to and a preview of things to come.
