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Slopegraphs – The Quintessential Tufte GDP Example Revisited
If you're even remotely familiar with slopegraphs, then you'll recognize Tufte's classic 1970-1979 GDP chart example (click for larger…
Slopegraphs in Python – The Great Refactor
Despite being on holiday, I had a spare hour to refactor the code (@mrshrbrmstr was joining the 1% in the hotel spa). It's up on github and now sports a spiffy JSON-format config file. You now must execute the slopegraph.py script with a "…
Slopegraphs in Python – Attention to Detail
In the previous installment , a foundation was laid for "parameterizing" fonts, colors and overall slopegraph size. However, a big failing in all this code (up until now) was the reliance on character string length to determine label…
Slopegraphs In Python – colors, fonts & alignment
On the heels of last evening's release of Slopegraphs in Python post comes some minor…
Slopegraphs in Python
I've been a bit obsessed with slopegraphs (a.k.a "Tufte table-chart") of late and very dissatisfied with the lack of tools to make this particular visualization tool more prevalent. While my ultimate goal is to have a user-friendly modern…
Two Alfred Extensions For Retrieving IP Address Information
I've been an unapologetic Alfred user since @hatlessec recommended it and have recently been cobbling together quick shell scripts that make life a bit…
Three Resolutions For Web Developers
I'm on a " three things " motif for 2012, as it's really difficult for most folks to focus on more than three core elements well. This is especially true for web developers as they have so much to contend with on a daily basis, whether it…
A Fully Operational OS X dbClone
The app can now backup/restore of local config, clone dropbox configs to a URL/file and also impersonate a captured Dropbox…
dbClone "hack" for OS X
Moloch built a Windows & Linux impersonation/cloning utility in Python that was/is meant to be used from a USB/external volume. The utility can save the cloned host id to a local file and also has the capability to use a simple HTTP GET…
"Flatten" HTML Content (i.e strip tags) in Cocoa/Objective-C [UPDATED] [BUG-FIX]
One of my most popular blog posts — 24,000 reads — in the old, co-mingled site was a short snippet on how to strip HTML tags from a block of content in Objective-C. It's been used by many-an-iOS developer (which was the original…