On 8/24/07, Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kirby urner wrote: > >> Kirby, I've seen your posts re building up a reusable set of data for > >> teaching > >> before, and I think it is a good idea. Where are you collecting and making > >> this information available? It seems like a single project under source > >> control would allow others to utilize and contribute to such a stockpile, > >> piece by piece. > > > > I'm more just into upholding edu-sig's reputation as a source of > > great ideas. Rich Data Structures & Streams, you saw it here > > first. > > I was afraid of that. ;-( It would make a valuable resource.
Jeff, if you have an idea where to store pointers to rich data sources (Python Wiki maybe?), we could start collecting them there. Here are a few for starters: ISO Country Codes list: http://xml.coverpages.org/country3166.html Moby Word Lists: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/ MathWorld, lookup formulas to your hearts content: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ There are many more, of course, and I too would love to see a good place where we could collect them. See the Frink language for a interesting approach: Many data sources are built-ins to Frink, and the language uses units rather than simple numbers to represent data. http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/ HTH --Dethe _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
