Re: [FRIAM] Python 2 vs 3

2011-06-19 Thread Bruce Sherwood
(Perhaps someone can copy this to the discuss group if appropriate, to which I'm not subscribed.) 3.x is indeed better than 2.x. The main point of 3.x was to make Python cleaner in various ways, especially by eliminating stuff that had been long deprecated. I advise new users of Python to start

Re: [FRIAM] Quote of the week

2011-06-19 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
I think Tom is right that the path to solving mysteries like this is often to look outward rather than inward. Part of the point of William James's somewhat mysterious Stream of Consciousness expositions was to point out that at the most basic level experience is a unified whole - i.e. the

Re: [FRIAM] GMail: Wow: Corsi di italiano a Firenze, Scuola Toscana

2011-06-19 Thread Robert Holmes
I always found it fun seeing the ads that got themselves attached to FRIAM posts... —R P.S. I've disabled ads in Gmail with thishttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coibnogmjcpbccgjofoiklnfpbbjbapochrome extension. Works well. 2011/6/19 Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net I'm trying gmail

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Visualize This: new book from Flowing Data's Nathan Yau

2011-06-19 Thread Tom Johnson
Amigos: In fact, I might know tomorrow or Tuesday about a concerted effort to liberate some potentially interesting voter registration data from the NM Sec. of State. If we can get that, and it won't happen quickly, it might offer an interesting challenge to display -- in a user-selectable

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Visualize This: new book from Flowing Data's Nathan Yau

2011-06-19 Thread Owen Densmore
+1 .. I'd love to hear about the current state of dataviz about my next direction after crawling out of our recent advanced graphics class final project. (Gawd, webgl/gles is BITCHY!) Wedtech sounds just right. -- Owen On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] Visualize This: new book from Flowing Data's Nathan Yau

2011-06-19 Thread Victoria Hughes
Someone post a summary: I have clients and can't make WedTech but am interested in pursuing this. Thanks- Tory On Jun 19, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: +1 .. I'd love to hear about the current state of dataviz about my next direction after crawling out of our recent advanced