The New York Times has been putting a great emphasis on public consumption of data, from understanding data to access to data. They initially started with information graphics that visualized complex data sets into something easy to digest. The nytimes.com versions were also interactive, engaging the reader to understand the data in more [...]
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Buy vs. Rent
While researching for home buying tips, I ran across several articles and calculators on the topic of buying a home versus renting. One of the better tools was provided by NY Times in their financial section.
The calculator allows you to enter in your current rent, potential price of a home, and various other factors [...]
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Xobni Completing Outlook: Day 1
Email management is unfortunately become a necessity in the workforce and in personal life. It feels like these days you’re bombarded with information whether the information is relevant to you or just an FYI. A few years ago, I ended up adopting an Inbox Zero policy to help me manage my email and [...]
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Google App Engine
Google just announced a web application infrastructure called Google App Engine. Unlike Amazon’s offerings of a la carte services, Google provides a sandbox to host your application using a Python runtime environment. In addition to the Python runtime, Google App Engine provides access to a data persistence layer, Google’s account management system, and [...]
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In Search of a Home
I have recently been searching for a house to purchase. Not being familiar with all the cities in my state, its been a struggle to understand what town is best for my family. Here are some of tools I’ve been using to help me narrow down where and what the general value of a [...]
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