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putdaton Theoretical Breakthrough Discovered for Random Number Generation

The draft paper can be found here: http://eccc.hpi-web.de/report/2015/119/

putdaton The New York Times' tagged ingredient data set is now on GitHub

Here's a direct link to GitHub: https://github.com/NYTimes/ingredient-phrase-tagger

And here's a link to the dataset for anyone who'd like to peruse the raw data (~180K rows): https://putdat.com/hkdbmzK

putdaton The Hi-Tech Gift Economy (2005)

It should be mentioned that the paper was originally published in 1998. This version, from 2005, contains an update from the author, Dr. Richard Barbrook. The original paper was itself a remixed extract from The Holy Fools: a critique of the avant-garde in the age of the Net.

putdaton How I investigated Uber surge pricing in D.C

If anyone wants to take a look at the TLC Yellow Cab dataset for December 2015 (without downloading the entire file), it can be viewed here: https://putdat.com/WgsjFsT

It's 2GB and ~11.5MM rows. That's about four trips per second!

putdaton Show HN: Put Dat – upload and share datasets

Thanks! Anyone is free to use Put Dat without creating an account. Once a dataset is uploaded, it can be downloaded as a file or accessed programmatically (e.g. for web-based visualizations). Each dataset is indexed to allow quick previews of content as well as slicing and dicing. We also enrich the dataset with metadata such as column stats in order to help users get an even better idea of what's inside, which is particularly useful when dealing with millions of rows.

putdaton Every shot Kobe Bryant ever took

For anyone interested in the raw dataset: https://www.putdat.com/hnJwrwM

putdaton Animating geographical spread and trends of drug overdose in USA 1999 – 2014

For lightweight programmatic access, here's the source dataset on Put Dat https://www.putdat.com/ccYMdTR