…" Peter Mackay " and " Peter G. Mackay " as two different candidates
So the process of working with Elections Canada's data is to get the data, then massage it, then put it into a proper relational database
The data also exists at different levels. For the election, there's
The "Who won the seat?" level
The "How many votes did each candidate get?" level
The "How many votes did each candidate get for each …
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I just picked up the ebook version of the latest book on Windows Phone game development: Wrox' Professional Windows Phone 7 Game Development , written by Chris G. Williams ( @ chrisgwilliams on Twitter) and George W. Clingerman ( @ clingermangw on Twitter). Both authors are XNA MVPs and have written a great deal about XNA online, which makes them choice authors for a book on making games for WP7.
Among the topics covered in the book are:
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…many feeds: Twitter, RSS, Facebook, Pinterest, G+, email, Techmeme, and an uncountable numbers of other information sources.
Jason Wolfe from Prismatic has generously agreed to describe their thoroughly modern solution for answering the "what to read question" using lots of sexy words like Machine Learning, Social Graphs, BigData, functional programming, and in-memory real-time feed processing. The result is possibly even more occult, but this or something very …
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…Creating Games using XNA Game Studio 4 by Chris G. Williams and George W. Clingerman .
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Building WP7 apps is half the job; the other half is selling them in the Marketplace. We're working on ways to help you market your applications, from articles explaining what works and what doesn't (based on research and studying what works and what doesn't for other mobile platforms), putting the spotlight on Canadian …
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Christian Carter: you could start a G+ hangout
she could tell you all about her latest adventures while cooking in hey stylish yet understated kitchen
Jamieson Cox: we could swap recipes for coleslaw
we could start a book club
we could choose a favourite wine for the two of us and exclusively drink that wine
Christian Carter: she would be reluctant when Bolano is suggested but when it was her turn you'd understand why
she'd have a set of pearls she always wears when …
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