Do What You Want
The message of this movie is “do what you want”. The video is a meditative portrait of a man who was once a successful medical doctor, and who as 60+ lives in a small studio in Los Angeles (i think).…
Get Weather using JSON web service and Python
Get the current weather for Copenhagen: import urllib2 import json # hent vejret for Koebenhavn url = ‘,dk’ response = urllib2.urlopen(url) # parse JSON resultatet data = json.load(response) print ‘Weather in Copenhagen:’, data[‘weather’][0][‘description’]
Visualization of a social network based on the Danish music scene
En visualisering af et Københavnsk musik-offentligheds-netværk af facebooksider
Linked Data: First Blood
Knowing a lot about something, makes me more prone to appraising its value. I unfortunately know very little about Linked data. For this reason, I’ve had a very biased and shamefully low opinion about the concept of linked data. I’ve…
The scale of the Danish cyber effort
How much money does Denmark spend on cyber defense, compared to the U.S? In total and per citizen. This is what I’ll look at in this post. I’ll also try to get an initial idea of what is going on.…
Finding the haystack
Indtil denne sommer troede mange, at de kendte til sandheden om, at det er svært at finde nålen i høstakken. Kun de færreste vidste, at man har vendt ordsproget på hovedet i efterretningsverdenen. Her siger man, at »for at finde…
Live piracy map
This map shows all the piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre during 2014. I learned about it after reading a story (how to negotiate like a pirate) in Nautilus, which a very new and…
Writing a parser in Python
This is my base pattern for writing a parser in Python by using the pyparsing library. It is slightly more complicated than a hello world in pyparsing, but I think it is more useful as a small example of writing…
When to be most careful about catching the flu?
Continuing on my blogification of Peter Norvigs excellent talk, the question is, when to watch out for the flu, e.g. if you live in Denmark? 1) Go to www.google.com/trends/ 2) Type in the word “influenza” 3) Select your geographical region…
How long is a year?
How to find out how long a year is on Earth by only analyzing text? This approach is lifted straight from an excellent and very inspiring talk by Peter Norvig. 1) Go to www.google.com/trends/ 2) Type in the word “Icecream”…