Tag Archives: python

Jul 14
Data, programming

Screen-scraping Greensboro Crime Data

How Safe is Greensboro?
After moving to Greensboro, I got chatting with a friend about crime in the city. Both of us knew that crime is an issue for Greensboro — it has a crime rate on par with the national average — but weren’t sure how that played out in the different neighborhoods.
It turns [...]

Apr 07
programming

Libevent v2 Primer

Introduction
Libevent is a library that lies hidden under the hood of much open-source software. It was developed by Niels Provos and is maintained by him and Nick Mathewson. You’ll find it in memcached, node.js, tor, beanstalkd, gevent and twisted. I’ve installed these applications without ever precisely understanding what the “uses libevent” line in their documentation [...]