What I’m Up To 11 Apr, 2006
I’ve been working on a few projects recently, and they’ve finally gotten to the point where I can talk about them a bit. I’m interested in making better representations of interesting data, which is how pretty much all my projects got started this month. Why did I do them? Because I can.
- Denton Restaurant Health Department Ratings as gleaned from PDFs on the City of Denton site, and melded with Google Maps. The PDF parsing was pretty easy, and will be added to my standard library pretty soon.
- Oracle of UNT, styled after the Oracle of Bacon, but for UNT students linked by classes instead of movies. Can be slow at times, I haven't put much into optimizing it yet. See how you’re linked with me (I’m the tsh0019 in the second box).
- Some updates to my standard Python library to include an ordered list that uses binary search to test for inclusion which is orders of magnitude faster than the linear search that Python’s builtin list uses. This speed boost has come in handy a number of times for solving Project Euler challenges.