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Derek Swingley

Notes to future me.

Chage text selection color in Sublime Text

I bounce back and forth between Sublime Text and Atom. Apropos of nothing, I realized that my color scheme's text selection color was only barely doing »

Make nginx gzip more than JSON

In the process of admiring a recent map from The Economist, I ended up complaining about resources that make up the map not being gzipped. It's »

Sankey diagram from a .csv

A couple of days ago, The Economist's Graphic Detail blog had a write-up and visualization of newspaper endorsements of presidential candidates. The visualization is a static »

Options for splitting a large .csv into smaller files

I was recently messing around with a .csv file that weighed in at ~38 MB and had ~750K lines. It was data for the 50 states »

Create a service and API from a dataset

About a month ago, I put up a repo with data and code that takes National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) data (formerly the National Climatic »