Earthquakes vs. Time of Day

Time and tide wait for no one. Add to that: earthquakes. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, a.k.a. “earthquake country”, in a house built in the 1950s before earthquake building codes had been created. Within the next 30 years, the USGS tells us we can expect a “big one” in the East Bay …

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Python data-mining and pattern recognition packages

The Python language has become one of the premier computational languages for scientific research on account of its many useful in-built data handling methods. Additionally, there are a number of science-oriented packages that rival industry-standard computational packages (I’m mainly thinking of Matlab). The most popular add-on Python science packages are NumPy and SciPy. Python has …

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Data-mining in school districts

Starting a decade ago more and more schools across the US began implementing data mining programs to improve school performance. It was claimed that data-mining real-time and after the school year had ended could identify students who were in danger of not graduating. Real-time data mining would be a way to find these students early …

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