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Animated GIFs and Space vs Time

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Data Analysis 0: Introduction to Data Analysis - Computerphile

Big Data does not equate to Big Knowledge – unless you use data analysis. This is part 0 of the Data Analysis Learning Playlist: … source

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We were struggling a lot to read a textbook, for a lot of reasons, but part of it was the fact that we only have a digital copy. We knew that there were tts services out there, and figured that would be easier than reading it with our eyes, so we looked up "pdf text to speech linux" and it turned out to be so easy (as long as you're willing to listen to lower quality output, but some of us feel a certain kinship with the dinky thing, so it's not too bad).

There are 2 programs we ended up needing and they were a set of cli tools called "poppler_utils" and a pretty old program called "espeak"

With poppler_utils we can convert sections of a pdf to raw, somewhat formatted .txt file, and with espeak you can pass in a .txt file and get it to output a .wav, or if you don't tell it to output, it'll just start reading it from the command line. The .wav is more convenient for us though because then we can pause and skip around, and the whole chapter ended up being almost 4 hours, and we can't focus on basically anything for that long without a break.

It's so fun to do I think. It's fun to see the processes run and see the files being generated. God we just love computers so much.

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Data Analysis 7: Clustering - Computerphile

Grouping similar things together – either users with similar habits, or products in an online shop. Dr Mike Pound on Clustering. source

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