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Preparing a dataset to use in Hydrator
Update – April 18, 2023: From the developer: Twitter's changes to their API which greatly reduce the amount of read-only access means that the Hydrator is no longer a useful application. The application keys, which functioned for the last 7 years, have been rescinded by Twitter. Every few months I get an email from someone
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Summary of CO2 Emissions by Sector. Alberta, 1988-2005.
Earlier this week I was trying to help a student find CO2 emissions data for Alberta going back to 1985, and have so far been unsuccessful. According to the Canadian Greenhouse Gas Measurement Program, measurements began in 1975, at least nationally, but I haven't been able to find the actual data following any of the
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Photoshop 2020 blank screen instead of images – fixed
Just had the pleasure of upgrading to the latest version of Creative Cloud at MPOW, and while it appeared to go smoothly I immediately had a problem with my workflow. Importing an image (jpg) into Photoshop would only show a blank white screen. The image WAS correctly rendered on the home screen, but just a
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A map of the most spoken languages in every Canadian Province or Territory besides English and/or French
I saw this post on BoingBoing earlier today: A fascinating map of the most spoken languages in every US state besides English and Spanish and wondered what an equivalent map for Canada might look like. So I made one. Data was pulled from the 2016 Canadian Census, looking at the variable "Language spoken most often
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How to Find the RSS Feed URL by Guessing
The Zapier newsletter I just got had a link to this article from last year: How to Find the RSS Feed URL for Almost Any Site. It's got some good tips for sussing out RSS feeds, but I have a couple more. I ran across two sites recently that should've had RSS feeds, but apparently