Obtaining the Python tdda Library

Posted on Thu 14 September 2017 in TDDA • Tagged with tdda, python

This post is a standing post that we plan to try to keep up to date, describing options for obtaining the open-source Python TDDA library that we maintain.

Using pip from PyPI

Assuming you have a working pip setup, you should be able to install the tdda library by typing …

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GDPR, Consent and Microformats: A Half-Baked Idea

Posted on Fri 08 September 2017 in TDDA • Tagged with tdda

Last night I went to The Protectors of Data Scotland Meetup on the subject of Marketing and GDPR. If you're not familiar with Europe's fast-approaching General Data Protection Regulation, and you keep or process any personal data about humans,1, you probably ought to learn about it. A good place …

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Quick Reference for TDDA Library

Posted on Thu 04 May 2017 in TDDA • Tagged with tdda

A quick-reference guide ("cheat sheet") is now available for the Python TDDA library. This is linked in the sidebar and available here.

We will try to keep it up-to-date as the library evolves.

See you all at PyData London 2017 this weekend (5-6 May 2017), where we'll be running a …

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Improving Rexpy

Posted on Thu 09 March 2017 in TDDA • Tagged with tdda, rexpy, regular expressions

Today we are announcing some enhancements to Rexpy, the tdda tool for finding regular expressions from examples. In short, the new version often finds more precise regular expressions than was previously the case, with the only downside being a modest increase in run-time.

Background on Rexpy is available in two …

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An Error of Process

Posted on Wed 08 March 2017 in TDDA • Tagged with tdda, errors of process, errors of interpretation

Yesterday, email subscribers to the blog, and some RSS/casual viewers, will have seen a half-finished (in fact, abandoned) post that began to try to characterize success and failure on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter.

The post was abandoned because I didn't believe its first conclusion, but unfortunately was published by …

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