- Install IntelliJ + Scala Plugin
- Don’t do the Coursera courses yet.
- Don’t do the “red book” Functional Programming in Scala yet.
- Do: http://underscore.io/books/
- Essential Scala
- Essential Play
- Essential Slick
- Do Scala for the Impatient: https://www.amazon.com/Scala-Impatient-Cay-S-Horstmann/dp/0321774094
- The Neophyte’s Guide to Scala http://danielwestheide.com/scala/neophytes.html
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This is just a quick list of resourses on TDA that I put together for @rickasaurus after he was asking for links to papers, books, etc on Twitter and is by no means an exhaustive list.
Both Carlsson's and Ghrist's survey papers offer a very good introduction to the subject
- Topology and Data by Gunnar Carlsson
- Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data by Robert Ghrist
- Extracting insights from the shape of complex data using topology A good introductory paper in Nature on the
Mapperalgorithm.
- United States on github They have a great US module that has state abbrevs, names, etc. O'Reilly article about the project
- The State Decoded
- Legislative Documents in XML at the United States House of Representatives
- US Government Web Services and XML Data Sources
This is a d3.js visualization of US zip codes.
Original zip code dataset from Geocommons.
5MB shapefile with properties such as zipcode, state, name, population, area, more.
http://geocommons.com/overlays/54893 (Thank you Bill Greer)
This converts it nicely: