The Twitter Standard API is limited to Tweets from the last 7-10 days. This isn’t enough for most research projects. Since 2018 Twitter offers a Premium API through which the full Twitter archive is… (more…)

It’s a Python story, with some RESTful and a bunch of Redis... (more…)

I’ve found myself explaining Python 3’s str to people online more and more often lately. There’s this ridiculous claim about that Python 3’s string handling is broken or somehow worse than Python 2, and today I intend to put that myth to rest. Pyt...

So here is a little bit of a ‘stream of consciousness’ blog post I felt compelled to write, about why we chose Python for the RCPCH… (more…)

This article contains supporting material for this blog post at  Scientific American .  The thesis of the post is that modern programming l... (more…)