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A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API with command line, Python and Javascript interfaces. Available as a self-contained VM or EC2 AMI that you can deploy yourself.

It's essentially a specialized Linux distribution, with a lot of useful data software pre-installed and exposing a simple interface. For full documentation, see http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs.

Drupal 6 modules typically defined their own tables, had their own code to maintain them and then used nodeapi to hook into the system. Or, defined node types but still maintained their own tables. In Drupal 7 instead you should just create fields, instance them on node types you want to work with. Instead of altering a form directly you can write a widget. Display your data with a formatter. Don't worry about data storage, field API handles that for you. And then there is the EntityFieldQuery class to help with finding things.

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Data is agnostic. Information is amoral. Pointing the narrative-free fire-hose at the digital citizens of the third world does nothing to empower them, and U.S. politics is proof that More News just means More Influence for the person with the craftiest narrative. Once the saturation point is reached, even valuable information is part of the problem: no one has the capacity to sift and filter, and we fall back into the embrace of our trusted interpreters.

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