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json vs pickle

Friday, October 24, 2008

in python JSON is faster, smaller and more portable than pickle …
At work, I’m working on a project where we’re modeling newspaper content in a relational database. We’ve got newspaper titles, issues, pages, institutions, places and some other fun stuff. It’s a django app, and the db schema currently looks something like:

Anyhow, if you [...]

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calais and ocr newspaper data

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Like you I’ve been reading about the new Reuters Calais Web Service. The basic gist is you can send the service text and get back machine readable data about recognized entities (personal names, state/province names, city names, etc). The response format is kind of interesting because it’s RDF that uses a bunch of homespun [...]

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