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Locations of Geosynchronous Satellites
A year or so ago I went to a talk which included the diagram below. It shows the locations of the Earth’s fleet of geosynchronous satellites. According to the speaker, the information in this diagram...
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Top 250 Movies at IMDb
Some years ago I allowed myself to accept a challenge to read the Top 100 Novels of All Time (complete list here). This list was put together by Richard Lacayo and Lev Grossman at Time Magazine. To...
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A couple of my collaborators have had trouble using read_html() from the xml2 package to access this Wikipedia page. Specifically they have been getting errors like this: Error in...
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View POST Data using Chrome Developer Tools
When figuring out how to formulate the contents of a POST request it’s often useful to see the “typical” fields submitted directly from a web form. Open Developer Tools in Chrome. Select the Network...
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