Topics to be discussed and demonstrated include deciding who to follow and for what reasons, strategies for using tagging and hastags, harnessing the power of media stats on blogs and articles, creating Twitter lists, live tweeting, frequency of tweets, social media aggregators and notifications to streamline workflow, and balancing personal and professional content. RSVP here.

Matplotlib is the most widely used visualization library in Python.  There are two entry points into the library: the pyplot API which mimics MATLAB (widely used in engineering disciplines) and the object-oriented (OO) API. While the pyplot API is convenient for interactive work, to fully exploit the the library the OO API gives the user …

While academic work can certainly be a solitary affair, much of our work is collaborative in nature. Sane solutions to collaborating on computers do exist. You might have already used Google Docs to collaborate on a paper or a presentation. In fact, collaboration tools can actually can help us in our independent efforts too. If …