Interesting Snippets from 2013-12-03

• The Mature Optimization Handbook

  The biggest wins tend to be concentrated in a small portion of the code, “that critical 3%,” which can be found via careful measurement.

• OpenRefine

  OpenRefine (ex-Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data, cleaning it, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.

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