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How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations

Posted by Unknown on from the just-look-at-those-graphs dept.

langelgjm writes "As /. reported, last Thursday Wikileaks released a draft text of the intellectual property chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Since then, many commentators have raised alarm about its contents. But what happens when you mix the leaked text together with Perl regular expressions and R's network analysis packages? You get some neat visualizations showing just how isolated the United States is in pushing for extreme copyright and patent laws."

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  1. In summary, what can we conclude from these data? by DrPBacon · · Score: 5, Funny

    "In summary, what can we conclude from these data? Canada, with by far the most sole-country proposals, seems like it is up to something." Those shifty Canadians. I knew it.

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  2. Don't worry, eh? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's just Mayor Rob Ford's plan to go oot the hoose and take the world off to a the great, white, crystalline North. Beauty, eh?

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  3. You down with TPP? by Pikoro · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yah you know me!

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  4. Re:In summary, what can we conclude from these dat by ebno-10db · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod parent up, and ask him if he can also write haiku.