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

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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[bluefoxlucid]

A few tips: Python re is better than Perl's regular expressions; and Python RPy directly integrates R.