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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. How you can know everything about nothing ? by Crashmarik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really I laughed my ass off at this.

    Think about the conclusion "The U.S. and Japan are relatively isolated and will have trouble shaping the document the way they want"

    Of the countries mentioned which have the largest economies, and the greatest leverage on trade issues ? I'll give you a hint, it's not NZ.

    What this poli-sci person did is looked at a convocation of sheep and found out they don't like the wolves policies.

  2. Perl and R are for losers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    No one will take this news seriously unless it uses Python and Ruby, because choosing a trendy language is an important part of being one of the cool kids.