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Toronto Elections data with Neo4j and Python part 3 of 3

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As the title suggests, this is the home stretch for my 3-part series on Neo4j and Python. This last bit is more Neo4j focussed, with Python doing most of the heavy lifting in the first two posts. Using a 2006 elections contribution dataset, I’ve loaded into Neo4j (2.0 Community Edition) the candidates, contributions, contributor names, postal codes. Additionally, I tried to get the distance between the postal codes for some geocoding. Now to try a few simple queries to test this out. The first one, is to see the top…

Metallic c-print photography

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In anticipation of the Maker Sale held at my house, I unearthed some metallic c-print photographs I had taken a few years ago before a family and ‘real’ life came along. The photographs are from interesting locations in and around Toronto, including the Distillery District (I had actually won an award at Pikto for ‘The Conversation’ at that time), the Don Valley Parkway trails, the Brickworks and finally my cottage (not in Toronto this time, but Six Mile Lake). Metallic c-print photography is a kind of printing on hyper-glossy photosensitive…