Goooooooooaaaaaalllll – world cup is over but Python and soccer are forever :). This post tries to identify goals and interesting events on soccer games based on the volume on youtube. This post only touches the subject but what a nice start!
http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/07/04/automatic-soccer-highlights-compilations-with-python/
Scheduling with Celery – and I thought I can only make a soup with celery.. Scheduling is not the main goal of Celery but it can be used as such, cron style. More about it –
http://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2014/06/23/scheduling-tasks-celery/
Markov chains – the two links below complement one another. One has a great visualization and the other explain things a bit more deeply.
http://setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/
http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2014/07/markov-chain-simplified
My Ig-Noble candidate –
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20578627
Hotels by WiFi – geeky but important those days.