Awesome List Updates on Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2016

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1. Awesome Electron

Using Electron / Other

• electron-stream (⭐127) - Streaming wrapper.

2. Amas

Ask these people anything!

• Wenjie Fan (⭐1) - Front-end engineer for Linux Deepin, blogger of anotherhome.net.

• Robert Haritonov (⭐1) - Front-end team lead, SourceJS maintainer and Living Style Guide evangelist.

• Henry Snopek (⭐1) - Front-end developer, university student.

• Rishabh Pugalia - Full stack engineer. Creator of CSSDeck.

• DeokHong Kim (⭐2) - Front-end engineer at NAVER, founder of hackrslab.

• Una Kravets (⭐17) - Front-end developer, Sass things, Dev communities & Open Source Design.

• Chris Missal (⭐1) - Maker of Internet things in Austin, TX. A goofball, nerd, and OSS lover.

• Acho Arnold - Full stack web developer with great passion in Social Psychology.

• Jan Sanchez (⭐0) - Front-end developer. Creator of css-url-versioner, open source contributor.

• Mohamad Jahani (⭐1) - Software developer from Iran, mostly working on web backends, *nix servers, electronic devices and most cool stuff you can imagine! A knowledge addict, who's reading and working 24/7.

• Deepak Verma (⭐1) - Full stack developer at Hometrack Australia, AWS Solution Architect, and passionate about photography.

• Daichi Furiya (⭐2) - Software developer in Japan. I love Android, JavaScript and iOS.

• Breno Polanski (⭐1) - Front-end software engineer at Meteorite BI.

• Camilo Nova (⭐3) - Full stack software developer in Colombia.

• William Oliveira - Front-end developer (Brazilian) working with JavaScript, Angular, Stylus, Gulp, Git, etc. Read more about me on my blog.

• Danilo Vaz (⭐1) - Front-end developer (Brazilian), working at mLabs with JavaScript, EmberJS, APIs and other cool stuffs. I'm also BeerJS/SJC organizer.

• Adrian Mejia (⭐1) - Software engineer at Cisco. Blogger at adrianmejia.com. Author of "E-commerce Application built with the MEAN stack". JavaScript lover. Boston located.

3. Awesome Tensorflow

Tutorials

• TensorFlow Tutorial 1 (⭐5.6k) - From the basics to slightly more interesting applications of TensorFlow

Contributions

• Repository's owner explicitly say that "this library is not maintained".

• Not committed for long time (2~3 years).

4. Awesome Shell

Command-Line Productivity

• sman (⭐287) - 🐛 A command-line snippet manager

Shell Script Development / Directory Navigation

• is.sh (⭐156) - An alternative for builtin test command, it will make your "if" statements pretty

5. Awesome Aws

Open Source Repos / Elastic Beanstalk

• ThoughtWorksStudios/eb_deployer 🔥🔥 (⭐400) - Blue-green deployment automation.

6. Awesome Clojure

RESTful API

• yada (⭐732)

Dependency injection

• mount (⭐1.2k)

Exercises / YouTube

• Clojure Koans

7. Awesome Standard

forks

• aStandard - A stricter standard made for babel and es7

8. Awesome Pcaptools

Traffic Analysis/Inspection

• CapTipper (⭐698): Malicious HTTP traffic explorer

• Chopshop (⭐487): is a MITRE developed framework to aid analysts in the creation and execution of pynids based decoders and detectors of APT tradecraft.

• yaraPcap (⭐97): Process HTTP Pcaps With YARA

File Extraction

• scalpel (⭐603): Scalpel is an open source data carving tool.

9. Awesome Broadcasting

Multimedia content processing

• Loudness Validator (⭐13) - A set of applications to analyse, visualise and correct the loudness.

10. Awesome Vulkan

Bindings

• dvulkan (⭐17) - Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.

• VulkanSharp (⭐532) - C# bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]

• LWJGL - Lightweight Java Game Library 3 has Vulkan bindings. [BSD]

11. Awesome Micro Npm Packages

Articles

• Tiny npm package: Guidelines to create a Node.js module following the small package philosophy

Modules / Object

• static-props (⭐3) - Defines static object attributes using Object.defineProperties

12. Awesome Unity

Input

• TouchScript (⭐1.5k) - Makes handling complex gesture interactions on any touch surface much easier.

13. Awesome Javascript

Bundlers

• Brunch (⭐6.8k) - Fast front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config.

Reactive Programming / Runner

• MobX (⭐27k) - TFRP library for simple, scalable state management.

14. Awesome Nodejs

Packages / Text

• babelfish (⭐254) - i18n with very easy syntax for plurals.

Packages / Math

• algebra (⭐106) - Algebraic structures.

15. Awesome Ruby

Authorization

• AccessGranted (⭐774) - Multi-role and whitelist based authorization gem for Rails.

Caching

• Readthis (⭐504) - High performance, pooled, ActiveSupport compliant caching with Redis.

CLI Builder

• Clamp (⭐422) - A command-line application framework.

Geolocation

• rgeo (⭐1k) - Geospatial data library. Spatial data types, geometric and spherical calculations, and WKT/WKB serialization.

Git Tools

• git_reflow (⭐1.5k) - An automated quality control workflow for Agile teams.

Queues and Messaging

• Gush (⭐1k) - A parallel runner for complex workflows using only Redis and Sidekiq.

16. Awesome Microservices

C++

• Pistache (⭐3.1k) - A high-performance REST toolkit written in C++.

• Poco - C++ class libraries for building network-based applications and servers.

17. Awesome Jvm

Memory and concurrency

• ohc (⭐776) - Java large off heap cache developed for Apache Cassandra 3.0.

18. Awesome Economics

Studying / Useful Materials

• AEA Resources for Economists - A list of useful links maintained by the American Economic Association.

Discussions / Useful Materials

• AEA Blog Directory - The list of major economic blogs.

19. Awesome Flexbox

Guides

• Webflow Flexbox

Other Interesting Articles / Polyfills

• Laying Out A Flexible Future For Web Design With Flexbox

Presentations / Videos

• HTML5. Desenvolvimento avançado

• What the flexbox? - A simple 20 video course that will help you master

• Flexbox Fundamentals

20. Awesome Sre

Culture

• What is Site Reliability Engineering?

• Keys To SRE by Ben Treynor

• Google SRE Resources

• Notes from Production Engineering by Pedro Canahuati

• PostOps: Recovery from Operations

• How Google Does Planet-Scale Engineering for Planet-Scale Infra

• Site Reliability Engineering at Facebook

• A History of Site Reliability Engineering at Uber

• Case Study: Adopting SRE Principles at StackOverflow

• Site Reliability Engineering at Dropbox

• Site Reliability Engineers — Keeping Google up and running 24/7

• SRE@Google: Thousands of DevOps Since 2004

• Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us and Must be Stopped

Education

• Panel: Educating SRE

• From Zero to Hero: Recommended Practices for Training your Ever-Evolving SRE Teams

Books

• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

• The Practice Of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems

Hiring

• SRE Hiring

• Hiring SREs at LinkedIn

Reliability

• Fail at Scale by Ben Maurer

• Embracing Failure: Fault-Injection and Service Reliability

• 10 Years of Crashing Google

• How we break things at Twitter: failure testing

• Reliable Cron across the Planet

• Push our limits - reliability testing at Twitter

• The Verification of a Distributed System by Caitie McCaffrey

• Weathering the Unexpected

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• The Evolution of Monitoring Systems at Google - Tony Rippy

• Monitoring without Infrastructure @ Airbnb

On-Call

• Being an On-Call Engineer: A Google SRE Perspective

Post-Mortem

• A collection of post-mortems (⭐9.8k)

Misc Articles

• Here’s How Google Makes Sure It (Almost) Never Goes Down

• Are site reliability engineers the next data scientists?

• Site Reliability Engineers: "solving the most interesting problems"

• Site Reliability Engineers: the "world’s most intense pit crew"

• Notes on Site Reliability Engineering

21. Awesome Cli Apps

Images / Gif Creation

• givegif (⭐219) - GIFs on the command line.

22. Awesome Swift

Animation

• Pulsator (⭐1.4k) - Pulse animation for iOS.

UI / Barcode

• Spots - Spots is a view controller framework that makes your setup and future development blazingly fast.

23. Rbooks

Beginner Books

The R Programming Wikiboo [online]

A collaborative book about R on the wikibooks website. Anyone can improve it.

24. Engineering Blogs

Companies / E companies

• Evil Martians https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/

Companies / M companies

• Made Tech https://www.madetech.com/blog

25. Awesome R

Lists / Book/monograph Lists and Reviews

• ggplot2 Extensions - Showcases of ggplot2 extensions.

• Books (⭐226) - List of R Books.

• Network Analysis (⭐3.3k) - Network Analysis related resources.

• R Project Conferences - Information about useR! Conferences and DSC Conferences.

• Topic Models (⭐227) - Topic Models learning and R related resources.

26. Awesome Php

Table of Contents / Filtering, Sanitizing and Validation

• Assert (⭐2.4k) - A validation library with a rich set of assertions. Supports assertion chaining and lazy assertions.

27. Awesome Cpp

Networking

• Restbed (⭐1.9k) - C++11 Asynchronous RESTful framework. [AGPL]

28. Awesome Math

Misc

• Paul's Online Math Notes - Paul Dawkins (Lamar University)

• List of electronic textbooks - Marcel B. Finan (Arkansas Tech University)

29. Awesome Answers

Programming Languages / C/C++

• What are the valid signatures for C's main() function?

30. Awesome Network Analysis

Books / Classics

• Social Network Analysis. Methods and Applications, by Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust (1994).

• The Structure and Dynamics of Networks, edited by Mark E.J. Newman, Albert-László Barabási and Duncan J. Watts - 600 pages of classic network analysis articles (2006).

Books / General Overviews

• Network Science, by the U.S. National Research Council - Full book online (2005).

• Network Science: Theory and Practice, by Ted G. Lewis (2011).

• Networks. An Introduction, by Mark E.J. Newman (2010).

• Réseaux sociaux et structures relationnelles, by Emmanuel Lazega, in French (2014).

• Sociologie des réseaux sociaux, by Pierre Mercklé, in French (2011).

• Social Networks: An Introduction, by Jeroen Bruggeman (related material; 2008).

• Studying Social Networks. A Guide to Empirical Research, by Marina Hennig et al. (2013).

Books / Method-specific

• Bayesian Networks with Examples in R, by Marco Scutari and Jean-Baptiste Denis (website; 2014).

• Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks, edited by Dean Lusher, Johan Koskinen and Garry Robins (2013).

• Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences, edited by Emmanuel Lazega and Tom A.B. Snijders (2016).

• Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations, edited by Ulrik Brandes and Thomas Erlebach - Covers network centrality, clustering, blockmodels, spatial networks and more (2005).

• Political Networks. The Structural Perspective, by David Knoke (1994).

• Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets: Social Network Analysis for Actor-Centred Networks, by Nick Crossley et al. (2015).

Books / Software-specific

• Introduction to Social Network Methods (using mostly UCINET), by Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle - Full book online (2001).

• Network Analysis with R/igraph, by Gabor Csárdi, Thomas Nepusz and Eduardo M. Airoldi (in preparation).

• Network Analysis with Python/igraph, by Thomas Nepusz, Gabor Csárdi and Eduardo M. Airoldi (in preparation).

• Social Network Analysis for Startups. Finding Connections on the Social Web (using Python), by Maksim Tsvetovat and Alexander Kouznetsov (code (⭐241); 2011).

• Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R, by Eric D. Kolaczyk and Gabor Csárdi (R package (⭐290); 2014).

Books / Topic-specific

• Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks, by Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy and Alessandro Vespignani (2008).

• Neighbor Networks. Competitive Advantage Local and Personal, by Ronald S. Burt (2010).

• Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness, by Duncan J. Watts (2003).

• Towards Relational Sociology, by Nick Crossley (2011).

• Visualisierung komplexer Strukturen. Grundlagen der Darstellung mehrdimensionaler Netzwerke, by Lothar Krempel, in German.

Conferences / Topic-specific

• CNDay - Cambridge Networks Day - Convened by the Cambridge Networks Network.

• EUSN - European Conference on Social Networks.

Courses / Topic-specific

• Graph Theory and Applications, by Paul Van Dooren - Full lecture slides (Hamilton Institute, Dublin, 2009).

• Networks, Complexity and Its Applications (Media Arts and Sciences), by Cesar Hidalgo (MIT, 2011).

• Networks, Crowds and Markets, by David Easley, Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos (presentation; Cornell University via edX, 2016).

• Political Networks: Methods and Applications, by Zeev Maoz (University of California in Davis, 2012).

• Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis, by Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University via Coursera, 2015).

• Social Network Analysis, by Lada Adamic (University of Michigan via Coursera, not yet run).

• Social Network Analysis and Intermediate Social Network Theory, by Matthew J. Denny - Workshop notes and slides (2014–5).

• The Structure of Information Networks, by Jon Kleinberg - Links to many diverse readings (Cornell University, 2008).

Datasets / Topic-specific

• Bayesian Network Repository.

• Enron Email Dataset.

• Gephi Datasets (⭐5.7k).

• International Currencies 1890-1910 - Historical data on the international connections between 45 currencies.

• Pajek Datasets.

• Siena Datasets.

• UCI Network Data Repository.

Journals / Topic-specific

• Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (Springer, gated).

• Computational Social Networks (Springer Open).

• Connections (INSNA). Twitter: @ConnectionsSNA.

• The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (Taylor & Francis, gated).

• Network Science (Cambridge, gated).

• Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer, gated).

• Social Networks (Elsevier, gated).

Professional Groups / Research Groups (USA)

• Complex Human Networks Reading Group (CoHN) - Reading list from a seminar held at MIT in 2001–2.

• Interdependence in Governance and Policy Research Group - Led by Bruce A. Desmarais at Penn State University.

• Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI).

• Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) at the University of Notre Dame.

• LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis at the Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky.

• NetSCI Lab at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information.

• Network Science Center at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) in West Point (blog).

• Network Science IGERT at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Features an NSF-funded graduate programme.

• Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics Lab - Headed by Carter T. Butts. Part of the Center for Networks and Relational Analysis (CNRA) at the University of California in Irvine.

• Northeastern University MOBS Lab - Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems - Led by Alessandro Vespignani.

• Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS).

Professional Groups / Research Groups (Other)

• Centre for Business Network Analysis, University of Greenwich - Focused on economic/organisational network analysis.

• Center for Network Science, Central European University, Budapest - Features a PhD in Network Science program.

• Cx-Nets - Virtual collaboration between four complex networks research groups.

• Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, University of Manchester - Currently studies covert networks. Twitter: @MitchellSNA.

• SocioPatterns - Interdisciplinary research group that uses wireless sensors to study social network data.

• UCL Centre for Organisational Network Analysis (CONA).

Review Articles / Social, Economic and Political Networks

• Mixed-Method Approaches to Social Network Analysis (ESRC NCRM Discussion Paper, 2010).

• Network Analysis in the Social Sciences (Science, 2009).

• Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014).

• Social Network Analysis in the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (preprint; PS: Political Science and Politics, 2011).

Software / Social, Economic and Political Networks

• Discourse Network Analyzer (DNA) - Qualitative content analysis tool with network export facilities, written in Java with R integration.

• GLEAMviz Simulator - Cross-platform tool intended for the prediction of human epidemics.

• Graphviz - Cross-platform software to draw graphs in the DOT graph drawing language.

• Graphy (⭐48) - Graph theory library written in Ruby.

• MuxViz - Cross-platform, free and open source tool to study multilayer networks, based on R and GNU Octave.

• Neo4j - Open source, scalable graph database, used by companies like Linkurious.

• ORA-LITE - Windows program for dynamic meta-network assessment and analysis.

• UCINET - Windows commercial software package for the analysis of social network data.

Software / Algorithms

• ForceAtlas2 - Force-directed layout included in Gephi (paper).

• weighted-modularity-LPAwbPLUS (⭐28) - Julia, MATLAB and R implementations of two algorithms to find weighted modularity in bipartite networks.

Software / C / C++

• Louvain Method - C++ code for the Louvain multi-level community detection algorithm.

• Stanford Network Analysis Project - C++ general purpose network analysis and graph mining library. Available as a Python library and in Microsoft Excel via NodeXL.

• Walktrap - C++ program that implements the WalkTrap community detection algorithm.

Software / JavaScript

• jLouvain (⭐146) - Louvain community detection for Javascript (example).

• VivaGraphJS (⭐3.7k) - Graph drawing library (ForceAtlas2 plugin (⭐3)).

• viz.js - Use Graphviz in Web pages.

Software / MATLAB

• MATLAB RBN Toolbox - Simulation und visualization of Random Boolean Networks.

Software / Python

• graphviz - Python renderer for the DOT graph drawing language.

• linkpred (⭐140) - Assess the likelihood of potential links in a future snapshot of a network.

• python-igraph - Python version of the igraph network analysis package.

Software / R

• DiagrammeR (⭐1.7k) - Connects R, RStudio and JavaScript libraries to draw graph diagrams (blog post).

• networkdiffusion (⭐7) - Simulate and visualize basic epidemic diffusion in networks.

• Rgraphviz - Support for using the Graphviz library and its DOT graph drawing language from within R.

• RSiena - Simulation Investigation for Empirical Network Analysis; fits models to longitudinal network data.

• visNetwork (⭐536) - Using vis.js library for network visualization.

Software / Stata

• SNA with Stata - Blog documenting the use of the netplot Stata package.

Varia / Tutorials

• Mixed-Method Approaches to Social Network Analysis - Videos of a conference at the Middlesex University School of Law (2014).

• Modeling Complex Social Networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Statistical Learning and Inference - Video of a seminar talk by Jennifer Neville at Purdue University (2011).

• New Perspectives for Relational Learning - Videos (and more) from a workshop at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) (2015).

• Picking Sides - Community detection in the political network of Middle Eastern alliances between various state and nonstate powers (updated version).

• Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere and The Other Ride of Paul Revere: The Brokerage Role in the Making of the American Revolution - Network analysis applied to American revolutionaries.

Varia / Blog Series

• Blog Posts About Networks by Baptiste Coulmont, in French.

• Blog Posts About Networks by Katya Ognyanova.

• Blog Posts About Networks by Pierre Mercklé, in French.

• Blog Posts About Networks on the Bad Hessian Blog, by various contributors.

Varia / Network Science

• Social Network and Network Science Co-Citations Across Disciplines in 1996-2013 (⭐21).

• Three Hard Questions about Network Science.

• What is Network Science? - First editorial of the recent Network Science journal.

31. Awesome Elixir

Algorithms and Data structures

• gen_fsm (⭐40) - A generic finite state-machine - Elixir wrapper around OTP's gen_fsm.

Debugging

• observer_cli (⭐1.4k) - Visualize Elixir & Erlang nodes on the command line, it aims to help developers debug production systems.

Geolocation

• segseg (⭐6) - Segment-segment intersection classifier and calculator.

32. Awesome Audio Visualization

Experiments

• Luis Henrique Bizarro Portfolio - Portfolio with experiments using Three.JS and GSLS.

• Splice - A realtime interactive music visualizer using time-code data from Splice's upcoming visualizer API.

• Typatone - Make music while you write.

• Music Cube - A Chrome Experiment that combines the Roland TR-808 Drum Machine with the Rubik's Cube.

• Music Game - ECHO - A challenging musical puzzle game.

• Patatap - A portable animation and sound kit.

• Plink - Awesome Multiplayer Game - A multiplayer music experience.

• Soundcloud Visualizer - A Canvas and Web Audio Experiment.

• CSS Visualizer - Music Visualizers that are made entirely using DOM elements and CSS3.

• Kandinski Experiment - Music Visualizations inspired in Kandinsky.

• Visual Music Trailer - Live audio visual performance ideas.

Libraries Audio

• web-audio-analyser (⭐208) - A thin wrapper around the Web Audio API that takes an element and gives you its waveform/frequency data in return.

• web-audio-player (⭐244) - A cross-browser Web Audio player.

• web-media-playback (⭐8) - Retrieve playback and buffering information about audio or video playing in the browser.

• Pizzicato.js - Simplify the way you create and manipulate sounds via the Web Audio API.

• ThreeAudio.js (⭐520) - Helps you create music visualizations in Three.js or tQuery.

• MIDI.js (⭐3.6k) - Making life easy to create a MIDI-app on the web.

• Beep.js (⭐1.3k) - A JavaScript toolkit for building browser-based synthesizers.

• p5.sound (⭐795) - Brings the Processing approach to Web Audio and p5.js.

• Audiolet - A JavaScript library for real-time audio synthesis and composition.

• coffee-collider - A language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition in HTML5.

Libraries Visualization

• p5.js - A JavaScript library for creating graphic and interactive experiences, based on the core principles of Processing.

• Pixi.js (⭐39k) - A fast lightweight 2D library that works across all devices. The Pixi renderer allows everyone to enjoy the power of hardware acceleration without prior knowledge of WebGL.

• sketch.js - Let's you get straight to the fun parts of creative coding, without ever having to worry about shims or boilerplate code.

• three.js - Three.js is a library that makes WebGL easy to use.

• Two.js - A two-dimensional drawing API geared towards modern web browsers. It is renderer agnostic enabling the same API to draw in multiple contexts: SVG, Canvas, and WebGL.

• BabylonJS - A complete JavaScript framework for building 3D games with HTML5, WebGL and Web Audio.

• Web Audio Extension (⭐183) - A Chrome extension to play with Web Audio.

• Cinder - A community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.

• HYPE_processing - Collection of Processing classes that performs heavy lifting tasks while using a minimal amount of code writing.

Tutorials

• Kadenze - Courses about Sound and Creative Process

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