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So, this article appears to be plagiarized directly (as in, word for word) from Wes McKinney's Python for Data Analysis (which is an excellent, excellent resource):

http://books.google.com/books?id=JtJAkfzds4wC&lpg=PA46&ots=p...

Seeing as the 'author' of this post was the submitter, I'd love to hear an explanation of what happened here.

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Has anyone checked any of the other submissions from this source?

First one I checked:

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-command-line-is-your-...

http://pypix.com/tools-and-tips/command-line/

Edit: next one I checked has content from here http://lumberjaph.net/HTTP_requests_with_python/

And from here http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/http-the-protocol-every-w...

http://pypix.com/tools-and-tips/http-fundamentals/

That's disgusting. They have stolen entire articles word for word. And received upvotes in the process.

In a way, they are being rewarded for stealing other peoples work. Sad.

My post below asks the same question. Is this a regular phenomenon w/ PyPix?

Also, I'd post a link to the original chapter here if it was publicly available; it's (of course) much more complete. Check out your local library's e-resources (I found it at Oakland).

This is the first time I've looked at the site, but looking at the other article in the 'Scientific Category', Machine Learning with Python (http://pypix.com/scientific/machine-learning-python/), also appears to be taken from Building Machine Learning Systems with Python (http://books.google.com/books?id=C-yglCEcK0sC&pg=PT31&lpg=PT...).

Unless I'm misunderstanding something, this is pretty awful behavior.

cough content farm cough cough

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