Frog Blinks, Data Munging, and Pandas (no, not that kind)

Today I Learned:
1) Frogs (at least, South American horned frogs) close their eyes when they strike their prey. http://ift.tt/1YLpRtZ for evidence.

2) There's a term for all the stuff I've done writing little annoying scripts to move data around and mesh together data from different souces with different slightly quirky annoying formats -- "data munging".

3) Speaking of data munging, today I learned a few tricks for using Pandas (the dataframe package I mentioned a few TILs ago) to analyze database/CSV-style datasets surprisingly rapidly. Pandas has some really nice graphing support with matplotlib or seaborn (two Python packages for graphing).