A post over at ReadWriteWeb describes what the author calls a Personal API. The description of the API in the post something similar to what Google has put on it’s Nexus 4, a bit of software that learns where you are, your relationships, your likes/dislikes, mashes them together and learns Read more…
Getting my head around topic modelling has certainly made me feel stupid. I think part of the problem is that I am just so used to the paradigm I have for searching electronic documents (when I ‘Google’ something), that I am unable to think about exploring documents any other way Read more…
I’m still thinking about analysing the personal corpus. I have a basic app written in R that can retrieve, store and analyse data. Retrieving and storing data is easy, but how exactly do we analyse it? I guess that’s where I’m at with R. I’m OK at coding things up. Read more…
Day 1 was mostly thinking and talking to Mark. Day two was just getting R to talk to various APIs, MySQL and do some basic mining on the data. I’m a bit busy to type it up now, but I did a video for Mark:
I wanted to get various fields from a CSV into a MySQL table, it was a two second job. Here is is for anybody that needs it: [codesyntax lang=”php”] <?php //error reporting error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1); //1) connect to mysql $db = new PDO(‘mysql:host=localhost;dbname=database;charset=utf8’, ‘username’,’password’); //2) $row = 1; if Read more…
Mark Johnson at the IEC has posted a description about a personal analytics tool hat basically text mines all the text you leave around the web. He calls it the Personal Corpus. In fact I worked with him on a project about 5 years ago where you could ‘Like’ resources Read more…
Bah Humbug. I feel very annoyed at everything. Firstly I’m finding R a difficult language to penetrate. I’m getting there, its just hard. There are lots of resources and people willing to help you get to grips with the tool, but getting to grips with the tool isn’t the problem., Read more…
My first job required me to write some software in PHP; the good thing about PHP is that everybody seems to be able to use it. This means that if I’m stuck a quick Google search will find me a solution. However, I do find that much of the help Read more…
