Something I had been meaning to do for a long time was write a quick script to scrape Reddit comments. A chap has beaten me to it and you can find the code here: https://github.com/ctaggart878/redditscraper. During lunch today I had a little play with it the script (and I mean quick!). Read more…
Deleting a reddit account is really easy, Log in Click Preferences Click The Delete Tab Scroll to bottom and put in your username and password. Video incase you get lost:
I’m currently trying to write an application in Shiny that talks to a MySQL database. While developing I got the following error message after I has started the server a few times: cannot allocate a new connection — maximum of 16 connections already > opened) It turns out that the 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…
This was a real pain in the ass for me. There are a few steps, I did them all in the terminal because I don’t really know my way around CentOS 6. Firstly I got an error about the Cloudera-search Repo not being able to find a certain file. This Read more…
Previously I’ve mentioned how valuable Stack Overflow is as a resource when getting into a new such as R but yet again I’ve been blown away by just how generous people are with their time. Last week I was incredibly stuck using R. I had been stuck on the same Read more…
Getting into R can be quite daunting. It’s a new language to you, programmers are worrying about polishing up their math skills, statisticians are worrying about their programming skills and its hard keeping up with all the new and exciting packages . I found a good way to get myself Read more…
I recently saw a great article on how to create a recommendation system in R by yhat. I thought it looked fun and decided to hook one up myself. Thinking about datasets I started to wonder about recommendation systems that might I might use. The one that immediately sprang to Read more…
Today I discovered Telenovelas. Telenovelas are short limited run programs similar to soap opera, they are popular in Spanish language counties and they are serious business. I stumbled across a clip on youtube and was instantly hooked. Check this out: I headed to Wikipedia to find out more only to Read more…
There is a great text mining package in R called ‘tm’. This is a short introduction to tm and how it can be used to create what is called a Document-Term Matrix, which is a matrix showing the frequency of terms over a collection of documents. While this is quite Read more…
