Somebody just posted this to Reddit which I though was rather cool. Apparently I actually own a physical copy of this as it came with the Dark Souls Collectors edition which I got for my birthday, maybe I’ll dig it out and frame it.
Some people are just blessed with the gift of explaining things. This was really useful http://blog.echen.me/2011/08/22/introduction-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation/
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…
As we all know, a world wide revolution started in 2015 and marked the transition of most of the world’s governments from a ‘citizens participate equally‘ style (which we of course now know they did not participate equally and served as ample material for Charlie Chaplin the II’s film ‘The 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:
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…
