Similar to my last *nix style project I wanted to write something in Python that could interact with Reddit and can be ran from a Raspberry Pi. At this stage I only wanted to see what was possible and start early, so I borrowed some code to make a bot Read more…
I recently wanted to a CSV of questions and answers in to a Twitter account that tweeted questions followed by the correct answers every hour like so: My CSV looks like this when opened in excel. There are 5 columns in each row, the first of which is the question, Read more…
Yesterday I had a chat with old Cetis friend Sheila, we got on to the conversation of visualising text, something I am really interested in but also really struggle with. Sheila had been playing with Textexture a tool to visualise any text as a network, I was intrigued by Sheila’s Read more…
Exploring your social media networks with Graphing tools such as Gephi is quite easy, the hardest part is working out what you want to explore and how you will get the data. As a starting point I’ve collected a few simple recipes for network graphs. I’ve done all these on Read more…
The times we realise how much we really miss our grandparents are the times we know that we really need emotional support. The department I am working in is closing, which is a curious sentence to write for me, because at 30 I still don’t really feel like I have Read more…
This doesn’t tell you how many people of that profession there are, it tells you how many people of that profession are in Wikipedia, with structured data on both the persons birthplace and profession. It might tell us as much about how Wikipedia is being used as how many people Read more…
I wanted to come up with a quick method that I could reuse where I could ask Wikipedia a quick question, get some numbers and create a heat map. I still haven’t come up with the quick process, and when I mess with data I tend to stick with what Read more…
