| #grab some data from twitter | |
| data = loads(urllib2.urlopen("http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/{0}.json".\ | |
| format(twitter_id)).read()) | |
| tweet_content = data["text"] | |
| #push to sentiment analysis | |
| raw_senti = loads(urllib2.urlopen(\ | |
| "http://apib1.semetric.com/musicmetric/sentiment?token="+\ | |
| API_KEY, data = tweet_content).read()) |
| fetching the conversation at http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/RodBegbie/402 | |
| Is the conversation a flame war? | |
| yes | |
| Where's the troll? | |
| http://twitter.com/JohnONolan/status/63027551760691200 | |
| Author: John O'Nolan username: JohnONolan | |
| Now stop feeding the trolls! |
| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| from lxml import etree | |
| from urllib import urlopen | |
| if __name__=='__main__': | |
| url = 'http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/schedConf/presentations' | |
| tree = etree.parse(urlopen(url), etree.HTMLParser()) | |
| ''' | |
| filter out all the null population entries from the world cites database http://www.maxmind.com/app/worldcities | |
| ''' | |
| import csv | |
| with open('worldcitiespop.txt') as fh: | |
| reader = csv.DictReader(fh) | |
| cities_pop = [line for line in reader if line['Population']] | |
| #print all the cities in the UK with a population above 200,000 | |
| print '\n'.join(['{0}: {1}'.format(entry['City'], entry['Population']) for entry in cities_pop if entry['Country']=='gb' and int(entry['Population']) > 200000]) |
| {"response": | |
| {"status": | |
| {"version": "4.2", | |
| "code": 0, | |
| "message": "Success"}, | |
| "songs": [ | |
| {"audio_summary": | |
| {"key": 7, | |
| "mode": 1, | |
| "time_signature": 4, |
| """ | |
| TotC_random_draw.py | |
| An emulator of the random draw process from | |
| Trial of the Clones by Zach Weinersmith | |
| process in the book is to flip to a random page | |
| and using the number in the corner for game | |
| mechanics. | |
| call it like this: | |
| >python TotC_random_draw.py [number of draws] | |
| then it prints the outcome[s] |
| def is_plural(a,b): | |
| """a really stupid pluralisation checker, english only | |
| returns true if b is standard form plural of a (or vis-a-versa) as defined by these rules: | |
| adds s or es | |
| subs y for ies | |
| subs f or fe for ves | |
| based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural this should cover regular and near-regular plurals | |
| """ | |
| if len(a) == len(b): | |
| #all [near-]regular plurals are longer, so: |
| http://linkeddata.org/ | |
| sir TBL's old but useful intro/manifesto http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html | |
| a video of the point of it all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbs4ej0gpc | |
| Tom Heath (he's a data scientist at The ODI) has a book (free html version) http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/ | |
| RoR content negs – https://github.com/Swirrl/contentnegotiation |
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