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Understanding the Reaction to Amazon Prime Air (Or: Tapping Twitter’s Firehose for Fun and Profit with pandas)

On Cyber Monday eve, Jeff Bezos appeared in a 60 Minutes segment and revealed to the world that he’s been working on an experimental effort called Amazon Prime Air. The general idea behind Amazon Prime Air is that Amazon may one day deliver relatively lightweight items directly to your doorstep in less than 30 minutes […]

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Getting Started with Twitter’s API: From Zero to Firehose in ~2.5 Minutes

Mining the Social Web‘s goal is to teach you how to transform curiosity into insight, and its virtual machine features two IPython Notebooks that are designed to get you up and running with Twitter’s API as quickly as possible. The following ~2.5 minute screencast shows how to generate OAuth credentials, establish a Twitter API connection, and make API […]

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