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How To Mine Your GMail with Google Takeout and MongoDB
Posted on February 14, 2014 Leave a Comment

Google has really been on the up-and-up lately with a service called Google Takeout that allows you to export your data from its cloud. For the thoughtful cloud user who is becoming increasingly concerned about privacy, accidental data loss, or data ownership, this is a product that’s sure to please. Likewise, for the data mining enthusiast, quantified-self […]
Super Simple Storage for Social Web Data with MongoDB (Computing Twitter Influence, Part 4)
Posted on November 20, 2013 3 Comments

In the last few posts for this series on computing twitter influence, we’ve reviewed some of the considerations in calculating a base metric for influence and how to acquire the necessary data to begin analysis. This post finishes up all of the prerequisite machinery before the real data science fun begins by introducing MongoDB as a […]