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Twitter Data Mining Round Up
Posted on February 10, 2014 Leave a Comment
Since the release of Mining the Social Web, 2E in late October of last year, I have mostly focused on creating supplemental content that focused on Twitter data. This seemed like a natural starting point given that the first chapter of the book is a gentle introduction to data mining with Twitter’s API coupled with […]
An Approximate Solution for TL;DR [~50 Year Old Text Summarization Hack Presented as a ~1.7MB Animated GIF]
Posted on November 13, 2013 1 Comment
Suffering from information overload? Too much TL;DR happening in your life? Attention span just isn’t what it used to be? Watch this short ~30 second screencast (a ~1.7MB animated GIF) that demonstrates a 50+ year old hack for summarizing news articles and other types of online content. After all, it seemed fitting that the presentation of a […]
Getting Started with Twitter’s API: From Zero to Firehose in ~2.5 Minutes
Posted on November 12, 2013 4 Comments
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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