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An analysis of Steve Jobs tribute messages displayed by Apple 21 Oct 2011 | 09:08 am
Two weeks have passed since Apple’s Co-Founder/CEO Steve Jobs passed away. Upon his passing, Apple encouraged people to share their memories, thoughts, and feelings by emailing rememberingsteve@apple...
Looking for some new quotes for @HelloooooNewman 18 Mar 2011 | 06:47 am
I’m looking for some new quotes for my Seinfeld-quote-spewing twitter bot @hellooooonewman. There are currently 161 tweets in its database and the bot has sent over 246,000 tweets. If you take a simpl...
Chuck Norris doesn’t screen-scrape, the data runs scared to his hard drive. 2 Mar 2011 | 09:51 am
Inspired by a tweet from Roger Ehrenberg and my 11-year-old son who’s crazy about Chuck Norris facts, I screen-scraped the contents of http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com. Code and data can be found here....
Fun with awk and dead people 25 Feb 2011 | 08:36 am
Just playing around with some Freebase data in preparation for a ‘who died today’ twitter bot. Get the data and determine on which date did the most people die? Surprised to see 1965-11-08 listed ah...
Visualizations of Canabalt scores scraped from twitter 17 Feb 2011 | 11:56 am
Canabalt, a ridiculously addicting web/IOS-device game allows one to show off their high scores, and their not-so-high scores to Twitter. Each of these tweets contains a bit of information – The scor...
Retrieving the US National Debt and Population using Python and BeautifulSoup 31 Jan 2011 | 03:41 pm
Update 12-May-2011, I cleaned up the code, added logging of the data to a tab-delimited file, and published it to github. Happy Hacking! Someone suggested I create a bot that tweets the US National D...
World Cup 2010: Analysis of tweets celebrating goals 11 Jan 2011 | 03:17 am
The 2010 World Cup proved to be one of the most tweeted about events of 2010. Through the millions of tweets saved to my local Cloudera CDH3 Hadoop cluster, I wrote a quick pig script to discover the...
My Twitter bots: Tens of thousands of followers can’t be wrong 22 Dec 2010 | 01:20 am
edit: March 17, 2011 I need your help! If you have additional Seinfeld quotes to contribute, or for a list of all of the current Seinfeld quotes, please visit this post. My current army of twitter bo...
Word Cloud from 6,500 tweets mentioning Kayne West. From this morning 15 Dec 2010 | 11:25 am
After removing a few stopwords and then clearing out a few other words(nowplaying, lastfm, and the like), here’s what’s left. The data represents a half-day’s worth of tweets. I’m sitting on about ...
Visualization of top 150(now 300!) tweeters at pubcon 10 Nov 2010 | 12:42 pm
I built http://www.pubcontweets.com to track the tweets about pubcon, a social media conference that’s being held in Las Vegas. A little python and twitter api, sprinked in with some Gephi yields the...
