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.com. Earlier this week, Apple posted a site (http://www.apple.com/stevejobs) in tribute to Steve Jobs. According to the site, over a million people have submitted messages. The site cycles through the submitted [...]
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 simple average, each quote has been tweeted over 1,500 times. Its time to update the bot with some fresh content. I’m admittedly not [...]
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. Using Python and BeautifulSoup, it simply loops through all of the pages on http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com and reads the items displayed on the page. Output looks like Visit [...]
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 ahead of 2001-09-11. Why? Lets look at where people died on 1965-11-08: Upon further investigation, it looks as if Freebasers have [...]
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 score represented in meters, the method of death (hitting a wall and tumbling to my death) and the device (iPhone). Other useful information can [...]
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 Debt. Here’s how I’m retrieving the National Debt amount from the US Treasury site. I then retrieve the US Population from [...]
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 ways that people are celebrating(ok, spelling) goals. Here are the top few variations of Goal/Gol. The full [...]
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 bots and the keyword that each one responds to: @HelloooooNewman (seinfeld) Klout score 74 @TheBotLebowski (lebowski) Klout score 70 [...]
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 90,000 tweets about Kanye and am looking forward to taking the time for some more in-depth analysis. Huge thanks to @jrlevine and [...]
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 intra-network connections of the 150 users with the most #pubcon posts. The visualization is in svg format – make sure you use your [...]
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