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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Through the magic of hadoop, pig, over 300 million(and counting) tweets, and the never-ending creativity of my fellow twitter users, I thought I’d take a look at all of the hashtags containing the beloved f-word. Lets get the technical details out of the way. Since the middle of June, I’ve been saving as many tweets [...]
While browsing through Pete Skomoroch’s delicious bookmarks(which is a full-time job in and of itself), I learned that StackOverflow.com makes their underlying q&a data available. Just for fun, I wrote a few quick queries against this dataset, centered around the R tag. Here are a handful of findings – data is through 31-Oct-2009. Some of [...]
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