Using twitter gardenhose access, remove stopwords and punctuation sprinkle in a little bit of mapping, some reducing, and voila! The most frequently-occurring words in tweets that mentioned earthquake from June 23, 2010. I left earthquake out of the image itself because being that it was in every tweet, it overwhelmed the rest of the words. [...]
Yes, you read that correctly. Here’s how it started: I’m working on some text analysis in Python and was looking for some test data. Someone recommended I use the 9/11 Pager Data from Wikileaks. I downloaded the data, ran my program against it (which is the subject of another post) and all was well. Got [...]
Recently, a customer told me that they felt a batch job was taking too long each night, I gave them a few commands to add to their nightly run. alter session set tracefile_identifier=’charging_batch’; exec dbms_monitor.session_trace_enable; These commands named the tracefile and enabled 10046 logging. Since I’m lazy(the good kind), I figured I’d use Python to [...]