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March 10, 2016
Social News in 1000 Steps – Step 4
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Social NewsI decided to make the filtering of common words stricter. This should in theory give us more “technical” terms. The additional filtering consists of: Excluding words found in the … Continue reading →
March 7, 2016
Social News in 1000 Steps – Step 3
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Social NewsIn the previous blogs I introduced a “query by example” like approach. Both the “query” part and the “example” part need a lot of work. This time I give … Continue reading →
March 4, 2016
Social News in 1000 Steps – Step 2
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Social NewsStep 1 introduced the project and a simple procedure to find somewhat relevant keywords. An obvious next step is to search the Web with these keywords, for instance using … Continue reading →
March 2, 2016
Social News in 1000 Steps – Step 1
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Social NewsSocial news is great as we all agree. The working title for this project is SoNaR (Social News and Recommendations). All to be implemented with Python, although the front-end, … Continue reading →
February 21, 2016
Complaint Against Hollywood
Yesterday I watched the “Ender’s Game” movie or film and I didn’t pay for it in the traditional sense, because it was scheduled on cable television. Which turned out to be the better choice, because obviously I am going to … Continue reading →
May 6, 2015
Day Against DRM 2015
Packt celebrates International Day Against DRM, May 6th 2015 Packt Publishing firmly believes that you should be able to read and interact with your content when you want, where you want, and how you want – to that end they … Continue reading →
March 22, 2015
Big Weekender March 2015
Save 50% on all eBooks and Videos – use BW50 Packt’s Big Weekender has returned! In a world short on time but hungry for innovation, it’s important to pick the right moment to learn the skills and develop knowledge you … Continue reading →
February 26, 2015
First Translated Book
Today I received my first translated book of “NumPy Beginner’s Guide” 2nd Edition. It was translated from English to Simplified Chinese: I browsed a bit through the book. The page count is lower than the English version it seems. Some … Continue reading →
January 11, 2015
Review of Learning Python Testing
Learning Python Testing by Daniel Arbuckle published in November 2014 by Packt Publishing, is as far as I know a second edition of sorts of another book (published in 2010) by the same author and publisher. I haven’t read the … Continue reading →
December 29, 2014
LinkedIn Recommends Python Data Analysis
Dear Sir/Madam, Do you like math? Do you like writing Python code? According to researchers “statistical data analysis” and Python are now hot skills with corresponding top salaries. The shortage of data scientists with said skill is at an alarming … Continue reading →
