I used the Classifier4J Summarizer to summarize the tweets and pick out the 5 tweet summary of the period, and the 1 tweet summary of @ replies and non-directed tweets. Only letters and spaces were kept for the summary (thus each tweet was treated as one sentence), the summarizer transforms everything to lower case and removes ...
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Part 7: Who’s Talking About The Future of Newspapers?
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Round 2 @ Google
If you follow my Twitter, I may have already given away the ending to this! But as a continuation from my first round, here is my experience for my second (final) on-site with Google two weeks ago. What Did I Do To Prep? Things were a little hectic with the end of Extreme Blue and our trip ...
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Part 4: Who’s Talking About The Future Of Newspapers?
In which we answer the question - what are they saying? I've split the tweets up into two types - at replies, and not at replies, and a third which contains all tweets. I've created wordles of each one, for each of the 20 people we were following. If you haven't - check out wordle.net. It's awesome. There's ...
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Dating Explained in Terms of Priority Queues
From The Algorithm Design Manual (Amazon): Many naturally occurring processes are accurately modeled by priority queues. Single people maintain a priority queue of potential dating candidates - mentally if not explicitly. One's impression on meeting a new person maps directly to an attractiveness or desirability score. Desirability serves as the key field for inserting this new ...
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Artisan or Technician?
My friend Maggie and I were discussing the way compsci's approach their career. Those who take the artisan track ask "What inspires me? What do I want to create?"; they evaluate their career in terms of the difference (and things) they make. Those who take the technician track say "I've checked these boxes and now ...
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Part 2: Who’s Talking About the Future of Newspapers?
After breaking down the overall types of tweets from people, next step was to create scatter plots of their activity. Unfortunately, Excel will only plot 250 data points - how unreasonable! Luckily I love breaking Excel and coding something that will do what I want it to do and look prettier, so voila. Color scheme: Is directed at ...
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My Secret Life as an Introvert
My friend Maggie tells me I'm an introvert. Not because I'm shy, or because large groups make me nervous, but because I don't get my energy from being around people. I was surprised by this, because I guess I've always considered myself to be extroverted and so I asked another close friend and he said ...
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Who’s Talking About the Future of Newspapers?
My friend Caitlin is using Twitter to investigate the discourse around the future of newspapers. She has collected a bunch of data in a spreadsheet, and I get to visualize it - yay! First up, extracting some general stats. I used the Apache POI to get the enormous speadsheet into Java (normally I would use Python ...
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“Must Not Be Used for Evil” and Other Things CS Students Need to Know About OSS
I have spent a ridiculous amount of time this summer reading software licenses. Ultimately, a lawyer would have to be the final judge about what I can and cannot use, but it's helpful for me to know when it is worth taking to the lawyer at all. Depressingly, a little knowledge can often tell you ...
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Programming Toolboxes and Functional Hats
Much to the entertainment of my teammates and mentor, on Monday I punched the air and exclaimed: YES! I am a <long product name> NINJA! We're exporting some data from this product (let's call it Product X) and I had fixed a 3-4x expansion in the number of records it was producing. This made me pretty happy! ...
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