Visualizing the #nonato Twitter hashtag – time series and top users
The NATO summit is currently being held in Chicago, and, as is typical for NATO or G# summits, the streets and
Charting Twitter time series data with tweet and unique user counts
Let's say you've used my Python script to automate the download of a hashtag or search phrase from Twitter (in a Unicode safe
eDiscovery Consulting in the Cloud: Searching an Outlook mailbox and attachments
You may have noticed that I keep talking about eDiscovery consulting and legal search in the cloud. I've covered searching the
Saving memory in redis and python with struct.pack
In redis, every object is either a binary-safe string or collection thereof. Even if you're storing numbers from your
Building, configuring, and benchmarking redis from Github source
Part of blogging for myself is making notes about process that may or may not garner a wide audience.
Blogging for myself, not you.
In between writing the wrong year on documents, I've been reflecting on this blog. Specifically, I've wondered whether the
Building Legal Language Explorer: Interactivity and drill-down, noSQL and SQL
Dan and I recently released a new legal informatics project with a few colleagues. The project, which we've named the
Most Contacted HBGary Emails and Domains
You may have heard about the recently leaked presentation on combating Wikileaks that was produced by employees of HBGary Federal, Palantir Tech, and Berico Tech. You may
LGA – DTW: Approach to NYC, 02/16
Just got back from a few days of business in New York. Here's a picture of the the view on approach to LGA on Wednesday
OCR’d Exhibit A – List of Closing Stores from Borders Chapter 11 Filing
Here's an OCR'd version of the list of Borders stores that are closing. Now you can copy-paste that table into Excel. Borders Chapter 11 Exhibit
Pre-processing text: R/tm vs. python/NLTK
Let's say that you want to take a set of documents and apply a computational linguistic technique. If your method is based on the bag-of-words
Dataset: 5 Days of #25bahman
What do 88,831 tweets about protest and revolution in Iran look like? Following in the success of Egypt's #jan25 tag, protesters have piled onto the
Plotting a Revolution: Time Series Comparison of #feb12 vs. #fev12
I wondered yesterday whether one of the Algeria/Yemen hashtags would dominate. In order to bring some numbers to the discussion, I grabbed all public tweets