Archive for August, 2010

Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter

August 27, 2010
Self-Improving Bayesian Sentiment Analysis for Twitter

That’s quite the mouthful. Let me start with a huge caveat: I’m not an expert on this, and much of it may be incorrect. I studied Bayesian statistics about fifteen years ago in university, but have no recollection of it (that sounds a bit like Bill Clinton: “I experimented with statistics but didn’t inhale...
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Migrating from Twitter Basic Authentication to OAuth Credentials

August 13, 2010

At the end of August 2010, all Twitter apps that use Basic Authentication to post/query the API will no longer work. Apps need to migrate to OAuth authentication, but this can be a little tricky. I’ve created something for my particular use-case that you might find useful too. I have a number of automated...
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Guess The Website By The Palette

August 7, 2010
Guess The Website By The Palette

As part of another project I’m working on, I’ve built something that extracts palettes from websites – not just hex codes from the CSS, but the proportion of ‘on screen’ colours, including images. I’ve built a palette – with proportions – for a number of popular websites. Can you guess which is which? Here...
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