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Showing posts with label fetch url. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fetch url. Show all posts

15.11.12

Mining and OpenRefine(ing) JISCMail: (from around the web)

A look at OER-DISCUSS [Listserv] JISC CETIS MASHe: a complete tutorial to scrap data from a mailing list and analyse participant and contribution.

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26.10.12

Refine your EventBrite guestlist (from around the web)

This recipe shows you how to use Google Refine to fetch details from your EventBrite account, and to explore your guest lists in detail. This tutorial show how to - use the Create Project via Web Addresses (URLs)' and - retrieve guest information using the EventBrite API.

The full article: http://www.opendatacookbook.net/wiki/recipe/a_refined_guestlist

3.10.12

Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine And Exporting Conversations into Gephi (from around the web)

Grabbing Twitter Search Results into Google Refine And Exporting Conversations into Gephi 

This neat tutorial explained how to import data directly from the twitter API at the project creation stage using JSON language. The second part of the tutorial explains how to prepare the data to import the in Gephi for data visualization purpose.

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3.6.12

Google Refine + Perl (from around the web)




Make Google Refine and Perl transforms one-liners work together using the fetch by url (RESTful API)

13.2.12

How to: convert easting/northing into lat/long for an interactive map

How to: convert easting/northing into lat/long for an interactive map 
Google Fusion Tables is great for creating interactive maps from a spreadsheet – but it isn't too keen on easting and northing. That can be a problem as many government and local authority datasets use easting and northing to describe the geographical position of things – for example, speed ...