As a community, we are pretty terrible at self-promotion. In fact, many of those coding and scripting as an academic staff member struggle to identify themselves as developers in the first place. We are developers, whether we are writing code required for a funded project, adjusting webpage templates or even doing analysis of library usage […]
Code: http://github.com/benosteen/SixDegreesOfHarryPotter Requires: Talis Aspire ‘ISBN’ API (http://prototype.talisaspire.com/isbn/) (see http://twitter.com/robotrobot/status/19282383847) A Redis instance running on localhost with the relevant redis-py python library installed. (Scripts only use basic set and value operations.) To Run: python prep_bottom_up.py This will: - parse and run through the OpenLibrary json reponse for ‘books by J K Rowling’, and push the […]
Idea: All researchers cannot resist the charms of J K Rowling’s Harry Potter; any academic book loan is no more than 6 degrees separated from a Harry Potter book loan. On the surface, this may seem like a frivolous aim, but the fundamental techniques and APIs used will show patterns and possibilities that have a […]
January 27, 2011
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