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• Does anyone have or know any good Twitter Trends scraping tools? Preferrably Perl or Python...

  Asked by MikeH : 03 December 2009 - 10:00 AM

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  • twitter
  • perl
  • scraping
  • data
  • analysis

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• Is there an easy way to get the results of a SQL query into a new table?

  Asked by MikeH : 19 November 2009 - 09:04 AM

  

  Answered by KBenson : Nov 19 2009 01:04 PM
  In MySQL you can use the result of a select for the values of an insert. mysql> create table t1 ( one int, two int, three char(10)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.09 sec) mysql> create table t... full answer >

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  • sql
  • data
  • tables
  • help

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• Use iPhone Core Data Templates

  

  By tobyjoe : 06 November 2009 - 07:03 PM

  The iPhone 3.0 update to the iPhone OS and iPhone SDK included a great new feature, ported from Mac OS X, called Core Data. Core Data is used to store objects in a local database that can be...

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  • iPhone
  • data
  • templates
  • objective-c
  • sqlite

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• How to Choose the Honest Average

  

  By BruceFrey : 30 October 2009 - 04:50 PM

  Data-driven decisions, such as whether you can afford to buy a house in a new town or who the core market is for your business, often rely on the "average" as the best description for a larg...

  Tags:

  • median
  • mode
  • trends
  • statistics
  • mean
  • average
  • data

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• Geocoding and Data Checking 436,106 Addresses

  

  By kiwitobes : 30 October 2009 - 04:33 PM

  We had a project where, when we first looked at the data, we thought it would be really important to geocode 436,106 unique addresses. That is, we wanted to associate a latitude and longitude wit...

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  • data
  • validation
  • geocoding

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• What Data Doesn’t Do

  

  By kiwitobes : 30 October 2009 - 03:50 PM

  This is a discussion of what data doesn't do: that is, of the various ways in which measurement and interpretation themselves can transform data. This is not a treatise on "lies, damn lies, and stati...

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  • variables
  • distribution
  • data

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• The Benefits of Applying UX Best Practices to Data Collection

  

  By kiwitobes : 30 October 2009 - 02:54 PM

  When it comes to data collection, user experience design is more important than ever. Data—that most valuable digital resource—comes from people and their actions, so designers and develop...

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  • data
  • UX
  • user
  • design
  • experience

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• Importing Census Data into R

  

  By jermdemo : 30 October 2009 - 02:17 PM

  The US Census Bureau collects an extensive range of socioeconomic data that are interesting for our purposes. We can download some data involved in total population and total housing units that are in...

  Tags:

  • mapping
  • census
  • gis
  • data
  • R
  • statistics

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• Using Microsoft Excel for Statistics

  

  By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 01:03 PM

  Microsoft Excel is, properly speaking, not a statistical package at all, although it is sometimes used as one. Excel is a spreadsheet application produced by Microsoft Corporation that is frequently u...

  Tags:

  • data
  • statistics
  • social science
  • analytics
  • excel

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• Using R for Statistics

  

  By SarahBoslaugh : 30 October 2009 - 12:23 PM

  R is a programming language that functions as a statistical package because of the many pre-written statistical routines (computer code written to perform a particular task) that are available. It dif...

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  • social science
  • analytics
  • statistics
  • data
  • R

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