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alexanderbcook / erowid-project

A project that utilizes Erowid's API to pull experience vault stories, stores the stories in a PSQL database, calculates the sentiment of the stories, and then perform various analytics on the listed substances.
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Closed vincenzoromeo closed 3 years ago

vincenzoromeo commented 4 years ago

Hi there,

This is a really interesting project. I'm wondering what spawned this idea, and what your discoveries have been so far.

Also, how would I bootstrap the project? I'm proficient in Python and could get hacking on this in no time (time permitting ofc!).

Cheers, Vincent

alexanderbcook commented 4 years ago

Hi Vincent!

I came across the Erowid experience vault a number of years ago and have always found the writing to be interesting and generally high quality. I've been interested in natural language parsing for some time and thought the experience vault would be a good dataset to play with.

To bootstrap this project, you would need a PSQL database and an API key stored in a config.py at the root of the project. You can reach out to the Erowid team to receive an API key.

You can find writing that I've done about this project here and here.