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The official online compendium for Mining the Social Web (O'Reilly, 2011)
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Updated LinkedIn scripts to newer APIs #66

Closed kunickiaj closed 11 years ago

kunickiaj commented 11 years ago

Updated LinkedIn scripts to newer APIs and switched default geocoding to Google since Yahoo is no longer free.

ptwobrussell commented 11 years ago

Adam - You have no idea how grateful I am for this pull request. In working on the 2nd Edition (github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Edition if you didn't know it was there), I've been a bit derelict in maintaining the 1st Edition's code repository, and this looks like a terrific update to fix a lot of problems. I'm wrapping up for the evening, but I will plan to get this merged in tomorrow morning.

BTW - Did you find GoogleV3 to be superior to Bing for the geocoding? I ended up settling on Bing for the 2nd Ed. code based on my own experiences but would be curious to hear if you feel otherwise if you tried Bing and didn't like it as much.

kunickiaj commented 11 years ago

No problem. Figure it's like learning Python a bit at the same time! Finally got around to cracking open the book and plan on implementing some of the same concepts in KijiExpress (www.kiji.org) using Scala+Scalding to make this kind of analysis easier on "big" data.

I haven't tried the Bing API so I can't say that I have a preference. Didn't realize there's a 2nd edition in the works--I'll have to check it out.

Thanks for writing this book. Enjoying it so far!

Adam

On Thursday, July 25, 2013, Matthew A. Russell wrote:

Adam - You have no idea how grateful I am for this pull request. In working on the 2nd Edition ( github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web-2nd-Edition if you didn't know it was there), I've been a bit derelict in maintaining the 1st Edition's code repository, and this looks like a terrific update to fix a lot of problems. I'm wrapping up for the evening, but I will plan to get this merged in tomorrow morning.

BTW - Did you find GoogleV3 to be superior to Bing for the geocoding? I ended up settling on Bing for the 2nd Ed. code based on my own experiences but would be curious to hear if you feel otherwise if you tried Bing and didn't like it as much.

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ptwobrussell commented 11 years ago

Awesome! Glad you are enjoying it, and I think you'll really appreciate the 2nd Edition. It's more a rewrite of the 1st Edition than a casual update with some expansion, and I think it's superior in just about every way.