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Data scraping with YQL and jQuery For a project that I’m currently working on I need a list of all the US National Parks in XML format. Google didn’t come up with anything so I decided that I would need to somehow grab the data from this list on Wikipedia. The problem is that the list is in messy HTML but I want some nice clean XML ready for parsing with E4X in Flash. Search for Craft Beers on Tap - San Diego - Tap Hunter Gist 30+ Twitter Tools for Research « Ana ADI 30+ Twitter Tools for Research Posted by Ana ADI on November 6, 2010 · 28 Comments NOTE: If you find this blog post useful please bookmark it. I am planning to include here the latest info on Twitter tools. For some time now, I am doing my best to participate in a Twitter chat dedicated to social media measurement, #smmeasure, as a means of exploring what practitioners do and of discovering new tools. Last Thursday (November 4) the discussion who brought together marketing/communications practitioners, bloggers and representatives of social media measurement companies have focused on influence and influencers – identifying them, measuring their influence/reach, engaging them.

The future of social media at the National Archives In November 2011, conversations about connection technologies have shifted from whether governments should use social media to how governments should use social media. Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube are part of the default template for the websites of newly elected officials. As the year comes to an end, the risks and rewards of Web 2.0 are better known for both citizens and government alike. People from every walk of life naturally have questions about what the explosion of social media will mean for the future of society, including difficult questions about what this new landscape will mean for privacy, security, freedom of expression and online identity. Predictions about what the future of social media will mean for an increasingly networked society range from dystopian autocracies with pervasive surveillance to stronger, data-driven digital democracies.

How do you use your Klout for Good? How do you use your Klout for Good? December 14th, 2010 by Ashley Jacober To spread the warmth this holiday season, Klout is teaming up with Moms and Jobs (MoJo), who provides employment and child care for single moms living in poverty. Their get a blanket, give a blanket offer donates one blanket to charity whenever someone buys a blanket from MoJo. Shout: About the Project Shout invites educators and students to take an active role in global environmental issues. Connect online to interact with experts in the field, share ideas, and collaborate with people around the world who, like you, are committed to solving environmental challenges. Shout gives participants a framework for success, with resources and tools for exercising social responsibility while building the 21st-century skills of collaboration, innovation, and critical thinking. When students are connected through technology and empowered to build activities in their own way the learning experience extends far beyond the four walls of a classroom. Check out the participants on the map and take your own stand in making the world a better place.

8% Of Americans Use Twitter And More Stats You Need To See Earlier this year, Twitter boasted that the site had grown to around 190 million users who tweet around 65 million times each day. These statistics are impressive, but the Pew Research Center has come out with its own numbers that provide some context for Twitter's growth and how far the microblogging service has yet to go before it is mainstream. According to Pew, 8% of Americans on the Internet use Twitter. That number is larger among certain groups, including adults between 18 and 29 years old, African-Americans and Latinos, as well as people who live in cities. On an average day, 2% of online adults use Twitter.

itools itools is a Python library which provides a wide range of capabilities: Workflow The simple workflow engine (itools.workflow) that uses automatons to represent a workflow system, is the oldest and probably the most widely used itools module. Strings Buy this book at Amazon.com 8.1 A string is a sequence A string is a sequence of characters. You can access the characters one at a time with the bracket operator: >>> fruit = 'banana' >>> letter = fruit[1]

Handling CSV Files in Python As a buddy of mine always says "the nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from". Take CSV files for example. CSV, of course, stands for "Comma Separated Values", more often than not though, it seems that CSV files use tabs to separate values rather than commas. And let's not even mention field quoting.

14 Great YQL Tutorials For Beginners « Ijaar Yahoo! recently introduced its Yahoo Query Language to work with data on all Yahoo! sites. Here are some excellent tutorials to get you started on learning the basics of YQL: 1.

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