[LUAU] Web APIs

R. Scott Belford scott at belford.net
Mon Sep 20 09:23:13 PDT 2010


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Vince Hoang <vince at litrium.com> wrote:
> Is anyone dabbling with web APIs? I started exploring
> http://dev.twitter.com/ with ruby tonight.

I am. The data made available via their API has the most potential of
Twitter. Before he left, Alex Payne put a lot into its utilitarian
functionality. It's this statistical stew that is their wealth. What
kind of fun are you having with the data?

I've seen some fun things with R

http://www.r-chart.com/2010/06/analyze-twitter-data-using-r.html

made possible by this package

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/twitteR/index.html

And I see this is in Debian

http://packages.debian.org/sid/python-twyt

>
> -Vince

--scott



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