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Software Development
It’s okay for academic software to suck
Bozhidar Bozhanov wrote an blog post titled “The Low Quality of Academic Code“, in which he observed that most academic…
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Scala
Using Twitter4j with Scala to perform user actions
Introduction My previous post showed how to use Twitter4j in Scala to access Twitter streams. This post shows how to…
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Scala
Using twitter4j with Scala to access streaming tweets
Introduction My previous post provided a walk-through for using the Twitter streaming API from the command line, but tweets can…
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Software Development
A walk-through for the Twitter streaming API
Introduction Analyzing tweets is all the rage, and if you are new to the game you want to know how…
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Software Development
Unix pipelines for basic spelling error detection
Introduction We can of course write programs to do most anything we want, but often the Unix command line has…
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Scala
Processing JSON in Scala with Jerkson
Introduction The previous tutorial covered basic XML processing in Scala, but as I noted, XML is not the primary choice…
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Scala
Scala Basic XML processing
Introduction Pretty much everybody knows what XML is: it is a structured, machine-readable text format for representing information that can…
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Scala
Student Questions about Scala, Part 2
Preface This is the second post answering questions from students in my course on Applied Text Analysis. You can see…
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Scala
Student Questions about Scala, Part 1
Preface I’m currently teaching a course on Applied Text Analysis and am using Scala as the programming language taught and…
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