brain of mat kelcey
tweets about cheese
November 15, 2009 at 08:45 PM | categories: ngrams, cheese, twitter | View Comments
people tweet about all sorts of stuff.sometimes it's really important ground breaking world changing stuff...but most of the time it's ridiculous waste of time stuff like 'i ate some cheese'in fact how much do people actually tweet about cheese?and when they do, what are the most important cheese related topics?lets gather some data...bash> curl -s -u user:pasword http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?track=cheeselet's poke around, but first some l33t hax0r bash aliases for the sake of brevityalias t='tail'alias h='head'alias s='sort'alias u='uniq'alias g='grep'let's start with a sample, the first 10 tweets...bash> ./parse_cheese_out.rb < cheese.out | hPasta with pesto and cheese. Some watermelon but alas did not...
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