Posts filed under “projects”
News Aggregator Updates – Getting Tweets Related to Article Content
App @ http://www.gurchet-rai.net/news Just a small update today – the news aggregator I built a few weeks ago can now retrieve tweets related to each news cluster (just click the small bird ). All I’m doing is taking the three most important words in each cluster (generated via tf-idf weighting) to build a search query [...]
Syntactic Clustering of News Headlines
App: http://www.gurchet-rai.net/news/ Source on github I’ve been using Google Reader to keep up with around 75 RSS feed subscriptions. Unfortunately there’s a lot of overlap between articles, especially articles from traditional news outlets. Google News groups similar articles so I wanted to see if I could replicate this behaviour for my RSS feeds (Yea, I know [...]
Retrieving Yahoo! Finance Information using YQL
YQL is a query language that lets you retrieve data from across the web using an SQL-like syntax. By making a simple REST query using a standardized syntax, you can receive XML- or JSON-formatted data from a bunch of web service APIs. You can play around with YQL here I wrote a YQL wrapper in [...]
A 16-Step Sequencer in Javascript
You can find the sequencer here. I was bored today so I built a 16-step sequencer in javascript which uses sounds from 5 different instruments that I ripped from Reason. I was planning on using the HTML5 tag for audio playback but codec support is inconsistent across browsers – Chrome, Firefox, and Opera support Ogg [...]
How to Find Every Word in Word Jumble-Style Games
Scramble is a word game where players try to find as many words as they can in a 4×4 or 5×5 grid of letters. I’ve been playing this game more than I’d like to admit to so in an attempt to hopefully ween me off the game, I’ve coded a solution in Java which finds [...]
Collaborative Filtering: A Movie Recommendation App
I built a reallllly simple movie recommendation engine using the movielens dataset (~10k movies, 10 million ratings from around 20k users). Just type in a movie you really liked thats in the genre you feel like watching now. My algorithm is super simple – I take the Euclidean distance between the user score and the [...]