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MrMattWright

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About MrMattWright

Startup founder, Engineer, CTO. Loving python and NLP at the moment! Skier, climber, surfer and maker of a fine lasagne.

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    I have some experience here (built : https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/products/trademark-rocket... ) which as an ML trademark predictor that lawyers use. There's nothing explicit…

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    Comment #37355148

    The sites serving me up a 500 internal server error - which you know - I guess fits the title :)

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    Comment #15823607

    Yep, that was pretty much it. Price wars over BPipe vs Retuers. "You mean I have to pay twice? Once for my desktop and once for this BPipe thing, and that costs whhhhhaaat? How muc…

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    Comment #15823444

    Just for fun I have a couple of nice Excel based stories from my time in Investment Banking. Story 1: I Inherited a system once that had 1000s (yes thousands) of excel spreadsheets…

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    Oh thanks for reminding me, I did look at that a while ago, it's absolutely great. The transforming steps are amazing. Time to have another look at it. Exploratory.io is similar (n…

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    Comment #14450802

    This is absolutely terrific! I often work with csv or tsv and large data, and I just want to quickly look at it without loading excel or exporting to google sheets. https://atom.io…

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    I wondered for a long time about the anniversary thing, then actually went and did some analysis on it. Looking at the data, it shows that people mostly tend to do leave jobs on ye…

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    Comment #8850061

    http://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Chef-Learning-Anything/dp/0... is quite fun and as much a book about learning to learn as about cooking. It's sort of a hackers guide to cooking. O…

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    A lot of it is encapsulated in my talk at a neo4j meetup: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5179-private-social-net... Which was a while ago (April), I'll be doing a new one soo…

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    Comment #8717380

    Inspired to do: Connected http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Surprising-Networks-Friends-... I was utterly amazed by the concept of Social Network Analysis, how emotion travels throug…

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    Comment #8699843

    What do you think of http://www.fatmap.com ? Similar thing. I have seen a demo of this on mobile and it's pretty impressive. Also http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/01/fatmap-raises-see…

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    Comment #8699206

    Yep you're right. If you could see my face now, it would be red :)

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    Comment #8699122

    Ok, we're so doing that! I have the perfect picture of a monkey or maybe a nice cat gif :)

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    Comment #8515163

    Cool, we are in Southwark, doing a bunch of graph visualisation stuff ( http://blog.stitched.io/ ), so come by for a beer at some point, would be good to chat.

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    Comment #8515146

    Sentiment.js (which is what we used in devwax and I am guessing the same here) is just AFINN based Sentiment. https://www.npmjs.org/package/sentiment which you can customize. So in…

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    Cool! Hey, that's very funny.... We did the same with Tweets and Surfing. http://devwax.herokuapp.com/ from the meetup: http://www.meetup.com/DevWax/ . It was all done in a weekend…