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Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

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Re: Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

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post #10

I'm in Sydney, asking for weather in Sydney, I don't want to see temperature Fahrenheits. Other than that, a very nice idea and execution.

Good call. It really shouldn't be hard at all, i can query weather bug with a UnitType parameter depending on the location.

Thanks!

Re: Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

#16
This rocks. You, or someone, could do a similar Twitter mashup for movie reviews - I just did a few searches for movies and the some of the short reviews are pretty entertaining.

It'd be even cooler (and much, much harder) to do some NLP on the reviews and try to give them a star rating based on your model.

Re: Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

#17

This rocks. You, or someone, could do a similar Twitter mashup for movie reviews - I just did a few searches for movies and the some of the short reviews are pretty entertaining. It'd be even cooler (and much, much harder) to do some NLP on the reviews and try to give them a star rating based on your model.

http://flixpulse.com/

Re: Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

#18
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok. BTW, why are you using the twitter search API instead of Gnip?

I definitely plan on switching to gnip. As i said, tweetweather is just something I put together after work the past week, grabbing from the search api was the quick and easy solution to getting tweets into the system. Gnip rocks.

Can you explain how you'd use Gnip in this instance? From reading the API docs, it doesn't sound like you can do anything with Gnip + Twitter other than get tweets from / to a particular Twitter user. So you can't get keyword-filtered results from the public timeline, I don't think. Am I missing it?

Re: Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely plan on switching to gnip. As i said, tweetweather is just something I put together after work the past week, grabbing from the search api was the quick and easy solution to getting tweets into the system. Gnip rocks.

Can you explain how you'd use Gnip in this instance? From reading the API docs, it doesn't sound like you can do anything with Gnip + Twitter other than get tweets from / to a particular Twitter user. So you can't get keyword-filtered results from the public timeline, I don't think. Am I missing it?

You're 100% correct. But I'm hoping they'll add the ability to use filters on the whole firehose in the near future.
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