2015.11.04 Web Scraping, Word2Vec

Announcements

• Ben: Software Carpentry: Call for Applications to December Instructor Training
• Steve: call for visualization speaker to Santa Barbara Data Science (Santa Barbara, CA) - Meetup

Steve: discussed ideas for future meetings

• Apache Drill - Schema-free SQL for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage
• Apache Spark™ - Lightning-Fast Cluster Computing
• Hacker News
• Description - Right Whale Recognition | Kaggle
• Description - The Allen AI Science Challenge | Kaggle
• Leaflet for R - Introduction
• htmlwidgets for R
• Welcome - OpenDataPhilly
• PHL Crime Mapper
• Data.gov
• Data Packaged Core Datasets
• 1033 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, CA For Sale | Trulia.com
• API 2.0: Overview | Yelp For Developers | Yelp
• Yelp Dataset Challenge | Yelp
• Yelp/dataset-examples
• Yelp's Academic Dataset | Yelp
• Reddit Archive
• Description - Walmart Recruiting: Trip Type Classification | Kaggle

Web Scrape Demo

• Ben: showed how to web scrape using R package from Hadley rvest in Rmarkdown (*.Rmd): code, rendered html

Word2Vec Demo and Discussion

• word2vec - Tool for computing continuous distributed representations of words. - Google Project Hosting