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Neil McGuigan
Personal blog · vancouverdata.blogspot.comdataprogramming
Neil McGuigan's personal blog at vancouverdata.blogspot.com covers data and programming. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for practical data-analysis how-tos: one on pulling full HTML from AJAX pages with webdriver for web scraping, and a five-part video series on text mining with RapidMiner.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Some RapidMiner, some JMP, some Google Docs
What Hacker News says?
This one uses webdriver to get the full html from ajax pages: http://vancouverdata.blogspot.com/2012/02/less-painful-ajax-...
Comment linking /2012/02/less-painful-ajax-javascript-web.html
on “Web scraping: Reliably and efficiently pull data from pages that don't expect it”Submitted Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Change Everything as a story · 74 points
HN discussionA five-part video series on text mining with RapidMiner: http://vancouverdata.blogspot.com/2010/11/text-analytics-wit...
Comment linking /2010/11/text-analytics-with-rapidminer-loading.html
on “AI Computer Vision: Orange, R, RapidMiner, Statistica and WEKA”Submitted Web Scraping with Google Spreadsheets and XPath as a story · 56 points
HN discussion