I am grateful for many things; one of those things is living in LA. Another thing is that I am reasonably close to my job, by LA standards: 9 miles as the crow flows. I learned quickly what any Angelino will tell you: wow, traffic. While I have been fortunate not to have a Michael […]
Working with machine-coded events data is cool. What’s not cool is that the raw data from two of the main datasets, GDELT 2.0 and Phoenix, do not include headers in their files. It is simple to create a list with the column names, but the closest I could find that already existed for GDELT 2.0 […]
When Twitter provides a tweet, the ‘created_at’ field provides a timestamp for when the tweet was authored. This timestamp is useful, but it cannot be used right away because it is in Greenwich Mean Time. Unless the tweet happens to have come from that timezone, its time needs to be adjusted to account for this discrepancy. […]
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