New tools or tricks I’ve learned and need to remember
For a report I am working on about Los Angeles’ Executive Directive #1, which created middle-class housing across Los Angeles before NIMBYs curtailed it, I want to see if changes to the ED 1, of which there have been two substantive ones, impact the number of submitted projects or their size. ED 1 version 1 […]
Until recently, Twitter was among the most studied social media platforms in the world. Its accessibility to researchers, coupled with its role in key moments of modern history—from the Arab Spring to the COVID-19 pandemic—made it an indispensable source of data. But in March 2023, the company’s new ownership sharply restricted access to its data, […]
During my saga to upgrade my computing, I lost access to my desktop server. IT Services confirmed that I had an old version of openssh, so I upgraded it. Unfortunately, my Ubuntu OS was from 2016 and its build of openssh cannot be upgraded to the newest one, so I have to upgrade. I have to upgrade […]
This note is for a very simple use case: you want to remove a bunch of files from your Linux system but “bunch” is more than the system will accept, so you are given an error that the “argument list is too long”. This Stack Overflow answer was very helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11289551/argument-list-too-long-error-for-rm-cp-mv-commands. For my specific case, […]
This post details a pretty simple Linux task but it is one I will need to use frequently as my server fills up, so I am documenting it so I do not have to continue googling. The specific task is to find files greater than a certain size and created more than a certain number […]
Having just returned from paternity leave, it has been at least 8 months since I used Python on my OS Monterey M1 laptop. To my surprise, I could not use it. Any time I would type python, ipython, or try to launch an environment using conda, the command line returned a “Killed: 9” message. Everything […]
TL;DR: If you’re here for the apa7.cls file, go to https://github.com/ZacharyST/apa7.cls. For a recently accepted article, I was asked to use the apa7 (American Psychological Association 7th edition) document class for my Latex document. The request seemed easy because the file was already using the apa6 class. Of course this is Latex, so instead of […]
I recently had to learn gsutil, a Python package used to interact with Google Cloud Platform. Overall, I guess it was easy enough to learn, though there was one pain point. When I was in the GCP bucket containing the directories I wanted to download, I tried to download the directories directly using the graphical […]
Google may still claim not to do evil. They should also try not to be obtuse as well. I wanted to get the longitude and latitude of a few hundred cities, which is straightforward using ggmaps and Google’s geocoding API. (I tried Geonames but never received the new account confirmation e-mail. It did not go […]
Now that Twitter has released their Academic Research product, I thought I would jot down my initial thoughts. These observations are based on beta testing I was allowed to do in 2020 with the Search endpoint and reading documentation of the other endpoints. I have used Twitter’s API for about 7 years now. Most of […]
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