Thx for this thread. One of my colleagues here in Portland taught himself geek skills from scratch and soon had his own buzzbot in the cloud, all written in Python and backending into MySQL. Beautifulsoup.
Screen scraping, like skateboarding, is not a crime. I've suggested on this list that we co-develop such a buzzbot as one of the archetypal "learning projects". This involves registering as a dev with a search engine company (one or more) and accessing its API. There's some obvious division of labor in these kinds of apps. You need your web crawlers tagging sites based on preliminary tests, followed by data harvesters, various filters and cleaners. Then you'll want your scoring / grading algorithms (another kind of filtering), that applies more relevant tests, saves the rankings. Having all these facilities in open source Python, in however many versions, will continue to attract curious learners and clients for their services. Patrick is getting pinged by Hollywood deal pitchers looking for metrics in a mostly intuitive business. Kirby On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com>wrote: > Getting back on topic, there's a good Python book about this sort of "data > mining" approach to AI with lots of great projects that are perfect for > advanced students: > > > http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Building-Applications/dp/0596529325/ > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > >
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