Re: Analyze This!

2007-12-17 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: > Python 2.3.4 is also present. It appears, however, that > BeautifulSoup is not. Nor can I find it in the rpmforge repository. > Nor on CentOS 5. You might have to do whatever Python's equivalent of > a local build/install is for that. Yet another reason to upgrade the OS!

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-09 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:44:55 -0500 > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please keep the distro wars off this list. They're off-topic. (We > actually have a topic charter for *this* list, so we can say that.) You're right. I did not notice that this was on the -org list. I'm gonna h

Re: Analyze This! [Installing BS on CentOS]

2007-11-09 Thread Shawn K. O'Shea
> Interesting. I see that, too, in "extras". The package does not > appear to exist in CentOS (RHEL), nor the rpmforge repository for > same. Fortunately, this doesn't matter: BeautifulSoup is apparently a > trivial install, and David's using Ruby anyway. :-) For the record, there are two ea

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 1:17 PM, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My FC6 distro let me install it with yum install python-BeautifulSoup, > funky capitalization and all... Interesting. I see that, too, in "extras". The package does not appear to exist in CentOS (RHEL), nor the rpmforge repository

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-09 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: > > Python 2.3.4 is also present. It appears, however, that > BeautifulSoup is not. Nor can I find it in the rpmforge repository. My FC6 distro let me install it with yum install python-BeautifulSoup, funky capitalization and all... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 8, 2007 3:58 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I used to do that Debian thing too. :) Please keep the distro wars off this list. They're off-topic. (We actually have a topic charter for *this* list, so we can say that.) http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org -- Ben _

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-08 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:23:09 -0500 > From: Christopher Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > BeautifulSoup is just one .py file -- it can be grabbed fro the website > and dropped into the directory where you're working with it, and then > you can do 'import BeautifulSoup'. (That's why I've never bothe

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-08 Thread David J Berube
Gonna do it in ruby anyway; I'd rather use hpricot. However, I'm pretty sure there's already a mechanism to generate the CSV; either way, shouldn't be a big deal. Take it easy, David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-485-9622 http://www.berubeconsulting.com/ Christopher Schmidt

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:16:55PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Nov 8, 2007 7:19 AM, David J Berube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure. I'm assuming there's no Ruby, so I'll have to write it in Perl or > > Python or something. > > Thanks to the beauty of YUM, Ruby 1.8.1 is now installed on libe

Re: Analyze This!

2007-11-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 8, 2007 7:19 AM, David J Berube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure. I'm assuming there's no Ruby, so I'll have to write it in Perl or > Python or something. Thanks to the beauty of YUM, Ruby 1.8.1 is now installed on liberty. :) Python 2.3.4 is also present. It appears, however, that

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-08 Thread David J Berube
Hi Ben, Sure. I'm assuming there's no Ruby, so I'll have to write it in Perl or Python or something. Not sure what output format is good; probably straight HTML, unless I can find an easy way to post it to the TWiki. Take it easy, David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-485-962

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/7/07, David J Berube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how about a program that pulls from the CSV file and does the analysis > on the fly? In other words, automate the process of scraping the HTML to CSV, and then automate the analysis of the CSV, and automatically post the results of that som

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-07 Thread David J Berube
how about a program that pulls from the CSV file and does the analysis on the fly? Take it easy, David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-485-9622 http://www.berubeconsulting.com/ Ben Scott wrote: > On 11/7/07, Jim Kuzdrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Would it be possible, i

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/7/07, Jim Kuzdrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible, in the new Wiki, to add a column in the > "Resent Events" table for the attendance? ... There's one in the present table. Titled "How many". At least one of us is confused. :) > Even better, could that table get

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-07 Thread David J Berube
SQL. I edited the CSV with VIM a bit, LOAD DATA INFILE'd it into MySQL, and then dropped a few SQL statements, and copy/pasted them into VIM again. David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-485-9622 http://www.berubeconsulting.com/ Jim Kuzdrall wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-07 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 11:32, Ted Roche wrote: > The TWiki is read-write. If there are mistakes or clarifications you > can make, please hit the "Edit" link and try your best to fix it. I would have given the Edit feature a try, but my "data" was too inexact to justify an edit. It wa

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/7/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When we do some data cleanup, we can run the scripts again, upload > better CSV data files and get better analyses from them. If anyone is interested, we also have the ability to install software, run server-side databases and scripts, etc. So

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-07 Thread Ted Roche
Jim Kuzdrall wrote: > Note also, that some presentations must have been missed in the > reports. (Actually, it is mostly thanks to Ted that there are so many > attendance reports.) I know, for example that Andy Bair gave more than > one presentation, and the one I attended had 12 people o

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-05 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:33:18 -0500 > From: David J Berube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't think these statistics are accurate. I know I had more than 0 > > people at the presentation which I gave in 2007. Are these stats only > > for 2008? > As far as 2008, that's in the future, which has

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-05 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Monday 05 November 2007 09:46, Ted Roche wrote: > David J. Berube did a little analysis and here's what he got (with > his permission, forwarding to the group) Nice job, David Berube! An additional dimension to map is the attendance against some measures of the topic. This might be d

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-05 Thread David J Berube
*shrug*. That's based on the data on the TWiki; I doubt all of the meetings are represented, and doubtless some of the data is inaccurate. As far as 2008, that's in the future, which has historically been more difficult to report on. Take it easy, David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-05 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:46:54 -0500 > From: Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > +-+--+--++ > | speaker | meetings | total_attendance | average_attendance | > +-+--+--++

[Fwd: Re: Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach]

2007-11-05 Thread Ted Roche
David J. Berube did a little analysis and here's what he got (with his permission, forwarding to the group) +---+--+--++ | location | meetings | total_attendance | average_attendance | +---+--+--+-

Analyze This!, was: Re: Attendance: A business-like approach

2007-11-01 Thread Ted Roche
The Python Special Interest Group took up the gauntlet thrown down by Jim Kuzdrall and came up with code that would parse the TWiki pages of attendance figures and produce a comma-separated-value text file. On the page PastEvents [1], you'll see links for 'CSV format' next to the calendar years. O