My business analyst approached me and asked if I could recommend a book that would help her get up to speed on some of the concepts, trends and buzzwords related to todays internet technologies. Basically, "I want to understand some of the words you [programmers] bring up during meetings." (We work on ASP.NET web sites for the financia...
I'm doing some work processing some statistics for home approvals in a given month. I'd like to be able to show trends - that is, which areas have seen a large relative increase or decrease since the last month(s). My first naive approach was to just calculate the percentage change between two months, but that has problems when the data...
What's the rationale behind the formula used in the hive_trend_mapper.py program of this Hadoop tutorial on calculating Wikipedia trends? There are actually two components: a monthly trend and a daily trend. I'm going to focus on the daily trend, but similar questions apply to the monthly one. In the daily trend, pageviews is an array ...
Let's say I'm collecting tweets from twitter based on a variety of criteria and storing these tweets in a local mysql database. I want to be able to computer trending topics, like twitter, that can be anywhere from 1-3 words in length. Is it possible to write a script to do something like this PHP and mysql? I've found answering on ho...
The ribbon control seems to be the rage now that Windows 7 is here. It occurred to me from this link for a ribbon control here on Codeplex... What I want to know is, is there any real benefit in shifting the UI paradigm to use the Ribbon Control purely 'to move with the times or keep abreast of development trends'? I just cannot see...
Problem Constraints Size of the data set, but not the data itself, is known. Data set grows by one data point at a time. Trend line is graphed one data point at a time (using a spline/Bezier curve). Graphs The collage below shows data sets with reasonably accurate trend lines: The graphs are: Upper-left. By hour, with ~24 data ...
I'm working on an app that requires a list of interesting keywords, these can be common/popular people/places/things. Where can I aggregate this type of information? I've considered using twitter trends but they're mostly hashtags and obsecure/niche-related-things. Any suggestions(sites, APIs, etc..)? Thx! ...
I'm looking to find an api/program/interface to get the following information. a term(s) overall popularity - ala google trends how a website shows up rank wise in for said term(s) - ala googlesearchpositionfinder and how many websites have the term(s) - standard google, e.g. Searching for foobar and urban dictionary shows up at positi...
Hey guys, As a web developer it's always nice to be knowledgeable about upcoming web trends and tech, but currently I am very limited to what I hear about through friends and at work. Where are some places you go to find out about bleeding edge web stuff? Examples might be things like: Non-Relational Databasing Augmented Reality ...
I have a bubble chart where i need to draw a trendline on that showing the trend. I have Months on X axis and values (intergers or numerics) on y axis. I have gone through this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43224/how-do-i-calculate-a-trendline-for-a-graph , but i'm not able to understand what to use x-axis value and y- axis va...
Hi everyone, I am trying to display trends from twitter on a certain topic in my iphone app such that users can see what people really say about a topic on my app. Has anyone tried this before? Is this possible. I found twitter widgets that can do this but only for websites. Praveen ...