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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by anonfunction on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:31AM (#8704643)
Really great blog post with a great message and composition. As a testament to the theme I wrote an API over a weekend that returned ebola data and it has been very heavily used by people around the world. The astounding thing is that the World Health Organization, from whom I gathered the data, only offered it at the time in the form of PDF files. It's all open source if anyone's interested: https://github.com/montanaflynn/ebola-outbreak-api
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by paulhallett on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:38AM (#8704692)
This is awesome, and another great example that "If you provide data, people will consume it"!
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by pm90 on Friday December 05, 2014 @01:12PM (#8705884)
Doesn't it cost you to host your server and data somewhere? That's not mentioned in the blog post, but I would love to get a ballpark figure for how much $$'s are going out every month to provide this service
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by basicallydan on Friday December 05, 2014 @11:50AM (#8705417)
Hey Paul! It's Dan from London API!

So glad to hear you're doing this. I wanna help out with SWAPI, if I get time :)

FYI everybody who maybe didn't read it in the blog post: Paul's API is now used by the UK Organisation Code Club when teaching schoolkids how to use python. They're given a task to create a Pokédex using this API and a python wrapper. I was extremely surprised when I saw my kids using it! Good job, dude!

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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by neuralk on Friday December 05, 2014 @01:43PM (#8706059)
The definitive word on the Star Wars canon was given earlier this year: only the six films, Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, Star Wars: Rebels, and new content are considered canon.

Also, Wookiepedia is doing an excellent job differentiating Canon and Legends, so you can take your cues from there.

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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by valarauca1 on Friday December 05, 2014 @12:06PM (#8705499)
Oh wow there is an easily querable pokemon API. Now I feel like a dick for manually scrapping that data from fan sites :\
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by trebor on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:58AM (#8704793)
I noticed a typo you might want to correct: a cannon is quite different from a canon. One is a weapon, the other is not.
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by hobs on Friday December 05, 2014 @11:03AM (#8705143)
Another one I noticed: also have a "Here's a chat of the requests for each day". (chart).
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by paulhallett on Friday December 05, 2014 @11:04AM (#8705150)
Bloody markdown and no spell checker. I rely on them far too much, thank you
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by paulhallett on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:59AM (#8704798)
Ah thanks! It would be far more exciting if it was the weapon though...
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by kragniz on Friday December 05, 2014 @11:10AM (#8705192)
http://xkcd.com/1401/

More seriously, great post! I also enjoyed your talk at pycon.ie this year.

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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by paulhallett on Friday December 05, 2014 @11:28AM (#8705285)
Oh wow you were there? Thanks!
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by Disruptive_Dave on Friday December 05, 2014 @10:57AM (#8705108)
Or is it.... :)
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by jnoland on Friday December 05, 2014 @01:39PM (#8706031)
Awesome blog post! I am definitely inspired to create an open API for something. Still deciding on what. Thanks.
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will by drcomputer on Friday December 05, 2014 @11:06AM (#8705165)
This makes me happy. :)

http://i.imgur.com/d6OZWX7.jpg

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