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Looking forward to tracking this project. I totally get it.
Very cool. Also just signed up for your product beta.
Posted by
nloui on Monday March 16, 2020 @08:14PM
from the show-hn dept.
We built a really basic JSON API to access the John Hopkins coronavirus data:https://cv.peakm.com/stats.json
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https://cv.peakm.com/stats.json?date=2020-03-01It's totally free and open for anyone that wants to build visualizations or use it for research!We also use it to power our microsite here: https://cv.peakm.com/
I may open source it. It's pretty easy to get started if you leverage pre-existing libraries for Markov chains and Twitter ingestion.
Jane?! That is a small world and a great memory! I used to be a huge ColdFusion fan.
Sure, definitely. Or just retrain Parrot on VC Medium articles and have it write itself :-)
Sure, I should be able to throw it onto a repo later.
They generate on a cron job every 15 minutes and I also pass the site through a Cloudflare cache because I'm cheap and the actual code runs on a $5 DigitalOcean box :-)
Hmmm I hadn't thought of that. That's a great point.
Ugh my relationship with Spectrum
Perfect - starting the AngelList syndicate right now. Haha
It's a markov chain trained on around 65,000 tweets from around 50 VC's.
Haha I'm sure it's somewhere in the middle. Never said it was the smartest algorithm. If you hover over the VC's name, it'll show the actual tweet that was sampled.
Parrot.vc is a bot trained on tens of thousands of VC tweets that uses predictive text to generate amazing, new startup advice. Share your favorites!
Gavin Belson - hit me up, this is the perfect acquisition for Hooli.
PS - you can follow Parrot.vc on Twitter as well (https://twitter.com/parrot_vc)
Posted by
nloui on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:30PM
from the show-hn dept.
Hi HN,
Explore News is a side project I built that helps you visualizes how people and organizations are connected through a graph.
As part of the work we do at CivicFeed, we've built a pipeline of news/social/government datasets. From there, we run our own entity extraction and entity disambiguation algorithms.
Over the weekend, I was curious about how we could use this data to show how news stories connect people and organizations.
So to play with it, type in a query (or click one of the suggestions). It'll return the top entities most associated with that query. Then click another gray dot. When you do, it'll return the top entities associated with that query then connect any dots.
Keep exploring from there.
Posted by
nloui on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:15PM
from the show-hn dept.
Yup, totally. Was just curious if someone had made this process just a little bit easier.
Posted by
nloui on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:39PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Hi HN, does anyone know of a service that allows me to push notifications to a central place then manages the users' roll-up preferences for me?It seems like most services are focused on event-based or marketing notifications but I haven't seen something that will help with a daily/weekly digest format?
This is great. Setting up proper staging environments has been on our procrastination list for a long time and as a small team, we haven't invested engineering hours for a real setup yet. If this simplifies the process so much that we barely need to think about it, I totally get the value.
Thanks for the comment! Because of the vast amount of data, we saw an opportunity to use natural language processing to better parse and understand the millions of documents that existed. This allows for faster discovery of information, more relevant data being served, and a better understanding of the text.
Hey guys! We were super frustrated not being able to understand the laws, organizations, and people that affected us. With over 8,500 bills/resolutions in front of Congress and only 7% that pass on average - there was a lot to unpack (not even including the states!). So, we used our background in AI/NLP to build a product that brings government affairs into the modern world.
Posted by
nloui on Monday February 05, 2018 @03:04PM
from the show-hn dept.
cool! have you (or have you considered) open sourcing this?