Pessimism, frustration and suffering paint a gloomy image of Africa, depicting the mood of the continent’s more than 1 billion population. TA telecom’s Data Scientist Mahmoud Abdrabo… Read more “Mapping Africa’s Mood: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis of the Continent”
Changing ownership of filesystem in Ubuntu recovery / root mode
I was messing around with permissions and ownership in Ubuntu without knowing much of the consequences, one thing that leaded to not being able to login with… Read more “Changing ownership of filesystem in Ubuntu recovery / root mode”
Importing data from Mac OS X clipboard into R studio
At first I thought importing data from the clipboard was only working in Windows using the well known or But couldn’t find a way that would work, so… Read more “Importing data from Mac OS X clipboard into R studio”
Stop words for word cloud of tweets
stopWords = /^(i|me|my|myself|we|us|our|ours|ourselves|you|your|yours|yourself|yourselves|he|him|his|himself|she|her|hers|herself|it|its|itself|they|them|their|theirs|themselves|what|which|who|whom|whose|this|that|these|those|am|is|are|was|were|be|been|being|have|has|had|having|do|does|did|doing|will|would|should|can|could|ought|i’m|you’re|he’s|she’s|it’s|we’re|they’re|i’ve|you’ve|we’ve|they’ve|i’d|you’d|he’d|she’d|we’d|they’d|i’ll|you’ll|he’ll|she’ll|we’ll|they’ll|isn’t|aren’t|wasn’t|weren’t|hasn’t|haven’t|hadn’t|doesn’t|don’t|didn’t|won’t|wouldn’t|shan’t|shouldn’t|can’t|cannot|couldn’t|mustn’t|let’s|that’s|who’s|what’s|here’s|there’s|when’s|where’s|why’s|how’s|a|an|the|and|but|if|or|because|as|until|while|of|at|by|for|with|about|against|between|into|through|during|before|after|above|below|to|from|up|upon|down|in|out|on|off|over|under|again|further|then|once|here|there|when|where|why|how|all|any|both|each|few|more|most|other|some|such|no|nor|not|only|own|same|so|than|too|very|say|says|said|shall|tweets|tweet|favourited|favourites|also|favorites|log|retweet[0-9]*|retweeted|details|hours|add|suggested|retweets|close|ago|embed|reply|hide|follow|trends|none|search|follows|replies|new|view|favourite[0-9]*|favorite[0-9]*|location|twitter|block|.|get|got|permalink|see|more|per|just|via|rt|find|[0-9]+h?m?([0-9]+)?(px)?|searches|photo|mar|minutes|top|go|photos|summary|tailored|status|verified|remove|cancel|now|delete)$/ part of which I got from http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/
Default Sources.list file in Ubuntu 11.04
after having some trouble with my update manager…i figured out that i had that problem since i last messed up my system when i was playing around… Read more “Default Sources.list file in Ubuntu 11.04”
Mahmoud Abdrabo 