I had submitted a talk to clojure conj but it wasn't accepted. Stiff competition this year. This project is ongoing though so I imagine sometime in the next year I'll try again and give a talk at a conference about all the weird stuff ECHELON can do. Like, it only took the better part of an afternoon to make a prototype for an intelligent search engine for corporations within the database. We just turned the output of the parser into an index on corporations and firms. So a search for "Coca Cola" should turn up records like "Coca Cola Inc. formerly known as COCA-COLA COMPANY", "The Washington Group on behalf of Coca Cola Inc.", and "COCA COLA INCORPORATED". We're still exploring what's possible and what would actually be useful for folks. -Zack
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Ashton Kemerling <ashtonkemerl...@gmail.com > wrote: > That's really neat. Planning on giving a talk? > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:08 PM, kovas boguta <kovas.bog...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Thats very cool!! >> >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Zack Maril <thewitzb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > This might be of interest to the Clojure/Datomic community: >> > >> > >> http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/09/16/wrangling-messy-political-data-into-usable-information/ >> > https://github.com/sunlightlabs/echelon >> > >> > I'm part of the Influence Explorer team at the Sunlight Foundation. >> We're >> > building a system with Datomic and Instaparse to disentangle and >> analyze the >> > web of relationships between lobbyists, special interest groups, and >> > legislators. It's been surprisingly successful so far, as in it works >> as >> > well as we hoped it would when we first started building it. Datomic >> has >> > been a pleasure to use and Instaparse has been excellent so far. The >> above >> > link is a results oriented blog post about what we did and why we did >> it. We >> > haven't written up the technical details yet as they are still evolving >> > (we're attempting to move from the current static batch processing >> system to >> > hopefully a streaming approach in the near future). But, if you have >> any >> > questions about the project I'd be happy to answer them. >> > -Zack >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Clojure" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your >> > first post. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Clojure" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/lxpsgkwITCw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
