It's a shame your talk wasn't accepted - that looks fascinating and I would have loved to see it. Please let us know when you do your technical write-up!
On 17 September 2014 07:14, Zack Maril <zma...@tamu.edu> wrote: > 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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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