[CODE4LIB] Investigating library technology selection processes

2016-05-10 Thread Thomas Guignard
e any comments or feedback on my research topic or the questionnaire (or the meaning of life)... Regards, Thomas Guignard

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sorry for my last message

2015-09-04 Thread Thomas Guignard
Ivan, if you are being held and forced to type emails against your will, send us a unicorn emoji. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:10 AM, "Iván V.G." wrote: > It was a mistake. >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Amazon Extension for OpenRefine?

2015-08-13 Thread Thomas Guignard
an be applied to your project by using OpenRefine's "Replaying Operations" function: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/History#replaying-operations Have fun, and let me know if you're having any issues. Thomas On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Thomas Guignard wrote: >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Amazon Extension for OpenRefine?

2015-08-13 Thread Thomas Guignard
Hi Lisa One thing that comes to mind would be for you to query a book price API from OpenRefine using the "Add column by fetching URLs" function: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Fetching-URLs-From-Web-Services Querying the Amazon database has become quite a complex affair nowadays.

[CODE4LIB] Tutorial for e-resources usage stats analysis using R and/or python

2015-07-24 Thread Thomas Guignard
Hello libcoders Is anyone aware of a nice tutorial to get started on how to analyse COUNTER reports using either R or Python? As far as Python is concerned, I know of the pycounter library [1], but I was wondering if there were some publicly available examples of it being used in action that coul

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protagonists

2015-04-14 Thread Thomas Guignard
The LibraryThing API could also be used to retrieve what they call "Common Knowledge" tags, including character names but also place names etc. Example: https://www.librarything.com/services/rest/1.1/?method=librarything.ck.getwork&id=2773690&apikey=d231aa37c9b4f5d304a60a3d0ad1dad4 (using the exam

[CODE4LIB] Programming & data analysis workshop at the University of Toronto iSchool - Feb 5-6

2015-01-22 Thread Thomas Guignard
Hi everyone The Association for Information Systems student chapter at the University of Toronto is organizing a two-day workshop on data analysis on February 5-6, 2015: http://swcarpentry.github.io/2015-02-05-toronto/ Using the tried and true Software Carpentry bootcamp format [1], the workshop

Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16

2014-05-21 Thread Thomas Guignard
+1 But I guess it's hard to keep everyone happy... On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Brian Kennison wrote: > On May 21, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Edward M. Corrado > wrote: > > I am a fan of the full ads as well. > > +1 >

Re: [CODE4LIB] online book price comparison websites?

2014-02-27 Thread Thomas Guignard
Hi everyone Thanks for raising this question and for the interesting responses. Any good sources for doing the same with e-books? Not merely mass-market e-books (some can be found via addall and the like, see also this thread for more hints http://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/891/are-there-a