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Another interesting idea from Alan. I read his post: Measurement or [indirect] Indicators of Reputation? A Twitter List \/ Docker \/ iPython Notebook Journey<\/a> and then Amy’s List Lurking, As Inspired by Alan Levine<\/a>.<\/p>\n The idea is that you can find out something about a person\/yourself by the twitter lists they are listed in.<\/p>\n Alan went down a nice rabbit hole involving Docker & iPython. This seemed as if it might be a mite tricky. I think I’ve messed up my mac’s python setup by trying to get iPython Notebooks working before. Alan’s approach is a lot more sensible, I hope to re-visit it later. In the meantime I though I would try out something a little simpler. This approach is simple sorting and manipulating a text files. Mostly with, in my case, TextMate’s sorting and a bit of bash in the terminal.<\/p>\n So:<\/p>\n So I now have a list of the the twitter lists I am a member of. I can use that in wordle.net<\/a> to get a word cloud. I made a few, removing the most popular words to see the others in more relief. I’ve tied them together in a gif at the top of this post.<\/p>\n Amy’s approach was to look for interesting list name, here are some of my favourites (I’ve added descriptions when they are there):<\/p>\n Of course these are not the most numerically but they are, to me, the most flattering;-)<\/p>\n On this 10th birthday of twitter you might enjoy a quick browse through the name of the lists you are a member of.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong> Of course after the step where I replaced the word by<\/strong> with a tab I could have pasted the text into excell or numbers and taken it from there rather than using the commandline.<\/p>\n I woke up this morning thinking about Alan’s post and using docker to run iPython notebooks and had a mini revelation. I’ve often ran into trouble and messed up, at least short term, my computer. Trying things that I don’t really understand. I remember one instance where I got into a right mess with iPython by blindly installing.<\/p>\n Running things in a virtual machine would have a great advantage here. Likewise I’ve had things break after a system update. I think, going forward, when doing things above my pay grade I’ll change my approach a bit. I am now wondering why I was trying to get the iPython thing running in the first place.<\/p>\n Overall I’d have learnt a bit more by following Alan’s recipe directly. There is also the json think he turned away from, could be an interesting rabbit hole…<\/p>\n 1. <\/a> Another interesting idea from Alan. I read his post: Measurement or [indirect] Indicators of Reputation? A Twitter List \/ Docker \/ iPython Notebook Journey and then Amy’s List Lurking, As Inspired by Alan Levine. The idea is that you can find out something about a person\/yourself by the twitter lists they are listed in. 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sort -k 2 -t $'\\t' list1.txt > list2.txt<\/code> 1<\/sup><\/a> As the second column is empty those lines float to the top and can easily be deleted.<\/li>\ncut -f 1 list2.txt | sort > list3.txt<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
\nSleeping on this post I’ve had a few more thought.<\/p>\n\nsort -k 2 -t $'\\t' list1.txt > list2.txt<\/code> THis sorts by the second column, k, key and uses a tab, $’\\t’ to separate the columns \u21a9<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"