2012 – Page 10 – By @mhawksey

Automatic translation of TAGS Twitter archives using Google Apps Script ‘Language’ services

March 24, 2012

A flare went up from Hamburg this morning from Tony Hirst who is at the Daten, Recherchen, Geschichten (2012) conference (#drg12) in Hamburg: Anyone know of twitter streaming search clients that run all tweets through language translation? — Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) March 24, 2012 Translating tweets is something I’ve dabbled with before as part of […]

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Turning Google+ Search results into a RSS feed (for Google Reader)

March 19, 2012

In Using Google Reader to create a searchable archive of Twitter mentions Alan Cann commented: Subscribing to RSS feeds in Google Reader is my bog standard way of archiving Twitter feeds. Now to figure out how to get an RSS feed from a Google+ hashtag… Lets look at how it might be possible. So there’s […]

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Fast-tracking feedback: Google Apps Script user interface training material [Release 2]

March 18, 2012

Note: This is a personal post made outwith my current employment at JISC CETIS Back in May 2011 Tony Hirst looked at the Visual UI Editor For Google Apps Script and commented that he thought before long I would have posted something about it. Well almost a year later here’s what I’ve got for you. […]

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Using Google Reader to create a searchable archive of Twitter mentions

March 16, 2012

My solution for extracting site activity data from Delicious isn’t going so well (their API is letting me down). Instead I thought I’d share how I use Google Reader to create a searchable archive of Twitter mentions. It’s not particularly a new trick and you’ll find a number of similar how-to’s so this post is […]

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Tracking activity: Diigo site bookmark activity data in a Google Spreadsheet (who is saving your stuff)

March 15, 2012

Recently I’ve been interested in tracking activity around resources. This comes off the back of the OER Visualisation project where I started looking at social share data around educational resources, the beginnings of a PostRank style RSS social engagement tracker, and more recently Using Google Spreadsheets to combine Twitter and Google Analytics data to find […]

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Importing live SPARQL data into MS Excel … don’t go there

March 14, 2012

Recently I wanted to import some linked data into Excel 2010 to experiment with the free PowerPivot plugin. I came across PowerPivot via a post by Ann Smarty HOW TO: Search Twitter from Google Spreadsheets and Excel and it looked like potentially a good way to quickly dashboard a spreadsheet. The ‘Analytics for Twitter’ template […]

Good news: Got a full-time job at JISC CETIS

March 8, 2012

Yes I’m going to be your public servant once more as a JISC CETIS Learning Technology Advisor starting on the 13th March. I have the mighty shoes of John Robertson to fill so no pressure ;-s. When CETIS advertised the post David Kernohan tweeted: Your chance to live the #jisccetis dream! bit.ly/wzfnFr (via @LornaMCampbell ) #ukoer — […]

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Using Google Spreadsheets to combine Twitter and Google Analytics data to find your top content distributors

March 6, 2012

When you share a link on Twitter there are a number of services, like bit.ly, which allow you to track the impact of the url in terms of the number of clicks it attracts from other users. At the same time there are a number of ways to monitor people sharing links to your site, […]

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What I’ve starred this month: February 28, 2012

February 28, 2012

Here’s some posts which have caught my attention this month: Creating Animated Bubble Charts in D3 Jim Vallandingham – February 27, 2012 Learning a craft « Expedient Means – February 25, 2012 < you should definitely read this wobble: New – JISC Advance Funding for the FE and Skills sector – February 20, 2012 Crowd-Sourced Learning Platform […]