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Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1
- packetized 11y agoMight be better to have the direct link, as the iframe is a bit quirky on mobile: http://rud.is/projects/clinton_emails_01.html http://rud.is/projects/clinton_emails_01.html
- toomuchtodo 11y agoAnd the gist with code from the post: https://gist.github.com/hrbrmstr/696b124d0190bba15817 https://gist.github.com/hrbrmstr/696b124d0190bba15817
- grej 11y agoAgree. Though I do not have authorization to adjust the link - guess it requires a mod.
- broodbucket 11y agoYes, it'd be too easy to abuse. Post a piece of important news, get it upvoted to the top, change the link to something malicious.
- dfc 11y agoI do not understand the matryoshka doll setup here. The quick link to the "iframe busting link" seems to indicate the author of the post is also aware of how screwy things are. I understand the author is not responsible for the awfulness that is rbloggers, but the iframe inside a blog post is bizarre.
- dang 11y agoThanks, changed from http://www.r-bloggers.com/working-with-the-clinton-state-dept-email-dumps-in-r-part-1-graphs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RBloggers+%28R+bloggers%29 http://www.r-bloggers.com/working-with-the-clinton-state-dep.... It's better to send issues like this to hn@ycombinator.com, since that guarantees we'll see them and it's haphazard otherwise.
- pete00 11y agoAre there any surprising names in the list? Most of the high frequency ones are to be expected.
- Gratsby 11y agoOnly 17 ads on that page. I think I'd have a word with my professor for sending me to a site like that.
- danso 11y agoFor anyone who wants the raw text for themselves (though I leave the parsing/sorting to you), I wrote up this Python process that uses Poppler's pdftotext to extract from the PDFs: https://github.com/datahoarder/secretary-clinton-email-dump https://github.com/datahoarder/secretary-clinton-email-dump Though it's pretty cool that there's an API on the WSJ site that you can use to leverage the parsing they've done.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoThis is the WSJ's email parser: https://github.com/wsjdata/clinton-email-cruncher https://github.com/wsjdata/clinton-email-cruncher
- anulman 11y agoFun fact: the "disconnected mini-graphs" the author mentions toward the end could also be attributed to Clinton being included via cc / bcc. Source: I've built & reviewed email graphs from IMAP & POP dumps too
- ck2 11y agoYeah, so there has to be a pony under all that horsesh*t somewhere, so keep digging as the joke goes. Why again is all email public record but telephone calls are not? I'd sure like to see all the emails from all the senators of this country analyzed.
- irixusr 11y agoI read through them a bit. I'd like to see the frequency of "pls print". Seems to be her only contribution to every conversation...
- chflags 11y agoSearch the emails via search engine, e.g., Google: https://www.google.ie/search?q=site:foia.state.gov+/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/+your+search+here https://www.google.ie/search?q=site:foia.state.gov+/searchap...