A Smarter Wikipedia Search using Google

Posted by Tom on March 26th, 2007 — in Google, Web, Wikipedia

I’m always looking for ways to speed up common tasks. This post describes a faster and more accurate way to reach a desired Wikipedia article.

There’s an increbibly useful (and free) plugin for Safari from David Wantanbe (the man also responsible for Acquisition, NewsFire, and Xtorrent) called Inquisitor which gives you search suggestions as you type [...]

Stealing LAPD’s crime data

Posted by Tom on March 18th, 2007 — in PHP, TOOBS, Web

This post explains how to get data from LAPD’s crime maps website. See my previous post on scraping DPS’s incident logs for background of TOOBS.

After completing the TOOBS project for the UPE P.24 programming contest I was checking out LAPD’s crime maps website, which is similar to TOOBS (but not as cool!), and I realized [...]

Scraping USC DPS’s incident logs

Posted by Tom on March 12th, 2007 — in Ruby, TOOBS, Web

This post describes how to extract incident summaries and metadata from the USC Department of Public safety’s daily incident logs, which is used extensively in TOOBS

Background

A couple of years ago when the Google Maps API was first introduced I wanted to make something useful using it. The USC Department of Public safety sends out these [...]


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