tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post2208961254113909546..comments2024-03-28T18:39:59.184-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Answer (Part 1) to: Can you find the places Twain mentions in "Around the Equator"?Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-4373893561037661842014-09-24T10:00:45.826-07:002014-09-24T10:00:45.826-07:00Thanks, Ramon. Sorry to have missed that link.Thanks, Ramon. Sorry to have missed that link.almadenmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12636400853368185828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-46605607355324054972014-09-23T15:38:58.267-07:002014-09-23T15:38:58.267-07:00Almadenmike, the link is in this post. Search chal...Almadenmike, the link is in this post. <a href="http://searchresearch1.blogspot.mx/2014/09/search-challenge-9314-can-you-find.html" rel="nofollow">Search challenge (9/3/14): Can you find the places Twain mentions in "Around the Equator"?</a><br /><br />"So I set up a Google Group for everyone to discuss this Challenge. For this problem, we can have our discussion in " <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/srs-discusses-around-the-equator" rel="nofollow">SRS Discusses Around The Equator.</a>Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-64394109327299649562014-09-23T09:51:28.665-07:002014-09-23T09:51:28.665-07:00Where is this "group page" that's be...Where is this "group page" that's been mentioned several times (but without any link or pointer, as far as I can tell)?.almadenmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12636400853368185828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-49469020442340899322014-09-21T15:18:23.921-07:002014-09-21T15:18:23.921-07:00Searched [split large file windows] to find an alt...Searched [split large file windows] to find an alternative to Unix Command Split that Dr. Russell shared with us. There Search Tools and Past Year.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-to-split-a-large-file-into-multiple-smaller-pieces/" rel="nofollow">How to Split a Large File into Multiple Smaller Pieces</a><br /><br />With that we can have the chunks that Dr. Russell mentions in another way. In case Unix is not easy for us.<br /><br />Hope this helps.Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-25158673907647215352014-09-20T08:44:04.462-07:002014-09-20T08:44:04.462-07:00Hi everyone.
First of all, sorry for the mistake...Hi everyone. <br /><br />First of all, sorry for the mistake I made in the Answer (Delayed) Post. It is clear the word is Freedom Riders not Raiders. Sorry for that.<br /><br />On the other hand, I was reading and looking for information in Dr. Russell's SearchResearch Blog this morning and found as always knowledge. I highly recommend these two related to <b>RLBT.</b> <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://searchresearch1.blogspot.mx/2011/05/jonquil-glade-mystery-how-do-you-know.html" rel="nofollow">The jonquil glade mystery / how do you know what you know?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://searchresearch1.blogspot.mx/2011/05/on-writing-good-search-questions.html" rel="nofollow">On writing good search questions</a>Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-86565980461427634342014-09-18T11:41:37.568-07:002014-09-18T11:41:37.568-07:00I had a look to see how many Australian placenames...I had a look to see how many Australian placenames that were listed by Mark Twain would be identified and it was 11 out of 81. Now I'm thinking that with no relative text around the names the API ignored them. Perhaps it doesn't like lists. I wonder if we can reduce the false negatives by amending functions in Alchemy API. I have no idea at the moment how this would be done. Has anyone tried this or have an opinion? <br /><br />I am really looking forward to seeing other ways people have tried to solve this challenge. I haven't seen anything posted to groups yet.Rosemary Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291661159622665464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-15772050693283559752014-09-18T10:59:25.849-07:002014-09-18T10:59:25.849-07:00We posted on the group page. I am hoping that the ...We posted on the group page. I am hoping that the post went through. If it didn't I'll redo. We have been having wifi problems all day and I am afraid that it may have gotten lost. We used google books and our literary databases to get the info. Let us know if our response isn't on there and will then send via email. It has been one of those days so will not be surprised if our response got lost. Debra Gottslebenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08074610468240387547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-18307398987112935322014-09-18T10:36:02.778-07:002014-09-18T10:36:02.778-07:00Anne, Debbie and Dr. Russell, I'm really curio...Anne, Debbie and Dr. Russell, I'm really curious too. <br /><br />Looking forward to learn the future posts about this challengeRamon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-630088206909637042014-09-18T10:32:24.853-07:002014-09-18T10:32:24.853-07:00Thanks, Dr.Russell.
I did that yesterday after re...Thanks, Dr.Russell.<br /><br />I did that yesterday after reading the link you provided to us. I didn't know how to run the command. The Terminal window is exactly the answer I needed. I thought maybe you ran in Chrome or Google Drive or other but had no idea. No I know how. ThanksRamon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-90489142431875725152014-09-18T09:45:49.185-07:002014-09-18T09:45:49.185-07:00Just do a search for [ split Linux command help ] ...Just do a search for [ split Linux command help ] -- that will guide you to tutorials, etc. <br /><br />But just so you'll know, I opened a Terminal window on my Mac, then ran: <br /><br /> split -b 49999 -d Twain-full-text-Equator-book.txt Twain-part-<br /><br />This splits up the file "Twain-full-text-Equator-book.txt" into pieces that are 49999 bytes (50K - 1) long. They're all names Twain-part-... a, b, c etc.. <br />Dan Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-8404613289907936972014-09-18T09:43:14.828-07:002014-09-18T09:43:14.828-07:00Debbie -- this sounds really interesting. Can you...Debbie -- this sounds really interesting. Can you expand on this? (If you want, go ahead and send me an email with the details. I'm really curious.) <br />Dan Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-89420547409745228442014-09-18T08:32:52.221-07:002014-09-18T08:32:52.221-07:00Anne and I took a radically different approach - w...Anne and I took a radically different approach - we went the literary route rather than the mathematical/programming one. While our method might not have worked with more data, we think for this challenge we are going to come up the same or very similar result. We are going to create a spreadsheet this evening and will post. As school librarians we learned some valuable lessons about searching. We tell students to use databases and yet in this challenge the database didn't yield the answer until after we found the reference to the information on Google. Then we went back to the database and were able to get the answer. Google definitely won out in the ease of searching. Debra Gottslebenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08074610468240387547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-47796562275915918302014-09-17T16:26:58.208-07:002014-09-17T16:26:58.208-07:00Very interesting as always, Dr. Russell. It is goo...Very interesting as always, Dr. Russell. It is good that you post the answer in two or three parts like you are doing. I need to read it slowly and understand each part. <br /><br />To use the Split command in Unix, how that is done? I'll search the way,and if possible can you explain to me and others than never have used Unix commands?<br /><br />Hope you feeling better. Looking forward to read and learn with following parts in this Challenge.Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-22578582089377753882014-09-17T15:02:32.037-07:002014-09-17T15:02:32.037-07:00I have followed along going through the steps &...I have followed along going through the steps & so far I have understood each step. This is quite a challenge for me since I've never worked with API, XML or the more complex steps in Googlesheets. Very educational. Here's my shared sheets created so far<br /><br />https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VJwvt7b9ODsGb4rgrngamODEEoyngbeenugRZTnNnMM/edit?usp=sharing<br /><br />I have combined the 22 sheets into one by copy & paste values. Was there an action I could have done this in one step? I couldn't find one so I did them one by one. <br />I've run into a discrepancy that I haven't figured out,yet. I have a total of 1149 lines of data at this stage but yours is 567 lines. Can you see anything glaring that I can't see, yet? Oh I just saw that my rows have the original row number. It's likely caused by how I combined the sheets. Suggestions?<br /><br />https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VJwvt7b9ODsGb4rgrngamODEEoyngbeenugRZTnNnMM/edit?usp=sharingRosemary Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291661159622665464noreply@blogger.com