Edmonton Public Library's International Open Data Day Hackathon
Progress Journal
21 February 2015
4:30
- and i'm done: feel free to check out @EdmontonReads. i'll be updating the bot in the days and weeks to come, so keep an eye out for it.
4:00
- went from event functionality looking impossible to it being implemented. all praise beautiful soup!
3:30pm
- it seems that my data woes were caused by a glitch somewhere in the api? i seem to be able to get around it by limiting my search to a single library at a time. will investigate later
3:00pm
- i worry that the event data may have defeated me. not sure how to process atom or trumba data
- digging through beautiful soup to see if i can fix the trumba data
2:30pm
- created function to pull upcoming events from API
2:00pm
- designed simple twitter avi
- started tweeting
- started looking into event data
1:30pm
- looked into the ability to integrate upcoming events into bot
- implemented bibliocommons search
1:00pm
- chatted with all sorts of folks
- ate pizza
12:30
- successfully pulled trending twitter data
12:00
- looking up APIs available for Edmonton Public Library
- remembering how i did that whole @ottawareads bot thing
- figuring out edmonton's woeid
11:10
- powered up laptop
- brainstorming ideas
- setting up journal