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Continue reading →: Analysing Tweet Sentiment with Azure -Part 2 (Python)Building on the work I did yesterday using Azure to analyse Twitter tweet sentiment I have amended the function of the code so that it now marks the tweet as positive, neutral or negative. This is building up so that I can (hopefully) get my Twitter bot to retweet positive…
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Continue reading →: Analysing Tweet Sentiment with Azure (Python)Today I decided to try and analyse the text of Twitter tweets using Microsoft Azure and the cognitive services that it offers, particularly text sentiment. Text sentiment reviews the text and then gives it a score between 0.0 (negative) and 1 (positive), with 0.5 being neutral. This could help if for…
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Continue reading →: Hello World! (C)With my Python skills coming along well (in my opinion) and with my continued interest in learning at least a little in other programming languages, I have decided to take a look at C using my Raspberry Pi. C arrived on the scene in 1972 (at the time of writing…
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Continue reading →: Free Python Training
There has never been a better time to learn about the Python programming language, especially as there are so many free resources available. I’ll start off with a link to my Python category, and with that out of the way, here are some of the available free resources to help on…
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Continue reading →: Azure IoT Hub / Raspberry Pi IoT Project – Connecting Pi, Azure and Power BI.With the Pi successfully reading temperature and pressure from the sensor, and connecting successfully to Azure it left one more step in my project – outputting the data in a meaningful way. For this part of my project I’m looking to collect the data Azure is receiving and put it…
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Continue reading →: Eloquent JavaScript -Book Review (JavaScript)I have been given the opportunity to review “Eloquent JavaScript” (3rd Edition) by Marijn Haverbeke, published by No Starch Press. First in the interest of fairness and openness; No Starch Press has very kindly sent me a copy of the book for free. As my regular readers may have noticed,…
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Continue reading →: Azure IoT Hub / Raspberry Pi IoT Project – Connecting Pi and Azure (Raspberry Pi / Python)I have looked at the best Raspberry Pi & sensor for my IoT Temperature Project, setup the hardware, took measurements and outputted them to a Twitter bot. Then yesterday I created an Azure IoT Hub, which means I now need to connect the Raspberry Pi to the Azure IoT Hub.…
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Continue reading →: Azure IoT Hub – Raspberry Pi IoT Project
For this part of the Raspberry Pi IoT project I am going to be using Microsoft Azure, if you want to follow along please sign up for a Microsoft Azure account. Log in to https://portal.azure.com/ with your Microsoft Azure account. For me it took a few minutes and a few…
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Continue reading →: Installing / Using Flask or Raspberry Pi IoT Project: Temperature Part 4 (Raspberry Pi / Python)Now that the temperature sensor is taking readings and tweeting them I want to look at exporting the results another way, and what better way than a web page. I have created guides on using a Raspberry Pi as various different types of web server; see: Node.JS Apache / WordPress…
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Continue reading →: Raspberry Pi IoT Project: Temperature Part 3 – Tweet Bot (Raspberry Pi / Python)With the Raspberry Pi set up (see parts 1 and 2) it is time to expand the project. First up is bringing back the geektechstuff_automated twitter bot to get it to regularly tweet the room temperature. Thankfully my previous experience with Twitter let me reuse some of my old coding:…
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