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Best-practice questions generally involve a short guide or tutorial related to an outstanding example of the use or implementation of Open Data principles or practices.
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What type of software is used by the Open Data community?
You cannot find "THE" best answer for this question. It always depends of what you want to do with the data.
Statistic Analysis
If you want to make a statistic analysis, you can use python like the q …
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Captcha in a website with open data
It might be consider illegal. Autofilling captcha is a blackhat toolbox and in most of the cases you should avoid it. The best thing you can do is read the "term of uses" of the site and if you cannot …
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Optimal Data Format(s) for Open GIS Data Repositories?
I would say that geojson is in the top of my personal list. JSON is really easy to use it with a programming language, especially with Python that I am familiar with. Also, it is easy for conversions. …
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Techniques for Pulling Prices for a Large Number of Amazon Items
As I can understand from this blog post they split the database in groups of interest and they update products in base of these groups.
Without Ι know more than this blog post, several companies prov …
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A Python guide for open data file formats
Here is a guide for each file format from the Open data handbook and a suggestion with a Python library to use.
JSON is a simple file format that is very easy for any programming language to read. It …
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A web API user's guide for free and open data
I found this website (http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/). There is an API collection in there with great tools, especially to "clean" and prepare your open datasets for analysis and visualization.
A …
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Tool to extract the main concepts/topics from web pages
You can use DBpedia Spotlight to extract semantic annotations from DBpedia. Here is the code for Python.
You will need these libraries:
BeautifulSoup
urllib2
urllib
json
The example is only for o …