The English and Arabic corpus of the Holy Quran is a rich source for statistical analysis. For instance, the entire test corpora has half a million words and many thousand distinct words. A rich dataset such as the Holy Quran, therefore, provides for an exciting journey of data exploration. More
Asynchronous HTTP Requests in Python 3.4
I started learning Python last night. I will be lying if I say “it’s good”. I’ll tell you what, “it’s f**king good”. I am a polyglot programmer and diving in Python was a cinch. It felt as if I knew it already, because “it makes sense”. I’ve been playing around with Python 3.4 and here’s an experiment. More
Understanding the HTTP ETag using Graph API
Over the past week, I have been spending time refreshing my knowledge of HTTP caching. I knew what caching was, but only vaguely. Right now, I’m working on a project which involves implementing a caching layer, for performance and scalability. I am a visual learner, so I did a little experiment. More
Study finds the most popular social networks for specific categories
Attention content publishers/marketers/creators. This one’s for you. The brainy data scientists at Vinkk have finally managed to validate a previously popular assumption of why a certain category of content does well in a specific social network. More
Build a Website the Easy Way with WordPress
Setting up a website with WordPress has several advantages. It is not an expensive option, so it is affordable for most budgets, and it can be used by both small and large businesses alike. WordPress sites also have plugins available that will do a lot of the SEO work for your site on your behalf. More
Playing with the Hacker News API using Guzzle
Hacker News released its API to the world a few days ago. Data geeks previously had to rely on web scraping and paginated results to obtain data from the Hacker News site, but things have changed now. With Hacker News’ official API, we have a structured way to tap into the data. More
Geo-targeting your website to a specific country
What if I could show you a way to restrict users on your website by geo-location? With just a few lines of PHP code, you can restrict, or depending on the situation, show, different content to users from different countries. I am sure you get the idea. More
Introducing Get STATUS: Use likes as a social currency
Get Status is a social app especially designed for happy and positive people. The premise of the idea is to use likes as a social currency. It’s the place where you can chat and make new friends, discover and share wonderful moments and and end up receiving tons of likes. More