Crunchbase visualization tool of Venture Firms
Over the past few days a couple of friends asked me more or less the same thing: retrieve a collection of Venture Firms and visualize a simple subset of important data, such as geo location, average investment, and short description. I have hence decided to spend a little time with some PHP/Javascript and implemented this simple application.
The application crawls pages from Crunchbase to retrieve a set of financial organizations, then update their locations using their API. Details on each organization are fetched through an AJAX request to Crunchbase's API after a marker on the map is clicked. A vector graph is displayed showing the list of the investments of the firm.
The application uses Raphael JS for creating the SVG graph, therefore works on Firefox and Safari only [EDIT: it was then updated to google chart api to maximize browser compatibility and now fully compliant]. If anyone interested in the code or database, just drop me an email using the contact form on this page.
Twitter data mining and clustering results
It has been a while since my last update on the Flux of MEME project, but my team was not idle: we have worked a lot both on algorithms and architecture, and now it is time to analyse the first results. Thanks to the research grant awarded by @workingcapital, a first prototype of data mining, topic extraction and clustering application was developed, using Twitter as its main data source.
Cantine aperte in Napa Valley
La valle è estremamente larga e ariosa, quasi una pianura raccolta tra due file di colline non eccessivamente alte. Le viti hanno vita facile tutto sommato: al Castello di Amorosa (vedi sotto) ci hanno confermato questa sensazione, dicendoci appunto che i produttori che seguono un gusto di tipo europeo vanno in cerca di terreni più inclinati, dove la vite debba rimanere attaccata e pescare in basso per cercare l'acqua. Per quanto riguarda la temperatura, penso che tecnicamente l'inverno sia di riposo per la vite, ma si parla comunque di un mitissimo inverno tra i 10 e i 20 gradi. Pare che ci sia comunque una buona escursione termica, e ci dicono che la media annuale passa tra i 40-45 notturni e gli 85-95 diurni, in farenheit ovviamente.
Per la cronaca, la degustazione è stata l'orgia del merlot e cabernet sauvignon, una fila consistente di bicchieri che sembravano diluiti nel burro per cercare di nascondere quell'ignorante violenza che può esprimere, come lo chiamano qui, un cab (e ogni volta piuttosto che al cabernet sauvignon penso all'ometto bolso alla guida di un taxi che parla come fosse appena uscito da Eastenders)
- repubblica.it illeggibile per la devastante presenza di pubbilicita' invasiva. quanto poco capiscono di web. #dovetechiudere
- @alezante 2 days break over w.e. is far too long for entrepreneurship, still >60hrs productive work/week can be achieved for short periods.
- sad day for my home country showing peaks of violence with mafia bombs in front of a high school. :(
- nice & easy: tech IPOs compared on a chart http://t.co/sjG4P81R
- Princeton invention delivers 3D sound from ordinary laptop speakers http://t.co/dtVtnX96
- @liquene allora traducilo e mettilo su hackernews almeno fai un bel fiammone...
- @liquene visto che fai flooding devi avere motivi superstrong, si possono sapere, seriously?
- becoming a leaseholder and slave to banks for next 25 years the same day of the biggest bubbly useless IPO ever. kind of ironic
- I know eclipse you're a massive sleepy ox swallowing gigs of ram, but I definitely love your refactoring functions.
- @tonyvolpe bloody scary with their huge pale eyes... I'll think of them when watching I am legend tonight on itv.
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