This is a little project to create a recommender system to find mentors inside an organization, using Natural Language Processing. It started as an excuse to build a data visualization I had in mind: an interactive word cloud that did something. When I started, I didn’t know anything about Topic Modeling, Topic Extraction, or Natural… Continue reading Recommender system for finding subject matter experts using the Enron email corpus
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Getting IP location information with Angular 7
Using Angular Maps Components and a new service called ipapi, you will be able to quickly put together something that will allow you to get IP information from a client and put it on a map. Angular Maps Components is really great, and the setup with ipapi is a no-brainer (they have a free tier… Continue reading Getting IP location information with Angular 7
How to connect to SAP HANA using JDBC
Recently I had to connect a Java application to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way: The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. The quickest way is to download the SAP Hana Cloud Platform SDK from here: https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#cloud Choose the latest “Java Web Tomcat 8”… Continue reading How to connect to SAP HANA using JDBC
How to build an API for SAP HANA using strongloop/loopback
One of the aspects I like the most about SAP HANA is the cloud app development environment that allows you to quickly put together a data-entry app using Fiori. Recently, I wanted to build a small JavaScript app for data querying and entry using the awesome ag-grid. The data was in SAP HANA but the… Continue reading How to build an API for SAP HANA using strongloop/loopback
Linear optimization with or-tools: containerizing a gunicorn web application
Previously, we left our app working with our local python+gunicorn+nginx installation. In order to get there we had to do quite a bit of configuration and if we wanted to deploy this in a server or send it to a friend, we would have to go through a very error-prone process subject to version changes… Continue reading Linear optimization with or-tools: containerizing a gunicorn web application