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Scraping Wikipedia User Data w Google Spreadsheets

Posted on March 24, 2015 (March 24, 2015) by Tom Woodward

creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by nojhan Alice Campbell in the VCU library hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon today. It was interesting and we had a variety of faculty and even some students show up. Gardner joked at one point whether we had a leader board for edits. It got me thinking. […]

Little Trick, Big Numbers

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Tom Woodward

I often want to know just a bit more about numbers I see in tables. As I was looking at some thing today, I stumbled on the Wikipedia page for “List of Most Viewed YouTube Videos“. After being more than a bit amazed at the utterly staggering numbers. I wanted to know what they translated […]