Post on 20-Jun-2015
description
LaughTrack: A Story
Pat Allan
http://twitter.com/pathttp://freelancing-gods.com
Comedy Addict
Melbourne
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
http://www.comedyfestival.com.au
Third-LargestComedy Festival
Who’s First?
Edinburgh Fringe
> 2000 shows
> 34,000 performances
Edinburgh 2008for three days
Edinburgh 2009for one month
What about Melbourne?
LaughTrack
Launched Yesterday
LaughTrack: The Code
Rails 2.3.5
Sphinx &Thinking Sphinxhttp://ts.freelancing-gods.com
Bundler 0.9.10
http://github.com/carlhuda/bundler
Machinist
http://github.com/notahat/machinist
Formtastic
http://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic
Sprinkle &Passenger Stack
http://github.com/crafterm/sprinklehttp://github.com/benschwarz/passenger-stack
Throne
http://github.com/lstoll/throne
Why CouchDB?
1. It speaks in JSON
Twitter speaks in JSON
2. Peers
• Jan Lenhardt
• Lena Herrmann
• Alexander Lang
• Ben Schwarz
• Lincoln Stoll
• Paul Campbell
Only Tweets in CouchDB
Tracking Sentiment
Really Hard
Typos
Sarcasm
Abiguity
“Dave Hughes is the shit.”
“Dave Hughes is shit.”
1. Key Words & Phrases
... with manual confirmation
2. Bayesian Filter
... with somelanguage processing
Pedantic
http://github.com/freelancing-god/pedantic
Emoticons
:) => smile
Common Typos
reaaaalllly => really
Contractions
can’t => cannot
SMS Shortcuts
tnx => thanks
Self-Censorship
sh*t => shit
Common Words
a an and as but by how I if in my no now of to
URLs
http://bit.ly http://tinyurl.com
Stemming
wandering => wander
Why?
Just the Important Parts
Not yet live.
Not yet reliable...
Twitter is bloody noisy!
Laughtrack needs reviews
Not personal attacks
Not professions of love
Not tweets that you’re about to see a show
Not tweets about Spicks and Specks, etc
Not retweets
Culling noise istricky too
A work in progress
Open Source
http://github.com/freelancing-god/laughtrack
Fork and Patch!