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On Badger Hard Work | River Taylor

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On Badger Hard Work. I spent part of yesterday afternoon sweeping up the branches and dead leaves in my little bare garden that had accumulated over the winter. At the same time, I was brewing a whole string of potions in my cauldron on Pottermore, and every so often I would go inside to complete one potion and set another one brewing. It got me thinking about hard work, one of the signature traits of Hufflepuff house. Give us adventure and knowledge and ambition any day, they say. And the best part?

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The Butterbeer Comparison: Part 2. The second Butterbeer recipe that Quest and I tried came recommended by Buttercup Snitch Flight, and it appears to be a fairly well-known one online, possibly first posted by Huffington Post. In June 2010 before being picked up by Fox News. And also featuring in a much more recent Butterbeer comparison post. 1 cup (packed) light or dark brown sugar,. 2 Tablespoons water,. 6 tablespoons butter,. 1 teaspoon salt,. 1 teaspoon cider vinegar,. Divide the brown sugar mixture ...

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The Puff Names data project [Part 2] | River Taylor

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The Puff Names data project [Part 2]. In case you didn’t catch the last instalment, this is Part 2. Of the Puff Names data project. Last post. I talked about how I used a tool called ScraperWiki. To collect data from the Puff Names nickname list, resulting in a ginormous spreadsheet with every name that has ever been accepted to Puff Names. Now that I’ve got that data, I can find out all sorts of fun and interesting things. What are we waiting for? Entry in the database. Members. For those of you who...

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The Puff Names data project [Part 3] | River Taylor

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The Puff Names data project [Part 3]. Welcome back to the final part of the Puff Names data project! If you haven’t read the first two parts, they will give you all the context you need for what I’m doing; you can find them here. This entry we’ll finally get to the most interesting bit of the data behind Puff Names: nicknames! What’s in a name? To see which were the most often recurring words in Hufflepuff nicknames. And then I made a word cloud. Of even the less-used words, and every time I decided on a...

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Strengths and Weaknesses of Pottermore’s New Duelling Hall | River Taylor

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Strengths and Weaknesses of Pottermore’s New Duelling Hall. In a typical display of impeccable timing, Pottermore has released a game-changing alteration to the duelling system eleven days before the awarding of the sixth House Cup. And in general, the social element just makes duelling more fun. The Duelling Hall always seemed so silent before, especially when you couldn’t get matched with an opponent; it was like duelling into a void. Now, it’s lively and full of friendly people, and if you can...The e...

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Three Great Videos on Net Neutrality | River Taylor

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Three Great Videos on Net Neutrality. Today is 10th September 2014, a.k.a. The Internet Slowdown. What’s that you ask? Slowly – unless you paid them an extra bus fare. There would be an uproar – no-one would stand for it. But that’s exactly what the Federal Communications Commission or FCC, an independent agency in America which oversees and regulates communications, is considering allowing ISPs in the United States to do. Vi Hart, another incredibly smart voice of the Internet, has made a more in-depth ...

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The Puff Names data project [Part 3]. Welcome back to the final part of the Puff Names data project! If you haven’t read the first two parts, they will give you all the context you need for what I’m doing; you can find them here. This entry we’ll finally get to the most interesting bit of the data behind Puff Names: nicknames! What’s in a name? To see which were the most often recurring words in Hufflepuff nicknames. And then I made a word cloud. The Puff Names data project [Part 2]. To collect data from...

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The Puff Names data project [Part 1] | River Taylor

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The Puff Names data project [Part 1]. A couple of months ago I posted on Facebook. About coding something called a data scraper in class, using Puff Names as the website. So what was I doing, and how did it turn out? Introducing the Puff Names data project. What is a data scraper? In the most simple terms, a data scraper. Is a computer program which you can create for the purpose of extracting data from somewhere. Specifically, the tool that I used to retrieve data from Puff Names is a web scraper. I did...