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Christy Warden (Work Log) (view source)
Revision as of 18:12, 8 November 2016
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''2-4:45'' Prepped the next application of my twitter crawling abilities, which is going to be a constantly running program on a dummy account which follows a bunch of new sources and dms the McNair account when something related to us shows up.
'''11/1/16'''
''12:15-12:30:'' I made a mistake today! I intended to fix a bug that occurred in my DM program, but accidentally started running a program before copying the program's report about what went wrong so I could no longer access the error report. I am running the program again between now and Thursday and hoping to run into the same error so I can actually address it. (I believe it was something to do with a bad link). I did some research about catching and fixing exceptions in a program while still allowing it to continue, but I can't really fix the program until I have a good example of what is going wrong.
''12:30 - 2:30:'' Unfollowed the non responders, followed about 100 people using the crawler. Updated my data sheets about how people have responded and added all the new followers to the log on [[Christy Warden (Social Media)]] twitter crawler page. I've noticed that our ratios of successful returns of our follow are improving, I am unsure whether I am getting better at picking node accounts or whether our account is gaining legitimacy because our ratio is improving.
''2-4:15'' I had the idea after my DM program which runs constantly had (some) success, that I could make the follow crawler run constantly too? I started implementing a way to do this, but haven't had a chance to run or test it yet. This will present serious difficulties because I don't want to do anything that could potentially get us kicked off twitter/ lose my developer rights on our real account. It is hard to use a dummy acct for this purpose though, because nobody will follow back an empty account so it'll be hard to see if the program succeeds in that base case. I will contemplate tonight and work on it Thursday.
''4:15-4:30'' Started adding comments and print statements and some level of organization in my code in case other/future interns use it and I am not at work to explain how it functions. The code could definitely do with some cleanup, but I think that should probably come later after everything is functional and all of our twitter needs are met.
''4:30-4:45'' Updated work log and put my thoughts on my social media project page.
