Partially Attended

an irregularly updated blog by Ian Mulvany

blog posts about yql

Slides from APS Talk, August, 2010

Back at the beginning of August I gave a talk at the American Phytopathological Society. It was a great opportunity to talk to some really interesting scientists. My talk slides are below. Unveiling the web, making the implicit explicit.View more documents from Ian Mulvany. ... (more)

science scraping with YQL

Last Saturday at Science Online London I gave a quick tutorial on YQL, and how it might be used to mash up scientific data sets. Below I list some of the sample queries that I was playing with. Before you get started with the console have a look through the documentation. I got a lot of milage out of the part about filters and joins. The blog post by Paul Hogan on using YQL for library maships was also very helpful. ... (more)