https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/04/parsing-panic/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/04/parsing-panic/#comment-775 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:35:48 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216635#comment-775 [quote]A really easy way to parse and sort text is by using Excel + VBA. Since ScraperWiki can export to CSV, I downloaded the CSV files & wrote a small macro to walk through the words and count instances of each of them.[/quote]
Hmm I guess people are still more comfortable performing the manual steps necessary to get to familiar Excel-land. You could do it all on scraperwiki by writing the data to a database table and using a one-line query:
“select distinct word, count(word) order by count(word)”
to get your results

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/04/parsing-panic/#comment-774 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:39:12 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758216635#comment-774 I think this is not sentiment analysis, but a rough empirical overview. Nothing personal.

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