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Show HN: Parsing books for time expressions with Python

1 pointsby the_law11 months ago
Hey HN,<p>I&#x27;m Gabriel (I go by the Law on the internet), I&#x27;m a fullstack developer and I make little projects on the week-ends<p>A while back I found this thread on HN (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40644960">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40644960</a>) about Author Clock.<p>Their website sells a clock that tells the time with book quotes. As an experiment I tried my hand at finding time expressions in books.<p>Here&#x27;s the repo with my scripts (it&#x27;s a mess) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;The-Law-1&#x2F;Write-On-Time-Data">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;The-Law-1&#x2F;Write-On-Time-Data</a><p>I also wrote a tiny blog about the process <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@gabrielcodes&#x2F;parsing-thousands-of-books-for-time-expressions-with-python-b317dd534911" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@gabrielcodes&#x2F;parsing-thousands-of-books-...</a><p>The website and data both have a lot of bugs, but it works for a lot of times, and it was a fun little project :) Let me know if you have any thoughts!

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