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Looking at my bookmarking habits

So, I have finally been able to get the time stamps out of the html file into which I had exported my bookmarks. But preliminary analysis doesn't make much sense. So, I used the BeautifulSoup and time python library to extract and make sense of the time stamps. So, chrome stores the time stamps in this format - '1402120115'. You can look at this if you want to understand the time stamps. Now here are the weird parts 1. It thinks that all of the bookmarks were made in 2014 2. It thinks that all of the bookmarks were made in the 6th month i.e June. 3. It doesn't show any bookmarks on the 1-6 days of the month 4. The hour stamps are GMT and not GMT +0530 which is Indian Standard Time. The html file is available in blog and here's the code - import numpy import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import BeautifulSoup import time   soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(open('bookmarks.html')) allAttrs = [tag.attrs for tag in soup.findAll('a')] dates = [...

3 Projects i need help with

I've wanted to learn methods to Extract and Visualize data and i've come up with 3 projects that i could use to learn these methods! I've been working on them for a couple of months now, doing background work to remove all of the trivial problems! Mining my blog, Mining Facebook Data and Mining my bookmarks - these are the three projects i have in mind and i need help with. Mining my blog If you guys don't know, i have another blog which automatically posts videos i add to my Youtube Favorites list - using IFTTT . I've been using this service for over an year now and i have ~600 posts - all of them videos on my blog. Now, i want to mine the blog to look at the frequency with which i watch youtube videos, maybe see a pattern which i can correlate to my college exam schedule! While looking for ways to mine the blog, i found out that i can download my blog as an xml file! So, getting the data part is taken care of. Here's the xml file. Download it and op...

Posting your Bookmarks onto a webpage.

Well, a while back i saw a professor's website displaying his bookmarks and interests and i've been wanting to do that for quite a while now. I regularly use bookmarks and i personally think that sharing bookmarks is one of the easiest ways to share and discuss interesting websites, pages and posts. So, here's how-to.  Firstly, you should have bookmarks.  Now export these bookmarks (on whichever browser) and save them as a .html or a .htm file.  Open this saved file by double clicking on it in some browser After having opened this page, in which you will see your bookmarks, right click and check for page source, which will be the HTML code pertaining to this .html file.  Copy this HTML code.  Now create a new post, a page or whatever on a site where you want to upload your bookmarks to. Instead of the usual text editor, use the HTML editor and copy the previously mentioned HTML code (pertaining to the bookmarks) here.  Save the page and viola, ...