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The joy of picking a new activity

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Life is full of small joys and it can be an amazing activity to bring a smile to your face. With the current stress around in our lives we need to continuously find ways to motivate ourselves. Right now the perspective of success and happiness have been redefined. I would pick a healthier version and a happier version as my definition of success. I have recently learnt cycling and it has been an amazing experience. I started with no pedals and with the support of my best friend and husband . I would go to nearby parks and ride along. I had company small kids on their bike without pedals 😍 Prague has lot of beautiful parks and you would miss out on summer if you did not pick cycling. As a learner you start from basics and then gain perfection on these steps to learn the skill. Its important to start as no age is small to start learning. I picked one activity you can start with walking,jogging, roller skating  or even playing table tennis. As long you go out and move yourself it is ...

Take a casual walk. It might suprise you :)

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Its 2020 and It has been more than 7 months that I have settled down in a beautiful place Prague.  I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there –  Stephanie Sigman Its been a while all of us around the world have stepped out from our homes amidst the coronavirus pandemic and its true the nature has a way to settle down the balance of nature. I had a chance to go out and explore the parks as the parks are now open for walking and recreation activities with practicing safe distance.  It is also a very good technique to handle the stress and have an ability to make you smile . I personally believe our eyes are like camera and the image when we are looking at is processed in memory and whenever we want to remember we can visualize the imagery.   During my casual walks me and my husband  had explored so many new routes even new parks which I had not even thought.  Below are the...

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Text Analytics Using R - Part C: Extraction of Samsung S4 white reviews from Amazon.com and Amazon. India

Hi Folks!! Welcome to the 3rd part of the series where we would be extracting the reviewers name , date , rating and review for the product galaxy s4 The given below is the code to extract for the .com and .in and combining them into the new datafile Code: --library(RCurl) --library(XML) --library(rvest) --init <- "http://www.amazon.in/Samsung-Galaxy-S4-GT-I9500-White/product  reviews/B00CL4HXQC" --crawlCandicate = "ref=cm_cr_pr_btm_link_" --base <- "http://www.amazon.in" --num <- 3 --doclist <- list() --anchorlist <- vector() --j <- 0 --while(j<num){ -- if(j==0){ --doclist[j+1] <- getURL(init) -- } else{ --doclist[j+1] <- getURL(paste(base,anchorlist[j+1],sep = "")) -- }  --  doc <- htmlParse(doclist[[j+1]])   --anchor <- getNodeSet(doc,"//a") # capture all the 'a' tags which contains all the    --anchor <- sapply(anchor,function(x) xmlGetAttr(x,"href"))  ...

Text Analytics Using R - Part B: Extraction of reviews of movie martian from imdb website

The main aim of this blog is to understand how to extract movie reviews of martian from IMDB website.  IMDB website is very famous for rating of the movies Again the pattern followed here -- which means start of the code 1) - -library(rvest) --library(RCurl) --library(XML) --library(dplyr) The main aim of  the above mentioned code is to load the above libraries . RCurl and XML rvest -  Wrappers around the 'xml2' and 'httr' packages to make it easy to download, then manipulate, HTML and XML.(Ref:https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rvest/rvest.pdf) Dplyr package:A fast, consistent tool for working with data frame like objects, both in memory and out of memory.(Ref:https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dplyr/dplyr.pdf) 2) --init <- "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/reviews?filter=best" --crawlCandicate <- "reviews\\?filter=best" --base = "www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/" --num = 10 --doclist = list() --anchorl...

Text Analytics Using R - Part A: Extraction of reviews of galaxy s4 product reviews in flipkart

Hi Folks!! This is my first blog in the series where I would love to share my experimentation with text analytics using R.. The initial 3 parts we would concentrate our efforts towards scrapping or extraction of reviews of samsung s4 product from the flipkart. We would be understanding the code bit by bit to get a hang of it and make it simpler to follow for a novice who is just enticed and want to start afresh here. When I am starting with -- this means R code  1) R is an open source platform and in case you want to have added functionalities you load the library --library(RCurl) --library(XML) RCurl:    Provides functions to allow one to compose general HTTP requests and provides convenient functions to fetch URIs, get & post forms, etc. and process the results returned by the Web server.  ( Ref:  https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RCurl/index.html) XML:This collection of functions allow us to add, remove and replace children from an X...

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