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  • Converting Books to JSON: A Digital Humanities Project

    Converting Books to JSON: A Digital Humanities Project

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    Nathan Graham
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    This post discusses a recent project where I scanned PDF issues of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Directory of Literary Magazines from 1995 to 2005 and converted those 10 directories into clean, well-structured JSON. The process encompassed several stages, including PDF to text conversion, data cleaning, and data extraction using Python scripts…

  • Data Insights with the WordPress REST API

    Data Insights with the WordPress REST API

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    Nathan Graham
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    WordPress is moving closer to becoming a fully-fledged application framework. It has always been easy to publish with WordPress but accessing your data from external systems was often very difficult. But what is WordPress REST API anyway? Well here’s an excellent explanation but, to simply for our purposes, the WordPress API allows us to read data…