I recently had to find a way to optimise search results being returned from an API that connected to an Elastic Search instance. For context, ingested content is highly technical in detail. The underlying model…
In May I built a private journal and mood tracking prototype that ran on JSON files. I decided to adapt this and publish this as an online micro-SaaS that anyone could use. It’s…
In Part 2 of this mini-series, we create the Azure Function “TwitterFunction”. This function will be responsible for fetching data using the Twitter API Recent Search endpoint. The Social Opinion API is a wrapper for…
This is the first in a 4-part series that will show you how to build your own social media listening tool. Azure AI is used to surface actionable insights in Twitter data. With millions of…
Recently I had to create a Custom Connector that could extract data from a REST API and serve this up in Power BI for reporting and visualisation. This was totally new to me, involved a…
I’ve implemented the new V2 Tweet Count endpoint that recently shipped by Twitter. This is available in my NuGet package and on GitHub. This endpoint lets you fetch a count of tweets for a given…
In the spirit of giving back I sent a tweet last week asking if anyone had a blog. The plan was to simply retweet this after a few days and to help amplify the blogs…
I have an app called Rescue Time on my phone and laptop. It’s more for interest that anything else and to see where my time goes when on devices. I noticed I’d spent over 7…
A couple of weeks ago I moved the next iteration of Social Opinion to production. Many users in the community were asking for unique features that were centred around personal analytics and centralised dashboards to…