======Project 5: Helping a Friend======

A project for Unix/Linux by Corey Forman during the Fall 2011.

This project was begun on 11/17/11 and was finished on that day also. 

=====Objectives=====
The objective is to "data-mine" six folders of information and retrieve names, emails, and companies out of the data. Since this is a large project it will be divided into smaller portions but have the same pattern of data for the end result.

=====Prerequisites=====
In order to successfully accomplish/perform this project, the listed resources/experiences need to be consulted/achieved:

  * competent Command Line skills
  * basic text editing
  * competent RegEx use
  * pattern recognition doesn't hurt either
 

=====Background=====

The purpose of this project was to assist a friend in data-mining a large amount of information. I attempted to format the data into the version needed to be turned into his boss.
=====Scope=====
I am going to use RegEx commands to grab and format the data necessary. I will also Manually edit some of the data. The focus on the project is the RegEx command used to get the data into the right format.
=====Attributes=====
State and justify the attributes you'd like to receive upon successful approval and completion of this project.

  * filter because we are grepping out stuff that is not needed. 
  * regular expressions: we filter by using regular expressions
  * text processing: we are manipulating text with RegExs
  * files and directories we are working with files to get data out of them.
  * security : we had to cp it to our directory because it was under some elses ownership meaning we could not edit the data. 
  * command line: we use RegExs on the command line to manipulate data. 

=====Procedure=====
I copied the file that needed to data mine. 
next i formatted the data into a position of which i could edit it with RegExs easily
i then tried out various RegEx commands until i received the data i wanted. 
i then saved that data onto a file so it could be transferred back to the tmp file.

=====Execution=====
<cli>
lab46:lab46:~$ ls
1275799069694.jpg    archivecompilationfile  data                                         mystery                   testdir
250px-P2_glados.jpg  archives                emvideo-youtube-nd2rBWbvDbA_3.jpg            nom-nom-nom-babies.jpg    testdir.tar
Downloads            archives.tar.bz2        error.log                                    public_html               testdir2
InstNLP2.txt         archives.zip            fiddlesticks.jpg                             puzzlebox                 testfile
InstNLP2Edited.txt   bin                     funny-pictures-taco-cat-is-a-palindrome.jpg  shaco.jpg                 tmp
Maildir              cake                    goonies-musical.jpg                          shellscripting            trollin
RageFaceBlackSS.png  closet                  irc                                          spring2012-20111103.html  trolling-400x345.jpg
archive              corningcourses          linktestfile                                 src                       veigar.jpg
archive1.tar.gz      corningcoursesorg       minecraft-creeper-comic-600x694.png          src.orig                  wicked-witch.jpg
archive2.zip         courses                 motd                                         tempfile                  words
lab46:~$
~/src/cprog$ ./hello
Hello, World!
lab46:~/src/cprog$ 

the file after some text editing that i was working with. the file name is InstNLP2.txt

Arcturus België
Eric Schneider
email: info@arcturus.be

Heart Systems n.v. - International Training Institute for Communication and NLP
Paul Liekens
email: Paul.Liekens@hookon.be

InMind
Peter Wrycza and Jan Ardui
email: pwrycza@indosat.net.id

Institut Ressources
Alain Moenaert
email: alain.moenaert@infoboard.be

BrainNet
Dr. Helosio Rodrigues, MD
email: brainet@unisys.com.br

Centro de Aprendizado Linguistico
Wilma Steagall de Tomasso
email: silveira@dialdata.com.br

Conexao Evolving Center of NLP
Getulio Barnasque
email: conexao@pro.via-rs.com.br

the RegEx used to manipulate this data.
 cat InstNLP2.txt | sed 's/^$/^/g' | tr '\n' '$' | tr '^' '\n'|sed 's/-----------/unknown/g'|sed 's/^\$\(.*\)\$\(.*\)\$\(.*\)\$$/"\3","\2","\1"/g'|sed
's/email: //g'>InstNLP2Edited.txt

the results were as follows. 
"info@arcturus.be ","Eric Schneider ","Arcturus België "
"Paul.Liekens@hookon.be ","Paul Liekens ","Heart Systems n.v. - International Training Institute for Communication and NLP "
"pwrycza@indosat.net.id ","Peter Wrycza and Jan Ardui ","InMind "
"alain.moenaert@infoboard.be ","Alain Moenaert ","Institut Ressources "

this data can then be imputed and recognized as data in excel and turned into a spreadsheet. 
</cli>

=====Reflection=====
Comments/thoughts generated through performing the project, observations made, analysis rendered, conclusions wrought. What did you learn from doing this project?

data mining can be a useful skill when applying for a job because most industries function around data today. Being able to data mine can separate you from the rest of the techies. 
=====References=====
In performing this project, the following resources were referenced:

  * none in class information only