- April 16, 2016
- 1-4pm
- More info: http://blog.sfpc.io/post/141199320941/generative-twitter-bots-workshop-by-daniel
- Install node.js
- Set up a twitter account to use for your bot.
- Note that you will need a phone number to get API access. You can get a free one from Google Voice or Twilio. You can also move your actual phone number temporarily to this account and then back to your main account later.
- Get API keys from Twitter.
- Read these articles for ideas / inspiration
- Fill out this survey
- 1:00pm: Introductions, look at a selection of creative bots
- 1:15pm: Basics of node
- 1:30pm: Basics of Twitter API in Node (search, post, favorite, retweet)
- 2:00pm: Classic Generative Text Algorithms
- Grammars using Tracery by GalaxyKate
- Markov chains via Rita.js
- 2:30pm: Getting Data
- Local text files
- Corpora from tinysubversions
- 2:45pm: Generating images with Processing
- 3:15pm: Questions / workshop
- 3:45pm: Any quick demos / discussion
- Some Strategies of Bot Poetics
- A collection of twitter games and chatbots, along with their source files.
- Botwiki
- Move over, chatbots: meet the artbots
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