Bob DuCharme

Senior Technical Writer at Ontotext (opinions mine, not theirs). Wrote O'Reilly's "Learning SPARQL." Likes working with semi-structured data and metadata.

Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

Now on SoundCloud (part 3 of 3 this week): initial demo of Tempo Primo (my assignment to myself to write a major key sonata form thing) played by the The Cavalier Symphony Orchestra String Quartet. soundcloud.com/bobducharme/tem

4 days ago
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

Now on SoundCloud (part 2 of 3 this week): initial demo of my string quartet arrangement of Link Wray's "Jack the Ripper", played by the The Cavalier Symphony Orchestra String Quartet. soundcloud.com/bobducharme/jac

5 days ago
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

New blog entry: SPARQL queries of the Billboard Hot 100 — Current and historical data! bobdc.com/blog/hot100/

5 days ago
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

Now on SoundCloud (part 1 of 3 this week): initial demo of my string quartet arrangement of the Beach Boys song "Surf's Up," played by the The Cavalier Symphony Orchestra String Quartet. soundcloud.com/bobducharme/sur

April 20, 2024
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

New blog entry tomorrow: SPARQL queries of the Billboard Hot 100 — Current and historical data!

April 20, 2024
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

New blog entry: Visualizing RDF (I see nodes and edges...) bobdc.com/blog/visualizing-rdf

March 24, 2024
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

New blog entry tomorrow: Visualizing RDF (I see nodes and edges...)

March 23, 2024
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

Those datacamp ads on YouTube where they say “You don’t have to download Python to learn Python” always make me think “then how badly do you really want to learn Python”?

March 16, 2024
Bob DuCharme
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I don't know how Tony Soprano feels about subjects and objects, but he clearly doesn't like predicates getyarn.io/yarn-clip/43510f7b-

March 06, 2024
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

Can someone give me an example of a UX issue that isn’t a UI issue? Or are we all just replacing the term “UI” with “UX” because it apparently sounds more modern?

March 02, 2024
Bob DuCharme
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New blog entry: Using regular expressions to manipulate data in a SPARQL query—a pure, standards-compliant SPARQL query bobdc.com/blog/regex/

February 25, 2024
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

New blog entry tomorrow: Using regular expressions to manipulate data in a SPARQL query—a pure, standards-compliant SPARQL query.

February 24, 2024
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

The Beatles were great on Ed Sullivan but Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp and others doing Mingus's Haitian Fight Song were a bit more badass on Ed Sullivan seven years later: youtube.com/watch?v=jRO1W5twBe. And Ed seemed to love it.

February 03, 2024
Bob DuCharme
bobdc@mas.to

Instead of referring to a “group” of people, say “cohort” instead. Apparently it's much more impressive.

January 27, 2024