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Awesome work man! Nice to see people making use of DBpedia too, even if it's indirectly. (I'm sure it would be too slow without putting it in your own database.)

Are you going to put the source code up on Github? I'd love to see it, since I'm relatively new to messing around with Node and haven't even touched Socket.IO yet.

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I just put it up on Github now: https://github.com/benwasser/whodiedhere

After I built this I played around with some other information in dbpedia to see if I could get anything juicy out of it. No luck so far, but I'm sure there's a lot to uncover.

Thank you for putting it up there. The fact that you have it all tossed in a json file is awesome.

I'm curious, are you familiar with SPARQL, or are you querying DBpedia in another manner? The reason I asked is that I think SPARQL is a cool (flexible, ultra complex queries) but slow way to get data, and I think node's async file reads make it ideal for working off of sources like that.

Instead of learning SPARQL, I wrote my own script to parse from their format into my own. I should probably devote some time to learning SPARQL, but dbpedia's documentation was really confusing for me and I was basically learning it all just looking through the actual db files.

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