Improving the Bart blackboard query.
Since I first wrote on sending DBpedia SPARQL queries about Bart’s blackboard messages at the start of Simpsons episodes, I’ve learned a lot more about SPARQL (reading the spec helped) and I wanted to walk through some of the things I’ve learned by expanding on and refining my original query.
Easier than Jon Udell had thought.
In an August 19th interview with Jon Udell, David Huynh of Freebase (and formerly of MIT’s Project Simile) introduced his Freebase demo by describing a hypothetical query to a database asking for presidents’ ages when they are inaugurated and whether there’s a trend that we’re getting younger presidents. Jon replies:
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