About a half a year ago, whilst browsing http://www.infochimps.com/, I came across a sweet set of data. A collection of musical artists from all around the world. So I wrote a little script to parse the data and appended it into an android application.
Contains 1,240,000 Musical Artists.
Download for free on GooglePlay and try it out.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=MantasCode.randommusic
I’ve discovered numerous bands and artists I’ve never heard of before.
“Documenting the Complex Relationships Between Humans & Psychoactives” – erowid.org
A while ago I decided to index part of the erowid site into a free and easy to use android application. Here is the result of what I was willing to index from the site.
Download for free on GooglePlay.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Erowid.MantasCode
All content from Erowid.org
Update: A lot of positive reviews from Google Play and people asking for the experience reports to be statically indexed into the Application. Hopefully, I will be given those to add soon. Thanks for the downloads!
Part 3 of series on gamification of a dataset.
A randomized multiple choice quiz which tests the players knowledge of different relationships from the RadLex Ontology.
Download and play for free on GooglePlay
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=MantasCode.RadQuiz
Relationship sets used:
{“anatomical_site”, “blood_supply_of”, “branch_of”, “constitutional_part_of”, “contained_in”, “contains”, “drains_into”, “has_blood_supply”, “has_branch”, “has_constitutional_part”, “has_innervation_source”, “has_member”, “lymphatic_drainage_of”, “member_of”, “projects_from”, “projects_to”, “receives_drainage_from”, “receives_input_from”, “receives_projection_from”, “related_condition”, “related_modality”, “segment_of”, “sends_output_to”};
^ each one of these sets is the same as the Character to Location set from Part 1. However, these are much larger.
over 12,000 questions .
update:
Added count down timer, added correct answer display if incorrect answer chosen, reformatted button layouts, changed some colors, and added some annoying sounds XD
I have turned the previous post Java: LOL!: Gamification of a DataSET into an Android Application. This example project will show you how to gamify a simple multiple choice quiz in order to engage the user more.
Free download this example app can be found on GooglePlay.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Quizer.Quiz
Game Mechanics and Rewards/Risks:
The player gets asked a random question from the dataset and is presented with a multiple choice of 4 answers. The correct answer will reward the him/her with a banana (+
). If the player chooses wrong he will lose a banana (-) or even go into banana debt. The banana is an ongoing indicator of status. If the player accumulates more then 20 bananas he will unlock this: 
(its a sushi roll). Also, there’s gooseberries. For every 10 correct answers the player will get 1 gooseberry 
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When its not in some sort of mode where it is touchable?
and all of this doesn’t work
3 is the index of the item you would like to click
listView1.performItemClick(listView1, 3, listView1.getItemIdAtPosition(3)); |
RadLex for android is a program that uses Stanford’s BioPortal Webservices to retrieve data about the RadLex Ontology / Lexicon / Dictionary. It currently allows the user to navigate the tree structure from concept to concept starting at the root term.
This application requires full Internet access permissions and is dependent on Stanford BioPortal’s webservices http://bioportal.bioontology.org being operational.
RadLex is available for free download at the Android Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=radlex.wave
User Instructions: [Short Click] or tap on a concept, will navigate to its children or sub-terms. [Long Click] or hold on a concept, will popup a dialog with a definition and other term details (if it has any).
Some time ago, I had come across some interesting data about Scotch Whiskey. I soon, decided to parse it and display it in an android app. The app can be downloaded for free at the Android Market https://market.android.com/details?id=Scotch.App
This Scotch data can be downloaded here below.
http://www.bio.umontreal.ca/casgrain/en/labo/scotch.html
This file being parsed : scotch.xls
To get this Excel Data into my android java application: Using Microsoft Excel, I simply saved it as a *.csv, opened it using notepad, and copy and pasted it into a string variable (String scotchData).
For each row of different Scotch, parse the appropriate columns for their values.
I also added a tasty photograph taken by Kyle May.
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