Andrew Odewahn

Biography

Andrew Odewahn is the director of the O'Reilly Network. The author of Oracle Web Applications (O'Reilly, 1999) and co-author of Oracle PL/SQL Workbook (O'Reilly, 2000), Andrew specializes in telling stories with data. He holds an MBA from New York University and a degree in Computer Science from the University of Alabama.

Books

Oracle PL/SQL Programming: A Developer's Workbook
by Steven Feuerstein , Andrew Odewahn
May 2000
Print: $54.99
Ebook: $39.99

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Oracle Web Applications: PL/SQL Developer's Intro
by Andrew Odewahn
September 1999
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RouteWord Solutions
Publish Date: Dec. 31, 2003We've run the puzzles, now find out the answers! Here are the solutions to the 30 RouteWord puzzles Andrew Odewahn provided for us. RouteWord: Daily Puzzle
Publish Date: Dec. 1, 2003Throughout the month of December, we're running daily RouteWord puzzles from Andrew Odewahn. Here's today's puzzle. RouteWord: An Interesting Diversion
Publish Date: Nov. 26, 2003Graphs--loosely connected, unordered collections of nodes--are highly important to computer science. Visualizing graphs is even more important: think of maps, routes, webs, and any other interconnected relationships. Who says that can't also be fun? O'Reilly author Andrew Odewahn explains how he accidentally created a new type of word puzzle playing around with graph visualization. Babel Fish
Publish Date: Mar. 1, 2000I have two confessions. First, I'm obsessed with the hope of having my book, "Oracle Web Applications: PL/SQL Developer's Introduction," translated into Japanese. Second, I can't actually read a word of Japanese, or for that matter, any other language at all. My only attempt to use my one year of high school French was a dismal failure when I confidently wished a departing French-speaking couple "Oiseau" (Bird) instead of "Au Revoir" (Goodbye). Their laughter convinced me to stick with English.

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Use APIs to do market research

July 30 2009

Basic product attribute questions (what's the best price, size, length, etc) are crucial elements in any product or marketing strategy, but it's often too difficult or expensive to get timely market information. However, a quick script that pulls data from a relevant website's API can often give you an answer… read more

Visualizing the U.S. Senate Social Graph, 1991 - 2009 [Part 1]

May 05 2009

Arlen Specter's party switch was big news, but a quick visualization technique shows it was a long time coming. What other surprises might lurk in the Senate Social graph? read more

Simplify business research with Google Ajax Search API

April 13 2009

Business research usually starts with a list -- brands, competitors, people, products, whatever. This post describes a quick Python script that uses the Google Search API to automate the routine parts of the task, giving you more time to analyze and understand the results. read more

Visualization of Interests at Web 2.0 Summit

November 05 2008

To help make the most of this week's Web 2.0 Summit, I wanted to understand the overall audience gestalt - what are the broad themes, interests, and ideas that are important to the people going to the conference? A tag cloud can be a great (but admittedly imperfect!) way to… read more

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