bengolden/scicast_position_finder

Tool for finding your edits and exposure on SciCast

Instructions

1. Log in to SciCast.
2. Visit the following link: https://scicast.org/trades/?user_id=UID&include_current_probs=False replacing the letters UID with your user ID.
3. Copy the text located at this link into a file name 'trades.txt' and save it in the same directory as the trade analyzer.
4. Type "ruby trade_analyzer.rb" into the console. You'll need a recent version of Ruby (1.9.0 or later), which you can download here: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

This will create two files: position.tsv shows your net position for each question you've edited, and edits.tsv shows each of your trades.

Please let me know of any bugs, issues, or requests at [email protected]

Feel free to make any adjustments to this code, but please share with the SciCast community. Google group here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scicasters

Thanks to Jay Kominek for sharing the link above and to SciCast for being awesome.

scicast_position_finder's Issues

script won't run

My trades.txt is large (46MB). I'll try this tonight on an up-to-date ubuntu installation with the latest ruby, but here's the output from my work machine.

ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux]
ruby trade_analyzer.rb
trade_analyzer.rb:34: odd number list for Hash
args = {q_id: edit["question"]["id"],
^
trade_analyzer.rb:34: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting '}'
args = {q_id: edit["question"]["id"],
^
trade_analyzer.rb:35: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting '='
q_name: edit["question"]["name"].gsub(/[\n\t\r]/,""),
^
trade_analyzer.rb:35: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting kEND
q_name: edit["question"]["name"].gsub(/[\n\t\r]/,""),
^
trade_analyzer.rb:36: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting kEND
trade_analyzer.rb:37: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting kEND
trade_analyzer.rb:38: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting kEND
trade_analyzer.rb:39: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting kEND
trade_analyzer.rb:40: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting kEND
cat trades.txt | wc
0 4700131 48547178