Joel Grus • 2/15/2016

Building a Stupid Data Product, Part 2: The Web Service (Haskell)

This technical article details the second part of building a 'stupid data product'—a web service that generates random science questions. It covers defining Haskell types for questions and tokens, implementing a random question generator using a Markov chain approach with transition dictionaries, and creating a concrete API with the Servant library to serve the questions as JSON.

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#api #json #Web Service