• Data Mining Text Mining Visualization and Social Media

    Updated: 2009-11-30 01:32:44
    GeoAPI : all your lat/lons are belong to us: http://geoapi.com/

  • How to Use Twitter for Data Miners

    Updated: 2009-11-28 09:38:59
    You have heard of Twitter, but have no account? You have an account, but you don’t really know how to use Twitter? Or maybe you use it, but not as efficiently as you could. I found Twitter to be an invaluable tool for networking, sharing ideas, being up to date in a domain, asking questions, [...]

  • The Many Dimensions of Real Time

    Updated: 2009-11-28 04:29:42
    Update: A less abstract response to the Twitter as Cronkite post. With posts like this driving the debate over the value of real time ‘news’ we should stop and think a little about the nature of time, information, the networks...

  • Where does all this stuff come from?

    Updated: 2009-11-27 21:42:30
    It is becoming the norm now for content on the web to have come from a source other than the page you are looking at. A recent search pulled up this interesting collection of maps in an old blog post....

  • Mass Weather

    Updated: 2009-11-26 05:55:54
    New to me is Cliff Mass’ blog which gives a thoughtful weather prediction illustrated with a variety of graphics. Cliff is an atmospherics science prof at the University of Washington. [HT Todd]

  • Chris Jordan Exhibit

    Updated: 2009-11-26 05:51:01
    Yesterday, I saw the Chris Jordan exhibit at the Pacific Science Centre. Jordan uses his artwork to speak about the problems of over consumption and pollution. His pictures are essentially photoshopped aggregates of every day things. Perhaps his most famous...

  • Linking Offline with Online Data is Part of the Coming Revolution in Web Analytics

    Updated: 2009-11-23 00:26:10
    As you may know, I’m working on a project (FinWEB) to merge offline (CRM) with online (WEB) data for targeting. One key aspect in this project is the link between the CRM data from a company and the visitor behaviors on its website. I recently read a very interesting article from Eric T. Peterson – [...]

  • Navigating Complex Movies

    Updated: 2009-11-16 14:14:58
    XKCD has some interesting (and humorous) graphics describing the paths that characters in movies (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Primer) intertwine.

  • Visualizing Differing Articles

    Updated: 2009-11-16 00:37:07
    An interesting article on BLPRNT which presents a tool for exploring the differences between two articles (think diff for natural language). Two Sides of the Same Story: Laskas & Gladwell on CTE & the NFL from blprnt on Vimeo.

  • DMR Poll: Privacy Issues when Merging CRM and Web Customer Data

    Updated: 2009-11-10 19:49:21
    I would be interested to know what is your opinion about internet privacy, especially when a company combines their customer data (CRM) with visitor behavior on its website for further targeting (product recommendations, content personalization, advertising, etc.). I’m looking forward to seeing the results. Feel free to comment this post with some remarks if needed.

  • A Few Words on the SAS Forum Switzerland

    Updated: 2009-11-08 15:42:43
    I recently went to the SAS Forum Switzerland which took place in Baden (see this post for more details). It was a one day event with some interesting talks. Swiss-based companies using SAS products such as Diso, Systematika, FinScore (where I work), etc. where present. Examples of presentations from the SAS team and external people [...]

  • Painting with Flickr

    Updated: 2009-11-07 06:18:25
    Cartogrammar has an interesting post describing using photographs tied to locations to interpolate average colours in a map. By positioning the pictures in space and analyzing them for colour distribution, then taking a function of the colours of pictures in...

  • If I Read This Book, Will It Make You Happy

    Updated: 2009-11-03 05:10:17
    Picking up Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, you might be forgiven for thinking ‘another book about goldfish jumping from one bowl to another?’ I’m currently...

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