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The IRMA 2007 International Conference has a Data Warehousing and Mining track organized by Andrew Kusiak and Qiang Zhu. The conference will be held in Vancouver. A key to success for enterprises in today’s competitive markets is their ability to manage the staggering volumes and complexity of…
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Stephen cites Gwynne Dyer on these new scary terrorists who use liquid explosives: Maybe it’s cynical, but there are strong grounds for suspecting that this is all a charade. If they infiltrated these terrorist cells many months ago and now have arrested most of the members, then why would they…
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Statistical Data Mining Tutorials by Andrew Moore
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Andrew Moore has an amazing page full of Data Mining Tutorials on just about every important topic in Data Mining! My only regret is that his tutorials take the form of PowerPoint slides in PDF format which is not very readable. However, if you need to go quickly through most of Data Mining, this…
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Database-less: the new trend
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Following Tim Bray, Kunal Anand argues in favor of database-less systems. Or rather, of relational-database-less systems. Because really, what is a store of XML files if not some form of database? Several years ago, I wrote a GPL posting board. I claim I wrote the first GPL Java-based posting…
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FeedOnFeeds-Redux
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I just upgraded my RSS aggregator from FeedOnFeeds to FeedOnFeeds-Redux (FoFRedux): FeedOnFeeds-Redux (FoFRedux) is a continuation of the popular, but stagnated FeedOnFeeds project. FoFRedux provides a simple, yet effective browser-based news aggregator. It was well worth the update!
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I found a couple of papers making a claim that is likely to be controversial: a researcher could be anywhere in the world and still get as much research done. This would be new effect from around 1990 (birth of the web?). I’ll just cite the juicy parts and let you decide. The disappearance of…
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Big schools are no longer giving researchers an edge?
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I’m really impressed by TaskFreak! , a simple but efficient web-based task manager written in PHP. See the demo.
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Research on Computers and Games
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A student asked me today whether he could do research on videogames. The answer was a strong yes. Of course, all topics are valid ones. (Yes, you could even do research on porn, though it might be embarassing at times.) I decided to have a look at what journals and conferences there are in Computer…
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Google releases massive n-gram data set
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Numbered references in Word
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All n-gram geeks rejoice! Google just released a massive n-gram data sets: 1,146,580,664 five-word sequences that appear at least 40 times in 1,011,582,453,213 words of running text.
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Sylvie tells us how to create numbered references in Microsoft Word. I try to stay away from Word, but I ever have to use it again for a paper, I think Sylvie’s recipe might be useful.
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So, you think you are a big shot?
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The Power of the Marginal
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Just as BlackBoard sues because it has a patent granting it all rights over Learning Management Systems, the Open Source (GPL actually!) Moodle is pickup up speed. The Open University, arguably the largest online university in the world, has adopted it and so has our very own UQAM. Myself, I use…