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mark's research: Most Popular Data Mining Algorithms
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Friday, February 15, 2008. Most Popular Data Mining Algorithms. Just saw this post on the Data Mining Research blog. About a summary paper on the top 10 data mining algorithms. As voted by the program committees of KDD, ICDM and SDM. The paper. Nearest neighbor (kNN) classification. October 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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mark's research: Google starts indexing behind web forms
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Friday, April 18, 2008. Google starts indexing behind web forms. A lot of interesting content on the Web is hidden behind Web forms and search interfaces. These pages are usually generated dynamically by database queries built using the form's inputs. Such dynamic sites are sometimes referred to as the Deep Web. Generating relevant inputs so as to probe and char...
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mark's research: Degrees of separation in social networks
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Wednesday, March 19, 2008. Degrees of separation in social networks. It's a common belief that there are six degrees of separation. By Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz. [Thanks to the physics arXiv blog. For pointing me to the paper.]. Interestingly they discover the average minimum path length between connected users (99.9% of all users) was 6.6. Other notable st...
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mark's research: Video on document topic models
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Video on document topic models. A friend of mine Mark Baillie. Pointed me to an excellent talk by David Blei. To the folks at Google on the use of Latent Dirichlet Allocation. LDA (a more rigorous statistical version of Latent Semantic Analysis. To discover topics/themes in the Journal of Science from 1880 to the present. Xanax is also p...
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mark's research: Predicting Airfares using Machine Learning
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Friday, February 8, 2008. Predicting Airfares using Machine Learning. Good research ideas can be turned into interesting and successful businesses. Case in point, a company called Farecast. That provides an airfare search engine (similar to Orbitz. By Oren Etzioni, Craig A. Knoblock, Rattapoom Tuchinda, and Alexander Yates. The paper was published at KDD...Corre...
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mark's research: June 2008
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Thursday, June 19, 2008. Gamers provide heuristic support for complex problem solving. Well, according to this post on the nature blog. The bioinformatics researchers at fold.it. Have done just that by creating a video game in which users help computer to perform the task of protein structure prediction. Links to this post. A colleague of mine Mostafa Keikha.
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mark's research: July 2008
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Thursday, July 10, 2008. Search rankings based on user navigation. For their current "information need". After a user submits a query containing term0. Is also visited by another user after submitting a different term, say term1. Moreover the latter term also resulted in clicks on pages: page1, page2,. In general, I like papers that go beyond analyzing the stati...
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mark's research: Reviewer ratings, best reviewer prize, anyone?
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Reviewer ratings, best reviewer prize, anyone? I've been doing some more reviewing lately and have started to think about the problem of motivating reviewers to write good reviews. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Search rankings based on user navigation. Reviewer ratings, best reviewer prize, anyone? Video on document topic models.
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mark's research: Don't believe all claims you read in research
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Friday, December 28, 2007. Don't believe all claims you read in research. I stumbled upon a very interesting article today titled " Why Most Published Research Findings are False. The natural tendency of researchers to investigate those hypotheses, which support their own prior research;. Small and insufficient sample sizes;. Regarding the dangers of searching f...
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mark's research: Staying anonymous online
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News and random thoughts from a Computer Science researcher in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Integration and Information Retrieval. Friday, January 4, 2008. In an online world is it possible to keep private data private? I've been working for a while using data that is publicly available online. It has struck me recently how much information about themselves people are willing to put online - me included. I have a list of public bookmarks, photos, a web page, a blog . In the paper the author...
