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The Dataphiles: September 2009
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Saturday, September 26, 2009. Machine Learning Protest at G20. I have returned to the blogosphere to report on our successful voicing of machine learning concerns at the G20 People's March yesterday. John Oliver of the Daily Show showed up. All in all it was a success. For full set of pictures, go HERE. Posted by Mary McGlohon. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The views and ...
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The Dataphiles: KDD 2008 <3's social networks
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Wednesday, August 27, 2008. KDD this year put a lot of focus on social networks research. In addition to the long-running WebKDD,. Produced "Snack DD". Or at least it should be.) The Matrix and Tensor Methods. Workshop also included a paper featuring graph mining, and of course matrix methods in general are important for SNA. There were also two relevant tutorials. Posted by Mary McGlohon.
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The Dataphiles: The popular get richer
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Sunday, September 7, 2008. The popular get richer. Pardon the hiatus; I have been busy at KDD and moving back to Pittsburgh (which included a 4-day scenic drive across the country). In the spirit of the season I've been looking at a large dataset of campaign donations, from 1980 to 2006. This data is free to the public from the FEC; I've parsed and made it available on my website. There ar...
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The Dataphiles: September 2007
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Sunday, September 9, 2007. Brains, politics, and PhDs. According to this study. Posted by Mary McGlohon. Links to this post. Tuesday, September 4, 2007. The many faces of Milgram. In the networks seminar class, we are currently discussing Milgram's small world experiment. And the various papers written about it. The small world experiment being that a bunch of people across the U.S...The s...
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The Dataphiles: June 2008
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Sunday, June 8, 2008. Book: Beyond Fear, by Bruce Schneier. I read this a couple months ago and failed to take it with me to Seattle, so I've lost the notes I took on it, but it at least bears mentioning. He proposes looking at a security problem/solution using the following steps:. 1 What assets are you trying to protect? 2 What are the risks to these assets? Posted by Mary McGlohon.
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The Dataphiles: April 2008
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Thursday, April 17, 2008. How to make time for literature review. The top 10 or so should be what I covered today. Also a fun article: via Physics Arxiv Blog. To How Many Politicians Should Government Be Left? I also discovered that Jure. Was smart enough to submit last year's SDM paper. Which yielded a citation. That has prompted me to register so I can post other publications. While in S...
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The Dataphiles: Why can't we be journal-driven like real scientists?
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Sunday, August 1, 2010. Why can't we be journal-driven like real scientists? I have been in the depths of thesis-draft writing, so I believe that around 60% of my angst is an extremely acute case of senioritis. However, the other 40% is founded on actual frustrations with academia, which I am working on articulating bit by bit. I just got back from my last conference as a grad student.
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The Dataphiles: December 2007
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Thursday, December 13, 2007. Andrew Tomkins on search data privacy. Yesterday Andrew Tomkins gave a talk at CMU. He addressed some social media, but a large part of his talk was regarding how it's tough to "anonymize" search data. Using the AOL scandal. As an example, he basically granularized that data and showed in surprising ways that you can identify people. Posted by Mary McGlohon.
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The Dataphiles: Machine Learning Protest at G20
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Saturday, September 26, 2009. Machine Learning Protest at G20. I have returned to the blogosphere to report on our successful voicing of machine learning concerns at the G20 People's March yesterday. John Oliver of the Daily Show showed up. All in all it was a success. For full set of pictures, go HERE. Posted by Mary McGlohon. Misseswaffles if you please. That made my day! October 16, 200...
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The Dataphiles: November 2007
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A blog for data mining, machine learning, and other bits from stats, math, CS, and social sciences. And other stuff. Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Cosma Shalizi just sent me a paper, Power Law Distributions in Empirical Data. That uses real statistics to fit power laws and other models that power laws are often mistaken for. Yesterday's discussion in the seminar we're in was on a Barabasi paper. And Stouffer et al's response. The first thing I would like to check on is the observation (in SDM 07. We had ...
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