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Open Source News: “Hating Microsoft/IBM/Oracle/etc is not a strategy”
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Publishing News: “Hating Amazon is not a strategy” Sorry, the parallels to the open source community and the virgins, hermits and saints that regularly abuse the vendors who support most of the successful open source projects, either directly or indirectly, was just too obvious to pass up. Apologies to Don Linn for stealing his line. [...]
SDShare
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
SDShare (PDF file) According to the blog entry dated 16 December 2011, with a pointer to this presentation, this is a “recent” presentation. But the presentation has a copyright claim dated 2010. So it is either nearly a year old or it is one of those timeless artifacts on the web. The ones that have [...]
P2PU
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
P2PU From the website: At P2PU, people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback. I just ran across the site today but was wondering if anyone else has used it or something similar? In order to grow the usage of topic maps, some [...]
Tall Big Data, Wide Big Data
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Tall Big Data, Wide Big Data by Luis Apiolaza. From the post: After attending two one-day workshops last week I spent most days paying attention to (well, at least listening to) presentations in this biostatistics conference. Most presenters were R users—although Genstat, Matlab and SAS fans were also present and not once I heard “I [...]
R package DOSE released
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
R package DOSE released From the post: Disease Ontology (DO) provides an open source ontology for the integration of biomedical data that is associated with human disease. DO analysis can lead to interesting discoveries that deserve further clinical investigation. DOSE was designed for semantic similarity measure and enrichment analysis. Four information content (IC)-based methods, proposed [...]
SolrEntity Processor
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
SolrEntity Processor From the web page: This EntityProcessor imports data from different Solr instances and cores. The data is retrieved based on a specified (filter) query. This EntityProcessor is useful in cases you want to copy your Solr index and slightly want to modify the data in the target index. In some cases Solr might [...]
Essential Keys
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Essential Keys From the post: I often wonder how ‘IT Professionals’ get away with what they do without being able to execute the simplest computer tasks. Seeing a 200$/hour consultant fiddling with the mouse cursor, repeatedly missing keys and taking seemingly endless minutes just to log in to a Siebel application makes me cringe. So [...]
SQL to MongoDB: An Updated Mapping
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
SQL to MongoDB: An Updated Mapping from Kristina Chodorow. From the post: The aggregation pipeline code has finally been merged into the main development branch and is scheduled for release in 2.2. It lets you combine simple operations (like finding the max or min, projecting out fields, taking counts or averages) into a pipeline of [...]
Data, Best Used By…
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Data, Best Used By: From the post: To state the obvious, “Big Data” is big. The deluge of data, has people talking about volume of data, which is understandable, but not as much attention has been paid to how the value of data can age. Instead, value is often actually not just about volume. It [...]
Mr. Pearson, meet Mr. Mandelbrot:…
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Mr. Pearson, meet Mr. Mandelbrot: Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets Something you may enjoy along with: Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets. Jeremy Fox asks what I think about this paper by David N. Reshef, Yakir Reshef, Hilary Finucane, Sharon Grossman, Gilean McVean, Peter Turnbaugh, Eric Lander, Michael Mitzenmacher, and Pardis Sabeti [...]
Semantic Prediction?
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Bug Prediction at Google From the post: I first read this post because of the claim that 50% of the code base at Google changes each month. So it says but perhaps more on that another day. While reading the post I ran across the following: In order to help identify these hot spots and [...]
Airport Watch!
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Airport Watch! I ran across Private aircraft flight plans won’t be disclosed after all, says FAA, which reads in part: The owners and operators of private aircraft won a reprieve on December 16 when the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it will continue to allow those owners and operators to keep confidential their plane’s tail [...]
Content Analysis
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Content Analysis by Michael Heise. From the post: Dan Katz (MSU) let me know about a beta release of new website, Legal Language Explorer, that will likely interest anyone who does content analysis as well as those looking for a neat (and, according to Jason Mazzone, addictive) toy to burn some time. The site, according [...]
Google; almost 50 functions & resources killed in 2011
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Google; almost 50 functions & resources killed in 2011 by Phil Bradley. Just in case you want to think of other potential projects over the holidays! For my topic maps class: Pick one function or resource Outline how semantic integration could support or enhance such a function or resource. (3-5 pages, no cites) Bonus points: [...]
Google removes more search functionality
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Google removes more search functionality by Phil Bradley. From the post: In Google’s apparently lemming like attempt to throw as much search functionality away as they can, they have now revamped their advanced search page. Regular readers will recall that I wrote about Google making it harder to find, and now they’re reducing the available [...]
Decoding jQuery
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Decoding jQuery by Shi Chuan. From the introduction: Open source is not open enough. To open the open source, in the Decoding jQuery series, we will break down every single method in jQuery, to study the beauty of the framework, as an appreciation to the creative geniuses behind it. What looks like a promising series [...]
IBM Redbooks Reveals Content Analytics
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
IBM Redbooks Reveals Content Analytics From Beyond Search: IBM Redbooks has put out some juicy reading for the azure chip consultants wanting to get smart quickly with IBM Content Analytics Version 2.2: Discovering Actionable Insight from Your Content. The sixteen chapters of this book take the reader from an overview of IBM content analytics, through [...]
Strong v Weak AI – The Chinese Room in 60 seconds
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Strong v Weak AI – The Chinese Room in 60 seconds by Mike James. Whichever side you are on, I think you will agree this is a very amusing and telling presentation. Certainly there is more that can be said for either side but this presentation captures its essence in 60 seconds. What I keep [...]
Broad Institute
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Broad Institute In their own words: The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT is founded on two core beliefs: This generation has a historic opportunity and responsibility to transform medicine by using systematic approaches in the biological sciences to dramatically accelerate the understanding and treatment of disease. To fulfill this mission, [...]
Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets
Planet TopicMaps - Mon, 2011-12-19 11:06
Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets by David N. Reshef, Yakir A. Reshef, Hilary K. Finucane, Sharon R. Grossman, Gilean McVean, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Eric S. Lander, Michael Mitzenmacher, Pardis C. Sabeti. Abstract: Identifying interesting relationships between pairs of variables in large data sets is increasingly important. Here, we present a measure of dependence [...]
