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Forbes Among 30 Clients Using Computer-Generated Stories Instead of Writersmediabistro.comBy Jason Boog on February 17, 2012 4:42 PM Here's more about the program, used in one corner of Forbes' website: “Narrative Science has developed a technology...
Twitris Social Media Analysis Tackles Occupy Wall Street, 2012 Elections (RT @amit_p: Twitris 360 degree Social Media Analysis tackles #ows: http://t.co/K1RazPJS #socialmedia #semanticweb...
Int'g step twd open-source data: MT @KDMCinfo: KDMC at UC Berkeley announces freeDive, a tool to make embeddable DBs http://t.co/kInxOLy5...
A team of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers has developed a modeling and simulation package that allows users to create their own social-network models instead of having to call in professional modelers.
“This is what was so extraordinary about his original question: he is evidently so steeped in newsroom culture that he does not understand – literally, does not understand, as we know from his subsequent clarifications – that this is not a hard...
At any given time I have several Crazy Awesome ideas. One I’m thinking about: Why not take my 10 year old out of school for a year, and do a curriculum entirely based on high-seas piracy? Because, really, what can’t you learn from pirates?
A series of programming and technical guides on how we collected data for Dollars for Docs.
Data engineers replace old-fashioned hacks : joel-garner: Today saw the launch of the first ever International Data Journalism Awards by the Global Editors Network.
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Above is an animated gif. If you click on the image, it runs an animation depicting a spatial analysis of key words in the Summary of World Broadcasts between 1979 and 2010. In a previous post (...
As Marie Wallace of IBMremarked, it's great to see the term semantic content enrichment generating discussion although she continued, “I suspect that most people still don't differentiate it from just text analytics.” There is a ...
SQL made Snuggly: Your PANDA Is Here, and It Demands Data!
Spurred on by an online debate about the distinction between text analytics and semantic content enrichment, I turn in this article to the pressing question: "What does semantic content enrichment mean?
Via Jeff Beddow
Spurred on by an online debate about the distinction between text analytics and semantic content enrichment, I turn in this article to the pressing question: "What does semantic content enrichment mean?
Following on from A Tool Chain for Plotting Twitter Archive Retweet Graphs – Py, R, Gephi, here’s a quick view summary view over #UKGC12 tweets saved in Google Spreadsheet archive as developed by Martin Hawksey, generated from an R script (R code...
OMG you guys — ASCIImeo takes any web video and turns it into animated ASCII art! *faints and dies* At first I thought it was broken because it doesn’t play instantly. I assume it is buffering the video and transcoding it into ASCII.
Newspapers should have regularly-updated lists of agreed-on facts: brigidfitzgeraldreading: There’s fairly broad agreement that quoting public figures saying something wrong about Subject X in a news story, and then correcting the record on Subject...
“I would describe programming as a craft, which is a kind of art, but not a fine art. Craft means making useful objects with perhaps decorative touches.
20 Useful CSS Graph and Chart Tutorials and Techniques - DesignModo: pragmaticpeck: Had some discussion about CSS 3 and all the seemingly amazing things that people are able to do with it. Worth the look.
One thing you need in order to produce web apps independently is some appreciation for the basics of front-end design. This is a great roundup — check it out.
Update: An expanded version of this tutorial will appear in the new Elsevier book Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications by Gary Miner et. al which...
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