Clickstream analysis is a basic form of metric used to determine how much traffic comes to a site and some analysts also look at the quality of the traffic using this metric. There is more research being done into clickstream analysis because it is littered with noise, has a very high dimensionali[...]
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December 11th, 2008 - 2:26 am § in Uncategorized
Advances in IE for the Web
This article was published in the ACM communications and was written by Oren Etzioni, Michele Banko,Stephen Soderland, and Daniel S. Weld. It’s freely availble and you can read the whole issue here. Google usually give you way too many documents when you’re searching for a very simple[...]
December 9th, 2008 - 9:04 pm § in Uncategorized
The importance of Datamining
Data mining is also called knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD). Data mining is the extraction of useful patterns and relationships from data sources, such as databases, texts, the web… It has nothing to do however with SQL, OLAP, data warehousing or any of that kind of thing. It uses [...]
December 7th, 2008 - 11:58 pm § in Uncategorized
10 free papers: semantic relatedness of words
There’s a lot of buzz about keywords and their semantic relatedness recently so I thought I’d volunteer 10 good papers, freely available via citeseer to widen or extend the conversation. The list is obviously by no means exhaustive. Non-computer scientists, don’t be afraid of the[...]
November 27th, 2008 - 1:54 am § in Uncategorized
Google, my backend system
Right now, we’re the web equivalent of the horse and cart. We have invented the wheel, and domesticated animals and this has revolutionised our existence, especially the way in which we do business, but…I don’t see Ferrari’s, E-type Jags or anything like that right now in w[...]
November 17th, 2008 - 7:23 pm § in Uncategorized
PhD offer – for the academics
Just a shout out to the academic readers, the University of Geneva has a PhD position in Machine Learning for Multimedia Information Retrieval going if you want to apply. You’d be working in: * multimodal information access, including: o multimodal data analysis o interactive learning * La[...]
