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Setting up WordPress on a GoDaddy hosting account is really not difficult (this blog is an example that it can be done!).  Below are my notes on the process.  If you glance at these steps, and don’t want to mess around with this, consider using one of the following hosting services which come with […]

Flash remoting is a big improvement over forms/cgi for communication between flash and server.  There’s a great little project called amfphp for using php with flash remoting.  There’s a whole lot less great (but appreciated!) version called amf::perl for perl and python. There is little documentation, so I thought I’d post an example. 
Here’s […]

In my daily work I tend to manipulate fairly large datasets, such as Wikipedia, U.S. Patents, Netflix Ratings, and Imdb.  Here’s a few tricks I’ve come across so that you don’t lose time waiting for your programs to finish. 

Use Storable

Over the past year and a half I’ve been hooked on the language Processing. I’ve even contributed a early version library for visualizing social network data. 

This post is a bit off topic for this blog.  However, I recently decided I really needed an off-site backup service (er, I lost some files).  And, as usual, I spent way too much time looking around the web for such a service.  Anyways, I thought I’d share my homework.   To give you an idea of my […]

All Google Tech Talks are here (Google EngEDU is the actual name of the talk series). Thought I’d compile a top ten list…

Python and Python 3000. Two talks about the Python language given by its inventor Guido van Rossum. The first is about the language’s origins and the second is about its future.
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I recently posted an efficient algorithm for computing the similarity of two Wikipedia pages (or any two nodes in a network) using cocitation similarity. Another type of similarity which may be worth considering is bibliometric coupling, in which two pages are similar if the pages they link to are similar. What is interesting is that […]

I’m working on a visualization, a ‘map’ if you will, of Wikipedia pages. The map will layout pages close to one another if they are similar. So, in order to create such a map I need to compute the similarity of any two Wikipedia pages.
For my first attempt at this, I decided to […]

15 Views of a Node Link Graph: An Information Visualization Portfolio by Tamara Munzner

Scholarly Data, Network Science, and (Google) Maps by Katy Borner

Geographical & Historical

WorldProcessor. Globes overlaid with information. Beautiful…must see!
Wikisky Google maps for the stars.
Flight Patterns Visualizations of FAA data.
TextArc: History of Science Beautiful.
2007 Calender. Brad Paley design.
31 days in Iraq. Visualization of deaths in Iraq. Depressing.
Tracing the Visitor’s Eye Flickr tags on a geospatial basemap.
Schreiner International Cables Map. […]

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