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 WordPress pre-installed (fairly rare): An Hosting, Lunarpages, BlueHost, Yahoo
Steps for installing WordPress on a GoDaddy Hosting Account
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.
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.
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.
All Google Tech Talks are here (Google EngEDU is the actual name of the talk series). Thought I’d compile a top ten list…
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 it is only a few minor tweaks to the cocitation algorithm to compute bibliometricc coupling. Here’s the bibliometric coupling psuedocode (Perl style):
I’m working on a visualization/map 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 go with a cocitation measure of similarity. So, two Wikipedia pages will be said to be similar if other Wikipedia pages that link to one usually link to the other.
However, the naive way to compute this, looking at every pair of pages, is far too inefficient given that there are 650,000 pages in the English Wikipedia, and 14.5 million pagelinks. So I’ve worked up a much more efficient algorithm. Here’s the psuedocode…I hope someone, somewhere out in cyberspace will find this useful. (It can, in fact, be used to compute co-citation similarities for any data represented as nodes and links)
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. Old world map of cables.
Napolean’s March. Made famous by Edward Tufte.
