http://abeautifulwww.com Information Retrieval. Information Visualization. Data Mining. Artificial Intelligence. Web Programming. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:37:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Someone at work recently asked how he should go about studying machine learning on his own. So I’m putting together a little guide. This post will be a living document…I’ll keep adding to it, so please suggest additions and make comments. Fortunately, there’s a ton of great resources that are free and [...]]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2009/10/11/guide-to-getting-started-in-machine-learning/ Well, not entirely limited to libraries.  Useful stuff for visualization practitioners sounded a little non-specific, though.  These are all freely available. 1. Prefuse (Java) & FLARE (Flex)    2. simile (AJAX)    3. Processing (Java)     4. GigaPan (Service)     5. Modest Maps (Flash, Python) 6. Google Visualization API (Javascript) 7. Google Chart API (Javascript) 8. Google [...]]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/09/08/20-useful-visualization-libraries/  This is a quick look at the state-of-the-art of network visualization in systems biology. It’s an interesting topic on its own (and my day job at the moment), and also as it relates to the visualization of other types of networks, such as social networks (think Facebook). Systems biology is all about looking at proteins, [...]]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/05/29/network-visualization-for-systems-biology/ FINVIZ is a suite of free financial tools that takes advantage of modern visualization ideas.  The infoviz and interaction designs are certainly worth a blog post.  Here’s a look at their efforts… 1. Sector Visualization.  This visualization is a treemap implemented using the Google Maps API.   It shows how well sectors and companies (stocks) within [...]]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/05/12/a-look-at-finvizcom-financial-visualizations/ Why does it seem I have to look hard to find good data visualization examples?  Why do few tech companies devote resources to visualization (Google’s the obvious exception)?  Why are there relatively few job postings for visualization, with many of those there are requiring mainly graphic design skills and not data visualization skills?  I was [...]]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/04/20/5-reasons-visualization-is-not-more-prevalent/ A couple of years ago, I picked John Haugeland’s Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea up off the free book table in the computer science department of Indiana University. Finally read it this weekend.  Published in 1985, there’s  a lot to like about the book, but its definitely a product of its time.  That period [...]]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/04/13/haugelands-ai-views-25-years-later/ NYTimes.com has done a great job of moving beyond the static infographics found in newspapers.  10 favorites below…comment if you know of good ones I’ve missed.  Also, for further reading/viewing, see… - Playgrounds for Data: Inspiration from NYTimes.com Interactives - Infovis 2007 slides on Matthew Ericson’s blog…                 ]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/04/03/10-new-york-times-visualizations/ Just wanted to put up my slides from ETech this past week.  The talk is pretty similar to the talk I posted a few months ago, just a bit more fleshed out. [ppt][pptx][pdf] Unfortunately, I only made it to the conference for the day I was speaking.  Beautiful venue.  Seemed that most the [...]]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/03/11/etech-presentation-on-ensemble-machine-learning-3/ An information visualization conference, the See Conference, is being held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on April 19th.  Impressive speaker list.  The conference organizers plan to stream the speeches in real time via the conference website.    Ben Fry    Zachary Lieberman    Frank van Ham And comfortable seats! ]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2008/03/09/see-conference-information-visualization-to-be-streamed-live-in-april-2/ Here’s the slides from a 2-part lecture I’m giving on ensemble learning at Indiana University.  It includes a discussion of the Netflix Prize competition, and the use of ensemble techniques in that competition. [PDF][PPT] ]]> http://abeautifulwww.com/2007/11/23/ensemble-machine-learning-tutorial/