Archive for the ‘Natural Language’ Category
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
I'm a fan of Open Source technology as well as interesting visualizations... so when I came across this experiment in information visualization on the creation of Open Source applications, I was intrigued.
This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits (when a developer makes changes to the code or documents) ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I've read a lot on this topic already as Google released a Visualization API for users and developers 2 days ago.
From the official Google Blog,
"Instead of delivering just one or two new types of reports, or a new visual map mashup, we decided to deliver a platform on which ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
I found this interesting word tree on Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
The author comments:
However, let's consider the utility here. The visualization uses font size to indicate frequency. This certainly gives one an intuitive feeling of the relative distribution of patterns, but no quantitative information. Also, due to ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Anselm Spoerri brought searchCrystal to my attention after my post on Kartoo, a visual web searching tool. This is quite a tool!
Anselm wrote:
searchCrystal is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines or RSS ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Click on the image to the left to expand it. It is a large graphic.
Well, the topic is a little dated as the State of the Union was back in January, but I found this NY Post Infographic to be really nice. It shows, over time, the relative ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
I have always liked language. I studied several languages as I went through school, and I was always fascinated by the slight nuances in language from one culture to the other.
Language evolves, and is in many cases imprecise. I think this is one of the major challenges for ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
As a proud graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, I like to look in at some of the research that is ongoing. This post provides a little information about the Informedia project.
The overarching goal of the Informedia initiatives is to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Almost a year ago, I met with the President of TrendIQ, Paul Feldman. For some reason, I keep thinking back to my meetings with him. His company is in an extremely interesting space.
TrendIQ provides customized business intelligence that tracks trends based on publicly available information. Roughly speaking, ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Wouldn't it be great to extract meaning from an unread document? TextArc is a remarkable step towards advancing that goal.
A TextArc is a visual representation of a text—the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
The next version of SQL Server is targeted for a 2008 launch, which basically means it is coming out some time in the future. There has been a lot of talk about this database having increased business intelligence functions as well as additional data types to handle unstructured data. ...
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