Speaking in ML
Back to school Naaman? It has been a long summer. I had the pleasure of working with Jude Yew (you will enjoy the stylish cartoon drawing of himself) from the School of Information in Ann Arbor...
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Twitter Sentiment Dataset Online
Late last year, Nick Diakopoulos and myself analysed the sentiment of tweets to characterize the Presidential debates. You can read about it in this paper. For this work, we collected sentiment...
View ArticleEarthquake@Home
Last month, John Forsythe and myself made a Chumby app called ShakeMe. The basic idea is like the Folding@Home or Seti@Home projects, where people lend their CPU cycles for some scientific research....
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Talk with Me (a.k.a. Wake me Up)
If you are reading this and live in the same great city as my good friend Dr. Naaman, you should go to the opening of the Talk to Me show at the MOMA, July 24th 2011. From their blog, they say: Talk to...
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R is calling…will you pick up the phone?
Over the past few years, my work has become rather quantastic. This is possibly due to the so called big data world we live in: a result of storage becoming cheap and computing becoming ubiquitous....
View ArticleIndexing Things in R
As Naaman pointed out, I took a couple of things for granted in my last tutorial. I assumed you know what a variable is, what a function is, and that you are comfortable typing into a command-line...
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R 2D data and simple Map Plotting
So by now you may have noticed I’m focused on the basics of how R represents numbers and vectors. That is the general point of this tutorial…not to show you how to type cor.test(…) and get a number...
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Taking R to the Zoo
Feeling pretty good about now? So far we’ve just played in the garden; there are problems when you enter the real world. Let’s start by looking at this dataset of TacoBell tweets. It’s about...
View ArticleTwo conferences, Two continents!
Can it be? Two concurrent conferences have papers by Ayman or Naaman? Are in Hong Kong or Dublin now? Are you? If you are at ICMR or ICWSM, find us and our colleagues! Or, if your stuck elsewhere,...
View ArticleOnline again
This blog, this Ayman Naaman Show, was started by two young researchers as a way to collaborate and post in a shared thought space. Over the years, our activity waned and moved to likes and retweets on...
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