Presentation: Big Data & APIs for PHP Developers /via @lxt @EliW #BigData #SXSW #PHP

Fabulous piece by @josephreisinger about tradeoffs between data and algorithms in machine learning via @ginablaber

"TeleHash is a new wire protocol for exchanging JSON in a real-time and fully decentralized manner, enabling applications to connect directly and participate as servers on the edge of the network. It is designed to efficiently route and distribute small bits of data in order for applications to discover each other directly or in relation to events around piece of shared content. The core benefits of TeleHash over other similar platforms and protocols is that it is both generic (not tied to any specific application or content structures) and is radically decentralized with no servers or points of central control."

RT @jeremie Awesome! RT Creator of Instant Messaging Protocol to Launch App Platform for Your Life via @marshallk
"Jeremie Miller is a revered figure among developers, best known for building XMPP, the open source protocol that powers most of the Instant Messaging apps in the world. Now Miller has raised funds and is building a team that will develop software aimed directly at the future of the web.

Called The Locker Project, the open source service will capture what's called exhaust data from users' activities around the web and offline via sensors, put it firmly in their own possesion and then allow them to run local apps that are built to leverage their data."

All code, slides and notes in support of "Data Bootcamp" tutorial at O'Reilly's Strata Conference 2011.

Genotyping from short reads using cloud computing

"…The people who are likely to produce breakthroughs--the really smart smarty-pants in the math departments of the world’s universities--don’t have access to large bodies of real-world data. And without real-world data, they can come up with as many hypotheses and new types of math as they like, but they’ll never really know if it actually works in the real world. It’s like trying to learn how to serve without tennis balls. You can swing as much as you like, but until you actually hit a real-live ball, you can never be sure if your swing would actually place a ball in the serve box.

For their part, the people who have real-world data--the Amazons and eBays of the world--can’t share it with the researchers for reasons of customer privacy. “Even if we anonymize it, we’re handcuffed because we can’t give out data that can be reasonably be used to reconstruct who someone really is,” the Chief Scientist, Darren Vengroff, tells Fast Company.

Vengroff, however, has come up with a novel solution: He’s created a “black box” of sorts with real-world data that researchers can use to run experiments on. Researchers won’t be able to look at the data, but they will be able to dump their algorithms in and have the box spit out results, which the researchers can then use to refine their hypotheses.…"

A Tutorial on Clustering Algorithms

Award for Math Model that Relates Biomarkers of Asthma with Clinical Outcomes: The Seeker is looking... #datamining

online datamining book

Online book: Introduction to data mining: this online book was created by the Data Mining group at t... #datamining

PredictiveDB uses SQL for on-line learning or predicting - become an alpha tester #datamining

Your choice of browser may affect the price you get on loan offers via @slashdot #datamining #strataconf

Fusion Tables is a service for managing large collections of tabular data in the cloud. You can upload tables of up to 100MB and share them with collaborators, or make them public. You can apply filters and aggregation to your data, visualize it on maps and other charts, merge data from multiple tables, and export it to the Web or csv files. You can also conduct discussions about the data at several levels of granularity, such as rows, columns and individual cells.

IBM to buy more analytics companies, rivals worried: IBM plans to buy more companies within the m... #datamining

IBM to buy more analytics companies, rivals worried: IBM plans to buy more companies within the m... #datamining

ZOMG! How did I miss this? _The Datamining desktop survival guide_: #stats #datamining #R #datapimp

"Apache Mahout's goal is to build scalable machine learning libraries. "

RT @eicg: “@zyxo: The best data mining algorithm ever : decision trees #datamining #decisiontrees "

RT @kshameer: Machine learning at scale at Google by @mndoci #machinelearning #datamining

A Chip That Digests Data and Calculates the Odds: The company is redesigning processing circuits from ... #datamining

Pervasive DataRush Reaches 2 TB/Hour Processing Speed: Pervasive DataRush(tm) processes MalStone B-10 d... #datamining

Zynga Stresses Visual Access to Its Vast Data Volumes: Zynga has over 230 million users monthly playing... #datamining

Privacy-Aware Knowledge Discovery: Novel Applications and New Techniques: edited by Bonchi & Ferrari. C... #datamining

Memphis Cuts Crime With Predictive Analytics: reports 31% drop in crime rate to knowing when and where ... #datamining

Provides both theoretical and practical coverage of all data mining topics.
Includes extensive number of integrated examples and figures.
Offers instructor resources including solutions for exercises and complete set of lecture slides.
Assumes only a modest statistics or mathematics background, and no database knowledge is needed.
Topics covered include; predictive modeling, association analysis, clustering, anomaly detection, visualization.

Data Mining and Rule Engine Software Download: CMSR is a new generation data mining and rule engine sof... #datamining

Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.
Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free

ThinkTank

ScraperWiki code libraries make scraping, parsing and geocoding simple

The Prediction API enables access to Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Upload your data to Google Storage for Developers, then use the Prediction API to make real-time decisions in your applications. The Prediction API implements supervised learning algorithms as a RESTful web service to let you leverage patterns in your data, providing more relevant information to your users. Run your predictions on Google's infrastructure and scale effortlessly as your data grows in size and complexity.

Mapping the Demographics of American English with Twitter - this will be a very rich area for academics #twitter

processing-related

RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Data - Only $9.99 use code DDBDA

Data mining with WEKA, Part 1: Introduction and regression: an intro to data mining and to WEKA, free a... #datamining

Boeing gives $1.25 million to launch new tech institute: Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics bring... #datamining

Interesting post: What is a good classification accuracy in data mining? #datamining /RT @paulblaser

Watch Online Data Mining Tutorial with RapidMiner 5.0

How to split up the US: what facebook tells us about the shape of the country. More: (via @brady)

krimelabb.com is ...
Austin city-wide crime data
free and no registration is required for basic service
a tool for viewing crime data from a variety of perspectives
updated daily
a mashup that leverages value from APD data, Google Maps and Streetview, news media and other resources

Fantastic Flickr pool collecting cool data visualization techniques http://is.gd/4PbAh

New Genomic Zoo to Collect DNA of 10,000 Vertebrate Species http://bit.ly/2CjdFJ

Stanford course in data visualization

pdf available online

Just realized that my old friend and information visualization wizard @wattenberg is on Twitter. Check this out: http://bit.ly/2MdMUH

Our digital bread crumbs can add up to something bigger. http://bit.ly/N8NEI ^VG