New digs in the Loop January 31, 2012 We moved into our new place at 180 W. Adams last Thursday, and made a video while we were moving. Check it out: We've been doing a lot of thinking about how to ma...
Analysis of State of the Union Address speeches
HomeBlogAbout UsWorkContentContact Us | || || Advertisment | ||| State of the Union ||A couple of days ago, President Obama gave his 2012 State of the Union Address. I listened with interest.As I was ...
What is the probability of getting a Yahtzee?
HomeBlogAbout UsWorkContentContact Us | || || Advertisment | ||| Yahtzee Probability |Santa brought my kids the game of Yahtzee for Christmas. We’ve been playing it a lot in the evenings. When a Yahtz...
Writing to a text file from SQL Server
Data Miners Blog A place to read about topics of interest to data miners, ask questions of the data mining experts at Data Miners, Inc., and discuss the books of Gordon Linoff and Michael Berry. Tues...
Quick Introduction to ggplot2
Quick Introduction to ggplot2 This is a bare-bones introduction to ggplot2, a visualization package in R. It assumes no knowledge of R. For a better-looking version of this post, see this Github repo...
Introduction to Conditional Random Fields
Introduction to Conditional Random Fields Imagine you have a sequence of snapshots from a day in Justin Bieber’s life, and you want to label each image with the activity it represents (eating, sleepi...
Another successful year for facebook
HomeBlogAbout UsWork we doContentContact Us | || || Advertisment | ||| Facebook Worldwide Registrations Another strong year of growth for Facebook, who finished 2011 with just short of 800 million reg...
A geek plays darts
HomeBlogAbout UsWorkContentContact Us | || || Advertisment | ||| A geek plays darts Darts is a very common English pastime. It involves the hand launching of sharp projectiles at a wall-mounted target...