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Also, "liking" itself is a very limited way of expressing your thoughts on something. You might like pizza, but no anchovis. If you dislike a Pizza Anchovis, what does the system store? On the other hand, some interesting analogies and recommendations can be done with relatively simple like/dislike statements and multiple choice answers.\n\nHunch should incorporate serendipity.

A solid explanation of learning in a connectivist mindset.

Evaluating training: some alternatives to the Kirkpatrick method

Kynetx offers the premier platform for building a new breed of Apps that are context-aware, cross-platform, and act as event listeners in the cloud. Capable of interfacing with users on any URL or web-enabled device, Kynetx Apps give developers a way to "Program the Internet" and solve problems in uniquely interconnected ways.

A webwalk by Bert DeCoutere talking about the three principles of analytics (in a humourous way!).

Cloudera is a company that helps developers with big database problems. Here the CEO Mike Olson gives us a tour through the major database changes that are hitting lots of startups now.

This document was an attempt to persuade CERN management that a global hypertext system was in CERN's interests. Note that the only name I had for it at this time was "Mesh" -- I decided on "World Wide Web" when writing the code in 1990.

We thought it would be useful to propose one possible taxonomy - we call it the Snice* taxonomy - of what a data scientist does, in roughly chronological order: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, Model, and iNterpret (or, if you like, OSEMN, which rhymes with possum).

Here we've got a classmate PC demo that shows off Richard Beckwith shows off Classmate Assist which supports users seated or standing at the desk or table. This is an example of context aware computing. There are visual sensors that recognize the items on the table and instruct and walk the students through a series of educational tasks. The goal is to support existing curriculum and practices of teachers.

Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.

Last week ReadWriteWeb asked: "Is Linked Data Gaining Acceptance?" Our answer: definitely yes. Projects like DBPedia, a community effort to structure the information from Wikipedia and provide it as Linked Open Data, have come a long way and work really well. For example, you can search for all scientists born in Zürich, Switzerland.

Needlebase allows you to view web pages through a virtual browser, point and click to train it in understanding what fields on that page are of interest to you and how those fields relate to each other. Then the program goes and scrapes the data from all of those fields, publishes them into a table, list or map, and recommends merges of cells that appear to be mistakenly separate. It's very cool and it lets non-technical people do things with data quickly and easily that we used to require the assistance of someone more technical to do.

Demdex captures behavioral data on behalf of Websites and advertisers and stores it in a "behavioral data bank." The company then score each user across more than 40 behavioral and demographic variables to come up with a "traitweight," which helps websites segment their audiences better and advertisers target their messages more exactly.

Hace Estadísticas de tu Cuenta.

De hecho cualquier persona puede poner el nombre de otra y observar las estadísticas de comportamiento de esa otra persona. Es por tanto, una herramienta de doble filo, permite comparar tu actividad con la de otros, pero por otra parte están controlando a qué horarios te conectas, a quien retuiteas, cuales son las palabras que más utilizas, etc. A mí personalmente me ha sorprendido mis propias acciones. A veces piensas que vas en una dirección y sin embargo estás performando otra. Si alguna persona lo prueba, me gustaría saber su opinión. Saludos

"IN-SPIRE™ -- an information visualization software application -- provides a wealth of tools for exploring textual information, including query, subset, and trend analysis tools. Through visual representations of information, users can rapidly discover hidden information relationships from a variety of data sources such as technical and patent literature, marketing and business documents, web data, accident and safety reports, newswire feeds and e-mail message traffic."

"there is greater inter-disciplinary discussion occurring in analytics than what is generally found in an established domain". A key motivator for my interest. Co-operation is a must.

Data alone isn't the answer. In fact, from a business perspective, the data is still part of problem. Insight is the answer, which is derived from the data.

Analysis of 1,461 Blackboard courses. D & F students used CMS 47% less than students earning a C or higher. LAK11 http://tinyurl.com/4fp7oyk

Is Goodhart's law relevant when thinking about Learning Analytics

We've written a series of how-to guides explaining how we collected the data. Most of the techniques are within the ability of the moderately experienced programmer.