Category Archives: The Cloud

Jaro-Winkler in ORACLE and textual fuzzy matching

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Menagerie Press

There is a little-known (and hence heavily under-utilized) function in Oracle 11g and up. This is the Jaro-Winkler algorithm (and the companion algorithm named Edit Distance). The Jaro-Winkler algorithm tells you what level of permutation would be necessary in order … Continue reading →

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Free Online Public Data Sources: An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Menagerie Press

Free Online Health Data Sources: An Annotated Bibliography By William Murakami-Brundage 1st edition, February 2012 There exists a shortage of usable data sets and public health data. Whether your interest is biomedical engineering, health informatics, data mining, or public health … Continue reading →

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The ‘Drunken Master’: A Prototype Case-Based Reasoning System

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Menagerie Press

This shows the system that I have been working on. It extracts the data from an API feed, parses it and cleans it, and then feeds it into Protege, at which point a case-based reasoning system is built around the … Continue reading →

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Visualizing World Bank Indicators: Research Poster

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Menagerie Press

At this point, I kind of forget where my research is going, and also where it has been. Anyways, I will send this out on the Internetz for anyone whom is interested. It is the corresponding presentation to the KML … Continue reading →

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Yahoo Pipes Mash-Ups and Future Projects

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Menagerie Press

I have been experimenting with mash-ups, with the ultimate plan to incorporate them into mobile applications and websites. Yahoo Pipes offers an easy way to create mash-up systems. Pipes is primarily focused around RSS, JSON, XML, Flickr, and geocoded data … Continue reading →

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Data Mining with RapidMiner 5.1, GATE, and Weka 3.6.4

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Menagerie Press

Over the last 6 months, I have been working intensely with a host of data mining software. Some of it was good, some of it was lousy, and some of it I can only rate as excellent. You will need … Continue reading →

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China’s International Hacking Exploit

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Menagerie Press

A quick not-so-technical bit about April 8, 2010. One of China’s smaller Internet providers tricked online traffic into flowing through China’s ISP system. Quite a few Federal/high-security computer networks also happened to be rerouted. If you didn’t know, traffic can … Continue reading →

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Many Eyes: Data Visualization Made Easy with IBM and Cognos

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Menagerie Press

Article first published as Many Eyes: Data Visualization with IBM and Cognos on Technorati. Probably the little-known champion of easy data visualization is Many Eyes, a SaaS offered via Cognos and IBM. Hosted on IBM’s servers, Many Eyes allows pure data … Continue reading →

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The Deep Web: The Internet’s Obscure Data Mine

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Menagerie Press

Deep Web. Invisible Web. The Hidden Internet. Every knowledge professional, from librarian to data mining specialist, should know that the Deep Web exists. The term “Deep Web” refers to data and resources that are not accessed by typical Googling. Examples include university-hosted databases, organizational Wikis, topic-specific forums, and other volatile locations difficult to index with typical bots and spiders. Notably, some of these massive websites can be very information-intensive – and also nigh-impossible to crawl via current public methods. Continue reading →

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Jing: Viral Powerpoints made easy!

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Menagerie Press

Jing: Viral Powerpoints made easy!

Have you ever wanted to place a screenshot directly onto Twitter? Do you want to record your screen and stick the video on Facebook? Even though you may regret doing this later in life, TechSmith has made this possible with Jing, their simple-to-use screen/audio capture and upload program. Continue reading →

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