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timothy vogel replied to Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D.'s discussion Call for Speakers: Association for Computing Machinery - Data Mining SIG in the group Text Mining
"Dear Patricia,We at Readware, Inc. and heur-e-ka, LLC would love the opportunity to present Dr. Tom Adi's published works (papers and miscellaneous book chapters) spanning his theories of cognition and  emotion via semiotic…"
Dec 9, 2010
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Call for Speakers: Association for Computing Machinery - Data Mining SIG

Check out our web site for descriptions of past talks: http://www.sfbayacm.org/?cat=5Check out videos of past talks:  http://acmvideos.primowebdesign.info/index.htmlOur group meets the fourth Monday of every month and meets at …See More
Dec 9, 2010
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DMSIG – On Diversity, Complexity, and Regularization in Ensemble Models, January 24, 2011

LOCATION: LinkedIn, 2025 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043Date: Monday January 24, 2011; 6:30 pm 6:30 – 9:00 pmSpeakers: Giovanni Seni, PhDTitle: On Diversity, Complexity, and…See More
Dec 9, 2010
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DM SIG – A Tour of a Modern Search Engine 5/24/2010

Location: LinkedIn, 2027 Stierlin Ct., Mountain View, CA 94043.Date: Monday May 24th, 2010; 6:30 pm Notice: NEW MEETING day of Month for 2010 – the fourth Monday…See More
Apr 11, 2010
Greg Makowski replied to Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D.'s discussion Association of Computing Machinery Machine Learning / Data Mining Camp March 20, 2010 in the group Conferences
"As of Thr, 3/11, we have 265 people signed up so far!"
Mar 11, 2010
Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D. replied to Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D.'s discussion Association of Computing Machinery presents Data Mining / Machine Learning “Camp” March 20, 2010 in the group Time Series
"Prof Robert Tibshirani has a humurous but true comparison: Machine learning .................. vs .................. Statistics network, graphs .................. vs .................. model weights .................. vs ..................…"
Mar 5, 2010
Steffen Springer replied to Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D.'s discussion Association of Computing Machinery presents Data Mining / Machine Learning “Camp” March 20, 2010 in the group Time Series
"I agree with Paul. Data Mining is not all about finding a cure for cancer automatically. Sometimes it is just to help finding people what they want. I cannot count the times I have looked for books in special fields, when Amazon first helped me to…"
Mar 4, 2010
Paul Wilson replied to Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D.'s discussion Association of Computing Machinery presents Data Mining / Machine Learning “Camp” March 20, 2010 in the group Time Series
""data dreaming"... ha, ha , ha...never heard of it before, but it sure made me laugh to hear the term :) I agree with this statement "Data Mining 80% pre-processing/data hygiene/massage and 20% inference seeking. Fail to do the first…"
Mar 3, 2010
timothy vogel replied to Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D.'s discussion Association of Computing Machinery presents Data Mining / Machine Learning “Camp” March 20, 2010 in the group Time Series
"Why does anyone analyze anything? Attaching meaning to low-level patterns in nonsensical relationships like "people interested in Barack Obama are also interested in me" is not analysis, and is actually little more than a superficial…"
Mar 2, 2010
Paul Wilson replied to Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D.'s discussion Association of Computing Machinery presents Data Mining / Machine Learning “Camp” March 20, 2010 in the group Time Series
""Data Mining, whatever it has come to mean, starts and ends with inference." Not quite clear what you're trying to say here. Care to elaborate?"
Mar 2, 2010
timothy vogel replied to Patricia Hoffman, Ph.D.'s discussion Association of Computing Machinery presents Data Mining / Machine Learning “Camp” March 20, 2010 in the group Time Series
"Dear Patricia, While you're there, can you ask the LinkedIn brain-trust co-sponsoring this deep-dive into "data mining" to stop connecting us all with Barack Obama already? As in "people who looked at your profile recently…"
Feb 28, 2010
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Thanks to all that attended! Data Mining Camp

The event was a great success! Over 225 people attended. There was great excitement. It was an amazing event.There is a blogs about the camp:General impression: http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/acm-data-mining-camp-silicon-valley-report/Focus on R: http://bit.ly/3sM5kQBioMedical:…See More
Nov 2, 2009

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Create Concrete Solutions for Abstract Problems using applied mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, modeling, simulation, and systems engineering.
Ph.D. in applied mathematics.
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http://patriciahoffmanphd.com/
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Industrial Statistics, Statistical Consulting, Environmental Statistics, Artificial Intelligence
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Create Concrete Solutions for Abstract Problems using applied mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, modeling, simulation, and systems engineering. Ph.D. in applied mathematics.

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Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics

Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics: Yehuda Koren's paper (http://research.yahoo.com/files/kdd-fp074-koren.pdf) , describes recommendation algorithm incorporating time dependent info.



Koren's paper describes in part the winning algorithm for Netfix's contest, http://www.netflixprize.com//index . It is very interesting algorithm and all comments on the paper are welcome. A news article describing the team is here:… Continue

Posted on August 5, 2009 at 9:03am

The Facebook Era Presented by Clara Shih, CEO of CrowdContext

http://sfbayacm.org/events/2009-08-19.php



Presented by: Clara Shih, CEO of CrowdContext

Date: Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 6:30 PM

Location: Hewlett Packard

Bldg. 48, Oak Room

Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, CA



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The Facebook Era (Prentice Hall 2009) is a newly released book about how social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are ushering in a new era of business, relationships, and culture. It also discusses what companies need to do… Continue

Posted on July 29, 2009 at 1:05pm

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At 1:46pm on September 26, 2009, Vincent Granville said…
Hi Patricia,

You are welcome to post your seminars at http://www.analyticbridge.com/group/conferences. They will appear on all pages (right column) and stay visible much longer.

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