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Shaun Maguire posted
Interesting article on Amazon's Web Services (cloud computing)
AWS has been the recipient of much hype over the last couple months, but if you are still not familiar with it, or want an insider's look into its positioning, read this new Wired article:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magaz...
Sean Sit:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/21/who-are-the-biggest-users-of-amazon-web-services-its-not-startups/
Surprisingly, 'Who Are The Biggest Users of Amazon Web Services? It’s Not Startups.'
Alex Gleitz:
Wow! I would not have expected that :-) Perhaps this line of thinking has to do with my own perceptions and the lack of knowledge about the architecture offerings...Would be interesting to see if large companies farm out what would be considered sensitive data or do they mask the identifiable personal (or supplier) information. What do you think?
Fri, Jun 6 at 3:00AM
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Ross Wait posted
Value of Networking Data
Interesting blog post:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Andrew...
Mon, Jun 2 at 1:09AM
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Sameer Yami
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Andreas Weigend
Just wanted to confirm the due date for hw6. Is it 1st June?
Sun, Jun 1 at 9:48AM
Bill W
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Did anyone else make a live web recommender for links? If so, post it here. I am intersted to see what other people did.
Here is mine:
Tue, May 27 at 5:50AM
Shaun Maguire
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Bo Cowgill
In case you didn't already know, your article on google's prediction markets was eluded to in the latest Wired!
Here is a link to the article: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magaz...
Tue, May 20 at 6:05PM
Jaebock Lee posted
Media discovery through Twitter
In the last class while we were discussing the problem of music recommendations and discovery, someone suggested that Twitter could be used as a tool for this. I came across this article while going through my feeds a few days afterwards and thought it was relevant enough to share:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/12/...
In short, the article talks about the company Blip and how it provide a way to suggest and discuss t...... [read more]
Fri, May 16 at 4:48PM
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Ashlee Miller posted
"Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media"
from 'sustainabog.org' interesting list of ideas / companies. Social responsibility meets social networking.
http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/12/te...
Mon, May 12 at 6:55PM
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Bill W
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If you get a 503 message, it is because you are being too aggressive with the del.icio.us servers and got throttled. Here is the link that explains it:
Sat, May 10 at 6:28PM
Bill W
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Is anyone else having problems with the del.icio.us assignment. Everything was working fine and then suddenly I started getting this error. Is any one else experiencing the same thing. Looks like the server crashed.
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 783, in get_urlposts
return getrss(url = url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 774, in getrss
return dlcs_rss_request(tag=tag, popular=popular, user=user, url=url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 414, in dlcs_rss_request
rss = http_request(url).read()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pydelicious.py", line 261, in http_request
raise PyDeliciousException, "%s" % e
pydelicious.PyDeliciousException: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable
Sat, May 10 at 4:06PM
Hamilton Ulmer
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This site reminded me of the very last presentation in class the other day. You can view and purchase what celebrities are wearing:
Wed, May 7 at 3:14PM
Ashlee Miller posted
Question: transaction costs and the environment
i was thinking in today's lecture about transaction costs and how we keep hearing that transaction costs are virtually zero in the new economy. (I use 'transaction' loosely to refer to most, if not all interactions, such as information sharing)
But today Andreas said that he had read someone determined that 1 GB transferred = 1 block of coal (or something like that). So really transaction costs are not zero. I'm wondering if we can model...... [read more]
Mon, May 5 at 9:45PM
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Sreeram Duvur posted
Job Post for a Data Mining position at eBay
Quite accidentally stumbled upon this posting on Craigslist, while looking through the output of a Yahoo Pipe
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sci/6...
Interesting to read what a data miner does for living in the real world.
Sat, May 3 at 6:05PM
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Sreeram Duvur posted
London Mayoral Elections and Internet Data
I am following the London Mayoral Race somewhat (Yup, I am bored with the Hillary - Obama race here in US :-). Hitwise had a nice blog enty on what is happening with internet and London Voters. Some interesting facts:
- Wikipedia is bigger than News and Media sites for voters who seek information on candidates
- If we think site traffic is a predictor, Boris Johnson should win (lets see)
- facebook sends a lot of traffic to at least two c...... [read more]
Shaun Maguire:
Very interesting data. Thanks for sharing.
Also, is the voting restricted to residents of London? If so, I don't see how you can compare % of UK traffic to % of US traffic. One is a local election -- the other is national.
Tue, Apr 29 at 10:52PM
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Ashlee Miller posted
"The Twittering Class and the Primaries"
quick mention of Twitter / microblogging intersecting with primaries.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/sundaysoapbo...
Mon, Apr 28 at 8:11PM
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J Benjamin Hernandez posted
Intrade - The Prediction Market
In reading "The Promise of Prediction Markets: A Roundtable" by The McKinsey Quarterly, I wanted to share this link with you,
http://www.intrade.com/
Pretty much, these are stock options on real events where people bet by buying and selling them. The prices seen are the probabilities of that event taking place, it is pretty cool.
Rgds.,
B Hernandez
Mon, Apr 28 at 6:57PM
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Shaun Maguire posted
Slashdot Review of Toby Segeran's Newest Book!
Dr. Weigend mentioned Toby and his book in class on Monday. I also think he said he will be visiting class?
Coincidentally, Slashdot had a review of his latest book today. They scored it a 9/10. Here is the link:
http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/04...
Cheers,
Shaun
Hamilton Ulmer:
For all the Stanford students in the class:
If you'd like to read Segeran's book online, you can utilize the Safari Books Online license Stanford has ...
<http: />
Follow the links, and you'll get to his book, along with any other O'Reilly book published.
Sreeram Duvur:
Hi, did you pull the link ? I was looking for it.
Mon, Apr 28 at 1:46PM
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Shaun Maguire posted
Berkeley student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail
This is not extremely relevant to our course -- but it is interesting and in some senses, close to home. Think of the reaction if Andreas twittered: "Arrested!"
Andreas Weigend:
This is cool indeed. Just having finished teaching 9 hours at Haas (UC Berkeley's GSB) today, I for a moment thought it was one of my students there :)
Sun, Apr 27 at 8:45PM
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Hamilton Ulmer
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Hey, all:
TechCrunch mentioned Friends For Sale. Especially interesting is the mention of competitors:
Fri, Apr 25 at 4:24PM
J Benjamin Hernandez posted
Facebook Poll
I am part of a group in MS&E271. Our final project is to promote the use of the Your2Cents application on Facebook. If you get a chance, please read further at,
http://www.facebook.com/business/?polls
We will be collecting data and analyzing it using the tools learned on STATS252. The actual application can be found at,
http://apps.facebook.com/yourtwocents/
Thank you.
Thu, Apr 24 at 6:35PM
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Karen Ryberg
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Please go to http://www.stanford.edu/~kryberg/
to help me get data for homework 2.
Sat, Apr 19 at 2:46PM
Quinn Slack
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Ashlee Miller
Hi Ashlee,
I've gotten more explanations for some speakers but not all. The poll's at http://www.polldaddy.com/p/516585/ if you want to check it out. Hopefully it should be ready soon. I'm just waiting for the green light on it now.
-Quinn
Thu, Apr 17 at 11:06PM
Steven Vasilakos
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Also see http://www.google.com/support/googlea... if you are using the newer tracking code.
Thu, Apr 17 at 6:19PM
Steven Vasilakos
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I have learned you can track individual links to pdfs and other non-html content with Google Analytics, but it appears to require moving the tracking code (see http://www.google.com/support/googlea....
Thu, Apr 17 at 6:17PM
Ashlee Miller
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Quinn Slack
Quinn - Are you getting the level of detail you need on the Guest Speakers to create the poll? Please let us know.
Thu, Apr 17 at 11:50AM
Bill W
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Andreas Weigend
I am unsure of the due date of HW2. I know that you talked about the assignments for the first part of the class on Monday, but I don't recall the exact due date for HW2 nor is it on the wiki that I can see.
Wed, Apr 16 at 9:28PM
Bill W
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I added a section to the bottom of HW2 on the wiki for people to place links to their homepage. Seemed like an efficient way to visit everyone's site quickly and generate a lot of good data.
Wed, Apr 16 at 9:23PM
LaVera Crawley posted
Cry for help...
I posted a cry for help on our class Facebook page. It is certainly indirectly related to this course (it's a data mining project I am working on), but not directly relevant to the current homework. Would surely appreciate if anyone can take a look at lend a hand.
For those not wanting to venture over to Facebook, I'll repost it here. But if you think it is inappropriate to take up space here, please meander or make your way over to the Fa...... [read more]
Wed, Apr 16 at 7:10PM
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Sunil Menon
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Please go to my website at: http://www.stanford.edu/~skmenon
I am collecting data for HW1. Thanks! I will do the same for you - send me an email with your website link.
Wed, Apr 16 at 12:08PM
Shaun Maguire posted
Prediction Markets
Professor Weigend briefly described prediction markets in class today. Specifically, he mentioned that if proper incentives are employed, people do an excellent job at predicting future events. Here is a recent article from Scientific American that talks about the Iowa Prediction Market and its success at predicting election outcomes over the last 15 years.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=m...
Bin:
There is a company called predictify in San Francisco Bay Area. They came to the spring career fair last week. I thought their business model is pretty interesting. Hopefully, professor will invite them to give use a talk.
Collective intelligience is great, don't you think so?
Here is a link to their company's site:
http://www.predictify.com/
Tue, Apr 15 at 11:06AM
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