Posted by richardh on Apr 7, 2012 in Blog, Featured | 0 comments
This last week a nine-week online course entitled “Learning From Data”started, taught by by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa. As they promoted… “A real Caltech course, not a watered-down version, broadcast live from the lecture hall at Caltech.” The course objective is “machine learning that covers the basic theory, algorithms, and applications, that enables...
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Posted by richardh on Apr 6, 2012 in Blog, Featured | 0 comments
I was poking around in Nathan Yau’s FlowingData blogs and found a historical gem. On January 1, 2008, Nathan wrote a blog on John Tukey, the pioneer in exploratory statistics. I did not realize that Tukey was also a pioneer in the early use of computers for data visualization!
In 1972 using “32 buttons and a lightpen” on “an Information Display’s IDIIOM refresh CRT...
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Posted by richardh on Mar 23, 2012 in Blog, Featured | 0 comments
In the overview blog of the VAST Challenge, we described the background and focus of the challenge, along with available data. In this blog, let’s probe the criteria for a healthy network has defined in Mini-Challenge 1A:
Create a visualization of the health and policy status of the entire bank enterprise as of 2 pm on February 2. What areas of concern do you observe?
It seems that...
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Posted by richardh on Mar 20, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
In the overview blog of the VAST Challenge, we described the background and focus of the challenge, along with available data. In this blog, let’s survey the geography of this weird planet called BankWorld.
It is the same size of Earth, but consist of a single large land mass, about the size of Europe and Asia, but situated over North American, the north part of South American and the...
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Posted by richardh on Mar 18, 2012 in Blog, Featured | 0 comments
The Visual Analytics Community released their VAST Challenge 2012. [By the way, VAST stands for "Visual Analytics Science and Technology".] This challenge has a ten-year lineage initiated by the Human Computer Interface Lab at the University of Maryland and archived at the Visual Analytics Benchmark Repository. The challenge will conclude on July 9 and become a session at IEEE VisWeek, which this...
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