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11 years ago

First day at PSLC has started with a bang, seems like lot of interesting students and mentors are here. Looking forward to the developments, would keep you guys updated. Classes of EDM Method (Banker & Yacef, 2009) - Prediction - lot of emphasis - Clustering - Relationship Mining: whether students are - Discovery with Models - Distillation of Data for Human Judgement Prediction: Develop a model which can infer a single aspect of the data (predicted variable) from some combination of other aspects of the data (predictor variables) - Does a student know a skill? - Which stud...

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11 years ago

Next Version of Vialogues out!!

The Vialogues team is proud to announce the release of an updated Vialogues with new features and enhancements. Some of the new features included in this release are: - New User Interface. - Notification. - New look for embedded vialogues. Enhancements: - Moderator comments are identified. - Editing of comments are allowed - Emails send when users comments. We're looking forward to people using these and other features in a variety of educational/commerical settings. Thanks to the entire Vialogues team in getting this release out: Gonzalo, Amelia, Josh, Alex, Wei, ...

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11 years ago

Twitter Analytics

I found this tool really helpful in getting simple analytics of a search term.

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11 years ago

Monitoring real time comments on your product

I was going through Google search today and found that their realtime tab only lists out tweets or other realtime information about the search query. I found it interesting that I could also schedule an alert which could be send to me on daily basis about top 10 discussants discussing about the search term. Here is an example of what I found for

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11 years ago

O'Reily Online Seminar on Disruptive Startups

It's an online conference which would be held today from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST. Please see the link for registration and additional details.

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11 years ago

Notification System for Vialogues

Please use this space to share your thoughts and comments.

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11 years ago

The Future of Library, are we ready for it?

While reading I came across this blogpost by Seth Godin who wrote "LinchPin", about the future of Library. I hope people can take this opportunity to share their thoughts on what they think would happen in future (to librarians and libraries) and whether they agree with what Godin is prophesying.

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11 years ago

Osama bin Laden dead

I know this won't be breaking news by the time people read this post. But that is not the purpose of this post. I was using Livestream to get inspiration for new features we include in Vialogues when I saw President Obama declare that Osama bin Laden was dead. I checked the NYTimes to verify. My idea is to use LiveStream to do broadcasts on Vialogues since it would be distinct and useful. I eagerly await feedback on Tuesday at the D&R meeting. Also,...

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11 years ago

Apple and Google Collecting User data

I know its not "new" news about Google and Apple collecting data of their users. However here is the Wall Street journal article highlighting what's being done to address these issues.

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11 years ago

JFK recent accident of Airbus A380

I am sure most of you would have heard about the recent accident that happened at JFK Airport where Airbus A380 had a minor collision with a smaller aircraft. I think this issue brings up new questions about a) How these airports have to scale up for accommodating bigger aircrafts like A380, Boeing Dreamliner. b) Also how to facilitate the checkin and checkout of not only people but also these aircrafts as the airports are already overloaded with the surge in air travel. In addition to this, the recent expans...

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