Was just reading the charmingly titled blog post Google Scribe, You Autocomplete Me (via the even more charming Trevor Dawes). Scribe is a new Labs features that does exactly what you would guess — provides autocomplete suggestions for sentences. The Chronicle blogger does not like this. Predictably Scribe, when given sample text which must have [...]
Entries Tagged as 'data mining'
data mining for fun and…
November 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
That slideset yesterday was funny, so I’ve RSSed the guy’s blog. Liked this recent post about data-mining your circ records. His university now has a recommender system (both “people who liked this book also liked” and “people in this course of study tend to like”) and a course-of-study-specific search functionality (nursing and law students want [...]
Tags:data mining·dave pattern·discovery layers·findability·library 2.0·opacs·user needs
a false dichotomy
October 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
I really can’t decide if technologies like this are awesome or creepy. (There’s a video if you want the shinier, visual version. Plus which CEOs with quirky hair add something to any product.)
Tags:data mining·knowledge management·privacy·social network analysis·trampoline systems
