Algorithm – Insight Sciences

The cancer social network

May 21, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management

New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network
Derrick Harris, gigaom.com

Often times, the best way to to get a sense of your data is to look at it. A bunch of of numbers or words might not mean anything sitting within a table, but they start to make a lot more sense when they’re turned into a chart. In fields like…

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New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Computer algorithms help find cancer connections (eurekalert.org)

Your FB likes become your demographic profile

March 18, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

What Your Likes On Facebook Betray About You
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

Another nail in the coffin for Facebook privacy: An algorithm can accurately predict your demographic info, political preferences, and more, just by looking at your “likes.”

Think of all the pages you’ve “liked” on Facebook. Perhaps a favorite…

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If you want attention on Google+, go large and horizontal with your images (techi.com)

Narrative Science: Using computational linguistics to automate storytelling

June 1, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Linguistic Search

The new startup Narrative Science is slowly replacing many of the stories you read every day by using computational linguistic algorithms to summarize data from online sources on subjects from finance to sports. It is also scaring the pants off of journalists everywhere.

Narrative Science