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 computational systems to adaptively improve their performance with experience accumulated from the observed data.” A book by the same title...
read moreThe 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 year is in Seattle on October 14-19. What is the challenge? The challenge deals with “Big Data” although the total amount of data is less...
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