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 moreI 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 driven by a Varian 620/i minicomputer linked to an IBM 360/91″, Tukey developed the PRIM-9 program to do multivariate analysis. It handled up to...
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