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Orange in Ubuntu 10.10

Orange is an open source data visualization tool, it seems to be quite nifty, however it is a bit tricky to get it to run under Ubuntu 10.10 (or any other Ubuntu if you’ve got Python 2.6 installed).

There is a very short guide on how to add the repositories and install Orange using the [...]

Social networks and media consumption

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the vast majority of my YouTube consumption came from links people in my Twitter, Facebook, etc. feeds posted to their timelines.

This got me thinking. How is our media consumption affected by our feeds (or our friends feeds actually)? Which types of media are affected more than [...]

Mahout on Hadoop in Windows

In an earlier post I described how to deploy Hadoop under Cygwin in Windows. This time I’ll show how to get Mahout running in that environment. [...]

Hadoop + HBase + Cygwin + Windows 7 x64

In this post I will describe how to get a Hadoop environment with HBase running in Cygwin on Windows 7 x64.

Having spent the better part of a week reading through blog posts and documentation, I found that none of them covered the process in full detail, at least not for the software versions I [...]

If you’re reading this, you might have read my previous posts about RecSys2010, and in that case you might know that I had axtremely high expectations for this year’s RecSys conference, and I was not dissappointed.

The conference program had been extended from last year and now included two days of workshops: [...]

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