I’m currently preparing myself for two weeks of Catalan sun, first in Girona for UMAP2011 and then another week in Barcelona for IJCAI2011. Not having been to either of these conferences before, I am (needless to say) quite excited.

At UMAP I will be presenting a poster evaluating how certain demographic data affects [...]]]> http://alans.se/blog/2011/umap2011-and-ijcai2011/feed/ 0 http://alans.se/blog/2010/social-networks-and-media-consumption/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://alans.se/blog/2010/social-networks-and-media-consumption/#comments Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:09:37 +0000 alan http://alans.se/?p=748 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 [...]]]> http://alans.se/blog/2010/social-networks-and-media-consumption/feed/ 4 http://alans.se/blog/2010/mahout-on-hadoop-in-cygwin/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://alans.se/blog/2010/mahout-on-hadoop-in-cygwin/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:55:39 +0000 alan http://alans.se/?p=727 http://alans.se/blog/2010/mahout-on-hadoop-in-cygwin/feed/ 0 http://alans.se/blog/2009/recsys09/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://alans.se/blog/2009/recsys09/#comments Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:04:57 +0000 alan http://alans.se/?p=246 RecSys09

A couple of weeks ago I attended the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems which was an experience nothing else than excellent.

Day one started with a tutorial on trust based recommendations bu Jenifer Golbeck who is an authority when it comes to trust and recommendation systems. Luckily she was kind enough to [...]]]> http://alans.se/blog/2009/recsys09/feed/ 0