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UMAP2011 and IJCAI2011

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.

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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. [...]

#RecSys2010

RecoMMender Systems

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: [...]

#RecSys2010 day 0

I’m in Barcelona, at a hotel a stone’s throw from Parc de la Ciutadella, getting ready for RecSys2010.

Arrived here yesterday and spent most of the day in my hotel room working on my slides for my presentation at the Doctoral Symposium tomorrow. Or at least, I planned on working on them. This being my [...]

RT @abellogin: Huge #recsys survey (from physics people): 97 pages, 321 refs http://t.co/3v6m3591 about 16 hours ago from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
RT @aquigley: Submit to DC! RT @pervasive2012 The submission system is now open for Pervasive 2012 demos, posters, videos and doctoral c ... 01:11:06 AM February 08, 2012 from web Reply Retweet Favorite
"new" x201 thinkpad (Core i5) runs laps round my old x200 thinkpad (Core2Duo) :) 09:07:58 PM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
The #recsys2012 Call for tutorial proposals: http://t.co/Hrn27DL2 #recsys 08:14:13 PM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
Time to sign up http://t.co/C885BVvJ #recsys2012 #recsys 02:36:37 PM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
#recsys2012 Call for Workshops is out: http://t.co/EzwGbBPv #recsys 02:15:39 PM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
RT @pbrane: Mahout 0.6 is out! http://t.co/QkPHaeub (release notes: https://t.co/LhcR25EC ) 12:27:52 AM February 07, 2012 from web Reply Retweet Favorite
RT @mstrohm: due to many requests, the HT'2012 submission deadline was extended. for more info please see the conf. website http://t.co/ ... 08:33:13 PM February 06, 2012 from web Reply Retweet Favorite
I wish there was another 3-4 weeks till #iui2012.... #brokendemo 07:20:58 PM February 06, 2012 from web Reply Retweet Favorite
@tototingle sadly the alternatives aren't really that much better. 07:05:09 PM February 06, 2012 from web in reply to tototingle Reply Retweet Favorite

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