Come for the jokes, stay for the nonsense. This site contains my ramblings about programming, developer relations, stuff I’m working on, and the occasional machine learning/data mining pop culture mashup.
Although I was not heavily involved in the ACM ICPC competitions this past Fall, I followed the Pacific Northwest regional quite closely. Several of my former students were competing for the University of Victoria team and of course my new university (Stanford) was also competing. UVic had a great start to the competition, but ran into issues in the second half and ended up finishing in 9th...
Recently a project I am involved in at Stanford participated and won the Semantic Web Challenge at the International Semantic Web Conference. The Semantic Web Challenge is a competition for Semantic Web applications. For the uninformed, the Semantic Web “is a group of methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning – or ‘semantics’ – of...
Before I get into this post, I should first explain that I have decided to leave Stanford after January, 2011 for the wild and whacky world of industry. I will be joining WorkerExpress as the Chief Technical Officer. Briefly, WorkerExpress is start-up in San Francisco co-founded by Joe Mellin and Pablo Fuentes. We offer a service for blue collar workers to both market themselves and provide them...
Above is a picture of the coffee maker we have at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Research. Can you figure out how to make a large coffee with light strength? For the first month or two that I was at Stanford I did not know how to re-configure the coffee setting on this machine. I took whatever was the last configuration, so sometimes I got an expresso, sometimes a small coffee, or perhaps a...
What’s this? Another post? Yes indeed, two within a week of each other. My blog tends to work this way, my writing comes in waves. This post relates to data mining, visualization, and mashing up GMail with Facebook. I attended a talk last week at the CS department at Stanford and the speaker mentioned that they were using the “TO” field in e-mails to perform hierarchical...
It’s been quite a while since I last posted. I have had lots of things to talk about, but just haven’t found the time to write anything. In this post, I am going back to analyzing CrossFit-related data, but this time I am taking a completely different angle. Rather than analyzing scores and comparing athletes based on their performances, I am comparing athletes based on their...
This is my third foray into the world of CrossFit data analysis, this time looking at scoring. Recently, over at the CrossFit Games website, there was an article about Scoring CrossFit Competitions as well as one talking about Scoring Technology. I participated in a number of conversations in the comments section with regards to how competitions are scored. This post is going to be a bit of a...
Don’t care about my post and just want the good stuff, follow this link: CrossFit Data Explorer My last blog post was quite easily my most popular post to date (although my Searchy-type problems post did receive a fair amount of attention). One former student of mine explained that my entry had, “the most practical findings for average people. Most of your posts even I have trouble...
It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated. I’ve had lots to post about, but other things have taken priority. Today’s update is going to be a little different, but I think it’s pretty fun stuff. Any of my readers that know me personally know that besides being obsessed with computers and research related things, my other passion is fitness and sports. In particular...
I have put up an initial release on the OntoGraf visualization plugin for Protégé 4.1.
Also, I created a demonstration video. There’s a high resolution one available here and I also uploaded a version to YouTube, which you can watch below. The YouTube one is a bit blurry unless you switch it to the 720 HD version.
