2015.07.16: github, rss_article_recommender

Talks

• bbest on git & github: bbest.github.io/ds-git
• stevenjbrown on article recommender: github.com/stevejbrown/rss_article_recommender

Pitches

• rss article recommender
  • connector: zotero now, maybe mendelay...
  • algorithm: now bag of words, alternative word2vec
  • mine: arxive.org papers avail for download
  • train:
    • ideal abstract
    • worst abstract: look at rejected articles. arxive vs snarkive
• deep learning
  • classify images
  • Google's deep dream example (see main wiki)

Asides

• graph theoretic exercises
  • software: sna R package, networkX Python module, Gephi GUI
• hierarchical Bayes models
  • software: stan starting with "eight schools" example