human computer interactive learning

Today I decided to look at where my friends live and compare this to where they were born.
Here is where my friends were born:

Here is where my friends now live:

With all of the talk about the recent SOPA (H.R. 3261) Bill , I decided I better use some of my skills to try to take a look at what may or may not be lurking inside this little guy. To start with, here is a quick little word map that has gone through very little pre-processing.

Today I created a miniature robot fashioned to talk about itself as my friends might. I used a surprisingly simple approach to achieve the results you are about to see. I couldn't believe how strikingly realistic this little guys/gal sounds. First I'll show you a picture of the raw output and then I'll give my attempt at translating it into normal text.

Today I decided I wanted to see what common interests connected my friends. I used similar social network analysis techniques only this time I was interested in finding common interests. You can feel free to take a look at it- you can drag the different pieces around and it will re-organize itself. Let me know what you think!

This is a post about a social network that I was graphing the other day. I have hidden the actual data, but I have left the visualization for you to play with! Let me know what you think. FYI- I will probably post one with visible data in the next couple days.

IBM wants to create a scalable solution to language translation. The project, n.Fluent, taps into IBM's 400,000+ workforce through crowdsourcing and advanced linguistic techniques. Crowdsourcing uses the strength of social networks and Web 2.0 orientations to solve complex problems. Social networks allow complex problems to be broken into hundreds or thousands of smaller sections, each manageable by a single individual, to be distributed and then solved collectively.

This week is devoted to Windows 7, especially the upgrade to 7 from Vista. Suffered with Vista long enough? Ready to finally upgrade to a 21st-century operating system?

When is the last time you checked the internet before going to the doctor to see what it is that may ail you? You are not alone. Free symptom diagnosis has become a common sort of website offering clues to possible new medical conditions that a user may have. However, could the DIAGNOSIS actually be creating the CONDITION?

Internet search overload, a slogan recently used by Microsoft to popularize their new Bing engine, is a phenomenon we can all relate to. Microsoft advertises Bing as the "first ever decision engine." What does Bing actually decide for us? Speaking for myself, I certainly prefer to make my own decisions, don't you? What I think consumers actually want, in order to solve the "search overload" dilemma, is a search-engine that gives us the appropriate information so that we can make our own decisions.