Location Tracking
Chronicle of Higher Ed reported about a computer application called, Locaccino, that made use of GPS (such as the ones found in new cellphones) to track anyone’s whereabouts. In the clip below, the reporters tracked down an RA using the application made by Prof Norman Sadeh (Cylab, Carnegie Mellon). I am not entirely sure if [...]
Survival analysis
After considerable search and thinking session, (and of course, conversation with Mike Young always help), it become increasingly clear to me that survival analysis may be even more appropriate than data mining. In some circle, data mining may be construde as fishing for data, and is always suspect. A more direct data analysis method would [...]
Twitter Streamgraphs
WebMonkey has a short write-up about Twitter’s StreamGraph. This is a new text-mining product by Twitter (after it acquired Summize. It visually maps the latest 200 tweets containing a particular given word/phrase. One can also mine a user’s Twitter contribution using the “@user” search function call. “The StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the [...]
drupal information
I have been using Drupal for some time now. In Drupal 6, I now found two modules which is of interest to my research: the charting function, and the click heatmap. While I am not surprised at all by these addition, I am curious if “everyone” else is moving to click heatmap as a way [...]
Campaign Trail and Network Theory
To better understand the process,a nd what it means about the campaign trail (trails?), I went on an information hunt. Well, I learned about The Presidential Election Process and the Campaign Trail. (The trail is typically singular, because it really referred to a single trail (tour). I learned from my discussion with Seb Pense that [...]
Data Visualization (Presidential Election)
GraphIn this article by Paul Kedrosky (CNET News.com): Dow Jones Insight is applying text analysis to thousands of documents to measure trends, such as favorability and issue coverage of the presidential candidates over time. (You can see the rest of the “graphs” here.) Dow Jones Insight, Nielsen BuzzMetrics and BuzzLogic are 3 companies offering similar [...]
Visualizing Communications
Over the past two months, MIT researchers have been collecting the electronic communications of the city of New York in order to build a census that shows, neighborhood by neighborhood, New York’s telephone and Internet links to other cities across the planet and how those connections change over time. Carlo Ratti, director of the SENSEable [...]
Measuring Effectiveness Through Time
Yet another Online Measuring Tool, this time by Microsoft. Yahoo! News reported the following about a management mapping tool. Generally, the success of an ad is determined on how frequently it is viewed or clicked. Microsoft said the most commonly used metric in the industry, counting clicks, is a poor way to measure the effectiveness [...]
Online Marketing Technology
How do Online (Internet) Marketing work? If retailers like Amazon can track faceless customers and convert the data collected into usable customer profiles, there could be something useful in that technology to track the gamers activity and convert them into learner profiles. Wikipedia listed the following attributes for Internet Marketing: Measurability: Almost all aspects of [...]
Tracking Your Communications
Yet another tracking software, this time for your BlackBerry. I don’t have one, so don’t know how it may affect my life, but I can imagine… Yahoo! News reports on Security Software Tracks BlackBerry Communications Gwava, the developer of security software, plans to introduce today a product that lets enterprises easily track and find text [...]
CGames 2007
I will be presenting “Assessing What Players Learned in Serious Games: In Situ Data Collection, Information Trails and Quantitative Analysis”at the 10th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational & Serious Games (CGAMES 2007) on July 25th – 28th, 2007, in Louisville, KY. This would be my first foray into the computer games [...]
Tracking Users’ MouseClicks as HeatMap
If you are a Web developer, or webmaster of a site, how do you know what your users do on your page? Tracking “eye traffics” on a web page is an expensive process where professional companies analyze their company’s web site for usability issues, and use the results to help web developers improve the web [...]
Trail Finding
The concept of “Information Trails” is based largely on the idea of Information Foraging (Pirolli and Card, 1999) and Information Scents (Chi, Pirolli and Pitkow, 2000). Information Foraging using Information Scents is a well accepted area of research in human computer interaction (HCI). In Information Foraging, nodes are (mostly) the Web pages, and trails are [...]
Visualization
We now have an “IT_ Tracer“ to visualize the Trails… looking good. Even though in my head I see it as a tracker (inline with Information Trails), my programmer obviously looked at it more from a “Draw” point of view (as he accomplished most of the Tracer’s ability using DRAW)… so, go figure. It really [...]