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Monthly Archives: April 2009
More and Faster versus Smarter and More Effective
Last month, in reaction to the “Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data” paper that made the rounds, Stephen Few from the Business Intelligence community wrote an interesting post: The notion that “we need more data” seems to have always served as a … Continue reading
Posted in Explanatory Search, Exploratory Search
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The Tyranny of Simplicity
One of my ongoing frustrations with modern, consumer-facing information organization and retrieval systems is the way in which functionality is often sacrificed in the name of simplicity. Full functionality under the rubric of simplicity is a laudable goal, and I … Continue reading
Posted in General, Information Retrieval Foundations
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World Pinhole Photography Day
While the focus of this blog is the retrieval of existing information, from music to images to videos to text, every once it a while it is nice to create new information as well. In that spirit I decided to … Continue reading
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Retrievability and Prague Cafes
A week or two ago I began writing a few thoughts about large-data based algorithms and retrievability. It was spawned by the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data position paper by a couple of notable Googlers, which then led to a brief … Continue reading
Posted in Information Retrieval Foundations
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Google Similar Images: Only 20%?!
A few days ago, Google launched “similar image search” functionality. From TechCrunch: A new 20% time Google project has just launched called Google Similar Images. It’s pretty self-explanatory — when you search for an image and find one close to … Continue reading
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Dagstuhl Seminar on Content-Based Retrieval
As a researcher, it is occasionally quite interesting to reread thoughts and positions that I’ve taken in years and works past. Sometimes I can observe a marked shift from my previous thinking; avenues or approaches that I once considered fruitful … Continue reading
“Improving Findability” Falls Short of the Mark
Via Tim O’Reilly on Twitter, I came across this article by Vanessa Fox on how government can improve the findability of their web pages, and thereby allow citizens to become better informed and government to be more transparent. Fox writes:
Posted in Exploratory Search, Social Implications
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Universal, Google launch ‘Vevo’ Music Service
From Wired: Vevo will launch later this year, a collaboration between Universal Music Group and Google the partners expect to be the leading music video service in the world from day one. Google confirmed to Wired.com Thursday that all of … Continue reading
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Retrievability
In my previous post I talked a little about the notion that big data alone cannot solve many of our problems. I would like to give a more concrete example of this by discussing a paper published at CIKM 2008: … Continue reading
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Large Data versus Limited Applicability
Large data can be extremely effective, but how widely applicable is it, really? A week or two ago the blogosphere was abuzz with discussion about the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data position paper by Googlers A. Halevy, P. Norvig, and F. … Continue reading
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