January 2012 – Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

Seminar: IDSC Resources Overview

The CCS Resources Seminar offers an overview on the expertise and computational resources available through the Center’s High Performance Computing (HPC) core as well as an overview of the research and development capabilities of the software engineering team. The seminar is ideal for faculty seeking information on how to utilize these resources on existing and future research projects. Read more “Seminar: IDSC Resources Overview” →

Presentations

Clustering Stability: Impossibility and Possibility

This presentation was addressed to a specialized audience of people in Data Mining and Machine Learning. The talk provided a theory that showed how clustering stability can be used to choose the correct number of clusters, as well as demonstrate the importance of cluster stability and discussed the use of stability for clustering evaluation. Read more “Clustering Stability: Impossibility and Possibility” →

Presentations - Archived

Dimension Reduction (Mostly) Presentation by Bertrand Clarke

This presentation by Bertrand Salem Clarke (UM) entitled “Dimenson Reduction (Mostly)” was a review of the basics of machine learning with commentary on the major dimension reduction techniques. Read more “Dimension Reduction (Mostly) Presentation by Bertrand Clarke” →

Presentations - Archived

Nextone Player: A Music Recommendation System Based on User…

This paper “Nextone Player: A Music Recommendation System Based on User Behavior” modeled music listeners listening patterns using a “forgetting” factor—a slow exponential decrease in the freshness of music that was listened to. The effectiveness of the model was confirmed using a simple music jukebox program that makes a recommendation for the next piece to listen to and allows the listener to “skip” to the next song. Read more “Nextone Player: A Music Recommendation System Based on User Behavior” →

pan>January 2012

Seminar: IDSC Resources Overview

Clustering Stability: Impossibility and Possibility

Dimension Reduction (Mostly) Presentation by Bertrand Clarke

Nextone Player: A Music Recommendation System Based on User…