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by olihb 11y ago
Very cool, I did the same thing a while back for the Canadian Parliament. Unfortunately, the party discipline in Canadian politics makes it less interesting. It has done in flash, when flash was cool... http://olihb.com/2011
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by olihb 12y ago
I'm just saying that we must be careful citing CSDM numbers because they represent a special situation. The CSDM have a lot of first generation immigrants, poor students, students with learning disabilities, etc. The middle class stude
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by olihb 12y ago
As anything else, the situation is more nuanced. Quebec schools as a whole are pretty good: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/quebe... The problem is that good students are mostly in private s
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by olihb 13y ago
It's still a project from minority government and all institutions/cities can withdraw from it. Montreal(1.65M pop) said that it will not apply the charter in their city. It still has a long way to go, but it's a good way to
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by olihb 13y ago
Right, but there's a subset of Open Access articles from Pubmed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/tools/openftlist/
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by olihb 13y ago
Not illegal at all. We have plenty of towns with English names.
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Show HN: A Map of the Geographical Structure of Wikipedia Links(olihb.com)
2 points by olihb 14y ago|0 comments
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by olihb 14y ago
Author here. What I find really interesting about this map is that the articles seem connected at a local level instead of internationally. When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense because usually article will say: "this city is nea
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A Map of the Geographical Structure of Wikipedia Links(olihb.com)
2 points by olihb 14y ago|1 comments
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by olihb 14y ago
Very nice and more interesting than the bar charts/graph that other twitter visualization tools give us. It would be really cool (and informative) if you could add a small word cloud when the cursor hovers over a city. I did a similar non-i
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by olihb 14y ago
No. Women (and men) are attracted to assertive behavior, not aggressive behavior. Huge difference.
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by olihb 14y ago
It's not the same data, but I did a PCA with the voting record of Canadian MPs. It's a bit old, so it's in flash instead of html5. You can access it here: http://www.votum.ca
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by olihb 15y ago
In the video, they say that the water is filtered and chlorinated before going into the cooling system.
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by olihb 15y ago
This doesn't work on my cellphone's voicemail. I guess the new systems closed that hole.
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Show HN: Interactive Viz of Scientific Collaborations between American Cities(olihb.com)
2 points by olihb 15y ago|0 comments
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by olihb 15y ago
Nice. It would be very interesting to correlate the migration with unemployment. The outliers (eg: bad economy but migration influx) would be even more interesting. By the way, I did something similar for scientific collaboration between Me
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by olihb 15y ago
Exactly. These phenomena are notoriously non-linear. IMHO, the best way to calculate a good index is to model (usually log-transformed) the relationship between the venture capital dollars and the population (or overall investment, number o
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by olihb 15y ago
I really don't like Elsevier, but the alternatives do not really exist. Most open Access aggregators are of dubious quality and don't provide an interface for peer-reviewing. Even worst, the harvesting standard (OAI) is implemented in so ma
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by olihb 15y ago
I really don't like Elsevier, but the alternatives don't exist Most open Access databases are of dubious quality and don't provide an interface for peer-reviewing. Even worst, the harvesting standard (OAI) is implemented in many different w
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by olihb 15y ago
I'm sure that most big production/distribution houses are not panicking because it's still a new way to distribute content and it's a niche product, but I'm wondering what they are thinking of this right now. Do they view this as an emergin
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by olihb 15y ago
I was a market research for a couple of years, and 1,25$ per completed survey is cheap if you don't manage your own panel database. We paid around 3.50$ per respondent (french speaking adults in Quebec) and it was significantly more for spe
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by olihb 15y ago
It seems I cannot reply to TeMPOraL, but here are some citations: Iyengar, S. 1991. Is Anyone Responsible? How Television Frames Political Issues. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press. Iyengar, S. et Kinder, D. R. 1987. News That Matte
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by olihb 15y ago
Nice, but most visualizations don't take in account the scaling effects present in the data. Most social science systems are wildly non-linear. IMHO, the best way is to try to model the data, then calculate the ratio between the predicted a
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by olihb 15y ago
We use aho-corasick to extract keywords from terabyte size corpus. Works really well but you have to build your matching tree before.
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by olihb 15y ago
I work in scientometrics, which is like econometrics but with scientific papers and patents (patents are not optimal, but it's an adequate proxy for innovation). It's useful to detect new trends in science and adjust funding accordingly. We
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by olihb 15y ago
This is crazy, the CPU is under the RAM chip (step 9). Is this kind of layout frequent? I guess you can't have a high power (and high heat dissipation)...
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by olihb 15y ago
I invested a lot of time in learning and deploying Flex. It's been a lifesaver when I had to code quick visualizations, dashboards, analytic tools, db interfaces, etc. Now I would like to transition over HTML5, but it seems that all the too
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by olihb 15y ago
I heard about that on a forum a while ago, but my point was that when you find a novel way to profit from the stock market you keep your mouth shut.
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by olihb 15y ago
I'm sure that plenty of hedge funds were using these feeds (blogs, twitter, etc.) for years. They just kept their mouth shut because it's foolish to broadcast that you have an edge on your competitors... I bet that since it's out in the ope
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by olihb 15y ago
It's only an uneducated guess, but if the visual part of thoughts are generated in the visual cortex, then the device might be able to see those thoughts. On the other hand, this whole thing is starting to look like the Deus Ex Trailer...

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