After building the In legend Youtube DVD I was able to convince my band mates that it is quite useful to use Youtube ads in order to reach new fans and promote our new videos. I have to say that I am not very experienced about youtube ad marketing but of course I understand the …
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My Blog guesses your name – Binary Search Exercise for Algorithms and data structures class
Binary Search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm is a very basic algorithm in computer science. Despite this fact it is also important to understand the fundamental principle behind it. Unfortunately the algorithm is tought so early and the algorithm is so simple that beginning students sometimes have a hard time to understand the abstract principle behind it. Also many …
11 lessons learnt after my first scientific paper was submitted
During the last month my blog was rather quite. I dicided that I was aiming to submit my first paper to a top conference with a deadline of november first. Well besides the fact that I almost forgot about the fact that I also have a private life – as well as my collegues helping …
First Youtube DVD online for Ballads n Bullets by In Legend
Recently I was rather quiet in my blog. Currently I am writing my first research paper for SIGMOD which takes 90% of my resources. In my very limited time I had the chance to work on a very cool web project about which I want to share some insights and talk about today. Inspired by …
Download network graph data sets from Konect – the koblenz network colection
UPDATE: now with link to the PhD thesis. By the time of blogging the thesis was not published. thanks to Patrick Durusau for pointing out the missing link. One of the first things I did @ my Institute when starting my PhD program was reading the PhD thesis of Jérôme Kunegis. For a mathematician a …
Internet educates africa! Open education – a success story!
Obviously education is one of the topics that is important to me. recently I wrote about a teach first project. 6 month ago I was participating in a workshop organized by the Universities of Koblenz. This workshop was for future entrepreneurs teaching them some basics about design thinking and about business plans! Together with two …
neo4j based social news feed demo on wikipedia graph running
UPDATE: you can find an evaluation of the following blog post and idea on: http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/graphity-an-efficient-graph-model-for-retrieving-the-top-k-news-feeds-for-users-in-social-networks/ Hey everyone I can finally demonstrate the neo4j and gwt system that I have been blogging about over the last weeks here and here. But please find the demo under the following adress: http://gwt.metalcon.de/GWT-Modelling The code will be available soon! …
Data mining (text analysis) for linguists on Ulysses by James Joyce & Faust by Goethe
Over the weekend I met some students studying linguistics. Methods from Linguistics are very important for text retrieval and data mining. That is why in my oppinion Linguistics is also a very important part of web science. I am always concerned that most people doing web science actually are computer scientists and that much of …
Amazed by neo4j, gwt and my apache tomcat webserver
edit: the demo is finally online but on a different data set though: check out the demo and read about the new data set. An evaluation of graphity can be found here Besides reading papers I am currently implementing the infrastructure of my social news stream for the new metalcon version. For the very first …
Data structure for Social news streams on Graph data bases
UPDATE: look at http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/graphity for a more scientific survey and evaluation of this data structure. Ok you guys did not hear much from me most recently. I was on vaccation and then on summer school and I worked on my first scientific poster and on a talk which will hopefully ontribute to my PhD thesis. …