Zachary Ives presented at CIDR about combining data from a large number of sources. Generally the DB community thinks of this as a hard problem for sophisticated data integration professionals. But what about, e.g.
combining data for an emergency management effort—need for speed
a scientist gathering data from many bio portals for data relating to some specific [...]
Georgia Koutrika et al. from Stanford built a system called “Courserank”—a place to evaluate courses. It has been used by 98% of freshman at Stanford. In addition to just picking courses, it offers a number of interesting social features. It’s planner page lets students enter their entire plan for all years in school, classes and [...]
I’m at the 2009 Conference on Innovative Database Research, an interesting workshop that tries to fit its name by taking work that’s a little too “innovative” for the regular database conferences.
The opening plenary talk is by Jefffrey Heer (built the flare UI toolkit, now a professor at Stanford) on how data analysis can be a [...]