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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex "connectedness" of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, in the ease with which global communication now takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread around the world with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which each of our decisions can have subtle consequences for the outcomes of everyone else.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets combines different scientific perspectives in its approach to understanding networks and behavior. Drawing on ideas from economics, sociology, computing and information science, and applied mathematics, it describes the emerging field of study that is growing at the interface of all these areas, addressing fundamental questions about how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected.
The book is based on an inter-disciplinary course entitled Networks that we teach at Cornell. The book, like the course, is designed at the introductory undergraduate level with no formal prerequisites. To support deeper explorations, most of the chapters are supplemented with optional advanced sections.
December 2009
Twitter Chatter During the Super Bowl - Interactive Map - NYTimes.com
(Field)
— a development environment for making digital art
Field is an open-source software project initiated by OpenEnded Group, for the creation of their digital artworks. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based. We think that it has something to offer a diverse range of programmers and artists.
Based on ideas started at the MIT Media Lab, Field was in development in-house for around 6 years. But for the last 16 months it has been quietly available online as an open source project. We are pleased to announce the initial "beta" binary open-source releases for Intel-based Macs OS X 10.5 or 10.6.
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November 2009
How to Hide Certain Custom Fields From the Edit Post Page | Apartment One Six
October 2009
The Man in Blue > Experiments > FormTextResizer
Cubefield 2
In-Field Labels jQuery Plugin
16 Javascript libraries for visualizations on Datavisualization.ch
As data visualization often needs to reach a broad audience the browser is becoming the number one tool to publish and share visualizations. A lot of visualizations require user-interaction to unleash their full potential, thus interactive applets that run directly in the browser are a a great way to analyze the data at hand. Beside the usual suspects like Flash, Silverlight and Processing, JavaScript is quickly gaining ground in the field of interactive visualization embedded in websites. We’ve collected 13 16 JavaScript visualization libraries that help you get started faster, keep it flexible and develop with higher reliability.
Linguistics Meets Linux: Morphix-NLP
September 2009
Welcome to the LINGUIST List
Natural Language Processing with Python - O'Reilly Media
This book offers a highly accessible introduction to Natural Language Processing, the field that underpins a variety of language technologies ranging from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation. You'll learn how to write Python programs to analyze the structure and meaning of texts, drawing on techniques from the fields of linguistics and artificial intelligence.
Custom Field Redirect Plugin — Nathan Rice
Nicholas Mirzoeff: An Introduction to Visual Culture (1999) at Monoskop/log
Lookpicking – A Personal Server-Based Search Box
IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check -
Web 2.0 Tools and Applications - Ziipa.com a visual search engine -
August 2009
Form autocomplete
If you want to remove one of your previous form entries from Firefox's history:
- Click on the form field and press the down arrow key to display all the saved entries. You may type the first few letters of the entry to limit the number of entries displayed.
- Use the down arrow key or the mouse pointer to highlight the entry you wish to delete.
- Press Shift+Delete. The entry will be removed.
You may repeat the process for any number of entries for a particular form field.
Spellify - An Automatic Text Field Spell Checker
Chris Newbold, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Hilde van den Bulck (eds.): The Media Book (2002) at Monoskop/log
