Tag Archives: Instedd
InSTEDD at Pacific Endeavor 2011
Pacific Endeavor is a humanitarian communication workshop, organized by the US Pacific Command, which brings together military representatives from all SE Asia, NGOs and industry leaders. Its main goal is to improve the multi-national communications in HA/DR situations, based on the premise that communication is the foundation to a successful response. This workshop if part … more
Lecture at Mahidol
Last week I had the chance of giving a lecture with Taha in the context of an InSTEDD presentation about Machine Learning applied in Biosurveillance at the Public Health Informatics course at the Mahidol University in Bangkok. It was a great opportunity to meet people working in public health from all around South East Asia. Slides included below.
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Visualizing multi-dimensional data
A couple of days ago we started working on a new visualization for Riff’s acitivity. The requirement was to find a way of representing the relationship between items tag with two or more tags, the users who were tagging and the evolution of the tags along time. With the help of our designer Luigi and Juan we crafted a nice visualization.
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Yet another Holy Grail (3-column css liquid layout)
Instedd-Trinity Internship wrap-up
We have finished our first internship between Instedd and Trinity College. Juan Pablo and Qianqian did an amazing job putting together an SVM classifier using libSVM for suggesting tags inside Riff items. They tested the implementation with Reuters dataset and a Promed dataset that we created using Riff. They ran 4 independent tests to find … more
Next steps for Riff
This week a nice coincidence made possible that I met personally Taha Kass-Hout in DC. We’ve been working for Instedd creating a collaborative disease detection and surveillance platform with some machine learning tools. Luckily the restaurant’s tablecloth was a paper, so we were able to put our thoughts there for the Riff next steps: Thanks … more
Instedd Internships
Today we had the orientation presentation for an Internship that two students from Trinity College will be doing around Riff/RNA. more