Tag Archives: Projects
Harnessing information flow to empower survivors
During 2009 we have been working with Thomson Reuters Foundation on a free and open source information management system designed to be deployed in emergencies caused by sudden onset natural disasters.
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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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
9 developers in one month
It is well known in the project management world that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. This is known as Brooks’ law. An analogy is that you can’t use 9 women to make a baby in one month.
A couple of days ago, at Manas we did the experiment of doing a one-day project with a team of 15 developers, architects and designers. 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