Ben Shneiderman at UIUC

You can find my notes for his presentation here.

Apr 18, 2007 · 1 min · 9 words · Xavier Llorà

The Thrill of Discovering (Live from Ben Shneiderman’s talk)

Ben Shneiderman is visiting UIUC today. I am sitting at his talk “The Thrill of Discovery” at room 1040 NCSA. If you miss this one he will be at 126 GSLIS this afternoon at 3pm given another talk Accelerating Discovery and Innovation: Designing Creativity Support Tools". His opening today: This talk will start by reviewing the growing commercial success stories such as www.spotfire.com, www.smartmoney.com/marketmap and www.hivegroup.com. Then it will cover recent research progress for visual exploration of large time series data applied to financial, Ebay auction, and genomic data (www....

Apr 18, 2007 · 2 min · 368 words · Xavier Llorà

Is your MacBook Pro running too hot?

The first generations of MacBook Pros tend to run too hot because the low rpm set by default. The new ones have doubled the rpm speed. If you have a first generation on and want to boost the fans a bit to make it run a little cooler, you may find two tool apps to increase the fan speed here.

Apr 18, 2007 · 1 min · 60 words · Xavier Llorà

Machine learning & Statistical Learning in R

Torsten Horthorn maintains a page with a list of packages for machine learning and statistical learning in R.

Apr 17, 2007 · 1 min · 18 words · Xavier Llorà

University of Illinois vs a Mummy

A hidden treasure found in the Urbana Free Library. University of Illinois vs a Mummy is a movie made by students at UofI. If you have never been in UofI you will find this movie pretty hilarious.

Apr 17, 2007 · 1 min · 37 words · Xavier Llorà