This ensures friendship , work and Farmville dont mess around with each other. You also dont need a lot of friends in Farmville (max 40 actives) unlike Mafia Wars
2) Register at http://rewards.zynga.com/ to get free or double rewards by doing the same work. These rewards can be redeemed in-game
To join the preview group, go to the APIs Console and click the Prediction API slider to “ON,” and then sign up for a Google Storage account.
For the past several months, I have been member of a semi-public beta test/group/forum – that is headed by Travis Green of the Google Prediction API Team (not the hockey player). Basically in helping the Google guys more feedback on the feature list for model building via cloud computing. I couldn’t talk about it much , because it was all NDA hush hush.
Anyways- as of today the version 1.2 of Google Prediction API has been launched. What does this do to the ordinary Joe Modeler? Well it helps gives your models -thats right your plain vanilla logistic regression,arima, arimax, models an added ensemble option of using Google’s Machine Learning Continue reading “Google releases V1.2 of Google Prediction API”
Here is a brief dataset I out after one hour of cutting and pasting from WordPress.com’s creative data style formats. It shows spam,comments,traffic, and number of posts written monthly.
Clearly monthly traffic is directly related to number I write (suppose A + B* Posts)
But Spam is showing a discontinuous growth especially after a big month (in which Reddit helped)
Akismet had some missing historical values (which is curious)
My annual traffic to this blog was almost 99,000 . Add in additional views on networking sites plus the 400 plus RSS readers- so I can say traffic was 1,20,000 for 2010. Nice. Thanks for reading and hope it was worth your time. (this is a long post and will take almost 440 secs to read but the summary is just given)
My intent is either to inform you, give something useful or atleast something interesting.
see below-
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
2010
6,311
4,701
4,922
5,463
6,493
4,271
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Total
5,041
5,403
17,913
16,430
11,723
10,096
98,767
Sandro Saita from http://www.dataminingblog.com/ just named me for an award on his blog (but my surname is ohRi , Sandro left me without an R- What would I be without R :)) ).
Aw! I am touched. Google for “Data Mining Blog” and Sandro is the best that it is in data mining writing.
”
DMR People Award 2010
There are a lot of active people in the field of data mining. You can discuss with them on forums. You can read their blogs. You can also meet them in events such as PAW or KDD. Among the people I follow on a regular basis, I have elected:
Ajay Ori
He has been very active in 2010, especially on his blog . Good work Ajay and continue sharing your experience with us!”
What did I write in 2010- stuff.
What did you read on this blog- well thats the top posts list.
well I guess I owe Tal G for almost 9000 views ( incidentally I withdrew posting my blog from R- Bloggers and Analyticbridge blogs – due to SEO keyword reasons and some spam I was getting see (below))
Still reading this post- gosh let me sell you some advertising. It is only $100 a month (yes its a recession)
Advertisers are treated on First in -Last out (FILO)
I have been told I am obsessed with SEO , but I dont care much for search engines apart from Google, and yes SEO is an interesting science (they should really re name it GEO or Google Engine Optimization)
Apparently Hadley Wickham and Donald Farmer are big keywords for me so I should be more respectful I guess.
Search Terms for 365 days ending 2010-12-31 (Summarized)
2009-12-31 to Today
Search
Views
libre office
925
facebook analytics
798
test drive a chrome notebook
467
test drive a chrome notebook.
215
r gui
203
data mining
163
wps sas lawsuit
158
wordle.net
133
wps sas
123
google maps jet ski
123
test drive chrome notebook
96
sas wps
89
sas wps lawsuit
85
chrome notebook test drive
83
decision stats
83
best statistics software
74
hadley wickham
72
google maps jetski
72
libreoffice
70
doug savage
65
hive tutorial
58
funny india
56
spss certification
52
donald farmer microsoft
51
best statistical software
49
What about outgoing links? Apparently I need to find a way to ask Google to pay me for the free advertising I gave their chrome notebook launch. But since their search engine and browser is free to me, guess we are even steven.
Clicks for 365 days ending 2010-12-31 (Summarized)
is it the russians doing a link spam. unlikely they dont bot against Akismet that much (as they fail)
And Captcha can be failed by python (apparently. sigh)
Is there a co relation of certain tags of posts, and count of spam- hoping to distort say blogs’s search engine rankings for SAS WPS Lawsuit in Google or jet ski across pacific in Google.
Sigh- an old retired outlaw black hat is never kept in peace. Try doing a blog search for R in Google- Revo is now down to number 7 (which is hmm given Google Instant)
Of course I think too much about SEO, but I dont run CPC ads- I made much more money when traffic is low – say 5-10 small businesses needing to forecast their sales .
and enjoy your Thanksgiving. Remember the Indians bring the Turkeys.
Classical Economics talks of the value of utlity, diminishing marginal utility if the same things is repeated again and again (like spam in an online community)
StackOverflow has a great way of measuring reputation – and thus allows intangible benefits /awards -similar to wikipedia badges , reddit karma. Utility is also auto generated like @klout on twitter or lists memberships and other sucessful open source communities online including Ubuntu forums have ways to create ah hierarchies even in class less utopian classes.
Basically it then acts as the motivating game as the mostly boy population try to race on numbers.
in Stack Overflow- you can get buddies to upvote you and basically act as a role playing game too.
To gain reputation, post good questions and useful answers. Your peers will vote on your posts, and those votes will cause you to gain (or, in rare cases, lose) reputation:
answer is voted up
+10
question is voted up
+5
answer is accepted
+15
(+2 to acceptor)
post is voted down
-2
(-1 to voter)
A maximum of 30 votes can be cast per user per day, and you can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day (although accepted answers and bounty awards are immune to this limit). Also, please note that votes for any posts marked “community wiki” do not generate reputation.
Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions:
I had actually unsub’ed from his feed. Now I know why. How you’re doing with the Yahoo Pipes app?
Methinks he has some sort of clinical compulsive condition given how every single post has to include a reference that his facvourite software company from NC, and/or members of their management team.
ha! yeah that would be good signaling. Not sure how common it is, but I use it mostly for spam bots. I actually have only blocked 2 warm blooded humans (counting Ajay’s multiple accts as one person)
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