This is a little project to create a recommender system to find mentors inside an organization, using Natural Language Processing. It started as an excuse to build a data visualization I had in mind: an interactive word cloud that did something. When I started, I didn’t know anything about Topic Modeling, Topic Extraction, or Natural… Continue reading Recommender system for finding subject matter experts using the Enron email corpus
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Linear Optimization with or-tools
Getting started Over the last couple of months I’ve been getting my feet wet with linear programming and mathematical optimisation. I got a sense of how it all worked from this Discrete Optimisation course in Coursera and googling around I discovered that there are a ton of tools out there to help you solve… Continue reading Linear Optimization with or-tools
How to tidy up and organize music on your PC o Mac
Do you have a lot of Untitled / Without Artist / Without Album songs? All music players allow you to sort and catalog the songs, as long as you know the titles and names of the artists. But what happens when many of your songs are unidentified? There are some tools out there like Tune… Continue reading How to tidy up and organize music on your PC o Mac
A swiss railway clock in D3.js
The other day I saw this cool JavaScript+CSS clock and I immediately thought that I wanted to create an analog clock in D3.js. First of all as an exercise, but also with the aim –perhaps– of smuggling it in to a future dashboard 😉 It seemed straightforward: just paint the clock and re-paint it… Continue reading A swiss railway clock in D3.js
The stories behind Halt And Catch Fire
Like every other geek, I’m watching AMC’s Halt And Catch Fire and profiting of all the buzz surrounding it. Over at The Internet History Podcast there was a really cool interview with Rod Canion, one of the co-founders of Compaq, one of the guys who did in real life what the actors in Halt And… Continue reading The stories behind Halt And Catch Fire