tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87974268445933824052011-08-02T23:32:46.658-07:00I am currently a PhD student in Stern School of Business at New York University. My research interests focus on econometric modeling and data analysis. This is a little corner to share my experiences about the colorful PhD life.Sunnyfacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439962610228069234noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797426844593382405.post-39916300944146098922009-11-26T16:50:00.000-08:002009-11-26T16:52:21.409-08:00

Firefox (see also: Power User's Guide to Firefox 3, Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features)VLC (see also: Master Your Digital Media with VLC, VLC Hits 1.0 with Better Playback and File Support)CCleaner (see also: Five Best Windows Maintenance Tools)Dropbox (see also: Use Dropbox for More Than Just File Syncing, Sync Files and Folders Outside Your My Dropbox Folder)7-Zip (see also: Five Best File

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"Education gives you freedom," Jerry Buss says. Growing up poor in Kemmerer's coal mining region, Buss decided early on that life underground was not for him. "I realized that most of the kids who grew up in the mining camps stayed in those towns and worked in the mines. I didn't see myself doing that; for one thing, I didn't like the idea of being a couple of miles underground with all that

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Yesterday I went to a talk at the MSR in Redmond. A guy from Germany was talking about the "suggested search". His idea is pretty cool, but the implementation is sort of "lousy". I do remember Google has done something similar according to my own experience with the Google Tool Bar on my Firefox. It is a search tool that when you type your query, the search engine will automatically suggest

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I was reading my Google Reader RSS today and found this:"SIGMOD has established the annual SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field. Until 2008, this award was known as the "SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award." In 2008, SIGMOD, with the unanimous approval of ACM Council, decided to rename the award to honor Dr. Jim

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Last week, it was our last class with Prof. Foster Provot for this semester. This is a PhD level seminar discussing all kinds of topics related to data mining and machine learning. As the only three registered PhD students in Stern, Xiaohan, Mihaela and I were "pushed" to give (bi-)weekly presentations and lead discussions for every paper on those topics.Oh, god! That was hard! I couldn't

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Sandro Saitta has a full list about the data mining blogs. Just something very nice that can be introduced here:)Abbott Analytics: both industry and research oriented posts covering any topic related to data mining (Will Dwinnell and Dean Abbott)Crime Analysis and Data Mining: everything is in the title (Shyam Varan Nath)Data Miners Blog: data analysis and visualization from an industry point of

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Cheers~

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