anthony lorelli
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Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Weblog cartography and SOMs As I wrote the other day, I'm beginning to research data mining. One of the primary methods of performing data mining is clustering (partitioning records into subsets based on similarity) - and one of the primary methods of clustering is to form a self-organizing map (a special form of neural network) from the data you're interested in. Browsing through the articles on self-organizing maps in the ACM Digital Library, I see that many of them have something to do with hypertext as well. So I'm wondering - given the highly interlinked nature of weblogs and weblog communities, is there an interesting application of the work on self-organizing maps here? Can weblog "clusters" be regarded as SOMs in a formal sense? Can the same sort of rule induction be used on them to reveal patterns? 4:19:44 PM    comment []

New servers Just placed orders for about $15,000 worth of new server hardware and software. TFI leaps with much shouting into the modern age. 12:28:38 PM    comment []