Web Summit 2013

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is WebSummit 2013, Dublin 2013

WebSummit tweets

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Statistical Data Mining

A good collection: Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

Fi-Ware Open Call

Open Call for an interesting project has been posted. The “Smart City Service” platform is a portfolio of functions, designed to foster the development and uptake of city guide applications for end users based on future internet technologies (“smart city guide”). The “smart city guide” aims at having functions before, during and after a visit in a town. Another goal of this final application is to be available on various devices (mobile, tablet, PC, TV).

We are looking for partners. We have some ideas for B5: Platform Enrichment (Data and Content). Extend or build Open City Databases.

Online courses

Search for online courses. 90+ sites. And you can discuss your results right on the site via TogetherJS from Mozilla.

Encode the intuition

A new mathematical framework that rigorously encodes the intuition of in an alternating optimization problem similar to expectation maximization - an interesting paper about machine perception

Context-aware QR-codes

Our paper devoted to context-aware QR-code has been published in World Applied Sciences Journal.

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Place 2013

We continue to share links for monitoring the interesting events in Twitter. Now it is Place 2013, SF 2013

Place tweets

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City Sciences

Smart Cities in the University. It is the first time that the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid promotes a cross-cutting postgraduate program between the schools of engineering and architecture, with the ambition to become an international benchmark. The Master in City Sciences is an advanced program that provides a holistic view on the development of the city - City Sciences

Here is an example for ICT course - Big Data for Smart Cities

Some missed papers

Namiot, D., & Sneps-Sneppe, M. Local messages for smartphones. Future Internet Communications (CFIC), 2013 Conference on, pp.1- 6, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/CFIC.2013.6566322

Dmitry Namiot and Manfred Sneps-Sneppe. "Geofence and Network Proximity". Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8121, 2013, pp. 117-127, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40316-3_11

Dmitry Namiot and Manfred Sneps-Sneppe. "Discovery of Convoys in Network Proximity Log". Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networking Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8121, 2013, pp. 139-150, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-40316-3_13

Data Science programs

Data science curriculum, training and certificates:

Map of Data Science University Programs
Graduate Programs in Big Data Analytics and Data Science
Data Science programs overview

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Home automation standards

We need the home automation equivalent of what the LAMP stack was to the web: a standard set of protocols that is used by everybody. It is a very true statement.

How do you explain Machine Learning?

It looks like the marketing won in math too. As per this thread How do you explain Machine Learning and Data Mining to non Computer Science people? any statistics is machine learning. As I can guess, everything unknown is a deep learning ...

Search for online courses

Our mashup based on Google Custom Search Engine - Search for Online Courses. And discuss your result right on the page with TogetherJS from Mozilla.

Open Source in Geo

Presentations from FOSS4G 2013 conference.

How Twitter can cash in?

MIT review published an article about the possible earnings for Twitter.

More or less traditionally referred to in conjunction with Twitter sources. At the first hand it is location based services. Although fewer than 1 percent of tweets are "geotagged," or voluntarily labeled by users with location coordinates. The second big area is natural language processing for tweets. For example, there are various demographics data that could be extracted and making sense of breaking news.

We would like to point attention to our old idea - Twitter as a transport. The system could be used as a transport layer. Think for example about many services that provide request/response cycles over SMS. Why do not use Twitter for this? Request data (and/or service) over Twitter rather than SMS.

For example, try to send the following tweet:

@t411 t GOOG

It will return to you (as a reply in Twitter) stock quotes for GOOG. Here:

@t411 is service address (a-la service number in SMS world)
t - is a request
GOOG is a parameter

It is from our T411 for Twitter service. And it is DIY service. You can define your own bot at T411.

Obviously, that such service could be a part of Twitter's offering. E.g. allow unlimited statuses for a fee, etc. It is Twitter for business.

How to replace Apple's iBeacons

Explanatory article describes iBeacon from Apple.

iBeacons is a Bluetooth-based micro-locations system. But instead of being used by people to determine their own locations, it's used by retailers, museums and businesses of all kinds to find out exactly where people are, so they can automatically serve up highly relevant interactions to customers' phones.

How does it work? The closes analogue is, probably, an automatic check-in. As per Apple, if you walked into, say, Jay's Donut Shop, iBeacons would know for certain that you had walked into Jay's Donut shop, whereas other location apps might use GPS, Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation to produce a list of guesses about where you were. A check-in wouldn't even be required.

But of course, it depends on pre-installed BLE devices (iBeacons). They have to have some global addresses (unique IDs) in order to distinguish Jay's Donut Shop from Ann's Donut Shop.

And here I would like to highlight again our old idea about triggering data access depends on the network environment. It is SpotEx. See our papers, for example. In this concept, any existing or even specially created wireless network node could be used as a presence sensor that can open (discover) access to some dynamic or user-generated content. The content itself could also be linked to social media. An appropriate mobile service (context-aware browser) can present that information to mobile subscribers. Potential use-cases for the proposed approach include any project associated with hyper-local news data. For example, projects providing Smart City data, delivering indoor retail information, etc. In other words, we can replace iBeacons right now (more precisely - simulate the same behavior) with Wi-Fi nodes. And because Wi-Fi access point could be opened right on the mobile phone, any smartphone can play a role of iBeacon.

Actually, we wrote about this in discussion about Estimote. Once again - any wireless node (e.g. Wi-Fi access point or even the smartphone itself) is a beacon. The location is completely insignificant here. It is about the visibility only. As soon as some access point is visible (and this access point could be opened right on the phone, of course), we can deliver some data to the mobile user (to the subscriber).
Of course, the metric could be more complex (e.g., we can use The Spearman rank-order, etc.), but the whole idea is transparent. The presence statement for some network node (nodes) triggers data access.

M2M & IoT

In short, 'M2M/IoT Application Platforms' represent M2M platforms re-cast for the age of the Internet of Things.

The M2M/IoT Application Platform provides the 'glue' that intermediates between application developers, M2M connected devices and a range of niche and specialised M2M platforms and wider enterprise IT systems. Referring to the dynamics of this new M2M/IoT world, Morrish commented: "In the world of the M2M/IoT Application Platform, the application developer is king." - from here

The Machine Learning Summer School

Slides and tutorials from The Machine Learning Summer School
26 August to 6 September 2013 at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany

Inferring social contextual behavior from bluetooth traces

An interesting article about restoring behavior for mobile users

Emergency Indoor Navigation

How New Indoor Navigation Systems Will Protect Emergency Responders. Tracking firefighters in blazing buildings helps keep them safe - an interesting article.