Entries from August 2009

August 24, 2009

The mysteries of twitterburg

The other day I paid a nice visit to Alex and Yan. We got around to talking about how bit.ly (a link shortener) can be used to track things on twitter. Anyhow, I’m sure they will blow you away with their analysis soon enough, but I thought I’d post some results from a really simple [...]

August 19, 2009

LDA for the masses (who use R)

Long time no post. I’ve been busy with lots of stuff: writing my thesis, renaming this blog to pleasescoopme.com, and other stuff which I’ll post soon enough. Another thing I’ve been working on is an R package that implements collapsed Gibbs samplers (written in C) for some of the models I’ve been using: latent Dirichlet [...]