The third and fourth sections of this book cover text data analysis and unified text data management analysis system. Since some topics covered in the latter half of this book are new to me, two attributes of this book were particularly helpful and eased the learning curve: the pictorial illustrations and comprehensive references accompanying the … Continue reading Text Data Management and Analysis – Information Retrieval and Text Mining – Part II
Month: May 2017
Text Data Management and Analysis – Information Retrieval and Text Mining – Part I
This week, I return to my profession as a computer scientist and read the book titled “Text Data Management and Analysis - A Practical Introduction to Information Retrieval and Text mining” by ChengXiang Zhai and Sean Massung from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In Part I of the two-part blog post about this topic, I … Continue reading Text Data Management and Analysis – Information Retrieval and Text Mining – Part I
Rubicon – the Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
My book of this week is Rubicon - the Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland. Rubicon tells the stories of the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, from the time when Lucius Tarquinius Superbus’ reign of Rome was demolished in a palace coup in 509 BC, the subsequent establishment of … Continue reading Rubicon – the Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
My Life in Advertising
My book of the week is an autobiography by Claude C. Hopkins, My Life in Advertising, written in 1927. Walter Weir once praised this book: There are few pages in My Life in Advertising which do not repay careful study - and which do not merit rereading. Before your eyes, a successful advertising life is … Continue reading My Life in Advertising