Archive for August, 2005

Building a graph-based model of metadata

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

I have had some success building an in-memory graph of my iTunes database, in Python. I discovered some rather interesting things about my collection in the process and I’ve started thinking about a way to use this information to cleanly chunk the data.
In my graph, nodes are represented by Python tuples that refer to […]

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A graph based model for chunking

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Factor Analysis seems very promising, but I was thinking a lot about a presentation given by Mimi Yin at OSAF. In particular the Venn diagrams which showed items as existing in a number of collections based on the attributes of the item. These collections may or may not really exist in real life, but their […]

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