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- NAME: Madame de Pompadour
- OCCUPATION: Theater Actress, Singer, Political Leader
- BIRTH DATE: c. December 29, 1721
- DEATH DATE: April 15, 1764
- EDUCATION: Convent of the Ursuline Order, Club de l'Entresol
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Paris, France
- PLACE OF DEATH: Versailles, France
- Full Name: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
- AKA: Madame de Pompadour
- Nickname: "Reinette" ("Little Queen")
- AKA: Jeanne-Antoinette Le Normant d'Etiolles
- AKA: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson
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Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of French King Louis XV in the mid-1700s. She greatly influenced French culture during this time, including decorative arts, architecture and statecraft.
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Madame de Pompadour was born in Paris on December 29, 1721. She became the official mistress of French King Louis XV at the age of 23, and from then until her death 20 years later, created a sphere of influence that included the decorative arts, architecture, fashion, entertainment and politics. De Pompadour developed a distinctive French style during this period, which was considered the height of refined taste,
"Après nous le déluge." ["After us, the flood."]
and still lingers today as a defining aspect of French culture.
Early Life
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, better known as Madame de Pompadour, was born sometime at the end of December in 1721 (the date is often fixed at December 29 because she was baptized in the church of Saint-Eustache on December 30 of that year). Her mother, Madeleine de La Motte, was known as a beauty; her father, François Poisson, a financier, fled the country a few years after her birth to avoid being put to death for fraud. François Poisson later returned, but during his absence, tax collector Charles Le Normant de Tournehem, who paid for Jeanne-Antoinette's education, was frequently assumed to be her real father.
Jeanne-Antoinette was well-educated, first in an Ursuline convent, then with excellent private tutors in voice and elocution from the Parisian opera and theatre (she memorized entire plays). She was later educated at the Club de l'Entresol, an exclusively male political and economic think-tank.
At age 19, Tournehem married Jeanne-Antoinette off to his nephew, furnishing them with an opulent estate at Etoiles. She bore him two children, a son who died in infancy, and a daughter nicknamed "Fanfan." Jeanne-Antoinette's beauty, intelligence and passion for the arts led her to instigate "salons" that attracted a varied circle of painters, sculptors, philosophers and writers, including Voltaire.
Years of Influence
Jeanne-Antoinette entered the glittering life of the court at the Clipped Yew Tree Ball in 1745. She dressed as a shepherdess, and was determined to meet the magnetic King Louis XV, adorned as the tree. When their paths crossed, their fates were sealed—her carriage was reportedly seen outside of his apartment the next morning.
Louis XV was moody, sometimes languishing in the shadow of his great-grandfather, Louis XIV, the "Sun King." He was fond of his Polish queen (with whom he would have 10 children); he had been through several mistresses by this time, but "Madame de Pompadour"—a title that Jeanne-Antoinette was soon given, along with an estate—became his chief mistress within a year. Her "office" came with castle apartments beneath the king's own, as well as an annual income.
A talented seductress, actress and singer, Madame de Pompadour dazzled Louis XV with lively theater productions that she organized and performed in. She also adored the king, so even after their sexual liaison had run its course, she continued to be his loyal companion, and was accorded unprecedented political influence.
So devoted was the king to Madame de Pompadour, he became the stepfather of Fanfan, rushing doctors to her side when she fell ill.
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Boriss Andean | Nice summit day! Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2011 | |
Climbed with Tilo and Katherine, both from Germany. I looked back down to Paulo PAROFES from time to time. He taught me a new Portuguese word "gostosa". The weather was perfect, clear sky. Our climb was lit by a bright half-moon which showed us our way to follow. I barely used my headlamp. We got to the summit (5,897 m / 19,347 ft) at 6:30 am, exactly five and a half hours after leaving from the refuge. Awesome views of the crater and other mountains. Totally happy. I summited Illiniza Sur the following day. :) | ||
Posted Jan 17, 2011 3:27 pm |
Inday | Success! Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2011 | |
Left the refuge at 1:10 am in two rope teams, one of three and the other of two, and summited in 4 hours and 40 minutes. We were first on summit that day, right in time for the sunrise! Absolutely breathtaking! | ||
Posted Jan 17, 2011 10:40 am |
PAROFES | Re: OK! | |
Thanks Andre! Rob was right, and Boris as well! | ||
Posted Jan 17, 2011 10:31 am |
PAROFES | Re: OK! | |
You were right Rob! I got famous at the hut because i got to know all local guides and they all knew i was the brazilian climbing solo at the third attempt hehehe But for that time, i set up my tent around 100m far away from the refuge to do some good photos and enjoy some time alone. At the little fun ice climbing part close to the summit, i was soloing it with my ice tools and one guide liked and took several photos of me, i wish i could find him to get that photos hehehe... | ||
Posted Jan 17, 2011 10:30 am |
andre hangaard | Re: OK! | |
Great work Paulo! I second Rob, it does take three times to climb this mountain :-) | ||
Posted Jan 16, 2011 4:50 pm |
rgg | Re: OK! | |
Congrats, Paulo! I told you it takes three times ... | ||
Posted Jan 16, 2011 8:41 am |
PAROFES | OK! Date Climbed: Jan 15, 2011 | |
Okay people insisted and i went up there. Summited solo in alpine style. Camp 100m outside the refuge... Almost frostbite on one finger, really crazy. Have to buy new gloves... Perfect and clear day. Back in the refuge by 09:45 am. Finaly.... :) Ah, and i did with a damn cold, my throat infected as hell... Now have to get some rest and get better... Bumped into Boris several times during the climb and together at the summit! | ||
Posted Jan 15, 2011 7:07 pm |
mirhash | First taste of higher altitude unguided Date Climbed: Dec 31, 2010 | |
We were the last ones to the top after starting at 2am but we caught with the last group and had some spectacular views! | ||
Posted Jan 15, 2011 12:47 am |
CBakwin | yo Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2011 | |
We tried to sleep in a jam packed refugio..not much luck, up just after midnight, out the door at 1:30 after the rush....clear starry night but wind, probably around 24 degrees with 15mph wind gusting to 40, all the way up. long beautiful slog, if we coudl have seen it (it was dark the whole way up) reached the top in just under 5 hours, then descending in the light but clouds had rolled in before sunrise, so we saw no views, but nice ice and snow bridges ..... Very fun! | ||
Posted Jan 12, 2011 7:12 am |
rgg | Re: Bad weather again... | |
Oh no, Paulo, it takes three tries to succeed, you just have to try it one more time! | ||
Posted Jan 10, 2011 6:26 pm |
PAROFES | Bad weather again... Date Climbed: Jan 10, 2011 | |
That's it, i'm done with cotopaxi. Checked the weather forecast for Cotopaxi the night before! Amazing...it said to me i d get perfect conditions at 9th and today, 10th, perfect cloudless sky until around 14:00h. Got to the parking lot at 11am, it was snowing again...walk up to the refuge under snow again, and freezing cold... Went to sleep with the winds singing all night long. Woke up at 23:30h, not even got the chance of leave the refuge, worst conditions ever. Again, nobody summited Cotopaxi today. That's it, i'm not gonna try anymore, really pissed off.... | ||
Posted Jan 10, 2011 5:05 pm |
PAROFES | Bad weather Date Climbed: Jan 4, 2011 | |
Stoped me from reach its summit... Had to turn back at around 5250m due to strong snowstorm... I guess i'll have to try again! | ||
Posted Jan 4, 2011 6:35 pm |
centrifuge | Normal Route - Part Deux Date Climbed: Dec 22, 2010 | |
This is an amazing mountain, we were lucky enough to get to attempt it the second time we went to the park this month. We were in clouds on the summit and lots of newer snow, but 100% worth it! | ||
Posted Dec 25, 2010 10:22 am |
rgg | Re: Third time: success | |
Congrats, Andre! I´m starting to see a pattern emerging here, apparently this mountain simply takes three attempts to climb it. Maybe a note for the guidebooks? Rob | ||
Posted Dec 25, 2010 9:58 am |
rgg | Third time lucky Date Climbed: Dec 22, 2010 | |
After two earlier failed attempts, I finally made it. North route, solo. | ||
Posted Dec 25, 2010 9:53 am |
andre hangaard | Third time: success Date Climbed: Dec 5, 2010 | |
This was my third time on the mountain. In 2005 our guided climb was aborted due to bad weather forecast and in February 2010 I made a bivy in the icecave at 5.300 due to an even worse storm with very strong winds during my solo attempt. My third attempt was finally succesfull. Although there were some obstacles on the way here too. In the night before, all climbers came back with out summiting very early in the morning. It turned out that the snowbridge over the Big Crevasse up at 5.500m had collpased the day before. After receiving some info the next day we were told to pass the Big Crevasse to the left. Still great confusion occured around the collapsed snow bridge in the middle of the night and a couple of parties decided to turn around as people seemed to fumbling around in all directions in the dark. It was rather cold queuing around on the steep slopes. Eventually we did find some tracks to the left and it turned out that it was no problem at all crossing the crevasse. Johan Dahlström and I summited at 07:10 and had the entire summit for ourselves. Finally I managed to scale this fantastic mountain. The route was great, taking us zig-zaging through the amazing world of snow and ice. I loved every second of it. | ||
Posted Dec 16, 2010 10:27 am |
rgg | High avalanche risk Date Climbed: Dec 13, 2010 | |
This one got away. I climbed with Boriss. A few days before, a big thunderstorm had dropped a new load of snow on Cotopaxi (the same one that caught us on Sincholagua). On the night of the climb it was warm, just below freezing. Boriss carefully investigated the snow layers several times, and at a steep section just below 5400 m he saw that the top 30 cm or so of snow was just waiting for a trigger to set off a massive slab avelanche, so we returned. Of course I was disappointed not to summit, but it was the only possible decision, and I´ve learned a bit more about how to gage avalanche risk. To continue would be nothing but a gamble with our lives, and I don´t like those odds. | ||
Posted Dec 13, 2010 6:21 pm |
noahs213 | Great Date Climbed: Nov 7, 2010 | |
Not to bad. Nice ice finish | ||
Posted Nov 7, 2010 4:03 pm |
DCcoug | I Think I summited ... Date Climbed: Jun 13, 1999 | |
Near total whiteout for the last 300 or 400 meters. Pretty sure I was on the summit because I could see a portion of what looked like a crater and some people in our group had cameras out. Not sure what they were taking pictures of, but then again I was also a little hypoxic. Beautiful mountain and nice hut at the base. | ||
Posted Sep 3, 2010 5:00 pm |
Boriss Andean | Spectacular close. Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2010 | |
Andrea (CAN) and I closed our trip in a spectacular way after a week of camping, hiking and hitch hiking through the Andes by climbing Cotopaxi (5,897 m / 19,347 ft) in just 5 hours from our camping site. Nobody summited Cotopaxi in the last two days and we made it!!. We left our tent 10 minutes before 2 am, and passed all the climbing teams on our way up. We got to see the crater for a while. Got back to the refuge in 1 hour 20 minutes..wow! I really enjoy this climb!! :). | ||
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Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure, or simply Sonic Pocket Adventure, is a video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It was released in 1999 for the Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld game console, and was the second Sonic game to be released for a non-Sega system (the first was Sonic Jam for Game.com). It was also the last game for almost eight years to feature Sonic as the only playable character in single player until Sonic and the Secret Rings was released in 2007. The game is similar in level design and gameplay to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, but with mostly new bosses. It also includes a few graphics from the original Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as music from Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic Jam. Special features such as puzzles and multiplayer options were also added.
As in other Sonic titles, the levels in Sonic Pocket Adventure are known as zones, with each zone containing two parts. The players must navigate through all the zones in order to beat the game, with the second level in each zone containing a boss. There are six regular zones in the game, as well as one secret zone that contains only one level. All of the normal zones in this game are remixed versions of zones from Sonic the Hedgehog 2, with similar level design and enemies but largely new boss machines. Below is the full list of zones in order of appearance in the single player mode.- Neo South Island Zone: A green island which is visually based on Green Hill Zone, but has the level layout of Emerald Hill Zone.
- Secret Plant Zone: Directly based on Chemical Plant Zone. There are purple chemical liquids found on Act 2 of this zone.
- Cosmic Casino Zone: This zone is based on Casino Night Zone. As Sonic, the player must navigate through a casino-themed area filled with bumpers and various other obstacles.
- Aquatic Relix Zone: A mild variation of Aquatic Ruin Zone. This zone, and Secret Plant, are the only levels in the game which feature underwater sections. The boss is Knuckles the Echidna, in a nearly identical duel to Sonic & Knuckles.
- Sky Chase Zone: Similar to the original Sky Chase from Sonic the Hedgehog 2, here Sonic walks on the wings of the Tornado, conveniently piloted by Miles "Tails" Prower.
- Aerobase Zone: A flying fortress identical to Wing Fortress. This zone takes place on a very large flying warship in which Sonic must find a way to get inside.
- Gigantic Angel Zone: This zone's background design has been taken from Scrap Brain Zone from the original Sonic the Hedgehog. This zone takes place in a large base full of traps and hazards, most of which are taken from Metropolis Zone.
- Last Utopia Zone: This is the last proper zone and is a stand-off between Sonic and Dr. Robotnik. Robotnik is in a flying battle machine which has a Chaos Emerald.
- Chaotic Space Zone: A hidden bonus level that must be unlocked in order to play. This zone plays similarly to The Doomsday Zone from Sonic & Knuckles.
In addition to the single player mode, Sonic Pocket Adventure allows multiplayer gaming for two players. In order to compete, both players are required to have a Neo Geo Pocket Color and a copy of the game, and one link cable. The multiplayer component is entitled 'Duel Mode' and features two modes of play; Sonic Rush and Get the Rings. 'Sonic Rush' has players competing to be the first to finish a zone and the objective of 'Get the Rings' is to collect the specified amount of rings before your rival. Player 1 is always Sonic, while player 2 is Tails. Incidentally, Sonic Rush is also the title of Sonic's first outing on the Nintendo DS.
The music in Sonic Pocket Adventure is largely taken from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles, with the Neo South Island Zone Act 1 song being from Sonic Jam.
Tails is playable in the single player mode as a result of a glitch in some emulators causing debug to occur.[1]
This game is also the only game to mix the current Sonic style with the classic one. For example, the in-game sprites very much look like it would be pre-Sonic Adventure, but close-up graphics show that his eyes are indeed green, indicating closer resemblance to the post-Sonic Adventure style. Eggman himself wears his original red shirt and yellow cape for most of the game, but wears his newer outfit in his base, at the finale of the game.
The game was well-received, getting many positive reviews. One notable review is IGN's where they gave Sonic the Hedgehog Pocket Adventure a perfect 10/10. This is the only Sonic game, to date, to have a perfect 10/10 from IGN.
- This game marks the first time Sonic appeared on a third-party console (the NGPC was made by SNK), which is interesting considering Sega was still producing the Dreamcast at the time.
- This is the only Sonic game for the Neo Geo Pocket Color.
- This is the first Sonic game made by Dimps, who would later go on to make all of the Nintendo handheld based Sonic games and co-developed Sonic the Hedgehog 4. All those games are 2D platformers featuring Modern Sonic.
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Text Analytics World Topics & Case Studies - Oct 19-20 in NYC Text Analytics World NYC (tawgo.com) is the business-focused event for text analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to leverage unstructured data for business impact. Text Analytics World NYC is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including keynote addresses from Thomas Davenport, author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, David Gondek from IBM Research on their Jeopardy-Winning Watson and DeepQA, and PAW Program Chair Eric Siegel, plus special sessions from industry heavy- weights Usama Fayyad and John Elder. CASE STUDIES: TAW New York City will feature over 25 sessions with case studies from leading enterprises in automotive, educational, e-commerce, financial services, government, high technology, insurance, retail, social media, and telecom such as: Accident Fund, Amdocs, Bundle.com, Citibank, Florida State College, Google, Intuit, MetLife, Mitchell1, PayPal, Snap-on, Socialmediatoday, Topsy, a Fortune 500 global technology company, plus special examples from U.S. government agencies DoD, DHS, and SSA. HOT TOPICS: TAW New York City's agenda covers hot topics and advanced methods such as churn risk detection, customer service and call centers, decision support, document discovery, document filtering, financial indicators from social media, fraud detection, government applications, insurance applications, knowledge discovery, open question-answering, parallelized text analysis, risk profiling, sentiment analysis, social media applications, survey analysis, topic discovery, and voice of the customer and other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways. WORKSHOPS: TAW also features a full-day, hands-on text analytics workshop, plus several other pre- and post-conference workshops in analytics that complement the core conference program. For more info: www.tawgo.com/newyork/2011/analytics-workshops For more information: tawgo.com Download the conference preview: http://www.textanalyticsworld.com/newyork/2011/preview View the agenda at-a-glance: textanalyticsworld.com/newyork/2011/agenda Register by September 2nd for Early Bird Rates (save up to $200): textanalyticsworld.com/newyork/2011/registration If you'd like our informative event updates, sign up at: http://www.textanalyticsworld.com/subscription.php To sign up for TAW group on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/e/gis/3869759 For inquiries e-mail email@example.com or call (717) 798-3495. OTHER ANALYTICS EVENTS: Predictive Analytics World for Government: Sept 12-13 in DC – www.pawgov.com Predictive Analytics World New York City: Oct 16-21 – www.pawcon.com/nyc Text Analytics World New York City: Oct 19-20 – www.tawgo.com/nyc Predictive Analytics World London: Nov 30-Dec 1 – www.pawcon.com/london Predictive Analytics World San Francisco: March 4-10, 2012 – www.pawcon.com/sanfrancisco Predictive Analytics World Videos: Available on-demand – www.pawcon.com/video
Also has two sessions on R
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Half-day Workshop
Room: Madison
R Bootcamp
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- Workshop starts at 1:00pm
- Afternoon Coffee Break at 2:30pm – 3:00pm
- End of the Workshop: 5:00pm
Instructor: Max Kuhn, Director, Nonclinical Statistics, Pfizer
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Full-day Workshop
Room: Madison
R for Predictive Modeling: A Hands-On Introduction
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- Workshop starts at 9:00am
- Morning Coffee Break at 10:30am – 11:00am
- Lunch provided at 12:30 – 1:15pm
- Afternoon Coffee Break at 2:30pm – 3:00pm
- End of the Workshop: 4:30pm
Instructor: Max Kuhn, Director, Nonclinical Statistics, Pfizer
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- NEXT WEEK: PAW for Government, Sept 12-13, in Washington DC. An amazing line-up of keynotes including Congressman Darrell Issa. Coverage of predictive analytics deployment by over a dozen government agencies. See www.pawgov.com
- Predictive Analytics World NYC – Oct 16-21 – Early Bird Pricing ends this Friday, Sept 9 – register now to save $400 over the full price. Three tracks, over 40 sessions, keynotes from Davenport and from IBM Research on their Jeopardy-Winning Watson – plus much more. Seewww.pawcon.com/nyc
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Interview Jaime Fitzgerald President Fitzgerald Analytics
Here is an interview with noted analytics expert Jaime Fitzgerald, of Fitzgerald Analytics.
Ajay-Describe your career journey from being a Harvard economist to being a text analytics thought leader.
Jaime- I was attracted to economics because of the logic, the structured and systematic approach to understanding the world and to solving problems. In retrospect, this is the same passion for logic in problem solving that drives my business today.
About 15 years ago, I began working in consulting and initially took a traditional career path. I worked for well-known strategy consulting firms including First Manhattan Consulting Group, Novantas LLC, Braun Consulting, and for the former Japan-focused division of Deloitte Consulting, which had spun off as an independent entity. I was the only person in their New York City office for whom Japanese was not the first language.
While I enjoyed traditional consulting, I was especially passionate about the role of data, analytics, and process improvement. In traditional strategy consulting, these are important factors, but I had a vision for a "next generation" approach to strategy consulting that would be more transparent, more robust, and more focused on the role that information, analysis, and process plays in improving business results. I often explain that while my firm is "not your father's consulting model," we have incorporated key best practices from traditional consulting, and combined them with an approach that is more data-centric, technology-centric, and process-centric.
At the most fundamental level, I was compelled to found Fitzgerald Analytics more than six years ago by my passion for the role information plays in improving results, and ultimately improving lives. In my vision, data is an asset waiting to be transformed into results, including profit as well as other results that matter deeply to people. For example,one of the most fulfilling aspects of our work at Fitzgerald Analytics is our support of non-profits and social entrepreneurs, who we help increase their scale and their success in achieving their goals.
Ajay- How would you describe analytics as a career option to future students. What do you think are the most essential qualities an analytics career requires.
Jaime- My belief is that analytics will be a major driver of job-growth and career growth for decades. We are just beginning to unlock the full potential of analytics, and already the demand for analytic talent far exceeds the supply.
To succeed in analytics, the most important quality is logic. Many people believe that math or statistical skills are the most important quality, but in my experience, the most essential trait is what I call "ThoughtStyle" — critical thinking, logic, an ability to break down a problem into components, into sub-parts.
Ajay -What are your favorite techniques and methodologies in text analytics. How do you see social media and Big Data analytics as components of text analytics
Jaime-We do a lot of work for our clients measuring Customer Experience, by which I mean the experience customers have when interacting with our clients. For example, we helped a major brokerage firm to measure 12 key "Moments that Matter," including the operational aspects of customer service, customer satisfaction and sentiment, and ultimately customer behavior. Clients care about this a lot, because customer experience drives customer loyalty, which in turn drives customer behavior, customer loyalty, and customer profitability.
Text analytics plays a key role in these projects because much of our data on customer sentiment comes via unstructured text data. For example, we have access to call center transcripts and notes, to survey responses, and to social media comments.
We use a variety of methods, some of which I'm not in a position to describe in great detail. But at a high level, I would say that our favorite text analytics methodologies are "hybrid solutions" which use a two-step process to answer key questions for clients:
Step 1: convert unstructured data into key categorical variables (for example, using contextual analysis to flag users who are critical vs. neutral vs. advocates)
Step 2: linking sentiment categories to customer behavior and profitability (for example, linking customer advocacy and loyalty with customer profits as well as referral volume, to define the ROI that clients accrue for customer satisfaction improvements)
Ajay- Describe your consulting company- Fitzgerald Analytics and some of the work that you have been engaged in.
Jaime- Our mission is to "illuminate reality" using data and to convert Data to Dollars for our clients. We have a track record of doing this well, with concrete and measurable results in the millions of dollars. As a result, 100% of our clients have engaged us for more than one project: a 100% client loyalty rate.
Our specialties–and most frequent projects–include customer profitability management projects, customer segmentation, customer experience management, balanced scorecards, and predictive analytics. We are often engaged to address high-stakes analytic questions, including issues that help to set long-term strategy. In other cases, clients hire us to help them build their internal capabilities. We have helped build several brand new analytic teams for clients, which continue to generate millions of dollars of profits with their fact-based recommendations.
Our methodology is based on Steven Covey's principle: "begin with the end in mind," the concept of starting with the client's goal and working backwards from there. I often explain that our methods are what you would have gotten if Steven Covey had been a data analyst…we are applying his principles to the world of data analytics.
Ajay- Analytics requires more and more data while privacy requires the least possible data. What do you think are the guidelines that need to be built in sharing internet browsing and user activity data and do we need regulations just like we do for sharing financial data.
Jaime- Great question. This is an essential challenge of the big data era. My perspective is that firms who depend on user data for their analysis need to take responsibility for protecting privacy by using data management best practices. Best practices to adequately "mask" or remove private data exist…the problem is that these best practices are often not applied. For example, Facebook's practice of sharing unique user IDs with third-party application companies has generated a lot of criticism, and could have been avoided by applying data management best practices which are well known among the data management community.
If I were able to influence public policy, my recommendation would be to adopt a core set of simple but powerful data management standards that would protect consumers from perhaps 95% of the privacy risks they face today. The number one standard would be to prohibit sharing of static, personally identifiable user IDs between companies in a manner that creates "privacy risk." Companies can track unique customers without using a static ID…they need to step up and do that.
Ajay- What are your favorite text analytics software that you like to work with.
Jaime- Because much of our work in deeply embedded into client operations and systems, we often use the software our clients already prefer. We avoid recommending specific vendors unless our client requests it. In tandem with our clients and alliance partners, we have particular respect for Autonomy, Open Text, Clarabridge, and Attensity.
The Founder and President of Fitzgerald Analytics, Jaime has developed a distinctively quantitative, fact-based, and transparent approach to solving high stakes problems and improving results. His approach enables translation of Data to Dollars™ using methodologies clients can repeat again and again. He is equally passionate about the "human side of the equation," and is known for his ability to link the human and the quantitative, both of which are needed to achieve optimal results.
Experience: During more than 15 years serving clients as a management strategy consultant, Jaime has focused on customer experience and loyalty, customer profitability, technology strategy, information management, and business process improvement. Jaime has advised market-leading banks, retailers, manufacturers, media companies, and non-profit organizations in the United States, Canada, and Singapore, combining strategic analysis with hands-on implementation of technology and operations enhancements.
Career History: Jaime began his career at First Manhattan Consulting Group, specialists in financial services, and was later a Co-Founder at Novantas, the strategy consultancy based in New York City. Jaime was also a Manager for Braun Consulting, now part of Fair Isaac Corporation, and for Japan-based Abeam Consulting, now part of NEC.
Background: Jaime is a graduate of Harvard University with a B.A. in Economics. He is passionate and supportive of innovative non-profit organizations, their effectiveness, and the benefits they bring to our society.
Upcoming Speaking Engagements: Jaime is a frequent speaker on analytics, information management strategy, and data-driven profit improvement. He recently gave keynote presentations on Analytics in Financial Services for The Data Warehousing Institute, the New York Technology Council, and the Oracle Financial Services Industry User Group. A list of Jaime's most interesting presentations on analyticscan be found here.
He will be presenting a client case study this fall at Text Analytics World re: "New Insights from 'Big Legacy Data': The Role of Text Analytics"
Connecting with Jaime: Jaime can be found at Linkedin, and Twitter. He edits the Fitzgerald Analytics Blog.
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A Poem for all those restless Arabian Knights
I met a traveller from an antique land
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Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
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The site of this forgotten Babylon.
We wonder, and some Hunter may express
Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness
Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,
He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guess
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
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LUKE EDDY'S 44-point barrage against Winfield last week put the George Washington senior guard within striking distance of the 1,000-point mark for his career.
Perhaps more importantly, it put the inexperienced Patriots at 5-2, a mark that will likely land Coach Rick Greene's team on the fringe of the Associated Press Class AAA Top 10 when the first poll of the season is released today.
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Prevent Apache from serving .DS_Store files
Would any of these suggestions prevent Apache from displaying a directory listing if someone were to try to access http://myipnumber/ or http://myipnumber/~myuserid/ without specifying a file (e.g. index.html) in the url? Or is there a way that I can force a url to the directory to access a specific file or alternates?
Prevent Apache from serving .DS_Store files
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Preventing Apache from listing directory contents
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At the Sounding Edge: Introducing seq24
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Similis sum folio de quo ludunt venti.
Any advice on setting up a Behringer FCB1010 midi foot pedal with seq24?? My fcb1010 is easy to configure for sooperlooper, etc., but seq24 is tough to get going, even with the documentation :O(
Slackware en Seq24
Afther some serious work I have seq24 working on my (slackware 10.2) dekstop. I have done the kernel hack for jackstart, because of the realtime benefits in normal user mode. An easy job, by the way!
I realy liked this artikel and it is inspiring to see that you can do so much with this sequencer and compatible friends, and that this collection of programs, organizesed with Seq24, beats sequencers as Rosegarden or even Cubase. It is realy inspiring for your own music.
A great benefit for me is not to be forced to use Gnome of KDE, since I realy do not like theze desktops because of there extensive use of resources, and that is reducing the quility of music (and joy?).
I have made slackware packages of all the programs and needed lib's. And will put them on a "webspace left". Thanx Dave Philips for done this (writing) job! And thanx for Seq24!
Greetings, Marco (I am a bassplayer, but in need for more digital music).
more additions (author's comment)
I failed to note that the main page holds 32 sequence containers in what Rob calls a set. At the bottom right corner there's a spin button that accesses 32 sets, equalling 1024 sequence containers. Should be plenty for most purposes. :)
JACK support is reported as working by some users. Alas, I'm still not getting it happening with RH9, ALSA 1.04, JACK 0.99. Bummer.
completely off-topic
A word of warning to musicians inspired by this article. Don't try this at home! I have worked with Linux since the early days of ALSA and with audio programs longer than some people can think and I have never seen more self-complacency than with the jack people. It might well be that jack works fine for its developers but for the average user (and even the more proficient one) it's a no-go. You install your realtime-lsm module, launch jackstart and all you get is
cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are:
=ep cap_setpcap-ep
probably running under a kernel with capabilities disabled,
a suitable kernel would have printed something like "=eip"
That is with commoncap and realtime modules present. Now you wonder what the FAQ says: nothing, zero, null, void. The problem does not exist.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about? im a newbie and this linux audio stuff rocks! It has all totally inspired me. I LOVE IT!!!! Ubuntu Studio rocks to! Thanks for the Great Articles Dave!!! Your teaching me a lot! You Rule!
have you ever listened about
have you ever listened about realtime preemption patch? do you know why linux is linux and not windows, because you can tune your system to what you need, try a multimedia linux distribution like planet ccrma or agnula demudi and you got a system tuned for realtime, but obviously, the main distro's developers can't enable some features like this in their projects because of security issues (something microsoft have never mentioned, but already present in their window$), if you are not afraid from security problems you can simply run jack as root and no problems at all for the realtime preemption. but don't speak about something you don't know
Don't try this at home!
Don't try this at home!
It could be better to say:
Don't try this at YOUR (mimo) home
For me works absolutely well.
If you are using realtime-lsm then you can just run jackd. Jackstart is only for when you have the patched kernel and not realtime-lsm.
clinton@drizzlehell:~/html/music$ jackstart -d alsa
jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are:
=ep cap_setpcap-ep
probably running under a kernel with capabilities disabled,
a suitable kernel would have printed something like "=eip"
clinton@drizzlehell:~/html/music$ jackd --realtime -d alsa jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
loading driver ..
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
Ta da, it works (make sure you are in the group that can use realtime-lsm, in Debian this defaults to audio).
some corrections (Author's notes)
A few corrections:
When recording to a pattern the MIDI I/O button used should be the first button (as seen in Figure 3), not the third button (as referenced in the text).
ZAddSubFX == ZynAddSubFX
The page at http://linux-sound.org/lj-seq24-examples.html has been updated to include some more details regarding setup and recording from the system described in "Power seq24". The examples themselves are also being continually updated (as I learn how to get more out of this setup).
Best regards,
Dave Phillips
seq24 in Mandrake contrib
It would appear that the seq24 packages in Mandrake contrib are more up-to-date than Thac's packages (at least for 10.1, and 10.2 for which there are no Thac packages at present).
Mandrake 10.1 contrib has 0.5.1, Mandriva 2005LE contrib has 0.6.1.
While contrib is not officially supported, contrib packages are in bugzilla and do receive updates in community (at the maintainers discretion).
Thus, when packages are available in contrib, it is usually recommended to use them over 3rd-party packages.
(which is as much of the "Thac vs the community maintainers" issue as I will get into)
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* Remote publishing from your e-mail account
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The access control is using it's own group and category system which makes it flexible and and easy to integrate with the J! user groups as soon as you get hold of how the settings interact. RSjoomla have extensive documentation on their site, so it is easy to get along.
The support is fast and efficient as always with the RS products.
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What the customer failed to understand here is that this is not an RSBlog! limitation, but a server limitation. In fact, any other component that generated more content than the 4 RSBlog! articles would have had the same result.
The gzip fails to process the information since there's too much content, but it's because the server is limited in that direction, not RSBlog!
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Users considering implementing this extension should know that it does not use the inherent Joomla tables for articles. The result is that any functionality that RSBlog doesn't provide can't be provided by ANY OTHER extension that extends article functionality.
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