Hey folks, The showcase will start in a couple of minutes. Here's Shilad's slide deck. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shilad_Sen,_Wikimedia_Research_Showcase,_April_2017.pdf
Join us in #wikimedia-research to ask questions and participate in the backchannel discussion. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-research On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Sarah R <srodl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April 19, > 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Prf0Vb-k1I > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, > you can watch our past research showcases here > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#April_2017>. > > This month's presentations: > > Using WikiBrain to visualize Wikipedia's neighborhoodsBy *Dr. Shilad Sen > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shilad>*While Wikipedia serves as the > world's most widely reference for humans, it also represents the most > widely use body of knowledge for algorithms that must reason about the > world. I will provide an overview of WikiBrain, a software project that > serves as a platform for Wikipedia-based algorithms. I will also demo a > brand new system built on WikiBrain that visualizes any dataset as a > topographic map whose neighborhoods correspond to related Wikipedia > articles. I hope to get feedback about which directions for these tools are > most useful to the Wikipedia research community. > > -- > Sarah R. Rodlund > Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation > srodl...@wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
