http://blog.georgruss.de Georg Ruß' Blog -- matlab, data mining, neural networks ... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:42:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 de [caption id="attachment_322" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Four yellow Ortliebs"][/caption] I'm taking ten weeks off, starting tomorrow. I'll have my bike with me, four yellow Ortlieb bags and a small backpack. Direction: North. I'll be back in the middle of October, when the winter term starts. http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=323 On Tuesday I (and nine other students, all from the U.S.) finally got my ICPA outstanding graduate student award at the ceremony held during lunchtime. I haven't been able to get an appropriate photo, but below there's the award. I'm not showing the cheque, though :-) My vision of Precision Agriculture which I ... http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=307 I'm currently at Denver, Colorado, for the 10th International Conference on Precision Agriculture. So far, it's been quite interesting to see lots of talks on what's (for me) data analysis problems. It's also nice to see that basic linear regression is usually the tool which is being used as the most advanced tool for ... http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=300 I'm currently at ICDM in Berlin, the conference which took place in Leipzig in the past two years. Apart from the different location at Alexanderplatz, the quality is the same, and the conference is again very nice. Now that I'm a regular participant, I know a lot of the other ... http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=294 Just a quick post that aims to make tomorrow's slides for my IPMU 2010 talk available. It's going to be about the management of spatial information and especially the issues which arise when using non-spatial models on spatial data. Slides link: russ2010ipmu-slides.pdf As usual, the paper is in our publication database: Data ... http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=291 I've had a whole lot of fun writing a paper for the IEEE ICDM conference, which is going to take place in Sydney, Australia, this year. The programming work was there, I had some novel data sets to analyse and I came to some cool conclusions using my homebrew algorithm which explicitly ... http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=286 Yesterday I was informed that I've been given the best graduate student paper award at the International Conference on Precision Agriculture 2010, which is something like the flagship conference in precision agriculture, much like the IEEE ICDM (held in Sydney, Australia, this year) or the PKDD (held in Barcelona, Spain, ... http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=279 Again, my talk was really good and it felt like everyone was listening. The questions were more or less standard and can be expected when presenting this type of research to this specific IDA audience. There's two things which I realised only after the presentation: First, it's not so much the ... http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=274 [caption id="attachment_270" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Biosphere II, Arizona, USA"][/caption] As planned, I'm currently at the Biosphere II, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Arizona. The conference is great, there are no parallel sessions, I can actually talk to everyone and I know roughly what everyone's doing. We had our greenhouse tour ... http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=269 My slides for the IDA'2010 conference are here:russ2010ida-slides.pdf. My upcoming talk at the University of Waterloo will be meandering along the same lines. The respective publication for the IDA conference is here: Spatial Variable Importance Assessment for Yield Prediction in Precision Agriculture. There's also the Springerlink URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/p63pn0561u18r34w/. http://blog.georgruss.de/?p=263