Author Archives: Albert Au Yeung

Matrix Factorization: A Simple Tutorial and Implementation in Python

There is probably no need to say that there is too much information on the Web nowadays. Search engines help us a little bit. What is better is to have something interesting recommended to us automatically without asking. Indeed, from … Continue reading

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Location and Friendship: Data Mining in Facebook

In the past, studying social issues such as the mobility of a group of people generally required a huge amount of effort. Questionnaires would have had to be prepared, distributed, and collected after they were filled in. It was and … Continue reading

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